Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

Well I know how to use the assembler but I can't understand what it means. The most advanced stuff I can do, really would be changing the display rect's on most things, like title screen objects and such.

I can mess around with values just a little. In fact I once worked out a way you could make the nemesis (Level 1) Spawn Ravils whenever you fire it. That isn't really relevant though...

 

the easiest way to do this is to make enemies not drop exp, which you can do by searching for somethging along the lines of

push 1
call 0046EFD0

and replacing push 1 with push 0. (changing npc 1 into npc 0).

this probably won't work, because of health and missiles, but if it does, kudos to moi.

 

the easiest way to do this is to make enemies not drop exp, which you can do by searching for somethging along the lines of

push 1
call 0046EFD0

and replacing push 1 with push 0. (changing npc 1 into npc 0).

this probably won't work, because of health and missiles, but if it does, kudos to moi.

Having npcs spawn a whole bunch of npc's type 0 does NOT seem like a good idea, since it'd be pretty easy for them to drop a whole bunch of npc's 0's and you might reach the npc on screen limit a lot faster. If you were to edit that out, you'd probably just want to remove the call to the function completely.

 

Need some help..

How do you make it so all of the sprite shows?

I made two of the little family's sprites bigger. (Four, more like, since I changed the little child and the little man.) THe problem is, its not showing all of the sprite, most likely because its bigger. How do you make it so all of the sprite can show?

(Im working on a very new mod. )

 

@gir

nyeh, if the call was more complex, and somethin like edx was pushed, with either hp or missiles or energy being moved into it earlier, killing the whole function would be a bad idea.
probably replacing the one with a 4 would work best, as it kills itself pretty fast.

@ryuuton
how comfortable are you with frame rects?

 

frame rects?

ryuuoutan*

 

I would take the time to teach her how to edit frame rects, but that involves teaching her how to use a disassembler and explaining what each frame rect is, and many many other things. Plus Ryuu hasn't been nice to me in the past, so that doesn't help her chances.

But we could/should make a simple tutorial on how to edit frame rects in the cavewiki.....

 

woah, I forgot about that thing.
we probably should.

 

Having npcs spawn a whole bunch of npc's type 0 does NOT seem like a good idea, since it'd be pretty easy for them to drop a whole bunch of npc's 0's and you might reach the npc on screen limit a lot faster. If you were to edit that out, you'd probably just want to remove the call to the function completely.

You know, if you want enemies not do drop xp, it'd be a lot easier to just hack npc.tbl and change the experience value to 0.

 

(Oh my god, is it really that frickin hard to add face tileset portraits so they dont crash?!)

Dude, how the hell do you add a face portrait WITHOUT the game crashing?!

Everytime I place a face portrait on another existing one or make new room for it and place it there, the instant it only CRASHES, CRASHES, CRASHES!

How the hell do you fix this?! Its really getting me angry!

 

Hex edit (C)Pixel to the end of the face.pbm.

If you're using CE, just remove the (C)Pixel requirement.



Make sure that you're adding the correct amount of pixels to the HEIGHT of the image if you're adding new ones.

 

The pictures were copied and then pasted into Face.pbm.

The pictures that I had copied was png files

Anything wrong?

 

(C)Pixel

That's all you need

 

>_>
you did remove the (c)pixel requirement, right?
and made sure it wasn't read only?

 

It has the (C)Pixel requirement removed.

Also, Ill check.

REMOVED THE READ-ONLY STATUS, AND STILL CRASHES!

Goddamn, THIS NEVER WORKS.

Not a SOLUTION helps me with this.

 

Make sure the file is in bitmap format and has no more than 8-bit color depth (I suspect you may have accidentally saved in 24-bit color depth).

 

And what's wrong with that?

Make sure the file is in bitmap format and has no more than 8-bit color depth (I suspect you may have accidentally saved in 24-bit color depth).

Huh? What's wrong with saving it in 24-bit?
I've saved half my files so far in that format and they work fine.

 

Re: And what's wrong with that?

Hey guys, another question.


How far do you have to edit in CE before SW will corrupt the exe?

I'm just wondering because I'm finding the npc.tbl editor really useful, but I don't want to break SW compatibility with this mod.

 

I thunk map data, but that may be changed no matter what you edit.
I'd recommend cheeses npc.tbl editor.

 

Re: And what's wrong with that?

Huh? What's wrong with saving it in 24-bit?
I've saved half my files so far in that format and they work fine.

Oh? The help file in Miza said that anything higher than 8-bit will crash the game. I never actually tested it myself though, I just assumed that was correct. Maybe it's not...