Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

Re: Noob In need of some advice about basic modding..

You should ask these questions here

 

I have a few questions~

It'll obviously be complex, but how do you change the message at the beginning of CS (Studio Pixel presents...) to whatever you want?

How do you change the texture of the [SN] blocks? (Pre-shot and post-shot)

How can you add a new picture (i.e. a new Background) into the Data? Well, that's easy, but how do you get it to work?

Many thanks.


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Answers for RPettan

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My questions:

1: How does one place an existing enemy NPC in a map, (what are the necessary flags, events and entity ID's to make an enemy actually do as its supposed to and show up in a map.) Example: Making a bat move up and down, or making an enemy move, or making the enemy entity show up at all

Welcome
I first suggest using Cave Editor. Much easier than Sue's Workshop and Miza in my opinion.
In Cave Editor, find a spot, make sure you have it on Entitie Editor, and right click. Click 'Add Entitie.' Up at the top, go through the items in the Drop Menu until you find the one you want, and click it. Most will act already (i.e. the Bat,) but some you need to use the <ANP function for in the script editor. Just make sure you have the right sprite set. (The Bats is NpcCemet)

2: How do I create doors that lead the character to another map.

It's quite easy. Make an entitie, don't change anything in the drop menu, you want it to be 'Nothing.' Change the flags to be 2000 (Run script on Interaction) and change the Event to a corresponding event in the script. Go into the script editor. Make an event (the same number as your entitie.) If you don't know how, it's #XXXX where XXXX is a 4 digit number (0096, 0406, 1132) that is bigger than 0079.)) Normally you would do this-

#XXXX
<PRI<FAOXXXX
<TRAXXXX:YYYY:ZZZZ:WWWW

#XXXX
Event

<PRI
Freezes the game and hides HUD

<FAOXXXX
XXXX is direction. Play around with this.

<TRAXXXX:YYYY:ZZZZ:WWWW
Transports player to another map
XXXX is 4 digit map number
YYYY is 4 digit event to run apon entry to map
ZZZZ is 4 digit X coordinate to transport to
WWWW is 4 digit Y coordinate to transport to

That should be it.

3: How do I script or make a chest give you an item.


Please, remember i'm a beginner to this, so please try to be patient and understanding.

Thank you.

Oh dear.
I can't make chests work, but Scripts to give you things are kind of easy.

<PRI<MSGSomething gleams in the dirt...<NOD<CLR<CMU0010<GIT10XX<IT+00XXGot the =Silver Locket=.<WAI0160<NOD<CLO<END

<MSG
Puts a message on the screen.

<NOD
Freezes script until player presses a button

<CLR
Clears message box

<CMU0010
Changes music to Get Item music

<GIT10XX<IT+00XX
<GIT shows an image on the screen on an item
<IT+ gives you that item
XX is 2 digit item code

<WAI0160
This is the time it take for the music to time out

<NOD<CLO
Waits for keyboard input, then closes message box

<END
Ends the script

Put that under an event. Make an entitie, give it the 2000 flag, and put in that event.
That should be it.

 

1: change the map name from u (kings) to "Pigaro Presents" or whatever. then use MNA in the opening script.
2: the star block texture (in npcsym) is drawn on top of the map tile for sn. If you make it transparent then the map will govern that. when destroyed, sn blocks shift one to their left, so you can do whatever with that as well.
3: you won't be able to do this unless you understand assembly.

 

3: you won't be able to do this unless you understand assembly.

That's not true at all. He was asking about backgrouds. At the very most, you'll need a hex editor, but you probably removed the C Pixel requirement so that won't be necessary. If you haven't I suggest you do. Anyway, you just take the image, make it a bitmap, if necessary rebame file extension to .pbm, and rename the image to bk[whatever].pbm/bmp. Make sure the whatever is capitalised.

 

Huh. I guess you're right.
I couldn't recall if cs automatically added backgrounds or not.

 

because I actually made IDA decompile it and then I just filled in the names of functions / variables to make it a bit more human-readable.
I have found doing the whole thing by hand to be not only more time-consuming, but also more likely to introduce errors.

Ah I see, makes sense.

 

how do I add more colors to an npc pbm/stage pbm without having to rename it? cause now I cant, I had a system update months ago and the .pbm wouldn't appear right next to the name where I can rename it anymore.

 

You can't, just rename it .bmp.
IT'S THE ONLY WAY

 

nooo

 

Um... Don't you just go into folder options and untick 'hide extensions'?

 

Only a doof would change the extension on his files by hand every time he wanted to modify them

 

Only a doof would change the extension on his files by hand every time he wanted to modify them

I'm sorry Noxid

 

The important thing is to learn from your mistakes and follow the One True Way

 

How can I make a health pack disappear after it's use in Sue's Workshop?

 

First, set the Health Capsule's Flag ID (Not it's flags) to, say, 2000. Then, change it's flags and check the flag "Disappear when Flag ID is set". Then, in the script editor, after your script for the Life Capsule, but before the <END, put in <FL+2000. The Life Capsule should disappear after it is obtained.

 

Cave Editor makes me want to burn my computer with fire. Any editor that can't offset the maps file properly, causing blank backgrounds, deserves to die.

 

You must not be using the latest version then.

 

Stop using the outdated version then?

I'm preeettty sure 99d or whatever the last one was fixed that issue. It can't revive a corrupt exe on its own, but it at least might not cause more problems.

 

I'm pretty sure I'm running 99d. I downloaded the latest version about a month ago. That bug drove me up the wall, so now I'm just plugging away with Sue's Workshop.

FYI, those who don't know, the bug corrupts the maps file slightly, requiring you to break out the hex editor and rejig the offsets EVERY TIME YOU CHANGE A BACKGROUND. It gets painful, fast.

 

First, set the Health Capsule's Flag ID (Not it's flags) to, say, 2000. Then, change it's flags and check the flag "Disappear when Flag ID is set". Then, in the script editor, after your script for the Life Capsule, but before the <END, put in <FL+2000. The Life Capsule should disappear after it is obtained.

It still isn't working for me...