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Hey, I actually posted something on the forums!

Basically, I want to force the player (using Link) to constantly have a fire flower. I could probably do this by spawning fire flowers on them every frame, but that would probably be laggy and HORRIBLY obnoxious. No one wants to hear "DUNUNUNAAAA!!!" sixty times a second. More importantly, however, that would constantly refill the player's health. Since I want death to happen sometimes, that's bad. (If you feel insulted by my watered-down explanation, go read simple.wikipedia.org for a while...)
Is there some way I can basically tell LunaDLL to filter the player's state to fire flower, but in both directions?

You can set your character to its fire flower form at level editor/test settings.

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Basically, I want to force the player (using Link) to constantly have a fire flower.

Also, this is unrelated to using the test function in the editor - it's supposed to happen in the actual level.

Edit: Bold text on this forum is wussy... (changed emphasis to italics)

Editing the player's flags to constantly keep the fire flower on them is easy.

As for health, you can try to keep a separate custom variable that lowers down when you get hit(I don't know how to make that happen, haven't touched Luna in a while) and when that variable is dropped down do 0, just kill the player.

the video raocow posted today uses a similar gimmick, albeit without the forced powerup.

Hmm. Ideally the health would be displayed (I wanted to use the HeartSystem in LunaDLL), but that might help.

If you want to do it the easier way, just sneak in some fire flower generators around. That's what I do since I suck at coding and lunalua and stuff. Also, this post officially uppered my rank by one. I'm not a weak swooper, now I'm a bit. A bit of you. Of your life. Ok, back on topic, Maybe if you got fireflowers spawning from every enemy you kill? I dunno if that's possible without or with lunalua. All I know to do is to attach layers.

Merio wrote:If you want to do it the easier way, just sneak in some fire flower generators around. That's what I do since I suck at coding and lunalua and stuff. Also, this post officially uppered my rank by one. I'm not a weak swooper, now I'm a bit. A bit of you. Of your life. Ok, back on topic, Maybe if you got fireflowers spawning from every enemy you kill? I dunno if that's possible without or with lunalua. All I know to do is to attach layers.

But then it would counntinuosly make the (DUN-DUN-DUN-DUUUN) Sound.

Maybe forcefully make the player install a sound pack that deletes the power up noise.

Merio wrote:Maybe forcefully make the player install a sound pack that deletes the power up noise.

Why would you want to force the player to do that just for this single thing.

Tinkerbell wrote:

Merio wrote:Maybe forcefully make the player install a sound pack that deletes the power up noise.

Why would you want to force the player to do that just for this single thing.

I don't know, don't ask me. Ask him.

Merio wrote:If you want to do it the easier way, just sneak in some fire flower generators around.

This is not recommended unless you're able to find a way to make trial and error levels fun. Learning Lua is better than any suugestions you have said.

Merio wrote:Maybe forcefully make the player install a sound pack that deletes the power up noise.

You could use LUA and set it to only that level.