xmap - the thinking man's overworld

[deice]

Which will take ages to do.

i'm fairly certain it's set to drop before next year's vanilla contest, or at the very least that was implied by the wording in this post.
nevertheless if it becomes evident that either it won't or that it will but there won't be anything different to account for regarding the overworld, i'll go ahead with optimizing xmap after i'm done fulfilling real-life obligations.

[Emral]

The next SMBX2 update will not contain changes to the overworld.

[deice]

The next SMBX2 update will not contain changes to the overworld.

yo, thanks for the heads up! great timing too, i might have some free time this weekend so it's the perfect time to try and get something done.

[deice]

an update has been made to chocomap which optimizes the drawing method, meaning you'll no longer lose performance on world maps with large element counts. (if you end up with so many elements that there's still slowdown despite using the newest version, you might want to consider pre-rendering large tile chunks instead of using individual tiles)

there's also a minor update to xpath which fixes one bug and one oversight. please redownload and enjoy.

[HAK0TA538]

Im very confused on how to use the nsmb star coin signs? I tried to use the addSign function in the onStart in map.lua and nothing happened, also it says to have sign.png in the folder but when i downloaded it it didin't come with sign.png. Could i have an example of what the map.lua should look like?

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function onStart()
function coinSign.addSign(1312, 320, 2)
end
end


Error:

<name> or "..." expected near 1312

[deice]

it says to have sign.png in the folder but when i downloaded it it didin't come with sign.png.

whoops! must've forgotten to package it when reuploading at some point, thanks for the heads-up. it should be fixed now, try redownloading

Could i have an example of what the map.lua should look like?

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function onStart()
  function coinSign.addSign(1312, 320, 2)
  end
end

the problem with this code is that it's using function declaration syntax instead of function call syntax. try something like:

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local xmap = require("xmap")
local coinSign = xmap.coinSign

function onStart()
	coinSign.addSign(1312, 320, 2)
end

if you need any other examples, the link under "example episode" provides a download for an episode folder which has a "map.lua" that showcases a decent amount of features
also, remember that you need to edit your episode-wide luna.lua file to include

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require("xpath")

at the start

[IttaBaby]

Tried to make a chimney on yoshi's house using this using wanime but it's a no go
I think I put entirely too many frames in there for it to run properly
is there a way to make a chimney at all?

[deice]

Tried to make a chimney on yoshi's house using this using wanime but it's a no go
I think I put entirely too many frames in there for it to run properly
is there a way to make a chimney at all?

i don't think the yoshi's house chimney from smw has enough frames to cause an issue here. if you'd send the files you used (image, txt file, lua code) it'd be much easier to troubleshoot it

[IttaBaby]

i don't think the yoshi's house chimney from smw has enough frames to cause an issue here. if you'd send the files you used (image, txt file, lua code) it'd be much easier to troubleshoot it

61 frames

[deice]

61 frames

like i said, i unfortunately can't really help you unless i have the files themselves with me. without them, any attempt to debug boils down to pure guesswork and that never ends up very fruitful.
you can paste the contents of the animation's text file into a post and just send the image file used as an attachment

[IttaBaby]

like i said, i unfortunately can't really help you unless i have the files themselves with me. without them, any attempt to debug boils down to pure guesswork and that never ends up very fruitful.
you can paste the contents of the animation's text file into a post and just send the image file used as an attachment

well this giant line is the graphics:

and the txt is

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gfxwidth=64
gfxheight=128
frames=61
framespeed=20
priority=8.1

and finaly the line of code to stick it on the map:

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	wanime.addAnimation(4, 144, 496)

[deice]

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gfxwidth=64
gfxheight=128

this is the problem right here, the parameters for size are just "width" and "height" without the "gfx" prefix. i suggest checking the documentation (linked in the original post) in the future to avoid encountering similar issues.
(also, i imagine you'll probably want to make the background of the image transparent instead of black if you actually want to place it next to a yoshi's house)

[IttaBaby]

this is the problem right here, the parameters for size are just "width" and "height" without the "gfx" prefix. i suggest checking the documentation (linked in the original post) in the future to avoid encountering similar issues.
(also, i imagine you'll probably want to make the background of the image transparent instead of black if you actually want to place it next to a yoshi's house)

I swear I did, the thing's just showing it weird, IDK

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this is the problem right here, the parameters for size are just "width" and "height" without the "gfx" prefix. i suggest checking the documentation (linked in the original post) in the future to avoid encountering similar issues.
(also, i imagine you'll probably want to make the background of the image transparent instead of black if you actually want to place it next to a yoshi's house)

Works now, thanks!

[deice]

a minor update has been made to xpath (the "onWarp" event is now "onMapWarp") to ensure compatibility with beta 5. no other changes have been made, and you do not need to update if you are using xmap with beta 4.

[deice]

a relatively small update has been made with some modifications to xpath and coinsign, please check the changelogs for details.
it's possible a major update to xpath may come as well down the line, but no guarantees for now