Custom NPC Boss Exit

[Arco]

I am working on a concept level in which ends with a boss fight with a Big Boo. I am brand new to LunaLua, heck, even new to Lua, but I whipped up the following code to try to summon a "? Ball" NPC when my Big Boo boss dies;

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boo = 1

function onLoadSection1()
	boo = NPC.get(44, 1)
end

function onTick()
	while( boo == 1 )
	do
		boo = NPC.get(44, 1)
		
		if( boo == 0 )
		then
			NPC.spawn(16, -155232, 160256, 1)
			
			break
		else
			boo = NPC.get(44, 1)
		end
	end
end

I tried to use the NPC.get function to set variable 'boo' to the amount of big boos exist, which is one, and when that one dies, I have the IF statement summon the ? Ball with NPC.spawn. I am in section 2. Could someone please help me, currently there is no output, no errors and no results.

[DrMekar]

Not gonna be nitpicky, but why do you use Luna Lua for this? You can just do this with SMBX Events.

[deice]

I am working on a concept level in which ends with a boss fight with a Big Boo. I am brand new to LunaLua, heck, even new to Lua, but I whipped up the following code to try to summon a "? Ball" NPC when my Big Boo boss dies;

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boo = 1

function onLoadSection1()
	boo = NPC.get(44, 1)
end

function onTick()
	while( boo == 1 )
	do
		boo = NPC.get(44, 1)
		
		if( boo == 0 )
		then
			NPC.spawn(16, -155232, 160256, 1)
			
			break
		else
			boo = NPC.get(44, 1)
		end
	end
end

I tried to use the NPC.get function to set variable 'boo' to the amount of big boos exist, which is one, and when that one dies, I have the IF statement summon the ? Ball with NPC.spawn. I am in section 2. Could someone please help me, currently there is no output, no errors and no results.

NPC.get() returns a table of NPCs. trying to compare that with a number will always yield false, and thus the loop will never execute. if you want to try checking whether or not an NPC is valid, do something like

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while(boo[1] ~= nil)

instead of

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while(boo == 1)

and vice-versa (of course, this is assuming there can only be one big boo present at one time in the section)

though strictly speaking, i think that you'd want to refactor the code in general because if the boo isn't immediately dead when the loop begins to execute, it will never reach it's exit condition and will lock your game up.

[Arco]

I am working on a concept level in which ends with a boss fight with a Big Boo. I am brand new to LunaLua, heck, even new to Lua, but I whipped up the following code to try to summon a "? Ball" NPC when my Big Boo boss dies;

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boo = 1

function onLoadSection1()
	boo = NPC.get(44, 1)
end

function onTick()
	while( boo == 1 )
	do
		boo = NPC.get(44, 1)
		
		if( boo == 0 )
		then
			NPC.spawn(16, -155232, 160256, 1)
			
			break
		else
			boo = NPC.get(44, 1)
		end
	end
end

I tried to use the NPC.get function to set variable 'boo' to the amount of big boos exist, which is one, and when that one dies, I have the IF statement summon the ? Ball with NPC.spawn. I am in section 2. Could someone please help me, currently there is no output, no errors and no results.

NPC.get() returns a table of NPCs. trying to compare that with a number will always yield false, and thus the loop will never execute. if you want to try checking whether or not an NPC is valid, do something like

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while(boo[1] ~= nil)

instead of

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while(boo == 1)

and vice-versa (of course, this is assuming there can only be one big boo present at one time in the section)

though strictly speaking, i think that you'd want to refactor the code in general because if the boo isn't immediately dead when the loop begins to execute, it will never reach it's exit condition and will lock your game up.

How would I do that?

[Emral]

NPC.get() returns a table of NPCs. trying to compare that with a number will always yield false, and thus the loop will never execute. if you want to try checking whether or not an NPC is valid, do something like

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while(boo[1] ~= nil)

instead of

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while(boo == 1)

and vice-versa (of course, this is assuming there can only be one big boo present at one time in the section)

though strictly speaking, i think that you'd want to refactor the code in general because if the boo isn't immediately dead when the loop begins to execute, it will never reach it's exit condition and will lock your game up.

Using a while loop for this is indeed not a good way. This is in onTick, so all you'd accomplish is a hard lock, since this code will never finish while in the while loop.
While it's true that "boo" is a list of NPCs, and thus cannot be compared with a number, "#boo" IS the number of boos in that list, so...

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local hasSpawnedExit = false
function onTick()
	if not hasSpawnedExit then
		local boo = NPC.get(44, 1)
		if #boo == 0 then
			NPC.spawn(16, -155232, 160256, 1)
			hasSpawnedExit = true
		end
	end
end

This conditional executes when no boos were found by the NPC.get.

[Arco]

Not gonna be nitpicky, but why do you use Luna Lua for this? You can just do this with SMBX Events.

I don't know how to do that either

[DrMekar]

Not gonna be nitpicky, but why do you use Luna Lua for this? You can just do this with SMBX Events.

I don't know how to do that either

You select the Boss and open the NPC Settings. There you select an Event, you created before in 'Events', that
gets triggered when the NPC dies.