Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

How would I get the maps to be visible, I'm adding new maps but the screen just stays that purplish blue color and doesn't show anything. (I haven't modded CS in quite awhile so I forgot.)

If I recall correctly you should do this:
<MNA<CMU00..(you use CMU to choose whatever song you want to hear, for example cemetery is 0012)<FAI0000<END
<MNA<CMU00..<FAI0001<END
<MNA<CMU00..<FAI0002<END
<MNA<CMU00..<FAI0003<END
<MNA<CMU00..<FAI0004<END
Hope this might help ya.

 

<MNA and <CMU aren't exactly necessary, but they are complimentary.

 

Put a <WAI between them then.

put a wai between what?
(I started working on my mod again, I now vaguely understand the entire thing so no more noob question spamming for me)

 

put a wai between what?
(I started working on my mod again, I now vaguely understand the entire thing so no more noob question spamming for me)

Ah whoops i never answered this did I.
IIRC you wanted to spawn multiple smoke entities but don't want them to all do their animation at once right? Just put a <WAI command between the two commands you use to spawn these (or between all of them if it's more than one). You still have to put down a number for <WAI but something between like 10 or 25 might work for you, hard to say without context.

 

Just put a <WAI command between the two commands you use to spawn these

How does one use commands to spawn an entity?

 

How does one use commands to spawn an entity?

<SNPWWWW:XXXX:YYYY:ZZZZ

W - Entity number
X - X position
Y - Y position
Z - Direction it's facing (0, 2, and 4 can really only work for most of them)

And then with what Mint's describing, just do this repetitively until you're satisfied with the amount that's being spawned.

<SNPWWWW:XXXX:YYYY:ZZZZ<WAIXXXX

 

<SNPWWWW:XXXX:YYYY:ZZZZ<WAIXXXX

Is there a command for a while loop too?

 

Is there a command for a while loop too?

There isnt really a command for while loops although you can make one as long if you use flag checks to return to the same event.
If you do this though you must make absolutely sure that there is at least one <WAI and also a way to get out of the loop.

 

There is a way to create a looped event, because I really doubt it's possible to do it with <FLJ. However, it requires the usage of a custom set of commands available through TSC+: <VAR.

Here's an example of how the loop would look:

#0100
<VAR0050:0000<EVE0101
#0101
<VAJV050:0015:0000:0102<SNPWWWW:XXXX:YYYY:ZZZZ:<WAI0001<VAO0050+0001<EVE0101
#0102
<END

And the descriptions for what's going on in the TSC:

Spoiler: TSC explanation

#0100
Set number 0 to Variable 50,
Jump to Event #0101

#0101
If Variable 50 is equal to number 15, burger king foot lettuce, jump to Event #0102
Spawn entity W in X/Y position on the map, facing Z direction.
Wait for 1 frame
Add 1 to Variable 50
Jump to Event #0101
This will go on until Variable 50 is equal to number 15, and there should be 15 entities spawned as a result of it.

#0102
End Script

I hope this will help. Also, with <VAR, only Variables 8 to 123 are writable without breaking anything past that, so work with them wisely.

 

There is a way to create a looped event, because I really doubt it's possible to do it with <FLJ. However, it requires the usage of a custom set of commands available through TSC+: <VAR.

Unless im horribly mistaken it is very possible to loop events using vanilla flags, though you'll need multiple flags dephending on how optimised your tsc is and how often you want to loop the event.

 

Unless im horribly mistaken it is very possible to loop events using vanilla flags, though you'll need multiple flags dephending on how optimised your tsc is and how often you want to loop the event.

I'm intrigued now, would you provide an example, if you can think of one? Because that'd be pretty cool to see in practice.

 

It's probably theoretically possible but it would be extremely tedious to write due to only being able to read/write one bit at a time and having no concept of "variables"
Using some custom TSC like the VAR hack would be a bit less painful but the language still isn't really built for it

 

is there any easy way to make it so the curly fighting AI thing can go past those entity barriers?

 

If you don't need the barriers for anything else, just change the tile type.

That or I don't understand the question.

 

Maybe use an h/v trigger a few tiles down and teleport her behind you? (Including an <SNP for smoke to indicate she did teleport)

 

So I was working on a little something but now I have a problem: I gave an entity a certain event and then created many other entities and gave them OTHER events but now despite this all entities act as if they were the first one and apply that only event, which is a message btw...I'd like to know why it happens and what I should do to solve it. Also this and the fact that lately Cave editor has been crashing a lot are driving me INSANE, so plz send help.

 

Would you show us the script and the entities with their assigned event number?
Also switch to Booster's Lab if Cave Editor has been crashing on your end.

 

Sure thing.
The first entity:

A random door:

The problem:
Hope this is what you wanted to see.
By the way I'm using booster now and it's working just fine so that's good.

 

Are your events sorted correctly? if #0300 is above #0169 then calling the latter will make the first run because cave story is weird.

 

It works, thanks a lot! Anyway I can't believe the reason why it wasn't working was so stupid.