warpTransition.lua (v1.1.3) - Spruce up your warps!

[MrDoubleA]

This is just a small library to add transitions when using warps or entering the level. Additionally, it also offers music fading between sections.
See bottom of file for settings.



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[Emral]

awesome!

[SpoonyBardOL]

I'm getting this error when I start a level using it:



There's no other lua code running in this level, or the episode folder, outside of loading the warpTransition lua. Is there anything else I should be doing, or some documentation I'm missing?

[MrDoubleA]

I'm getting this error when I start a level using it:



There's no other lua code running in this level, or the episode folder, outside of loading the warpTransition lua. Is there anything else I should be doing, or some documentation I'm missing?

Looks like you don't have the patch 2 hotfix.

[SpoonyBardOL]

Huh, I was certain I did, but I just did a fresh full install of SMBX2 and it seems I didn't! I re-applied the hotfox to my original Beta 4 folder and now it all works fine, so I'm not sure how I messed that up but at least that's all it was!

Is there any possibility of getting this to work with overworld transitions? Or is overworld stuff still too hard to work with?

[MrDoubleA]

That's probably possible... I'll look into that when I can.

[MegaDood]

This looks really good!
But I'm having a bit of trouble using it, I'm confused.
Should any options appear in the Warps and Doors tab? The level loads with Mario with a circle effect (The one which extends outwards, I don't know the name) but other than that Im not sure on how to use it.
There aren't any errors that display either, but I would appreciate any help.

[MrDoubleA]

This looks really good!
But I'm having a bit of trouble using it, I'm confused.
Should any options appear in the Warps and Doors tab? The level loads with Mario with a circle effect (The one which extends outwards, I don't know the name) but other than that Im not sure on how to use it.
There aren't any errors that display either, but I would appreciate any help.

No, it doesn’t add any more settings to warps (since that’s seemingly not really possible at the moment). All the settings are at the bottom of the lua file.

[Chilly14]

Looks nice! Can you add player death transitions?

[SpoonyBardOL]

For a future update, would it be possible to add a blacklist? Like if you want to use it for a level but there's just one warp that goes from one end of a section to the other that you just don't want to pan?

[FireSeraphim]

There's a serious lack of step by step documentation on how to use it, like can we get an example level for this?

[Emral]

There's a serious lack of step by step documentation on how to use it, like can we get an example level for this?

Step 1: Open the lua file.
Step 2: To quote the main post: "See bottom of file for settings".
Step 3: Create your own luna.lua for your level.
Step 4: load warpTransition
Step 5: Set the documented entries to your liking in your luna.lua.
Step 6: Done

An example level would literally just load the library in luna.lua and be done with it. I'm unsure with what part you're struggling, so it would be good if you could elaborate further.

[MrDoubleA]

For a future update, would it be possible to add a blacklist? Like if you want to use it for a level but there's just one warp that goes from one end of a section to the other that you just don't want to pan?

Well, you can change the current warp types at any time. So an example script for something to change the warp type for a certain warp would just be:

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local warpTransition = require("warpTransition")

function onTick()
    local currentWarp = player:mem(0x15E,FIELD_WORD)
    if currentWarp == yourWarpsIndexHere then -- If the player is using a certain warp
        warpTransition.sameSectionTransition = warpTransition.TRANSITION_NONE -- Set the same-section transition to 'none'
    else -- If not using that warp
        warpTransition.sameSectionTransition = warpTransition.TRANSITION_PAN -- Set the same-section transition to 'pan'
    end
end

[SpoonyBardOL]

Ah, awesome. I probably could have figured that out if I looked over the code a bit more closely but it's good to have an example.

[JulianSteve_18]

I did not understand how to use it. Could you do each of the effects in separate files?

[Emral]

I did not understand how to use it. Could you do each of the effects in separate files?

What part is difficult to understand? What is your goal?

[JulianSteve_18]

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I did not understand how to use it. Could you do each of the effects in separate files?

What part is difficult to understand? What is your goal?

I want to use only one single effect on one level, and another effect on another level. How do I do it? I know you gave an example, but I didn't understand it. If you could do each effect separately I would appreciate it.

[Emral]

Added in 53 seconds:

I did not understand how to use it. Could you do each of the effects in separate files?

What part is difficult to understand? What is your goal?

I want to use only one single effect on one level, and another effect on another level. How do I do it? I know you gave an example, but I didn't understand it. If you could do each effect separately I would appreciate it.

The transition types are defined at the top of the lua file. The variables to set are defined at the bottom. So you can use those for example like how MrDoubleA said:
warpTransition.sameSectionTransition = warpTransition.TRANSITION_NONE
In order to get different effects in different levels, drop the warpTransition.lua file into your episode folder, and then make a luna.lua file in each level's level folder. In those files you can set the variables to different things depending on which level's luna.lua you're editing. That's the simplest way to do it, without requiring a large amount of knowledge in lua. Does this make sense to you? If not, please let me know which part I should elaborate on.

[JulianSteve_18]

Added in 53 seconds:

What part is difficult to understand? What is your goal?

I want to use only one single effect on one level, and another effect on another level. How do I do it? I know you gave an example, but I didn't understand it. If you could do each effect separately I would appreciate it.

The transition types are defined at the top of the lua file. The variables to set are defined at the bottom. So you can use those for example like how MrDoubleA said:
warpTransition.sameSectionTransition = warpTransition.TRANSITION_NONE
In order to get different effects in different levels, drop the warpTransition.lua file into your episode folder, and then make a luna.lua file in each level's level folder. In those files you can set the variables to different things depending on which level's luna.lua you're editing. That's the simplest way to do it, without requiring a large amount of knowledge in lua. Does this make sense to you? If not, please let me know which part I should elaborate on.

Excuse my ignorance, but I still don't understand. I use Google translator to translate words from English to Spanish, and that is why your explanation is not understood. And since I don't know English, this is the reason why I don't understand the warptransition file.

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local warpTransition = require("warpTransition")

function onTick()
    local currentWarp = player:mem(0x15E,FIELD_WORD)
    if currentWarp == yourWarpsIndexHere then -- If the player is using a certain warp
        warpTransition.sameSectionTransition = warpTransition.TRANSITION_NONE -- Set the same-section transition to 'none'
    else -- If not using that warp
        warpTransition.sameSectionTransition = warpTransition.TRANSITION_PAN -- Set the same-section transition to 'pan'
    end
end

This code uses the effect of TRANSITION_NONE and TRANSITION_PAN. for it to have the effect of TRANSITION_IRIS_OUT or TRANSITION_MOSAIC what do I have to change?

[Emral]

I'm not sure if I can troubleshoot past a language barrier like that, sorry. Maybe someone who is familiar with lunalua and can speak spanish can talk to you through private message, but I'm not familiar with many people who speak spanish so I can't contact one for you.