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[Quantumenace]

What do you mean it needs to be within onJumpEnd? How are you using onTick?

The game engine does something like this:

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runs onTick()
does everything for physics and ai for this tick (I think onJumpEnd will be run some time in here)
runs onDraw()
draws graphics
start over at onTick() again

That is to say, it cannot continue until the code in those functions is finished. If you have an infinite loop, it will freeze.

[Novarender]

But if I use onJumpEnd in a loop, will it detect it at all? Doesn't it trigger in an instance, too short to detect? Or will it wait for the jump to end?

[Quantumenace]

You don't need a loop. The game itself runs in a loop similar to what I described. It will run everything in onTick() once every tick. It will run onJumpEnd() at some point during the tick if applicable.

Edit: You don't use onJumpEnd(), onTick() etc in other functions, they are automatically run by the game.

[Novarender]

I think I get what you mean. Everything in onTick() is a loop, and if I use onJumpEnd() in said loop, then it will still detect it. Right?

[Quantumenace]

I think I get what you mean. Everything in onTick() is a loop, and if I use onJumpEnd() in said loop, then it will still detect it. Right?

Sort of, onTick is part of the game loop. (A similar, older function is called onLoop().) You don't want to use Lunalua event functions inside anything else, they will be run by the game automatically.

[Novarender]

Ah, I get what you mean now.

I think this should be right, but it seems like LunaLua is turned off or something. Nothing is working; not even the player.speed displays that are printed on the screen (not included).

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local loop = 0

function onTick()
	
loop = loop + 1

end

function onJumpEnd()
	
		if loop < 64 then
			if player.speedX > 4 or player.speedX < -4 then
			Defines.jumpheight = 50
			else
			Defines.jumpheight = 20
			end
		else
		loop = 0
		end
	
	end

EDIT: Wait. I tried this again, and somehow, it works now. Do you think it's inconsistent, or was I maybe just testing it wrong?
EDIT AGAIN: No, I tried it again and it won't work. What's going on?

[Quantumenace]

That's kind of backwards. You want to check the timer and correct the jump height every tick, right? You need to put most of that in onTick.

[Novarender]

Oh, you're right. But the problem is, I need to do most of it every tick, but I need to initiate all of that at the end of a jump. Should I trigger it via a variable?

[Quantumenace]

Oh, you're right. But the problem is, I need to do most of it every tick, but I need to initiate all of that at the end of a jump. Should I trigger it via a variable?

Yes, that's what I'd recommend.

[Novarender]

Is there any way to have a dark level as shown in the pictures of the SMBX2 website?
http://horikawaotane.com/smbx

[Novarender]

How can I check whether the player is alive?

[PixelPest]

Is there any way to have a dark level as shown in the pictures of the SMBX2 website?
http://horikawaotane.com/smbx

Honestly that's just the brightness being changed on the images to make them be more fitting for the background of the page, however the easiest way to achieve this is to draw a screenshade over everything but the HUD via Graphics.glDraw. (Just draw a rectangle covering the whole screen at priority 4).

How can I check whether the player is alive?

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player:mem(0x13A, FIELD_WORD) == 0

[Emral]

Is there any way to have a dark level as shown in the pictures of the SMBX2 website?
http://horikawaotane.com/smbx

Honestly that's just the brightness being changed on the images to make them be more fitting for the background of the page, however the easiest way to achieve this is to draw a screenshade over everything but the HUD via Graphics.glDraw. (Just draw a rectangle covering the whole screen at priority 4).

https://youtu.be/feVUxOmN7mk?t=70
Not perfectly, currently. The footage here uses pre-baked geometry, so it wouldn't respond to moving objects. Admittedly, it was put in here for showoff. But I THINK there's a shader hoeloe made which does this that can be made publically available with beta 4 or when we get plugin support (required for making it an editor feature).

[PixelPest]

I completely misinterpreted that question

[Taycamgame]

Is there any way to have a dark level as shown in the pictures of the SMBX2 website?
http://horikawaotane.com/smbx

Honestly that's just the brightness being changed on the images to make them be more fitting for the background of the page, however the easiest way to achieve this is to draw a screenshade over everything but the HUD via Graphics.glDraw. (Just draw a rectangle covering the whole screen at priority 4).

https://youtu.be/feVUxOmN7mk?t=70
Not perfectly, currently. The footage here uses pre-baked geometry, so it wouldn't respond to moving objects. Admittedly, it was put in here for showoff. But I THINK there's a shader hoeloe made which does this that can be made publically available with beta 4 or when we get plugin support (required for making it an editor feature).

That's something I always wanted to use, glad it may come in beta 4.
What do you mean by screenshade and how do you give it priority 4?
Realistically you can do this by using a black background, but it's just not the same...

[Emral]

What do you mean by screenshade and how do you give it priority 4?

What pixelpest described just makes everything darker. You can use Graphics.drawImage, Graphics.draw (both require a texture) or Graphics.glDraw (doesn't require a texture but is more complex) to get this effect:
https://wohlsoft.ru/pgewiki/LunaLua_glo ... _functions

[Hoeloe]

Not perfectly, currently. The footage here uses pre-baked geometry, so it wouldn't respond to moving objects.

What's shown in the trailer is actually a huge hack that just uses a capture buffer to draw circles around light sources. The one planned for beta 4 is a bit more dynamic, but still doesn't yet respond to geometry for shadows. There's some more tech necessary before that becomes an option.

[Taycamgame]

The one planned for beta 4 is a bit more dynamic, but still doesn't yet respond to geometry for shadows.

And that means what exactly? What shadow geometry?
Let me give an example: Will we be able to create a dark cave with torches that make the room brighter?
Will we be able to use those on/off light blocks like in NSMB to brighten a dark cave?

[Hoeloe]

The one planned for beta 4 is a bit more dynamic, but still doesn't yet respond to geometry for shadows.

And that means what exactly? What shadow geometry?
Let me give an example: Will we be able to create a dark cave with torches that make the room brighter?
Will we be able to use those on/off light blocks like in NSMB to brighten a dark cave?

I mean this:

And yes, this system allows all of that.

[Taycamgame]

I still don't understand it completely; why is it called shadow "geometry" and not just "shadows"?