Booster's Lab - It's Pretty Good Now

Aug 28, 2014 at 3:21 PM
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Question: I would like to mod again. One reason I stopped doing it is that someone seemed to breask the "new map" button in CE, which gave an error. Question is if Boosters lab got that problem out the way?
 
Aug 30, 2014 at 5:47 PM
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Can't you just

Duplicate the map
 
Aug 30, 2014 at 11:35 PM
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the new map feature works fine
but some people have reported issues if you make a large # of maps
I haven't had time to figure out how to fix it
 
Oct 7, 2014 at 11:47 PM
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I do apologize if this has already been answered, but after searching through the thread (at least with the search function with stuff like tile, Cave Story+ (doesn't recognize the + for some reason), map, stage, etc.), and even tried to Google the following problem, I'll assume it hasn't come up, yet.

I want to mess about and try to edit the levels in Cave Story+ (on Steam), so I've looked for Level Editors like Cave Editor (which crashes upon loading the .exe file) and, well, Booster's Lab! There seems to be a lot of stuff that I can experiment with, which is a nice start. However, there is one problem. When I load up a map from the stage.tbl file...

Everything is a horrifying mess.

And this applies to every single map. Obviously something that's not supposed to happen, but when I heard other people mention Cave Story+ and nothing about having something like this, that worries me.

I had the Booster's Lab as a folder within the game folder (since I assume the game doesn't detect it and it's just a handy-dandy shortcut for file navigation with the program), and then I tried to move it to the Desktop; neither fixed the problem.

I hope this isn't a very rare unsolvable case. :toroko2:
 
Oct 7, 2014 at 11:51 PM
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Did you load "stage.tbl" instead of the exe
 
Oct 7, 2014 at 11:52 PM
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Aar said:
Did you load "stage.tbl" instead of the exe
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Yes, actually! (I did specify that I loaded a map from the file, so...)
 
Oct 8, 2014 at 12:03 AM
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AbeX300 said:
Yes, actually! (I did specify that I loaded a map from the file, so...)
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Hm. Maybe try a different version of Booster's Lab? (I use 2.5.1)
 
Oct 8, 2014 at 12:12 AM
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AbeX300 said:
Yes, actually! (I did specify that I loaded a map from the file, so...)
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View -> Edit Project Config Settings -> Tile size

Change this to 32 instead of 16
 
Oct 8, 2014 at 12:16 AM
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Aar said:
Hm. Maybe try a different version of Booster's Lab? (I use 2.5.1)
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I have, but just barely; as in, I just used 3.3.4. Same problem as before.

Now, going through each download link in the OP (so I can't try 2.5.1, sadly), anything that is 0.3.x.x has the same issue. I had to go downgrade to 0.2.4.0 before it stopped being broken; sad thing is, that's quite a fall for nearly an entire 0.x, so none of the nice bits like having any number of entities, copy and pasting them, and such (at least when glancing at the changelogs). Hopefully they won't bother me that much!

GIRakaCHEEZER said:
View -> Edit Project Config Settings -> Tile size

Change this to 32 instead of 16
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Didn't see that since I was typing up my post and downloading older versions, will try that now!

Edit: It actually works! Though, the entities looked weird, but I just had to change the Entity Resolution to 32 as well. Thank you, Cheezer! :heart:
 
Oct 18, 2014 at 4:31 PM
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Has anyone commented about the scriptsource folder yet? I'm not sure exactly what it's used for, but I guess bl reads from it instead of its equivalent .tsc if it exists? The problem is that if you edit maps in ce and then go do stuff in bl, the new tsc gets overwritten because the files in scriptsource aren't changed. It's easy to just delete the folder to protect your new scripts, but I just thought I'd point it out since it might fuck up newer modders.
 
Oct 19, 2014 at 6:29 AM
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It may be possible for me to check which of the two is newer, and use that as an override when loading.
[later...]

Ok I didn't do that yet but guess what I DID do
yeah that's right I put in the hackinator
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This big feature bumps the version number to 0.4.0.0
Please test it out when I post it and let me know if it works. I can't be bothered to. You can even try making your own hacks but, I don't have any documentation about that yet and you could fuck things up doing that even easier than usual. I'd recommend working on a backup to try that out.

Nobody came to tell me how BL isn't working for them so I'll just have to assume it's 100% their fault and not bother to do anything about it.
[still later]
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42853625/Permanent/BoostLab_0400.zip
http://noxid.ca/files/BoostLab_0400.zip
 
Oct 19, 2014 at 10:41 AM
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diph.php
Still don't know what caused this, but downloading a clean pre-patched version has solved it. I fiddled around briefly with the Polar Star and it appeared to work fine, or at least didn't break.
 
Oct 19, 2014 at 7:54 PM
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Oct 22, 2014 at 7:43 PM
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Congrats on getting the hackinator up and running, Noxid! I may not be able to test it, but it seems pretty convenient. And you're getting a decent amount of support so far, which is good. ~w~
 
Oct 23, 2014 at 2:00 AM
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It took way longer than it should've but at last, dreams are finally becoming real

the hackinator is pretty much gonna be as good as you guys make it since I don't really have the motivation to throw a whole lot of stuff into it beyond what's there to mirror CE's functionality. But there's a lot of potential.
 
Oct 23, 2014 at 2:15 AM
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When are we gonna get an exe for launching the editor? It's not that hard (it's literally the easiest thing) and it would save a lot of headache for some people, especially those who have to launch it via the command line for some reason.
 
Oct 23, 2014 at 2:16 AM
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oh right
Ok uggghhh fiiinneee
next update
 
Oct 23, 2014 at 5:43 AM
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GIRakaCHEEZER said:
It's not that hard (it's literally the easiest thing)
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I tried it once. It increases the filesize of the .zip file by a substantial amount. The best option is to have an exe check if the Java RTE is installed (check the registry). If it isn't installed then show a confirm box, run the lightweight online installer (download+install) for the Java RTE, listen for when it finishes (closes) and then launch BL. If it is installed then simply launch BL.
 
Oct 23, 2014 at 6:02 AM
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I tried it once. It increases the filesize of the .zip file by a substantial amount. The best option is to have an exe check if the Java RTE is installed (check the registry). If it isn't installed then show a confirm box, run the lightweight online installer (download+install) for the Java RTE, listen for when it finishes (closes) and then launch BL. If it is installed then simply launch BL.
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The best thing to do is use Launch4j (http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/) since it does everything for you, including checking for the appropriate JRE. Also it's best to not pack the jar into the exe since that seems to trigger some antiviruses.
 
Oct 23, 2014 at 10:47 PM
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Planning on fixing this soon?
diph.php

(It happens upon closing and reopening BL after it being maximized)
 
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