Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

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.

 

So I was doing stuff with a little project of mine when suddenly the game crashed when an horizontal trigger was supposed to make the player travel to a different location. I thought to myself "Damn, I don't know why this happens but it shouldn't be too hard to solve, right?"...I deleted the event and wrote it again ad tried other things but the thing keeps crashing there. Also the trigger used to work correctly before Idk what to do send help pls thx
P.S.I'd rather not send a video about it just because I don't wanna spoil anything yet and the work is still in progress but if it really is needed I won't have any problems to provide it.

 

It's hard finding out why an event crashed if we dont know what the event is like (if youre afraid to show it because of spoilers, just copypaste and remove the spoilery part really)
Either way a simple way to start is by looking at which command stuff goes wrong at by putting a quick test message (<nsg/nod) between random commands in the event.

 

yeah it would be nice to see the entire event
when I worked on usagistory, what crashed one of the events was a <FOM0000, which only accepts a parameter that is greater than 0 (not equal). You probably have a similar issue, but like Mint said, this can be caused by any command that is used incorrectly, so if you can, please show us the code of the event!

 

It's hard finding out why an event crashed if we dont know what the event is like (if youre afraid to show it because of spoilers, just copypaste and remove the spoilery part really)

Yeah, I don't know why I didn't think about that.

So I tried this and it crashes after the fourth message so this would mean that the travel command is causing this? That's weird, the destination is completely normal.

 

could be something in event 0094 of map 6. what's that one saying?

 

Oh, it's the standard thing.

 

Does it pop up a (garbled) error box or does it just instantly stall?

I would double check what entities you have in the second map, because atm this doesn't look like a TSC error.