Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

How do I make backgrounds for new maps work?

On said map, is the scroll type set on 4?

 

To clear things up; my question isn't "How do I make a completely new background and put it in a map". My question is "How do I make backgrounds for new maps work?"

use booster's lab

 

Holy fuck you guys
VB if I remember correctly, using the "copy" action instead of "new" will let you duplicate a map with the background intact. Then you just gotta edit the map to your liking

 

I'm pretty sure mine and Noxid's answers were valid, you were just dense.

 

I'm pretty sure mine and Noxid's answers were valid, you were just dense.

Well maybe his computer can't handle java.

 

Well maybe his computer can't handle java.

oh those java intolerant computers, they're so problematic at times

 

I've got another quick question. How do I make it so if you drown in a room, you don't die? I want to make it read other scripts like after drowning it fades in and another character says he fished you out or something.

First, set a flag to indicate that you don't want to die when you drown. Then open up the global script Head.tsc, and go to event #0041. Set a flag jump so that when your flag is set, it will do something different from what normally happens when you drown, such as fading out and transitioning to another room for a cutscene.

 

EDIT: I figured out it was in Head TSC. But when I do a <TRA command to a specific room you can't see the player character at all and you can't move.

Use <SMC, that's what it's there for.

 

I thought that didn't work or something cause the player is dead.

While we're talking about this, where is the player drowned sprite?

 

Caret.bmp

Wasn't that question answered before?

 

I made a clone map of Mimiga Village, but the camera doesn't follow the player. I tried every scroll type.

try <FOM

 

I need to slow down the fish missiles, which offset would I change, and what would I change it to?
Edit: Also, how do I make them properly killable?

 

Green ones. The polar star doesn't do anything to them. I have them run a script on death. But they don't die. I also made them not go through walls, but I don't know if that effects whether they take damage or not. They are also set to shootable.

 

Green ones. The polar star doesn't do anything to them. I have them run a script on death. But they don't die. I also made them not go through walls, but I don't know if that effects whether they take damage or not. They are also set to shootable.

In the script that runs on death, did you add a <DNP to it to delete the entity on death? (Though, they'd need specific event numbers, if I'm not mistaken.)

 

Oh, so it can't apply to all of them? I didn't have them be deleted on death, so maybe that's why.

 

not sure if this has been asked before (the site's search is shite and i'm not going to sift through 350+ pages) but how can i edit the machine gun's knockback?

 

not sure if this has been asked before (the site's search is shite and i'm not going to sift through 350+ pages) but how can i edit the machine gun's knockback?

the up/down knockback is in the machine gun (weapon) code, around the part when it shoots bullets
i can't really look up exact offsets at the moment

 

I need Kazuma's walking <ANP and I need to know why my NPCS go behind @Doors .

you might find this helpful http://www.cavestory.org/guides/basicmodding/guide/anp.txt

oh and i'm not sure why npc's go behind doors. maybe it has to do with the order in which they're loaded?

 

I need Kazuma's walking <ANP and I need to know why my NPCS go behind @Doors .

Think it's like 10 or something.

Anyways, doors are Npc's too, so they're effected by the draw order.
Just make sure that your doors have a lower draw order number than the other Npc's.

 

Look at the game files.