Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

Okay, I've made a modded version that fixes the Entity Flag dialog in both the map editor and in npc.tbl, so there won't be anymore further confusion between Cave Editor users and Booster's Lab users.
Download

 

Hello, I'm having problems with my mod. To me it works fine but to others not. According to the error log, PrtCave.bmp and NpcSym.bmp are returning 1 instead of 0. The characteristic these two share is that I edited them with GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), but I've also edited PrtMimi.bmp with GIMP and this file still returns 0. I'm using CEditor and not using CSE2. I have also actually used the edited tiles of PrtCave and NpcSym in maps, but not the edited tiles of PrtMimi. Here's the download link.

 

The characteristic these two share is that I edited them with GIMP

Ahah, here's the problem. You using GIMP! You know what they say, all toasters toast toast!

I'd suggest any other image editing software, GIMP is always the source to "my Cave Story bitmaps are broken!". Paint.NET, FireAlpaca, or Aseprite are often recommended.

 

Ahah, here's the problem. You using GIMP! You know what they say, all toasters toast toast!

I'd suggest any other image editing software, GIMP is always the source to "my Cave Story bitmaps are broken!". Paint.NET, FireAlpaca, or Aseprite are often recommended.

ah ;-; that's a pity, I love GIMP.
Thank you very much!

 

Booster's Lab is giving me a headache because apparently it has something against Ubuntu users.

Spoiler: oh it says BkBlue has to be bkBlue? ok let's go and change the name

Spoiler: ok let's see if- oh COME ON

ik it's like my third question in a row but i am Mildly Frustrated, can someone help please?

Edit: Thanks to the modding discord community I was able to solve the problem!

 

How you edit the credits?

 

How you edit the credits?

There's a guide for that in Booster's Lab.

 

...i'm not sure why you're asking here, on a long dead thread for my kinda mediocre first mod of all places, but yeah. booster's lab's help section has a guide on how to edit the credits, it's not that tricky once you get the hang of it.

 

There's a guide for that in Booster's Lab.

I will try another time, make the Booster's Lab work.

EDIT: I got it, thanks!

 

So regarding Entity #20 (Computer), it has 3 different sprites that I redesigned for the Mechanto Gate in Gun v2. So considering that Entity #20 has 3 different sprites, can you switch between them with ANP?

 

So regarding Entity #20 (Computer), it has 3 different sprites that I redesigned for the Mechanto Gate in Gun v2. So considering that Entity #20 has 3 different sprites, can you switch between them with ANP?

Probably not. Especially when the computer entity doesn't have an animation table of it's own. You'll have to write one in with ASM.

 

Probably not. Especially when the computer entity doesn't have an animation table of it's own. You'll have to write one in with ASM.

If that's the case, then I'm under the mistaken assumption that the computer sprite is animated considering it has 3 sprites. So what are the three sprites actually used for?

Spoiler: Original CS Computer sprites

Spoiler: Gun v2 Mechanto Gate

 

Looking into the assembly, the sprites are all looped depending on direction. One just happens to be in a one frame animation and one happens to be in a two frame animation. However, neither are dependent on <ANP, nor is there code like JMP DWORD [E_X*4+4XXXXX] in the NPC. There isn't even an animation table at the end, the code just jumps straight to NPC 021.

 

Looking into the assembly, the sprites are all looped depending on direction. One just happens to be in a one frame animation and one happens to be in a two frame animation. However, neither are dependent on <ANP, nor is there code like JMP DWORD [E_X*4+4XXXXX] in the NPC. There isn't even an animation table at the end, the code just jumps straight to NPC 021.

Well damn, it was a worth a shot at least. Thanks for you help anyway, Serri.

 

meh, i dont know how to animate the player with out breaking my computer. or at least adding entities in cave editor

 

meh, i dont know how to animate the player with out breaking my computer. or at least adding entities in cave editor

What do you mean with any of this? What were you planning to do?

 

Oh boy, it's been a while since I last asked a question here.
Anyway, I was trying to export my work to CSE2 and some files do work, but others(new .PNG files in particular) crash the game immediately.
Now, what I did is: I converted the .BMP files to PNG and then I put them in their respective CSE2 folders making sure that they had the same exact names, then I ran the game to make sure everything was working fine, but then it closed the program without even leaving an error.txt.
What did I do wrong?

 

You know how the Core fight has the water raise and lower? I wondering how to pull this off for my own mod, considering that I found Selenic Shadow's usage of this technique quite impressive.

 

By itself, i thought the water level's only animation is rise. The rising and lowering cycle in the Core battle are hardcoded, I'm pretty sure.

EDIT: In the case of mods like WTF Story or Terri's Night Out, the entity itself was relocated (or really, manipulated through null entity transformations), rather than animated downward, to give the illusion that it is.

 

By itself, i thought the water level's only animation is rise. The rising and lowering cycle in the Core battle are hardcoded, I'm pretty sure.

EDIT: In the case of mods like WTF Story or Terri's Night Out, the entity itself was relocated (or really, manipulated through null entity transformations), rather than animated downward, to give the illusion that it is.

Okay then. However in Selenic Shadow's Grié'dýr : Water, the water rises up and down. The script for it goes like this though I have trouble trying to understand it: