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If you hit the Drop Item button, you can change their order. If you hit Tanooki, you can "send out" the first enemy in the list as a friendly ally.
Currently, only player 1 will work properly with the new characters, and won't always behave well with the original 5 as player 2 either. The new characters don't really work well at all in 2 player mode, though that is something we want to solve in beta 5.
Wow, I never even noticed Mario World was like that. Sounds like that's something that should be noted somewhere, though, since the old checkpoints did not work that way. Is that the official agreed-on behavior for future versions or is it subject to change?Hoeloe wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 5:35 amYep. This is intentional. They reset if you beat the level or quit the game, more like how they worked in SMW.Quantumenace wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:22 pmUpon testing checkpoints, they don't actually reset if you die and enter another level. The code saves the level path, but never actually compares the saved path to the current level like it did in multipoints. Is that intentional?
1) Grafs are defined by parabolic functions, so by adjusting the individual values in the function you can manipulate how long it travels in a certain manner and by how much the movement should be scaled.Murphmario wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 8:15 pmDoes anyone know how to increase the amount of time a Graf can travel horizontally or vertically without increasing it's speed?
Also Grafs with blocktop=1 don't carry the player with them. You sorta just slide off.
1. As someone who's math skills aren't really the best, could I maybe have an example please? Googling "Parabolic funcEnjl wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 8:55 pm1) Grafs are defined by parabolic functions, so by adjusting the individual values in the function you can manipulate how long it travels in a certain manner and by how much the movement should be scaled.Murphmario wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 8:15 pmDoes anyone know how to increase the amount of time a Graf can travel horizontally or vertically without increasing it's speed?
Also Grafs with blocktop=1 don't carry the player with them. You sorta just slide off.
2) blocktop is not a valid npc code. Have you tried playerblocktop?
Enjl meant "parametric" functions, not parabolic. It basically means a function that instead of being written like: y = f(x), it's written x = f(t), y = g(t).Murphmario wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 10:32 pmAs someone who's math skills aren't really the best, could I maybe have an example please? Googling "Parabolic func
I didn't modify the Lua file in my install. I copied the file, which is probably a waste of space considering I could have just done that all this time. Oops.Hoeloe wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 4:41 amEnjl meant "parametric" functions, not parabolic. It basically means a function that instead of being written like: y = f(x), it's written x = f(t), y = g(t).Murphmario wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 10:32 pmAs someone who's math skills aren't really the best, could I maybe have an example please? Googling "Parabolic func
Essentially, you want to describe how the x and y position change over time, where the variable t contains the current time value. For example, to make a graf move in a straight line, you can simply do x = t, y = 0.
And please do NOT modify Lua files in your install, that will just lead to breaking your version. If you just want to make a few tweaks, you can use npc-#.txt files (which can be used to add playerblocktop settings). If you absolutely do need to make a new NPC (which is only if you need to do actual modification to the Lua behaviour), you should make a copy of the Lua file in your level folder, adjust the IDs to be within the range 751-1000, and (unless the npc file you copied was named npc-#.lua, in which case you change the filename to your desired ID) load it yourself.
Take the example hoeloe wrote:Murphmario wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 8:03 amI didn't modify the Lua file in my install. I copied the file, which is probably a waste of space considering I could have just done that all this time. Oops.Hoeloe wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 4:41 amEnjl meant "parametric" functions, not parabolic. It basically means a function that instead of being written like: y = f(x), it's written x = f(t), y = g(t).Murphmario wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 10:32 pmAs someone who's math skills aren't really the best, could I maybe have an example please? Googling "Parabolic func
Essentially, you want to describe how the x and y position change over time, where the variable t contains the current time value. For example, to make a graf move in a straight line, you can simply do x = t, y = 0.
And please do NOT modify Lua files in your install, that will just lead to breaking your version. If you just want to make a few tweaks, you can use npc-#.txt files (which can be used to add playerblocktop settings). If you absolutely do need to make a new NPC (which is only if you need to do actual modification to the Lua behaviour), you should make a copy of the Lua file in your level folder, adjust the IDs to be within the range 751-1000, and (unless the npc file you copied was named npc-#.lua, in which case you change the filename to your desired ID) load it yourself.
Anyways, thank for the help. One more question though: Is there anyway to modify how far a Graf moves without changing the speed value?
Enjl wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 9:19 amTake the example hoeloe wrote:Murphmario wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 8:03 amI didn't modify the Lua file in my install. I copied the file, which is probably a waste of space considering I could have just done that all this time. Oops.Hoeloe wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 4:41 am
Enjl meant "parametric" functions, not parabolic. It basically means a function that instead of being written like: y = f(x), it's written x = f(t), y = g(t).
Essentially, you want to describe how the x and y position change over time, where the variable t contains the current time value. For example, to make a graf move in a straight line, you can simply do x = t, y = 0.
And please do NOT modify Lua files in your install, that will just lead to breaking your version. If you just want to make a few tweaks, you can use npc-#.txt files (which can be used to add playerblocktop settings). If you absolutely do need to make a new NPC (which is only if you need to do actual modification to the Lua behaviour), you should make a copy of the Lua file in your level folder, adjust the IDs to be within the range 751-1000, and (unless the npc file you copied was named npc-#.lua, in which case you change the filename to your desired ID) load it yourself.
Anyways, thank for the help. One more question though: Is there anyway to modify how far a Graf moves without changing the speed value?
x = t, y = 0
t is a variable for the time since the graf spawned.
So to double a graf's speed:
x = t * 2, y = 0
Experiment with these functions yourself:
https://www.gcalcd.com/calculator/graphing/parametric/
Also the site is interesting, but I'm not sure how much it would help seeing as how it probably has features that Grafs don't have.Murphmario wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 8:03 amI didn't modify the Lua file in my install. I copied the file, which is probably a waste of space considering I could have just done that all this time. Oops.
Anyways, thank for the help. One more question though: Is there anyway to modify how far a Graf moves without changing the speed value?
Gabriel09213535 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 10:18 ammy gif2png opens but then closes alone, what do I need to do to make it work?
do i put it in the folder after i install it by double clicking?Westretroman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 5:42 pmDid you try double clicking vcredist 2017 to install it? Putting it into the folder isn't going to help anyway since it's a installer.Penguin998 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 5:01 pmtried both but putting the vcredist 2017 into the folder did nothingWestretroman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:47 pm
Try installing the vcredist found in your SMBX folder,
64x for if you have a 64x computer, 86x for 32x. If not, install Microsoft's Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 to fix it.
EDIT: My bad, try vcredist 2015. It should fix the problem. Remember to install it by double-clicking it and reply once you've got MAGLX3 up.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downloa ... x?id=52685
No, you just install it.Penguin998 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 4:33 pmdo i put it in the folder after i install it by double clicking?Westretroman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 5:42 pmDid you try double clicking vcredist 2017 to install it? Putting it into the folder isn't going to help anyway since it's a installer.Penguin998 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 5:01 pm
tried both but putting the vcredist 2017 into the folder did nothing
EDIT: My bad, try vcredist 2015. It should fix the problem. Remember to install it by double-clicking it and reply once you've got MAGLX3 up.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downloa ... x?id=52685
Try adding this to the npc txt file:Murphmario wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 2:30 pmAlright. Managed to slow down the speed of the Graf. The only problem now is that anything that lands on top of a Blocktop Graf ends up not having their X-Position changed alongside the Graf like most other platforms, and as a result, they fall off.
Edit: Attach to layer doesn't work either. The attached platforms simply doesn't move with the NPC.
That worked, thanks!Quantumenace wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 8:33 pmTry adding this to the npc txt file:Murphmario wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 2:30 pmAlright. Managed to slow down the speed of the Graf. The only problem now is that anything that lands on top of a Blocktop Graf ends up not having their X-Position changed alongside the Graf like most other platforms, and as a result, they fall off.
Edit: Attach to layer doesn't work either. The attached platforms simply doesn't move with the NPC.
setpos=0
That's a special option that actually uses NPC speed instead of setting its x and y directly. I don't know why it isn't the default, there might be some drawback.