Bigger Enemies

[SpacemanDan]

I read somewhere that it's possible to make enemies bigger without the use of scripts. If I did read this right, how do you do this?

[Joe123]

I'm pretty sure you have to use scripts.
It wouldn't be a very complicated script to just make, say, a 2x1 enemy or something though.

[SpacemanDan]

I figured I read something wrong. >_<
How would one make a bigger enemy through scripts?

[Joe123]

e->Extend = 3;
e->TileHeight = bigger;
e->TileWidth = bigger;

Specifics?

[SpacemanDan]

No real specs, I'd just need something I can throw number into to make bigger enemies.

Would Ijust have to through in the numbers in that script there?

[Joe123]

Sort of.
Depends how you want it to work, and how big you want the enemy to be though.
Do you want it to just take an enemy from the list (so say, take the first enemy, or take the 5th enemy or whatever), or work for all enemies of a certain type or what?

[SpacemanDan]

I'd like it if it worked on a certain enemy on the list.

[Dart Zaidyer]

I'm going to chime in here and say I'd like to be able to do this for an assortment of enemies in the LttP tileset, so they're always the right size. Many of them need to be 1x2 or 2x2 tiles.

[Joe123]

ffc script enemyresize{
	void run(int n, int h, int w){
	if(h==0) h=1;
	if(w==0) w=1;
		Waitframes(4);
		npc e = Screen->LoadNPC(n);
		e->Extend = 3;
		e->TileHeight = h;
		e->TileWidth = w;
		e->HitHeight = h*16;
		e->HitWidth = w*16;
	}
}

• D0: Number of enemy on list to load
• D1: Height of new enemy
• D2: Width of new enemy

Should be pretty universal.


Oh yeah, it doesn't work for all animation types.
It gets pretty funky if you try it with Tektites.
It's good for 4-frame 4-dir types though.
Dunno about anything else, I haven't tried it.

[bigjoe]

One thing you really gotta be aware of is that enemies resized have to be drawn the right way. So if you're resizing an enemy you already have and don't want to have to sacrifice it's "small size" tiles to make it large, you should set it to a new tile. Here is a revision.

ffc script enemyresize{
	void run(int n, int h, int w, int t){
	if(h==0) h=1;
	if(w==0) w=1;
		Waitframes(4);
		npc e = Screen->LoadNPC(n);
                e->Tile = t;
		e->Extend = 3;
		e->TileHeight = h;
		e->TileWidth = w;
		e->HitHeight = h*16;
		e->HitWidth = w*16;
	}
}

D3: Tile of new enemy.