reserveItems.lua - Item box for heart-based characters! [v1.3]

[Marioman2007]

Was very determined to do this, so finished in 2 hours.
as the title says, this script simply adds item box support for heart based characters.

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https://imgur.com/W66D2Uh

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Changelog:
- 1.0: released the lib
- 1.1: 2-player compatibility, modernReserveItems compatible
- 1.2: fixed a minor issue, added some variables to modify the drawing system, visible, x and y.
- 1.3: one more bugfix

Settings n' stuff
reserveItems.enabled - whether the script is enabled (bool)
reserveItems.canUseItem - whether the player can use their item (bool)
reserveItems.itemBoxVisible - is the item box visible (bool)
reserveItems.itemBoxX - x coord of the box, only works in 1p mode (int)
reserveItems.itemBoxY - y coord of the box (int)
reserveItems.mushrooms - a table for mushroom powerups
reserveItems.restrictedPowerups - a table for powerups that don't change the player state and hence won't get in the reserve box
reserveItems.powersUpToGive - a table that decides the powerups that'll be given to the player
reserveItems.setReserveItem(player, itemID) - a function to set the reserve npc id of the given player
SaveData.reserveItems[playerID] - current reserve item of the given player

NOTE: to make this work with modernReserveItems, make sure that modernReserveItems is loaded before reserveItems and add these three lines in modernReserveItems at the given spot.

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Please give credit to me when used!

[AppleTheTomato]

Dude, I saw you talking about this in the discord server after I posted my heartsForAll stuff, and it's great that you were able to do this! Sure will be neat to have all the OG characters use either hearts or the itembox lol

[AToMIC]

Hmmm. Could this be used on Mario and Luigi if the Hearts For all LUA is being used on them?

Update: It will not work, but I'm sure with a little Lua fine-tuning from someone with a higher skill level than me it is possible. Great work here my friend.

[Animebryan]

What about Link?

[Marioman2007]

What about Link?

It works for every heart based character, even for X2 ones.

[AppleTheTomato]

Hmmm. Could this be used on Mario and Luigi if the Hearts For all LUA is being used on them?

Update: It will not work, but I'm sure with a little Lua fine-tuning from someone with a higher skill level than me it is possible. Great work here my friend.

Yeah, I don't think it would ever work. I mess with the reserve box a bit to make 3 hearts display properly in heartsForAll. Plus, mines 2-player compatible, and Marioman's code here is only 1-player, so that would cause some issues. But! You can always use anotherPowerDown by KBM-Quine AND Marioman's code to get the desired gameplay effect.

[Marioman2007]

Yeah, I don't think it would ever work. I mess with the reserve box a bit to make 3 hearts display properly in heartsForAll. Plus, mines 2-player compatible, and Marioman's code here is only 1-player, so that would cause some issues. But! You can always use anotherPowerDown by KBM-Quine AND Marioman's code to get the desired gameplay effect.

I am implementing 2p and splitscreen support so don't worry!

Hmmm. Could this be used on Mario and Luigi if the Hearts For all LUA is being used on them?

Update: It will not work, but I'm sure with a little Lua fine-tuning from someone with a higher skill level than me it is possible. Great work here my friend.

I might do a thing for that, in the meantime, you could use SmgLifeSystem.lua, which is easy enough to edit.

[AppleTheTomato]

Yeah, I don't think it would ever work. I mess with the reserve box a bit to make 3 hearts display properly in heartsForAll. Plus, mines 2-player compatible, and Marioman's code here is only 1-player, so that would cause some issues. But! You can always use anotherPowerDown by KBM-Quine AND Marioman's code to get the desired gameplay effect.

I am implementing 2p and splitscreen support so don't worry!

Hmmm. Could this be used on Mario and Luigi if the Hearts For all LUA is being used on them?

Update: It will not work, but I'm sure with a little Lua fine-tuning from someone with a higher skill level than me it is possible. Great work here my friend.

I might do a thing for that, in the meantime, you could use SmgLifeSystem.lua, which is easy enough to edit.

I actually just decided to change how health is handled, and now it doesn't mess with the reserve! It's cleared by default, but you can disable that. So, HOPEFULLY, these will work together now! Here's the link again: viewtopic.php?f=101&t=28409&p=394466#p394466

[Marioman2007]

Updated to version 1.1!
Check the original post!

Added in 11 hours 15 minutes 25 seconds:
I noticed there was a minor issue so I quickly patched that, also added some stuff related to the drawing system.

[AppleTheTomato]

So, I thought this was a bug at first, but after looking at the library's comments, I guess mushrooms don't go into the reserve anymore? Is there a reason for this? Other bugs, perhaps?

[Marioman2007]

So, I thought this was a bug at first, but after looking at the library's comments, I guess mushrooms don't go into the reserve anymore? Is there a reason for this? Other bugs, perhaps?

Yeah this is an intended behavior, the reason is because if you collect a mushroom while at one heart, it will make you big
BUT
it you collect a mushroom while at two hearts, it will increase them to 3 and ALSO go in the reserve box, when you get hurt while at three hearts, they will decrease to two and if you use your reserve mushroom it will again increase the value two 3 and will again go to the reserve box.

[AppleTheTomato]

So, I thought this was a bug at first, but after looking at the library's comments, I guess mushrooms don't go into the reserve anymore? Is there a reason for this? Other bugs, perhaps?

Yeah this is an intended behavior, the reason is because if you collect a mushroom while at one heart, it will make you big
BUT
it you collect a mushroom while at two hearts, it will increase them to 3 and ALSO go in the reserve box, when you get hurt while at three hearts, they will decrease to two and if you use your reserve mushroom it will again increase the value two 3 and will again go to the reserve box.

Oh weird. Tho, it makes me wonder...couldn't you just add some kind of check like "if you are at 3 health, and your reserve is empty, and you collect a mushroom, put that mushroom in the reserve?" IDK, just throwing that out there.

Also, weird thing I found: say you collect the SMW Fire Flower (npc-183), then the SMAS3 Fire Flower (npc-14) goes into the reserve. Fine enough, but if you are using modernReserveItems, then when you drop your item, it's that SMW Fire Flower that gets spawned, not the SMAS3 Fire Flower in the reserve. Not sure how'd you fix that, but I figured I'd point it out.

[Marioman2007]

For the first one yeah I did try that but unfortunately that didn't work well.
As for the 2nd one yeah, it worked fine in the first version but it had some bugs so I just scrapped that idea
I am currently trying to find that first version to replicate that AI and fix it.

[AppleTheTomato]

Fair enough. Library works great regardless, but those were just random things I found lol

[AppleTheTomato]

Uh...I will add that the mushroom issue you were talking about DOES apply to every other powerup. For example, you are Fire Peach, at 2 health, and have a fire flower in the reserve. You pop it, go to 3 health, and get a fire flower in the reserve again. Can't seem to upload a GIF, but I'd look into that.

To add, I wonder if it would work to only give you a reserve item if your health is at 3.

[Marioman2007]

I think the best would be create a custom health system.
(SmgLifeSystem also has this issue so now I have to update it)

[AppleTheTomato]

Yeah lol. Main health system works fine, till you mess with it. Story of SMBX...

[AToMIC]

Hmmm. Could this be used on Mario and Luigi if the Hearts For all LUA is being used on them?

Update: It will not work, but I'm sure with a little Lua fine-tuning from someone with a higher skill level than me it is possible. Great work here my friend.

I might do a thing for that, in the meantime, you could use SmgLifeSystem.lua, which is easy enough to edit.
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Thanks my friend! Keep up the quality work!

[AppleTheTomato]

Found another interesting issue. The SMB2 'duplicate mushrooms' don't work anymore lol. Not sure how you'd fix that, but I figured I'd mention it.

[Marioman2007]

Found another interesting issue. The SMB2 'duplicate mushrooms' don't work anymore lol. Not sure how you'd fix that, but I figured I'd mention it.

Thanks, I will fix all the bugs after I am done with SmgLifeSystem.
This script will only be perfectly usable with a custom health library.

I plan to give mushrooms a special behavior, they'll go to the reserve box if health is full but not if health is not full
other powerups are not gonna give health.