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I wanted to make a metroid game with Samus only, But i have no idea how to make samus the only playable character in the episode. Can anyone help?

Late reply, but I noticed this question was left unanswered and felt answering could help anyone reading this.

There are two ways to do this. You can individually select each level (including the hub) in the episode to start with Samus via Level Settings...

...OOOOORRRRRRRR you can make a lua file in your episode's folder and set the following in onStart (or onTick if you're evil): Edit: Thanks to Marioman for the correction. Use player:transform(16) instead of player.character = 16. His explanation is down below.

Ness-Wednesday wrote: ↑

Tue May 06, 2025 9:08 am

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player.character = 16

Doing "player:transform(16)" is better.

what's the difference?
- setting character will directly change the character, so like if the player is fire mario, it'll change to fire samus
- using tranform will keep the corresponding powerup, if the player is fire mario and samaus was previously super samus, it'll change to super samus instead of fire samus

This is important for scripts which keep track of per-character data, one such example is customPowerups.

Marioman2007 wrote: ↑

Tue May 06, 2025 10:04 am

Ness-Wednesday wrote: ↑

Tue May 06, 2025 9:08 am

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player.character = 16

Doing "player:transform(16)" is better.

what's the difference?
- setting character will directly change the character, so like if the player is fire mario, it'll change to fire samus
- using tranform will keep the corresponding powerup, if the player is fire mario and samaus was previously super samus, it'll change to super samus instead of fire samus

This is important for scripts which keep track of per-character data, one such example is customPowerups.

Oh wow, I've been using Player.character=16 forever, and honestly didn't know this was possible with characters. Thank you so much!