Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

No, you're going to want to have your boss or whatever have the event of your win event (in your case #0101) with the flag for running the event on death. Somewhere else you'll have the event with <BSL0101<END to start the boss fight with said enemy. An <ANP isn't necessarily needed unless it's an enemy with a specific set of animations and you need a specific one.

 

When I attempted this, the boss didn't move...

 

So, for the curly brace boss..?

 

When I attempted this, the boss didn't move...

*Checks Carnage Clash Notes*



For Curly you want to be using entity 118. If you are using 117 then <CNP it to 118.

Then, use <ANPxxxx:0010:000y to initiate her (replacing "xxxx" with the event number you assigned to her, and "y" with whatever direction)



Then in her death event (the same number as xxxx), the default way of deactivating her is:

<CNP'ing back to 117 and using <ANPxxxx:0005:0005



Additionally, adding <BSLxxxx will display the health bar.

 

Thanks, it worked perfectly!

 

Yup, there are two different types of bosses in cave story.
One is usually a main character or generic enemy souped up to be a boss with a cutscene and health bar.
The other is one of the huge bosses requiring a... Well, I havn't worked with bigger bosses enough to really know yet. They just have a special event scripting (methinks) that doesn't put them into the Entity category.
Basically, non-traditional NPCs.

 

The other is one of the huge bosses requiring a... Well, I havn't worked with bigger bosses enough to really know yet. They just have a special event scripting (methinks) that doesn't put them into the Entity category.
Basically, non-traditional NPCs.

For the most part, big bosses are functionally equivalent to other entities in the game. However, they don't appear in the npc table (their stats are hardcoded into the exe) and they spawn at a fixed location on a map, and only if they are specified as the map's "big boss" in the stage table. I think they also have some special code which allows them to be as big as they are, that is, code that lets them run more tile collision checks.

 

This is some mindrape, but I'll try and remember it...

 

Any other command after <LDP doesn't work for me. Is this normal?

 

yes
After you load the profile the event ends

 

Could someone please tell me where I can reverse the big pignon's trajectory after hitting him in the code? I need to make it go backwards instead of forwards...

 

004374F9 MOV DWORD PTR DS:[EAX+10],100
change 100 to -100

00437505 MOV DWORD PTR DS:[ECX+10],-100
change -100 to 100

 

Okay, thanks! Time to make that boss battle...

Edit: It works! Now to make a sprite...

Edit 2: Also, is there any way to make the 3 quote entities, along with the animations, work with the <MIM command? I am currently using the <MIM command itself with the animations, and I just find it impractical to do that.

 

yes
After you load the profile the event ends

so with this happening, is there any other way to run commands after loading the profile?

 

You could add a flag before the need to load the profile, then make it do something else with the flag... I think.

 

basically afaik any command before <LDP works and anything after doesn't
that's basically it

 

What <WAI value is equivalent to one second?

 

You could add a flag before the need to load the profile

You can't do that
You're thinking of skipflags

 

Oh, I did mean skipflags... My bad...

 

What <WAI value is equivalent to one second?

uh
<WAI0050