Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

Well I didn't really know what scriptsource was at the time so I screwed shit up

 

this is why we have backups

 

I realize that
I'm just saying if you're not careful around BL it can do weird shit you don't expect

 

like a cat



this was intentional

 

I realize that
I'm just saying if you're not careful around BL it can do weird shit you don't expect

I've had weird shit happen with CE. For some reason it kept on corrupting the safe house in the water way on one of my mods, fortunately I only ran into this glitch once. The only reason I use CE over BL is because it allows me to edit the bullet data and stage tiles pretty easily.

 

I've had weird shit happen with CE. For some reason it kept on corrupting the safe house in the water way on one of my mods, fortunately I only ran into this glitch once. The only reason I use CE over BL is because it allows me to edit the bullet data and stage tiles pretty easily.

the latest version of BL can edit bullet data and it's always been able to edit tile types

 

Oh... then one of your help files lies to me... I might not have the latest version.

 

I haven't updated the help in a while

 

That explains it. Is there anything else that I can do in Booster's Lab that is better/not doable in Cave Editor besides the hacking and the hex editor?

 

Literally everything implemented is superior to CE

 

the only reason as to why I use CE is because it has TSC Preview images and since I'm a major scrub I need those so
idk

 

I've actually never used Booster's Lab. I love Sue's Workshop and I'm going to stick with it! (Just Kidding, I only use CE)

 

Okay, so I have 2 questions. A). Is it possible to have enemies have health, but not be kill-able and have knock back from weapons, and B). Is it possible for enemies to take damage from spikes? I need to know this because I have an idea for a smash style boss battle...
Edit: Also, can I make it to were you put a file with a certain name into the folder, it will activate a sort of debug mode when you start a new game? I mean it like the "fps" and the "mute" debug options, only it gives you a high health amount. Also, can I change the file name required?

 

A) Yes
B) Yes

3rd: I don't know

 

A) Why would it need health of you cant' hurt it????

B) No, entities can't interact with entities.

C) I'm certian it's completely possible, but I'm not sure how you would go about doing it.


E: ninjaed with wrong answers

 

No, you can hurt entities with other entities. The bullets are an example. And what I meant was that the entity could not be hurt by the player. It could be hurt by another entity, though. The boss would work like this: You attack it, and it moves back. Like that one boss from Super Metriod. And, I just realized that I can do the debug mode with a simple flag jump, but I still need to change what text is needed...

 

A) Why would it need health of you cant' hurt it????

B) No, entities can't interact with entities.

C) I'm certian it's completely possible, but I'm not sure how you would go about doing it.


E: ninjaed with wrong answers

A) It IS possible. Maybe it wouldn't be global (i.e. for all entities) but you could apply this to certain ones. I wasn't wrong.
B) Spikes are also a tile. Your argument is invalid.

Edit: bullets are not entities, Bion

 

Oh... So, is it possible to make an entity that simulates one?

 

No, you can hurt entities with other entities. The bullets are an example. And what I meant was that the entity could not be hurt by the player. It could be hurt by another entity, though. The boss would work like this: You attack it, and it moves back. Like that one boss from Super Metriod. And, I just realized that I can do the debug mode with a simple flag jump, but I still need to change what text is needed...

No, you /can't/ have entities hurt other entities, the stuff from your gun is bullets. the stuff from Curllies gun are entities (in the boss battle in the sand zone).


Bullets can interact with entities, but bullets can't hurt you. And visa-versa



E: didn't see randolfs other post

 

If you put enough work into it, that boss would be possible. You'd just have to make the boss fly back when hit and constantly have its health set to some variable in the code. Shooting it would only push it back, and it would instantly recover its health back to the value stored in aforementioned variable. Having contact with spikes would decrease the value stored in the variable, effectively reducing boss' health. You'd have to put a "run TSC" in the entity code when its HP is below certain threshold, though, because "Run script on death" would not work with a boss like that.

Have fun doing that, if you decide to work on that idea.