Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

I thought it was easy to force drown. Send them into the water and remove the Air Tank (oxygen supply) equipped item using intelligent use of flags. (Or, if you failed to set a flag for each equip, intelligent use of out-of-bounds flags).

Once they are stuck in the water, they will be forced to drown.

 

Is it possible to force drown(without assembly hacking)? I mean, without the air counter counting down.

Also unequipping an item you don't have has no repercussions so you don't really need to use flags (unless you need to restore the air tank conditionally)

 

you know the intro screen, right? I made it to fit my mod, but not everything was completely displayed. it's probably because the intro itself has a set time for how long it's displayed. how do I make it so that the intro screen displays for longer? if it involves assembly, please do tell me how.

oh, and is it possible to change any of the Crash entities into a unique NPC of your choice? (since I assume it's only the code in the Crashes that crash the game.)

 

1. Increase the <WAI before the <FAO to increase the duration of the intro.



2. I wouldn't mess with the crash entities. I know that one of them is actually the flowers for Toroko+, so the others might do other important things.

 

the screen moves on to the menu before the <FAO can even appear.





then how about the <nothing> entities?

 

Unequipping an item (that you do not have) using TSC has extremely serious consequences. If you subtract, let's say, bit 64 (0x1000000) twice, your flags will be messed up.

Unless Pixel was actually smart enough to moron-proof his equips management code. In which case <EQ+ and <EQ- would be more of bitwise operations, and might better be named <EQ| and <EQ&. I'm fairly sure that it just subtracts and adds though.

 

then how about the <nothing> entities?

What do you mean by "nothing entities"? The entities that seemingly do nothing? Or are they actually called "nothing"?

@CLord
Huh. I could have sworn I was told differently. Maybe I mixed it up with flag manipulation or something. It was a while back, anyway.

 

No, carrotlord's just wrong.

 

@MagicDoors



there seem to be a few entities in the npc table called <nothing>?. since they don't seem to crash, can I use them to make a brand new npc?

 

Those are listed under the "Unsure" category, which means no one knows what they do. It's not like they actually do nothing.
Although they could just be dummy entities. I guess you'd have to try it out for yourself.
You might want to make a backup first, just in case.

 

Iv'e been having alot of trouble with Cave Editor lately. You know how you are supposed to check the box in the data properties as unread? Whenever i press apply and OK, the properties reset itself. I tried closing everything but it still didn't work. It started happening when i was changing the sprite for one of the teleportation areas. I have the Pixel copyright on images active, if that helps.

This is a huge roadblock, i can't work on my mod at all with it. Help?

 

Avoid using CaveEditor to do OS-specific things. If you need to mess with the data properties, it's best to use Windows Explorer to apply the settings instead. Simply right click and hit properties, and check (or uncheck) the necessary boxes.

 

I'm still having the same problem. Any more suggestions?

 

Make sure your files aren't somewhere protected like C:/Program Files ?

 

Yeah if you installed cs deluxe as your modding copy you're not going to get anything done

 

Both Cave Editor and the mod are on the desktop and both have been working fine up until now.

 

Post mod folder?

 

Ya, for the past month its been working and just yesterday it stopped being able to un-check the read only box

 

No I'm saying give us your mod folder so we can fix it for you

 

Sorry, I thought you meant post as in before. I don't know how to post folders in here, if you didn't know I was referring to the .exe as a mod. I'm kinda new here