Change projectiles?

[loop13]

How do I change what a NPC spawns, like Birdo's eggs turning into turnips?

[Radiance]

You can't change it since it's the projectile designated for that NPC. Unless customizing the NPC graphic and codes. And I think you could use LunaLua for that.
Sorry, I thought it's in H&S forum.

[PixelPest]

Change its ID in a for loop

[loop13]

Change its ID in a for loop

I am autistic, so I don't understand. Can you give an example?

[PixelPest]

Change its ID in a for loop

I am autistic, so I don't understand. Can you give an example?

I'm not going to write the code for you, but an example of a for loop is this:

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function onTick()
      for _, n in pairs(NPC.get(1, -1)) do --for all SMB3 Goombas in all sections
            n.speedX = 8; --change their speed along the x-axis to 8
      end
end 

As stated above in the comments, this would take the speed of all of the SMB3 Goombas (npc-1) in all of the sections and set their speed along the x-axis to 8. What you want to do is check for whatever NPC you want and change it to another instead of changing its speed, so you would do n.id = #; --> # is the ID you want to change it to

[loop13]

Thanks. I am a n00b at coding.

[Hoeloe]

As stated above in the comments, this would take the speed of all of the SMB3 Goombas (npc-1) in all of the sections and set their speed along the x-axis to 8. What you want to do is check for whatever NPC you want and change it to another instead of changing its speed, so you would do n.id = #; --> # is the ID you want to change it to

Actually it's not quite as simple as that. Changing the ID won't account for changing any of the data, so the graphic will likely appear incorrectly and the hitbox will be wrong.

It's simpler to kill the NPC and spawn a new one with the ID you want.

[PixelPest]

As stated above in the comments, this would take the speed of all of the SMB3 Goombas (npc-1) in all of the sections and set their speed along the x-axis to 8. What you want to do is check for whatever NPC you want and change it to another instead of changing its speed, so you would do n.id = #; --> # is the ID you want to change it to

Actually it's not quite as simple as that. Changing the ID won't account for changing any of the data, so the graphic will likely appear incorrectly and the hitbox will be wrong.

I was waiting to see if that issue would come up and then go from there. Your other idea has its own set of issues too though

[Hoeloe]

I was waiting to see if that issue would come up and then go from there. Your other idea has its own set of issues too though

It absolutely will come up.

It does, but they're simpler to resolve as they just involve setting some values after spawning it.

Alternatively, I personally use a function I wrote that makes use of NPCConfig.lua to adjust the necessary values for changing the ID. I'm thinking of adding it to some standard libraries at some point.

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local function replaceNPC(npc,id)
	npc.id = id;
	local w = npcconfig[npc.id].width;
	local h = npcconfig[npc.id].height;
	npc:mem(0x90, FIELD_DFLOAT, w);
	npc:mem(0x88, FIELD_DFLOAT, h);
	if(npcconfig[npc.id].gfxwidth ~= 0) then
		w = npcconfig[npc.id].gfxwidth;
	end
	if(npcconfig[npc.id].gfxheight ~= 0) then
		h = npcconfig[npc.id].gfxheight;
	end
	npc:mem(0xB8, FIELD_DFLOAT, w);
	npc:mem(0xC0, FIELD_DFLOAT, h);
	npc:mem(0xE4, FIELD_WORD, 0);
end

[loop13]

Would this work?

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function onLoop()
NPC.get(40,-1)
if NPC.id == 40 then
NPC.id == 210

[PixelPest]

Would this work?

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function onLoop()
NPC.get(40,-1)
if NPC.id == 40 then
NPC.id == 210

No. Not even close really. You don't have a for loop so NPC.get() isn't doing anything, onLoop() should be onTick(), you don't need to test for NPC ID since you are only getting npc-40 from NPC.get(), and you aren't closing the lines with end anywhere

[loop13]

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function onTick()
      for _, n in pairs(NPC.get(40, -1)) do --for all Birdo Eggs in all sections
            NPC.id == 210 --turn Birdo Eggs into Rinkas
      end
end

How is this?

[PixelPest]

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function onTick()
      for _, n in pairs(NPC.get(40, -1)) do --for all Birdo Eggs in all sections
            NPC.id == 210 --turn Birdo Eggs into Rinkas
      end
end

How is this?

Close. You need to change NPC in NPC.id to n. NPC is the class but n is the instance you're referring to. You also don't have to change the comments. They don't do anything

[loop13]

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function onTick()
      for _, n in pairs(NPC.get(40, -1)) do --for all Birdo Eggs in all sections
            NPC.id ==0,210 --turn Birdo Eggs into Rinkas
      end
end

I didn't understand, but I tried.

[PixelPest]

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function onTick()
      for _, n in pairs(NPC.get(40, -1)) do --for all Birdo Eggs in all sections
            NPC.id ==0,210 --turn Birdo Eggs into Rinkas
      end
end

I didn't understand, but I tried.

Read what I said again. It's probably the simplest instruction ever. This is totally wrong

[loop13]

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function onTick()
      for _, n in pairs(NPC.get(40, -1)) do --for all Birdo Eggs in all sections
            NPC.id ==0,210 --turn Birdo Eggs into Rinkas
      end
end

I didn't understand, but I tried.

Read what I said again. It's probably the simplest instruction ever. This is totally wrong

Oops!

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function onTick()
      for _, n in pairs(NPC.get(40, -1)) do --for all Birdo Eggs in all sections
            NPC.id ==210,player.section --turn Birdo Eggs into Rinkas
      end
end

How is this?

[PixelPest]

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function onTick()
      for _, n in pairs(NPC.get(40, -1)) do --for all Birdo Eggs in all sections
            NPC.id ==0,210 --turn Birdo Eggs into Rinkas
      end
end

I didn't understand, but I tried.

Read what I said again. It's probably the simplest instruction ever. This is totally wrong

Oops!

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function onTick()
      for _, n in pairs(NPC.get(40, -1)) do --for all Birdo Eggs in all sections
            NPC.id ==210,player.section --turn Birdo Eggs into Rinkas
      end
end

How is this?

Again.
READ. WHAT. I. SAID.
When did I mention player.section. Never

[loop13]

Read what I said again. It's probably the simplest instruction ever. This is totally wrong

Oops!

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function onTick()
      for _, n in pairs(NPC.get(40, -1)) do --for all Birdo Eggs in all sections
            NPC.id ==210,player.section --turn Birdo Eggs into Rinkas
      end
end

How is this?

Again.
READ. WHAT. I. SAID.
When did I mention player.section. Never

Whoa, take it easy! I'll just research some codes.

Did research on the Red Birdo, and I came up with this:

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function onTick()
      for _, n in pairs(NPC.get(40, -1)) do --for all Birdo Eggs in all sections
            n.id ==210,player.section --turn Birdo Eggs into Rinkas
      end
end
 

I suck at coding.
Oops! forgot the end again!

[Quantumenace]

I'd recommend onTickEnd() because that runs after the egg is spawned but before the game draws it. Otherwise the egg will likely appear for a single frame. I'd also recommend altering the egg's npc txt so it doesn't damage the player; not sure it checks collision the frame it's spawned, but that would err on the safe side.

[PixelPest]

Oops!

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function onTick()
      for _, n in pairs(NPC.get(40, -1)) do --for all Birdo Eggs in all sections
            NPC.id ==210,player.section --turn Birdo Eggs into Rinkas
      end
end

How is this?

Again.
READ. WHAT. I. SAID.
When did I mention player.section. Never

Whoa, take it easy! I'll just research some codes.

Did research on the Red Birdo, and I came up with this:

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function onTick()
      for _, n in pairs(NPC.get(40, -1)) do --for all Birdo Eggs in all sections
            n.id ==210,player.section --turn Birdo Eggs into Rinkas
      end
end
 

I suck at coding.
Oops! forgot the end again!

Okay. I'm going to try to not flip out, but you haven't followed my instructions over and over again and you have absolutely no idea what you're doing. You know absolutely nothing of the basics of coding and keep on just randomly throwing stuff out that will not work. == is used for comparisons and = for declaring. And please explain to me, why do you think player.section needs to be there?