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Posted: **Sun Jul 27, 2025 1:20 pm**

recently i discovered that the smw lakitu's animation is completely hardcoded, making it impossible to change its frame count or animation speed properly via config files. here's some lua code that fixes this, letting you animate the lakitu however you want (create a file for this called npc-284.lua and place it inside your level/episode folder for it to take effect):

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local npcManager = require("npcManager")

local npcID = NPC_ID

local lakitu = {}

function lakitu.onInitAPI()
	npcManager.registerEvent(npcID, lakitu, "onTickNPC")
	npcManager.registerEvent(npcID, lakitu, "onTickEndNPC")
end

function lakitu.onTickNPC(v)
	if Defines.levelFreeze then return end
	
	if(v.despawnTimer <= 0) then
		v.data.didThrow = false
		return
	end
	
	if(not v.data.didThrow and v.ai3 == 3) then
		v.data.didThrow = true
	end
end

function lakitu.onTickEndNPC(v)
	if Defines.levelFreeze then return end
	
	if(v.despawnTimer <= 0) then
		v.data.didThrow = false
		return
	end
	
	local frameCount = NPC.config[v.id].frames or 3	
	local frameSpeed = NPC.config[v.id].framespeed or 8

	v.data.frame = v.data.frame or v.animationFrame
	v.data.animTimer = v.data.animTimer or v.animationTimer
	
	if(not v.data.didThrow and v.ai3 == 3) then
		v.data.didThrow = true
	end
	
	v.data.animTimer = v.data.animTimer + 1
	if(v.data.animTimer >= frameSpeed) then
		v.data.frame = v.data.frame + 1
		if(v.data.frame >= frameCount) then
			v.data.frame = 0
		end
		v.data.animTimer = 0
	end
	
	local frameOffset = 0
	
	if(v.direction == DIR_RIGHT) then
		frameOffset = frameOffset + frameCount
	end
		
	if(v.data.didThrow and v.ai5 < (frameSpeed * frameCount)) then
		frameOffset = frameOffset + 2 * frameCount
	end
	
	v.animationFrame = v.data.frame + frameOffset
end

return lakitu

your custom graphics should be ordered in the same way as the vanilla smw lakitu graphics (moving left -> moving right -> throwing left -> throwing right)
there's a limitation where you can't necessarily have a full loop (frames * framespeed) be longer than 150 ticks otherwise some visual bugs might happen and maybe some other edge cases but as far as i can see it works
(also, don't use this if you're not trying to change the lakitu's frame count)

Posted: **Sun Jul 27, 2025 4:37 pm**

Something i would probably wont need but its a necesarilly good little fix

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[utility] smw lakitu animation fix

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