LunaLua Offical Thread - SMBX Usermod Framework

[HVMetal]

My LunaLua is not working for some reason. It says that MSVCP140.dll can't be found and to re-install the whole thing but I get the same error all over the time even after the re-instalation.

Try executing vcredist_x86.exe in your SMBX directory.

Thank you, now its working fine.

Edit: Actually, its pretty much acting like the normal SMBX engine, it doesnt loads anything special, .ogg formats are not working. I have no idea whats wrong now.

[Mari0no1]

Greetings guys. I have been lurking on these forums for a couple weeks now and the time has come to reveal myself (this shall be my introduction as well I guess). I need technical help. I am working on a post process graphic injector to give a new modern look to SMBX with the use of HQ4X and some other SweetFX shaders. Below is a PREVIEW of what I am working on. It is not done yet and I have only worked on it remotely from work, so tweaking and finalizing the settings will go later. However, it gives a good idea of what is possible.

Now, on the technical side of things, this graphic mod will ABSOLUTELY require LunaLua executable, as I need an opengl render to inject the effect into the game and the original EXE is ActiveX. That's not an issue. The issue I have is that LunaLua forces 4/3 rendering and put black bars instead of stretching the image. I completely understand why this can be appealing for a more authentic experience, but the goal of my mod is to give a more HD design, and a stretched 16/9 image would more adequately fit my vision of what this mod should be.

TLDR ; Is there ANY way I can force 16/9 stretching by using LunaLua exectuable? I searched in the files, but couldn't find anything. Maybe a little help from the devs on this, as I believe the idea of my mod would most likely appeal to some people?

Thanks guys! Let's keep the PC Mario editing world alive!

You have SMBX Redrawn ? download link please

[h2643]

You have SMBX Redrawn ? download link please

http://www.smbxgame.com/forums/v ... 20#p225120
the link was posted in that thread I LINKED endless times, if not more.

Wait, why is this in this thread... whatever...

[Super Mario Math]

There's a bug with the onKeyDown() event. It get's delayed one frame.

mainV2.lua
Debug text location 1

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function EventManager.callEvent(name, ...)
	if name ~= "onKeyboardPress" and name ~= "onKeyboardPressDirect" then
		Text.windowDebug(name)
	end
   local mainName, childName = unpack(name:split("."))
   if(mainName == nil or childName == nil)then
       mainName, childName = unpack(name:split(":"))
   end
   ...

Debug text location 2

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function EventManager.doQueue()
    while(#EventManager.queuedEvents > 0)do
        local nextQueuedEvent = table.remove(EventManager.queuedEvents)
        EventManager.callEvent(nextQueuedEvent.eventName, unpack(nextQueuedEvent.parameters))
    end
    
    if(not isOverworld)then
		Text.windowDebug("classic events")
        __ClassicEvents.doEvents()
    end
end

When printing the events in order (on a frame after the loading one), the events are:
onLoop
classic events (the one that calls onKeyDown())
onLoopSection#
onInputUpdate
onTick
onTickEnd
onDraw
onCameraUpdate
onHUDDraw
onDrawEnd

The game does not register the press of the jump button until onInputUpdate, so when LunaLua checks if the jump button has been pressed, it gets wrong information, but it does read the jump button on the next frame.
This causes my walljump.lua code to cause the player to wall jump if he presses jump while hugging a wall and standing on ground, which is definitely not supposed to happen.

[Hoeloe]

I believe that is known, but fixing it would break basically everything that has used onKeyDown up until this point. Changing the location of an event call can have huge implications.

From what I remember, this is exactly why onInputUpdate was added, so I would suggest using that instead. It's the same reason onTick was added instead of moving onLoop.

[Kevsoft]

From what I remember, this is exactly why onInputUpdate was added

Pretty much that.
onKeyUp/onKeyDown processes key-updates in onLoop which handled the key update from the last frame.
onInputUpdate however directly intercepts the controls and you can even modify them. If you want something similar to onKeyUp/onKeyDown then considere using Input2.lua instead.

[Super Mario Math]

When the player enters a new section by editing the player.CurrentSection field instead of warping, the music doesn't change, even though the background does. This glitch works only in the main game, not in the level editor.

[Hoeloe]

When the player enters a new section by editing the player.CurrentSection field instead of warping, the music doesn't change, even though the background does. This glitch works only in the main game, not in the level editor.

This is also known and not something that is sane to fix. These fields directly map to memory locations in the player struct, so adding side effects to them could have unintended consequences.

[CynicHost]

Is the launcher music supposed to be different when running the modded SMBX?

[lotus006]

so what is the future of Lunalua, it is dead ? because there is no update since february 0.7.3 (I think) whats happening ?

[Wohlstand]

LunaLUA still be alive, and we are working on it, you can take night dev builds to take latest updates before new release

[lotus006]

LunaLUA still be alive, and we are working on it, you can take night dev builds to take latest updates before new release

Thanks this is cool to know it's still be working on

Any changelog about new stuff about after 0.7.3 ?

Thanks again

[Wohlstand]

LunaLUA still be alive, and we are working on it, you can take night dev builds to take latest updates before new release

Thanks this is cool to know it's still be working on

Any changelog about new stuff about after 0.7.3 ?

Thanks again

GitHub your best friend: Waitch it carefully and you will know everything about changes
https://github.com/Wohlhabend-Networks/ ... ngelog.txt

[ivanmegafanboy]

I had some problems with 1.3 vanilla episodes, I can't play tower of biased 6 and 8 properly, because it seems that LunaLua hates pokemon music, as an error message will pop out telling me that the game can't reproduce the music file. Well, at this point everything works as usual, just without music, I enter the level and it goes fine, but if I go back to the hub, SMBX will crash, but only on the section that haves that music. There is no errors at all on the original 1.3 version. How can I fix this?
By the way, the improved transparency effects are beautiful.

[Wohlstand]

I had some problems with 1.3 vanilla episodes, I can't play tower of biased 6 and 8 properly, because it seems that LunaLua hates pokemon music, as an error message will pop out telling me that the game can't reproduce the music file. Well, at this point everything works as usual, just without music, I enter the level and it goes fine, but if I go back to the hub, SMBX will crash, but only on the section that haves that music. There is no errors at all on the original 1.3 version. How can I fix this?
By the way, the improved transparency effects are beautiful.

That music seems damaged, but you can fix it, just use PGE Maintainer utility, point to one of those episodes and start process

[ivanmegafanboy]

That music seems damaged, but you can fix it, just use PGE Maintainer utility, point to one of those episodes and start process

Where can I find the Maintainer utility? Is it on PGE editor?

[Wohlstand]

That music seems damaged, but you can fix it, just use PGE Maintainer utility, point to one of those episodes and start process

Where can I find the Maintainer utility? Is it on PGE editor?

Its separated application which placed together with PGE Editor in the same folder: "pge_maintainer.are". Anyway for best result take PGE from laboratory. This utility can do mass audio conversion per episode with auto-renaming (if you converting from MP3 into OGG, for example).

[ivanmegafanboy]

Its separated application which placed together with PGE Editor in the same folder: "pge_maintainer.are". Anyway for best result take PGE from laboratory. This utility can do mass audio conversion per episode with auto-renaming (if you converting from MP3 into OGG, for example).

I found it, let's see how it works.

[ROA]

Hi, anyone pls tell me if its possible to make this river effect with luna, plsss



If this is not the section to make requests, pls tell me where...

[PixelPest]

There's a level included in "HONK" (the Demo levels) in 2.0 that does this. It's at the very end of the hub