General Help and Quick Questions

[deice]

1: Is there a way to limit the player's controls (such as removing spin jump) and

2: Is there an easier way to import graphics (especially player graphics)?

1. yes

2. there's only one way to import player graphics (unless you intend to rewrite the player's animation logic entirely via a script but that's definitely far more complex than putting an image file into a folder)
there is the "pge calibrator" program (located in "data/pge") which can probably help with aligning player sprites properly, but other than that importing graphics does require at least some effort

[Cat king]

Is there a way to change music to a new custom music in events without Lunalua? or is that not possible? (e.x. change wii dk summit theme to wii mushroom gorge with events)

[Just_Thomas]

Is there a way to change music to a new custom music in events without Lunalua? or is that not possible? (e.x. change wii dk summit theme to wii mushroom gorge with events)

I just tested around for you. "MKWii Mushroom Gorge" is a "stock music" file for SMBX, as like "SMB3 Overworld" for example.
For everything else take a look on the attachment. The custom music does play (did not work in previous beta, back then custom music only did work when setup as default music in a section -<<< added for clarity ) when the trigger does get "killed".
The example is from "stock music" to "custom music". Other way around is even easier. There you simply have to select the desired music from the list in the classic event itself. If Custom music does play by default in a section then click in the "Custom" checkbox as well.



Keep in mind through, luna lua gives you much more freedom and control. I also can not make a npc and only basic things, but it is overall better than to set up classic events in SMBX. Yes, you have to do some things first and have to know what to consider, but once you know that, you have the "template" for that in your brain... or written down, whatever you prefer.

However I just noticed, while we have a SFX list for stock sound effects

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	Audio.playSFX(7)

= item out of box sound or a custom sfx in your project or level folder

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	Audio.playSFX("whatever.wav/ogg/mp3 etc.")

I can not find a way to control stock music via luna lua either.

[Cat king]

Thanks Just_Thomas! Just one more question. To my understanding from what you're saying here, is that you can't switch from custom music to new custom music via events, but you can switch from base game music to custom music?

[S_Koopa0]

However I just noticed, while we have a SFX list for stock sound effects

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	Audio.playSFX(7)

= item out of box sound or a custom sfx in your project or level folder

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	Audio.playSFX("whatever.wav/ogg/mp3 etc.")

I can not find a way to control stock music via luna lua either.

There's actually Audio.MusicChange() for that. The basegame music IDs are listed in the music.ini file in the _templates folder.

[Just_Thomas]

Thanks Just_Thomas! Just one more question. To my understanding from what you're saying here, is that you can't switch from custom music to new custom music via events, but you can switch from base game music to custom music?

At least NOT within the same section. I can show you how to use luna lua in this case or give you a suitable template, it's not that difficult (I mean this in the sense that I was "very" stupid with it at the beginning before I ever got anything right, so it's not impossible to learn, so I am not mocking you or anything). You can always formulate so many things ambiguously, even though you don't want to.

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--------------------------------------------------
-- Level code
-- Created 9:44 2024-4-7
--------------------------------------------------
musicVariable1 = 0

function onStart()
--the music for the level does get controlled entirely in this file
-- this shit does run at the very start

 Audio.MusicChange(0, 1, 300)

-- section 0 does play [level-music-1], name="SMB3 Overworld" with fadeDurationMS of 300
-- (...\data\music.ini)

 Audio.MusicChange(1, 7, 0)

-- section 1 does play [level-music-7], name="SMB1 Underground (8-Bit)" with fadeDurationMS of 0"
-- also (...\data\music.ini)
end

-- Run code when internal event of the SMBX Engine has been triggered
-- eventName - name of triggered event
function onEvent(eventName)
	if(eventName == "music-trigger1") then
	-- this gets triggered if you collect the coin in section 0 and runs the routine called "openCustomMusic"
	musicVariable1 = 1
	Routine.run(openCustomMusic)
	end
end

function onSectionChange(sectionIdx)
	-- when player enters section 0 AND musicVariable1 equals 1 (the coin in section 0 has been collected before)...
	if sectionIdx == 0 and musicVariable1 == 1 then
	Routine.run(openCustomMusic)
	end
end

function openCustomMusic()
	-- does run when the coin in section has been collected OR when section 0 gets entered AND the coin in section 0 has been collected
	Audio.MusicChange(0, 0, 0)	-- for some reason you have to disable the default music "system" first, here section 0 play music 0/none/nothing
	Audio.MusicOpen("Wario Land Shake It! OST - Bad Manor.ogg")
	Audio.MusicPlay()
end

as download:
https://file.io/aLLUzAROrn73
or
https://www.file-upload.net/download-15 ... e.zip.html
I hope you can gain some insights from it. I don't know if all of it has been written down properly. Maybe a professional could take another look at it.
musicVariable could also have false and true in this case. I mostly work with numbers through, as I do not create anything complicated anyway.

If you know where your project is heading and you still have questions or are not sure about a few things, then feel free to ask (here, in that thread).

However I just noticed, while we have a SFX list for stock sound effects

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	Audio.playSFX(7)

= item out of box sound or a custom sfx in your project or level folder

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	Audio.playSFX("whatever.wav/ogg/mp3 etc.")

I can not find a way to control stock music via luna lua either.

There's actually Audio.MusicChange() for that. The basegame music IDs are listed in the music.ini file in the _templates folder.

Hey cool, thanks for the reply. I will check that out. Looks like it does work similar to the SFX list then.

Edit: BTW: I tried it as like "...\data\worlds\cliche\music.ini" but I could NOT overwrite music with that method. For some reason it simply did NOT work so I had to use Audio.MusicOpen(). I tried really a lot and nothing worked at the end.

[S_Koopa0]

Edit: BTW: I tried it as like "...\data\worlds\cliche\music.ini" but I could NOT overwrite music with that method. For some reason it simply did NOT work so I had to use Audio.MusicOpen(). I tried really a lot and nothing worked at the end.

Can you explain what you did exactly? I think I'm missing a lot of details, considering that the music.ini file in that folder only replaces the world map music.

[Just_Thomas]

Edit: BTW: I tried it as like "...\data\worlds\cliche\music.ini" but I could NOT overwrite music with that method. For some reason it simply did NOT work so I had to use Audio.MusicOpen(). I tried really a lot and nothing worked at the end.

Can you explain what you did exactly? I think I'm missing a lot of details, considering that the music.ini file in that folder only replaces the world map music.

Let`s say I copied both music.ini and the music files itself from the cliche world folder:

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[world-music-1]
file="overworld.spc"
name="Where Am I Going?"

[world-music-9]
file="vista-hill.spc"
name="Bowser's Castle (First Time)"

[world-music-10]
file="merry-merry-bells.spc"
name="The Merry Merry Bell Rings"

no matter what I tried I could NOT replicate that. Also not with level-music-xx instead. From my understanding these entries actually replace existing music files and IDs within the project. But nothing works for me. Therefore I had to use the audio open thingy for the example. I would love to know why it is NOT working or if I had a complete wrong understanding about it.

[S_Koopa0]

Let`s say I copied both music.ini and the music files itself from the cliche world folder:

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[world-music-1]
file="overworld.spc"
name="Where Am I Going?"

[world-music-9]
file="vista-hill.spc"
name="Bowser's Castle (First Time)"

[world-music-10]
file="merry-merry-bells.spc"
name="The Merry Merry Bell Rings"

no matter what I tried I could NOT replicate that. Also not with level-music-xx instead. From my understanding these entries actually replace existing music files and IDs within the project. But nothing works for me. Therefore I had to use the audio open thingy for the example. I would love to know why it is NOT working or if I had a complete wrong understanding about it.

Ok so, just to be sure everything works with this version, I tried to replace the SMB3 overworld music with the SMB1 one in a level with basically no code and it worked without issues.
This is the content of the file I used, in case you're wondering:

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[level-music-1]
name="test"
file="smb-overworld.spc"

Considering the code you posted earlier, my only guess is that the Audio.MusicChange calls at the top of the code are changing the music again at the start of the level.

[Just_Thomas]

Considering the code you posted earlier, my only guess is that the Audio.MusicChange calls at the top of the code are changing the music again at the start of the level.

That would be very strange, as I tried to use different "slots" for "custom music".
Also MusicChange means to me ... you change the music, e.g. track2 but in the music.ini you define WHAT is track 2?!
Anyway, I do not get it to work. MusicChange is actually more convenient to use if the music.ini is created accordingly and you get by with the existing slots or you want to replace existing music, but I can't get it to work.

[Emral]

Change music from Custom A to Custom B in event:

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function onEvent(eventName)
	if eventName == "CustomMusicB" then	
		Audio.MusicChange(player.section, "NewCustomMusic.ogg") -- NewCustomMusic.ogg assumed to be in the episode folder. If it's in a subfolder, specify a path.
	end
end

Music.ini is only ever necessary if we're talking world map music.
The SDL Stream music functions like Audio.MusicOpen should not be conflated with the common functions that utilize SMBX's internal music playback system.

[Just_Thomas]

Change music from Custom A to Custom B in event:

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function onEvent(eventName)
	if eventName == "CustomMusicB" then	
		Audio.MusicChange(player.section, "NewCustomMusic.ogg") -- NewCustomMusic.ogg assumed to be in the episode folder. If it's in a subfolder, specify a path.
	end
end

Music.ini is only ever necessary if we're talking world map music.
The SDL Stream music functions like Audio.MusicOpen should not be conflated with the common functions that utilize SMBX's internal music playback system.

Thanks for the clarification (mainly because of the music.ini), I really appreciate it. I had partly used the demo stages as a guide.

Of course, this makes the whole thing much easier than initially thought. It was another good learning experience for me.

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--------------------------------------------------
-- Level code
-- Created 9:44 2024-4-7
--------------------------------------------------

function onStart()
--the music for the level does get controlled entirely in this file
-- this shit does run at the very start

 Audio.MusicChange(0, 1, 300)

-- section 0 does play [level-music-1], name="SMB3 Overworld" with fadeDurationMS of 300
-- (...\data\music.ini)

 Audio.MusicChange(1, 7, 0)

-- section 1 does play [level-music-7], name="SMB1 Underground (8-Bit)" with fadeDurationMS of 0"
-- also (...\data\music.ini)
end

-- Run code when internal event of the SMBX Engine has been triggered
-- eventName - name of triggered event
function onEvent(eventName)
	if(eventName == "music-trigger1") then
	Audio.MusicChange(0, "Wario Land Shake It! OST - Bad Manor.ogg", 200)
	end
end

[demorlo]

Hello, surely there is already a topic about this, but unfortunately I can't find it. How can I reset the game saves on SMBX? I uninstalled the game, then there weren't any at first, the next time I started it, the old ones were there again. I also deleted the *.sav files from the folders. That didn't work either. I need help...

greets

[demorlo]

Nobody can help me...

[mariobrigade2018]

Nobody can help me...

Because of this post, the only thing I can say to you is...

Spoiler: show

GIT

Spoiler: show

GOOD

You need to be patient with other people. The world doesn’t revolve around you.

[Emral]

Nobody can help me...

Because of this post, the only thing I can say to you is...

Spoiler: show

GIT

Spoiler: show

GOOD

You need to be patient with other people. The world doesn’t revolve around you.

Why would you make this post instead of asking for specifics (SMBX version, screenshots of the relevant folders) or pointing to the "delete save file" button on the launcher if SMBX2 (see below) or recommending they simply make more save files and leave the old ones untouched (if SMBX2)?

[Just_Thomas]

Nobody can help me...

Because of this post, the only thing I can say to you is...

Spoiler: show

GIT

Spoiler: show

GOOD

You need to be patient with other people. The world doesn’t revolve around you.

Why would you make this post instead of asking for specifics (SMBX version, screenshots of the relevant folders) or pointing to the "delete save file" button on the launcher if SMBX2 (see below) or recommending they simply make more save files and leave the old ones untouched (if SMBX2)?

Is there actually a difference? I have seen the question as well, but I had no idea how to help either, because user already ...

I also deleted the *.sav files from the folders. That didn't work either. I need help...

So I mean between manually deleting the file from the "project folder" and the launcher?
Otherwise, it is of course a bit unfortunate when a new user has questions about the general functionality (not lua, or SMBX content requests etc.) and nobody can (?) answer them. I assume that this has simply gone under.

If I'm already unsure in advance, I'd rather not answer and hope that someone like you will do so.
(As I see it, you're already in charge of a few projects here, only mentioned to avoid misunderstandings.)