Adding a Power Star for Each Star Coin

[Muffler]

I’m working on an SMBX2 episode and could use some help with scripting. In my episode, I’m using the starItemCounters.lua script to track the number of star coins collected in each level. I couldn't find a way to block a level behind a star coin requirement, so I thought: what if I added a power star every time a star coin is collected? That way power stars would act as a total star coins counter and I could use the editor's built-in power star requirement barrier to block certain levels. Problem is, I have no idea how to do that. I tried messing around with scripts but im not familiar with lua language and nothing i tried to do worked. Can anyone help me?

[deice]

while this might work, i have to recommend against as it would mandate putting each star coin in its own section due to the way vanilla smbx keeps track of collected stars.

instead, you'd be better off creating an individual layer for each distinct star coin requirement and putting each corresponding warp into it (for example, every warp that leads to a level that needs 30 star coins would be in the layer "starCoin30"), having each layer be hidden by default

then, putting something like this in your hub's luna.lua file should do the trick (assuming no star coins can be collected inside the hub itself):

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local layerPrefix = "starCoin" -- change this according to the common prefix of your layer names

function onStart()
    for _, v in ipairs(Layer.find(layerPrefix)) do
        local reqCoins = tonumber(string.sub(v.name, string.len(layerPrefix) + 1))
        if(SaveData._basegame.starcoinCounter and SaveData._basegame.starcoinCounter >= reqCoins) then
            v:show(true)
        end
    end
end

[Muffler]

Wow that's pretty clever! I'll try doing this and see if it works, thank you so much!!