[Update V2.1] Beetroot Powerup w/ Custom GFX!

[Tempest]

some Power-Ups from MF? (Mario Forever.)

Made it.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/snujh41dc ... empest.rar

As you can tell by the name, it's that weird beetroot power-up from Mario Forever.

screenshots: show

V1:

V2.1:

With this powerup, you can throw beetroot and they will bounce 2 times, left and right.

Like all the other V1.0s, only Mario can use this powerup, for now. Not anymore!

If you have any suggestions or found any glitches, leave them down below!

changelog: show

UPDATE V2.1:

Features:
-Thanks to HenryRichard's coding, now the beetroot powerup is a separate entity (NPC-92, turnip)! Yaaaay
-added new cheatcode: "needabeetroot"
-link can now use the powerup, and gain an explosive sword and beetroot bombs, how cool is that?
-holding up before pressing the run button will throw the projectile higher but slower, like any other projectile powerup
-instead of dealing absurd damage, beetroot projectiles will now explode every 21,6 seconds (~1/3 of a second) on impact with any enemy or projectile in the "hittable" table
-code is SIGNIFICANTLY less repetitive
-some other minor stuff
-templets
templets coming soon not really

Known issues:
-still only works for player one (believe me, i TRIED SO HARD to fix this)
-code MIGHT break when you exit a level
-beetroot explosion isn't correctly centered
-probably other minor stuff

UPDATE V2:

Features:
-i finally started using pnpc, i was just too dumb to even try it out
-now Luigi, Toad and Peach can also use the powerup (link isn't available yet, but he can still throw beetroot... sometimes)
-you can now throw 2 at a time, because a) i think more would be too overpowered and b) it would lag. A LOT.
-now if you try to stand on the projectile you will bounce off of it
-changed texture
-removed some bugs
-the projectiles can now break blocks better
-each character works differently, Mario throws at medium height and speed, Luigi throws higher but slower, Toad throws faster but lower and Peach has one extra bounce
-you can't grab the projectile anymore
-removed herobrine

Known issues:

-only works for player one
-code might be a little too repetitive
-the mushroom block used for beetroot has odd behavior when you don't have the powerup
-projectile won't always break bricks.

UPDATE V1

Original version

Credit to HenryRichard for being such a cool guy and letting me use some of his code for the "separate entity" part. Thanks man!

I just wanted to quickly thank everyone for being so supportive, at first i didn't know if i should post my creations or not, but after the feedback and good criticism, i just want to say thank you.

GIVE CREDIT IF USED.

[PixelPest]

Why can you only throw one at a time?

[Tempest]

Why can you only throw one at a time?

Because i'm absolute garbage at NPC table scripting, and didn't know how to make more than one at the same time, so you have to wait for it to disappear so you can throw another one.

I'm gonna try to fix that in V2.0.

[PixelPest]

http://wohlsoft.ru/pgewiki/Pnpc.lua

[Tempest]

http://wohlsoft.ru/pgewiki/Pnpc.lua

Hmmm. Gonna try that later. Thanks!

[MacDuckBeat]

They're called beetroot. And anyways, good job on remaking the powerup from MarioForever to SMBX with LunaLua.

[Tempest]

They're called beetroot. And anyways, good job on remaking the powerup from MarioForever to SMBX with LunaLua.

Thanks!

[Emral]

There's a lot of repeat code here. Keep in mind when setting variables you can perform arithmetic:

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for k,v in pairs(NPC.get(265,-1)) do
	if player:mem(0x106,FIELD_WORD) ~= -1 then
		v.width = 32
		v.height = 32
		v.speedX = 4
		v.speedY = -6
		v.id = 154
		player:mem(0x160,FIELD_WORD,2)
		PotatoAppear = 1
		PotatoDirection = 1
	else
		v.width = 32
		v.height = 32
		v.speedX = -4
		v.speedY = -6
		v.id = 154
	   player:mem(0x160,FIELD_WORD,2)
		PotatoAppear = 1
		PotatoDirection = 2
	end
end

This piece of code can be easily rewritten to:

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for k,v in pairs(NPC.get(265,-1)) do
		v.width = 32
		v.height = 32
		v.speedX = 4 * player:mem(0x106, FIELD_WORD)
		v.speedY = -6
		v.id = 154
		player:mem(0x160,FIELD_WORD,2)
		PotatoAppear = 1
		PotatoDirection = player:mem(0x106, FIELD_WORD) --changing direction to use -1 and 1 as values to make direction math easier
end

I haven't fully looked over and tried to comprehend all of the code, but is there a reason why variables like PotatoDirection are global, rather than bound to a single potato object?

[Tempest]

There's a lot of repeat code here. Keep in mind when setting variables you can perform arithmetic

Okay. Gonna try that.

I haven't fully looked over and tried to comprehend all of the code, but is there a reason why variables like PotatoDirection are global, rather than bound to a single potato object?

I think it's because i was so frustrated that i didn't understand NPC tables and had to finish that code quickly that i forgot to make them more local. Oops

[Emral]

The API you want to load is called "pnpc". Using pnpc you can wrap npc objects and access a data table which lets you store all kinds of data per-npc.
Example:

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for k,v in pairs(NPC.get()) do
    v = pnpc.wrap(v) --sets or gets wrapper object
    if v.data.timer == nil then v.data.timer = 0 end
    v.data.timer = v.data.timer + 1
end

[Tempest]

Update V2 is out: Updated thread and changelog. Check it out!

[Tempest]

Update V2.1 is out: Updated thread and changelog. Check it out!

[WildW]

Oh yes de templetz!



Anyway I actually find this a pretty cool power up! I might do some recolouring on this for my project as well. Nice power up.

[Tempest]

Thank you

[WildW]

fuck.

I just spent 1.5 hours on a SMW version and fucking deleted it.I_I

[Grand Goomba]

This looks great! I'll try to use it in my episode. And since I should be giving credit for this, here I go: thanks!

[Rakalborn]

Hello, tempest. How to use it not only in one level. If I complete level with beetrot powerup, next level I will start without it(i used lunaworld). Sorry for my bad english.

[Tempest]

Hello, tempest. How to use it not only in one level. If I complete level with beetrot powerup, next level I will start without it(i used lunaworld). Sorry for my bad english.

Yeah, that's one of the main issues I forgot to put in the changelog. I've tried to fix that a couple times but for next updates (may take some time, I'm kinda out of SMBX for a while) I will try once again to fix that. But for now I recommend storing the item on the reserve box, so you can keep it on the next level

[Rakalborn]

Hello, tempest. How to use it not only in one level. If I complete level with beetrot powerup, next level I will start without it(i used lunaworld). Sorry for my bad english.

Yeah, that's one of the main issues I forgot to put in the changelog. I've tried to fix that a couple times but for next updates (may take some time, I'm kinda out of SMBX for a while) I will try once again to fix that. But for now I recommend storing the item on the reserve box, so you can keep it on the next level

thx, will wait next update

[Dor_78]

Does this work with Beta4?