General Help and Quick Questions

[Cat king]

How do I use the world map? whenever I try to use it, it will just spawn me on a random location, and I can't move. Am I missing something? I set the spawn location (via through individual tile settings) on the start block.

This is me pushing every direction.

[mariobrigade2018]

Put a level and ensure that the "Game start point " checkbox is true. Like this:

[Cat king]

Sorry, my bad. I did not make it clear.



I already am doing that, but it still does the exact same thing. And yes, I saved the world before testing it.

[deice]

I already am doing that, but it still does the exact same thing. And yes, I saved the world before testing it.

if you have any save files (sav#.sav and sav#-ext.dat) in your episode folder, make sure to delete those as well before testing.

[Cat king]

I already am doing that, but it still does the exact same thing. And yes, I saved the world before testing it.

if you have any save files (sav#.sav and sav#-ext.dat) in your episode folder, make sure to delete those as well before testing.

Thanks it works now!

[asdfagi]

I have some basic code in a luna.lua file that moves around some layers, but I have encountered a problem. Whenever a player is hurt or gets a powerup, the game stops moving certain things (layers, for instance), but the lua code continues to run, causing the layer movements to misalign. Is there any way to fix this, for instance by stopping some code from running while the player is taking damage/getting a powerup?

the lua code:

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function onLoadSection()
    ichor = Layer.get("Ichor")
    platformsSine = Layer.get("PlatformsSine (+)")
    platformsSineMinus = Layer.get("PlatformsSine (-)")
    platformsCosine = Layer.get("PlatformsCosine (+)")
    platformsCosineMinus = Layer.get("PlatformsCosine (-)")
end

function onTick()
    if counter == nil then counter = 0 end
    counter = counter + 0.025
    if ichor then ichor.speedY = math.sin(counter) end
    if platformsSine then platformsSine.speedY = math.sin(counter/2) end
    if platformsSineMinus then platformsSineMinus.speedY = -math.sin(counter/2) end
    if platformsCosine then platformsCosine.speedY = math.cos(counter/2) end
    if platformsCosineMinus then platformsCosineMinus.speedY = -math.cos(counter/2) end
end

[Trilogy]

I have a question: how do you create a level that can be played only once?

if you mean a level that makes itself completely unplayable after being cleared, this isn't possible within vanilla smbx. maybe using lua you could wait until the level's been exited and then overwrite the level file with junk, but lunalua has limitations to it's file system to prevent malicious code from being run so i'm not sure if that's possible either.

if you mean a level that isn't (practically) accessible after being played once, it depends:
- in a hub-style episode, you could for example require something like a switch palace switch to be pressed to beat the level, then block it off in the hub using that same switch. there's plenty of ways to go about it even in vanilla.
- on the world map, there's no real way to block levels off from the get-go without using lua. any way of blocking entry in a level would have to be within the level itself (example, a wall and an offscreen exit) but this is a bit crude.

If you are making a intro level, then that is no exeption. if you want it to be unplayable, then never put the level on the hub/world map.

[Trilogy]

Is it okay to rip graphics from episodes? 90% of the STTB2 world map graphics are lost forever and/or don't have confirmed author so is it okay to repost a downloadable link of the world map graphics? i won't claim them as my own, of course.

[Alagirez]

Even though you don't claim it, reposting unreleased stuff without permission isn't okay.

[Idunn]

Is it okay to rip graphics from episodes?

Short: No it's not okay.

[ben]

As I installed SMBX 1.3.0.1 on my computer, I also downloaded the Ultimate Graphic Pack from Red Yoshi and Supermarioman from the SMBX homepage and saved it to an external hard drive at some point.

Unfortunately, this hard drive broke recently.

Maybe someone can tell me where I can find the above mentioned pack or something similar to this pack.

It would be nice if this pack is compatible with SMBX 2 beta 5 and following versions of SMBX 2.

[MarioTheGre]

I know SMBX is meant to use an SNES based control scheme, but I feel like I NEED to have the alt jump as the bumpers and both A and B to be just plain 'ol jump, and I didn't know where to place this. Is there a way to have multiple buttons map to the same thing (or if it's a planned thing for the future)? It's just been bugging me that I can't map two buttons all for one simple function (considering I'm very much used to modern controls and it still confuses me a ton having to get used to these controls all the time).

[hooty557]

When I open up the installer Microsoft Defender tells me that they just protected my pc, and if I run the program it might put my pc at risk. Is this normal? Will this give me a virus? Should I still run it anyway? Or am I just being over protected of my pc since I don't want a virus on my pc

[Squishy Rex]

As long as you have downloaded the installer from the downloads page on codehaus, it is completely fine. Defender only targets X2 because it is not known to Microsoft as a trusted program.

[Xndrcrn]

Hello I downloaded latest version of the game smbx2 5 and when I try to open it nothing pops up but it does run in task manager. How can I fix this issue? I also tried beta 4 but I had same issue

[Xndrcrn]

Hello I downloaded latest version of the game smbx2 5 and when I try to open it nothing pops up but it does run in task manager. How can I fix this issue? I also tried beta 4 but I had same issue

anyone?

[Trilogy]

What type of PC and GPU do you use? im asking because it could either be a problem from the pogram, or your computer itself.

[lowpolycat]

Hi all! I'm wondering if there's a way to have a triggered event change dialogue on an NPC? i.e. I've killed an enemy which fires an event that changes the NPC's dialogue in reaction.

I think I could have the event hide the current NPC's layer and reveal a new layer with a new NPC and text, but that seems a little roundabout. I just wanted to check that I'm not missing something dead simple here or misinterpreting the interface. Thank you!

[Emral]

Hi all! I'm wondering if there's a way to have a triggered event change dialogue on an NPC? i.e. I've killed an enemy which fires an event that changes the NPC's dialogue in reaction.

I think I could have the event hide the current NPC's layer and reveal a new layer with a new NPC and text, but that seems a little roundabout. I just wanted to check that I'm not missing something dead simple here or misinterpreting the interface. Thank you!

What you posited there in your second paragraph is exactly the easy way that people have been doing forever. It is a bit roundabout, but the game doesn't give you any intuitive tools to just change a message on an NPC.

Using lua, you can change the dialogue directly. It's roundabout in a different way, though, as you need to find out which npc you want to change the dialogue of. Out of the box, there is no intuitive way like a tag, so you might fall back on coordinates, section, layer, or something else you can manipulate.
Using extranpcproperties you can get tags and work more reliably.
Now, I haven't used extranpcproperties before, so here's how you can do it with using a layer as a unique identifier (so your NPC of this ID (say, 101 for luigi) is the only NPC of the ID on that layer).

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function onEvent(eventName)
	if eventName == "changeText" then
		for k,v in NPC.iterate(101) do
			if v.layerName == "TextChange" then
				v.msg = "My text has changed!"
			end
		end
	end
end

To add another event, don't make a 2nd onEvent, but just add a 2nd if-statement checking for another event name.

[lowpolycat]

What you posited there in your second paragraph is exactly the easy way that people have been doing forever. It is a bit roundabout, but the game doesn't give you any intuitive tools to just change a message on an NPC.

Using lua, you can change the dialogue directly. It's roundabout in a different way, though, as you need to find out which npc you want to change the dialogue of. Out of the box, there is no intuitive way like a tag, so you might fall back on coordinates, section, layer, or something else you can manipulate.
Using extranpcproperties you can get tags and work more reliably.
Now, I haven't used extranpcproperties before, so here's how you can do it with using a layer as a unique identifier (so your NPC of this ID (say, 101 for luigi) is the only NPC of the ID on that layer).

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function onEvent(eventName)
	if eventName == "changeText" then
		for k,v in NPC.iterate(101) do
			if v.layerName == "TextChange" then
				v.msg = "My text has changed!"
			end
		end
	end
end

To add another event, don't make a 2nd onEvent, but just add a 2nd if-statement checking for another event name.

Excellent, that's exactly what I was looking for! Super appreciate the method confirmation and lua tip; that'll keep me busy for a while. Thank you so much!