Custom Enemies Support/Thread

[safe rover]

Yeah, you'll have to wait for the patch for the rest of the issues to be resolved I'm afraid

[frail matrix]

i see,

still thank you

[cunning wind]

Alright, so apparently the FlipPlane behavior has this weird quirk that is determined by the mod's isLegacy flag. Because there is only one version of it that is used in both Reclayed and Classic mods, what happens is that in Reclayed, it can receive knockback and uses turrets under ReclayedTurret behavior, whereas in Classic, it is immune to knockback, and uses turrets under Turret behavior (i.e. the the legacy variant).

[frail matrix]

Are rotations currently supported?

[crimson linden]

rotations, as in? compared to what entity?

[frail matrix]

Rotation as is sprite rotation
Withouth having to manually draw the rotation

[crimson linden]

ah gotcha
hmmm, not that I know of :(

that'd be really useful for porting Platypus 2 windmills too

[terse stump]

Is it possible for custom enemies to drop weapon stars when destroyed?

[safe rover]

Yes, but it is done within the level file. Either by

• Setting fruit_set on the spawn command
• By using setBonusCounter, setBonusReward and then setting bonus on the spawn command

You can look for those in the existing levels for some examples

[frail matrix]

I was wondering if is posible in lua to add more sprites like squid bottom witch is not a entity but just a sprite

[safe rover]

This function is what the main game uses for things like the squid bottomlua ---@param spriteSheetName string ---@param orderOffset integer ---@param globalOrderOffset boolean? ---@return SpriteAnimator function BaseEntity.SpawnAttachedSpriteAnimator(spriteSheetName, orderOffset, globalOrderOffset) end

You can call:

---@return Collider2D
function SpriteAnimator.AddCollider() end```
and then pass that collider to:
```lua
---@param collider Collider2D
---@param playerCollisionCallback function?
---@param bulletCollisionCallback function?
function BaseEntity.CheckCollision(collider, playerCollisionCallback, bulletCollisionCallback) end```

If you want to detect collision on the "attached sprite animator"

[terse stump]

Thanks

[safe rover]

Though I'm not sure if you can actually set the offset of that SpriteAnimator now that I look at it closer. That interface doesn't look like it is exposed to the LUA environment..
@buoyant lake Is this something I'm allowed to expose? Should not be that big of a change

[buoyant lake]

The more the merrier honestly

[frail matrix]

for now i can do kinda the same effect by just making the bottom as an entity and adding it as a turret

[safe rover]

Untested, but the new definition for SpriteAnimator will be:

---@class SpriteAnimator
---@field totalFrames integer
---@field currentFrame integer
---@field timePerFrame integer
---@field totalRows integer
---@field totalColumns integer
---@field currentRow integer
---@field currentColumn integer
---@field currentSheet string
---@field position Vector2
SpriteAnimator = {}```

[frail matrix]

been trying to use the new get player position but seem that im only getting nil

[frail matrix]

im still quite confused how to use any of this get player

[frail matrix]

i tried using something like the regular get player but seems that didn't worked much

[safe rover]

Player is not a global, it is a type of variable that you get from another function. I believe that function was called GetPlayer, so you would call it and then use the resulting object to access the position
GetPlayer(0).GetWorldPosition()

[frail matrix]

i notice, one of the few things that have sprite rotations are lightning star guns, to rotate the lightning sprite

haven't seen if rotation for sprite is posible for lua

[frail matrix]

i have noticed with lua entities when used as turrets

sometimes they might get behind for some reason despite the bottom part
being in sort rder 10000, and the gun just being a regular squid gun

-# also hi psychosquid

[crimson linden]

what is the squid's sort order?

[frail matrix]

Just 1000

[crimson linden]

Oh I see
then that's quite weird

[frail matrix]

just to be clear

body, regular squid bheaviour 1k order
gun, lua gun i made, no order
bottom a separated lua entity 10k order

[crimson linden]

Ah, I see hmmm

wait, isn't the order supposed to be below 1k? of the bottom, I mean

for it to be on top of the squid body

[frail matrix]

hmm could try that

[pearl ether]

can we have an editable player shots?

[frail matrix]

that worked ^^

however there stil the gun who is still rendering behind

[frail matrix]

i fixed it by giving the squid the original squid sort order

[crimson linden]

either that or giving the gun a lower order than the body should work
the lower the sort number, the more "in front" something will be

[frail matrix]

i was wondering, does the particles trails that entities leave
use this function?
or is it other?

[safe rover]

No, the trail is a completely separate system, unfortunately not accessible for lua scripts

[frail matrix]

that's unfortunate, but i guess having an invisible turret entity do the trail could be a work around

also another question
is it posible to give
custombehaviourdata (like stars hangtime and other)
from lua?

[safe rover]

CustomBehaviourData is shared among every single instance and set in stone on mod-load, so unfortunately no

[frail matrix]

my bad for the anmount of question

but does this actually mean that you can use the data from the json for shard generation
or is it for making it from 0?

[safe rover]

No worries, I am supper happy that people are using the interface so I do not mind answering questions
EntityDataProxy.damageEffects is an array of DamageEffectData

You should be able to access it like so: self.data.damageEffects

I'm not currently seeing how one would get CustomBehaviourData, but all the other valid fields within entities.json are found within self.data.
Not being able to access CustomBehaviourData does look like a bit of an oversight

[formal sundial]

Question. Would giving a squid gun a random spread require a custom behavior?

[formal sundial]

Hmm. Maybe it would be best for me to wait for an example to be made first...?

[cunning wind]

Unrelated to this thread tbh, but will there be a collision sprite for the player ship built in the Platypus Original mod folder?

[pearl ether]

can we make players equip their custom default weapons?

@safe rover

so we can make custom players in the future

with different weapons they were started with

[safe rover]

Yes you can, any entity can set the player weapons and timers

[pearl ether]

Can you add their default skins on the ships.json

So we can edit it ourself

[safe rover]

That might be specified in the modmeta, not completely sure though

[cunning wind]

Yes you can. ;3

[pearl ether]

Like make them not just shoot a normal projectile but like they normally equiprocket stars forever

Just add "DefaultGun" : entity_player_shots.json "name"

[cunning wind]

Oh, nvm

[pearl ether]

To ship.json

Example
"Defaultgun": "playershotFish"

[safe rover]

Something you can do is spawn a Lua entity that does that at the start of a level, but for that actual behavior, I think you will need to ask @buoyant lake for it

[cunning wind]

Will most turret entities have configurable first shot delays?

[frail matrix]

some entities have some small time where they can't be damage
is there any function in lua for that? (the invincible part)

[pearl ether]

Yeah like your bouncy bullet
They can be hit althought it just a projectiles
@buoyant lake will you allow us to had no collision on lua coding?

[frail matrix]

you need a logic layer for that

i haven't put one onto it because i haven't tounched that entity in a while

[buoyant lake]

@safe rover is tracking what can and can't be done

[frail matrix]

how do i use logic layers?

[cunning wind]

@safe rover, @solemn nest, @opaque island?

[buoyant lake]

Xmas holidays for the next two weeks but am sure someone will pop in

[opaque island]

I will check when I’m back at my PC in a day or so. Feel free to remind me if you don’t hear back 🙂

[cunning wind]

This is moreso about the level data files themselves, but is there some sort of an opposite for "if enemy is on screen" arguments?

This also includes a variation for specific enemy on screen.

[safe rover]

Since the code that drives the turrets is different from eachother with some being more complicated than others. That's most likely going to be a no, all turrets should ask their parents if they can fire though so you can control turrets that don't have that flag that way

[safe rover]

You can define a func OnHitByBullet(bulletEntity: BaseEntity) function on your lua behaviour that will be called when a bullet hits it, the main game simply doesn't apply the damage if something is supposed to be invincible, but it looks like it will still call the base...
That seems like a bit of an oversight, but fixing it retroactively might change some script behaviours.. Not quite sure what to do about that

[safe rover]

waitForNoEnemies

[cunning wind]

How about for specific enemies.

I am specifically asking for the opposite of "if specific enemy on screen".

[safe rover]

ifSpecificEntityOnScreen

[cunning wind]

Yeah, but inverted.

[safe rover]

That one doesn't exist at the moment

Best you can do right now is chain a bunch of ifSpecificEntityOnScreen checks that wait just for a bit of time

[pearl ether]

ig it's a future feature ig

for the Spring Update

[cunning wind]

Well, I do want to make it so that the particular enemy will force some enemies to not spawn until the former is defeated.

[frail matrix]

great

on another thing, what about self.SetLogicLayerEnemyShot()
i tried putting on initialize or tick, but didn't work,
mostly want it to player bullets to ignore it

[safe rover]

EnemyShot and PlayerShot do collide because of the Sonic Pulse weapon

I've let Stu know that the image on the documentation website doesn't load, but here it is:

[frail matrix]

i think the only one that ignores bullets but not the player was
SetLogicLayerPlayerPickupCollider()
but it makes apppear some colllision errors in red text

[safe rover]

Best would be to change the behaviour so that defining a function in lua stops it from calling the base, that's how the main game does these things

[frail matrix]

i see, but i guess i do have to wait for a next patch

[frail matrix]

does the engine allow global vars in lua? just for easy var sharing between entities

[safe rover]

It does not

[frail matrix]

i see

well atleast i can skip 2 more hours of smashing my head onto the keyboard

[safe rover]

No scripts share an environment

[cunning wind]

@safe rover, is there a way to set a delay for the turrets through lua?

[safe rover]

If you make your own turret you can do pretty much whatever you want, yes

[cunning wind]

I wonder if there is a lua replica of reclayedTurret.

[safe rover]

I'm not aware of any

[formal sundial]

Yeah I think the best way we can really get the ball rolling is to figure out how to make a lua turret.

would open up all sorts of custom enemy making.

[frail matrix]

i uh have some turrets behaviour

[pearl ether]

Lua ahh

All I can make with Lua is backwards saucer

Which will be on Level 6 Dessert Mission

And they're coloured Green referencing Platypus 2 green fish

[cunning wind]

It would be nice if entities have a universal tag for setting up their default fruit drops, so we don't have to use the ser fruit drop commands in .plat files.

[frail matrix]

seems that the entity position can't be change

[frail matrix]

it would be nice if you could change the entity position instead of adding velocity for position

well atleast i can just use spawn entity to just get it to be on a pos i want

[safe rover]

That is a bit more complicated as you can only set that position during logic updates, this velocity is used for interpolation
Though that said, you can set the the velocity to be the delta between the current position and the position you want for pretty much that effect

[jovial echo]

could someone tell me where can I find the bosses' codes and create custom boss behaviour?

and maybe how to set up things in lua?

[crimson linden]

Not sure if anything like that exists yet but ig the best person to ask rn would be @frail matrix

[jovial echo]

DMed today already

[frail matrix]

👋 i missed the dm anyways

[frail matrix]

there no custom boss behaviour

all bosses are just enemies
and you can't really access the base game code anyways

really the only thing that makes a boss, a boss
is 2 parameters being boss timer and end boss timer on death
which can be setup in entity . json

[crimson linden]

So they can't be recreated with lua?
What are we missing, the boss timer?

Or can that be triggered by lua? 🤔

[frail matrix]

boss timer is in entity . json

also you can always use guesswork

but lua has limitations still
you may hit some walls

[jovial echo]

-# oh. Sorry I guess

[crimson linden]

Is there a way to call entity.json from a lua sprite tho? Haven't messed with it yet so I got no idea 🤔

[jovial echo]

then where is the bosses' behaviour?
Sillytuna mentioned lua

[frail matrix]

you make them from 0

[frail matrix]

kinda?

1 second

[jovial echo]

with no experience it would be much easier for me to use existing thing as a template

[crimson linden]

Someone needs to make one tho, since one doesn't exist yet, sadly

[frail matrix]

you can access a lot of data from the json itself

but if i remenber you can't make custom behaviours fields
like some behaviours have

[jovial echo]

this is in lua, right?

[frail matrix]

yeah stuff you can acess from the json into lua

[jovial echo]

hm

[frail matrix]

you have 1 templace

the saucer

i think it would be better for looking at others works and using it as a base

[jovial echo]

hm?

[frail matrix]

there only 1 lua template

[jovial echo]

ah I see

.

gahhh I don't even know how to start

-# just like with my essay today

how does movement work? how to define if something is connected with another thing?

[frail matrix]

you asign movement with self.movement = { x = something, y = something, z = 0 }

[jovial echo]

could you put an example?
like... saucer connected to a saucer

[frail matrix]

what do you mean

[jovial echo]

if I were to program a bit more complex entity

that isn't just one thing like a saucer

[frail matrix]

like multiple entities chained together ?

[jovial echo]

exactly

[frail matrix]

haven't tried it myself,
but i think using a spawn spritesheet and adding it an offset, then passing it trought a collider, and passing the collider to the entity might work

but again that is just in theory and haven't tried myself

[jovial echo]

hm, alright

btw, when are you usually available?

[frail matrix]

uhm i really depends since i gotta do studies soon so i might be less available

[jovial echo]

I can relate, studying in college myself

[jovial echo]

Also, you don't mind me asking for help that frequently, right?

[frail matrix]

if it helps the overall modding scene, i don't mind

[formal sundial]

I think it's just a waiting game at the moment until people start to recreate more things we can utilize with lua like turrets and enemies.

I did see a bit ago someone recreated a green big-un.

at least partially.

[frail matrix]

that was mine im still working on it

but im a bit stuck in the shard system

[jovial echo]

well, I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but I think it of: If I know more, then I can spread the knowledge too, so more people know?

[jovial echo]

I'm wondering,
Who created the "mine throwing can" enemies?
Th ones that open and throw a mine
is the door a separate entity?

[cunning wind]

@frail matrix

[jovial echo]

I knew it

[cunning wind]

The door is defo a turret entity, and shares the same behavior as the squid gun.
But, the mines themselves are lua-coded.

[jovial echo]

hm

so no additional lua needed for the door

speaking of lua, there are so many versions of it, which one do I pick?

[cunning wind]

The mines?

[jovial echo]

no no

I meant the lua program

wait,
I clicked LuaRocks instead of Lua itself

[cunning wind]

Try opening .lua file on VSCode.

[jovial echo]

ok, it's open-able in VSCode

this is for movement?

first one is command to start moving and the speed,
the second one is to define the movement pattern?

[cunning wind]

What file is that?

[jovial echo]

saucer.lua

I'm trying to find out what command does what

there are obvious ones
but some are not

[cunning wind]

Maybe try to change one thing and see what are the changes in-game.

It's essentially experimentation.

[jovial echo]

ya

[frail matrix]

i keep getting this issue that when i put turrets on an lua entity they keep rendering behind the entity itself

something it doesn happpen, sometimes it does
and i don't know why does it keep hapening, and doesn't seem to be anything about the sort order either

is kinda driving me insane

[safe rover]

There is an argument you can give to the create turret function, that you can use to change the order if I remember correctly

[frail matrix]

is it this one?

[safe rover]

Nope

[frail matrix]

then just regular child entity?

[safe rover]

Yeah that's the one I think, not sure what the argument in question is though I'm afraid

[frail matrix]

maybe is the same as the spawn spritesheet
orderoffset

[safe rover]

I'd have to dig into the code to tell you, but I can't do it right now

[frail matrix]

it's okay, this is already pretty helpful ^^

[jovial echo]

is there a way to change Submarine's gun position without having to rewrite it's code?

[frail matrix]

i think any turret that is tied to a behaviour is hard codded, so can't be modified

same with the uns turret in high difficulties

[crimson linden]

https://tenor.com/view/ouro-kronii-kronii-but-why-gif-12009250447064358416

[jovial echo]

has anyone managed to make working child entity?

[jovial echo]

@frail matrix

Have you managed to?

[frail matrix]

ah yes
still searching a bit to change it render offset

[jovial echo]

will you include that in the Mod Advanced Pack for others to learn?

[frail matrix]

maybe when i organize my stuff i start making examples

[jovial echo]

oki

[jovial echo]

how does implementing a turret work?

can I just add a ChildTurretEntity and call it a day?

or do I have to mess with behaviour

[cunning wind]

Adding a turret to an entity?

[jovial echo]

yes

adding a turret to an existing entity
as the turrets have their own codes and behaviours

[cunning wind]

Check the entity data of a gunship as a reference.

[jovial echo]

How can I recreate gunship mk II behaviour code?
it moves, changes between some sprites, spawns turrets and moves back, shooting it causes it to move forward, like Ticks

[jovial echo]

by the way, thanks, it worked!

[crimson linden]

Mk2 is fliplane, right?

[jovial echo]

me forgot to tell that

[crimson linden]

it's ok! lol

[jovial echo]

will that work with squid guns too?

[cunning wind]

You can add any type of turret however you want on your custom enemy.

[jovial echo]

[cunning wind]

And yes, squid guns are included. >:3

[jovial echo]

imma make something that Callisto will LOVE

[jovial echo]

how is ti possible that I can't find (via search) laserSquidGun in my entities_turrets.json?

it's not another hardcoded crap now is it.

[cunning wind]

  {
    "name": "laserSquidGun",
    "sprite": "Sprites/Enemies/squid gun red",
    "behaviour": "LaserSquidGun",
    "customBehaviourData": {
      "shotOffX": -25,
      "shotOffY": 10
    }
  }

Even though it doesn't actually exist in the modkit, you can just copy what I just sent. ;3

[jovial echo]

thanks!

[jovial echo]

-# nevermind, I think I got it, sorry for the ping

sigh I've been trying to implement a test behaviour into an entity

I thought it was naming issue

Then I thought it was an issue with Behaviours.json

no idea now.

[cunning wind]

You're making a trailing saucer?

[frail matrix]

Can you send the json for the entity?

[cunning wind]

Wait a minute...
Has any other modder messed around with behaviours.json with some success?

[frail matrix]

I don't even understand what that file is for anyways

[cunning wind]

For real.

[jovial echo]

it looks just like animations.json, each behaviour has it's entry

but not every one is there

[cunning wind]

To my observation, I don't think anyone who made custom enemy behaviors have touched behaviours.json.

[jovial echo]

DMed it

[jovial echo]

I didn't touch it at first

but then I thought it maybe was that "pool" the game was referring to

[safe rover]

It's a bit of an older file that hasn't been extended much during development, the main thing stored in there is that pool, which is the amount of instances the game pre-allocates for any given behaviour
It does dynamically add more if the game uses more instances than specified though, so modders shouldn't really need to change it

[jovial echo]

Could someone tell how to make a saucer trail?
as a beginning of making child entities

-# or any kind of example, anything

just. how. to. attach. any. thing. to. an. entity.

[frail matrix]

any child entity should be glued to your main entity by default, it kinda just works like turrets

[jovial echo]

that's all? it just needs to be done like gunship's turret for example?

yu know, I'm talking about an example of 3 saucers connected one to another

is it possible to make child entity of a child entity?

[frail matrix]

that sounds weird

why not just spawn all those 3 with the main one

[jovial echo]

it's just an example, I plan something bigger than that, like something similar to train, or serpent etc

those are connected entities

[frail matrix]

haven't experimented much with child entities so can't help you much

[jovial echo]

well, maybe someday in the future

for now you're working on custom turrets, ya?

[frail matrix]

i'm just working on my stuff, not making bases right now

[jovial echo]

I know you're not making bases.
I just wanted to know what have you experiemented already with

when I understand more and more coding, I won't be asking questions and disturbing overall.

[frail matrix]

i forgot

gotta organize my stuff

[jovial echo]

does lua coding work everywhere the same? or Platypus has stuffs working specifically?
-# probably not, it would be too easy.

-# I'm considering just finding a course school whatever and fully dive into that thing

[frail matrix]

tecnically the basics are the same as your average lua

but i think the functions itself are custom made for the platypus engine

[jovial echo]

ok, so knowing lua basics will help, I'm gonna find somewhere to learn it then

[jovial echo]

I'm planning to make a new enemy

-# and before I ask for any help, I'll try myself.

Ah, I know

I'm planning to make a custom lightning sprite
So I'll have to make a copy of the gun

but, how do I assign my custom lightning to the gun?

maybe setting a bullet entity will do...

[jovial echo]

here we go, gg

[cunning wind]

Have a variant of an enemy lightning effect?

[jovial echo]

yes

so the og effect stays, but my enemy uses a different one

that just has different shape
It seems that the lightning is another hard-coded crap

or the laser squid gun

I could copy it, but it doesn't state the "bullet" it shoots

[cunning wind]

Sadly true. ;-;

[jovial echo]

that really kills any idea.

is there maybe a way to make the bullets simulate a stream of lightning?

[jovial echo]

@frail matrix I remember seeing custom lightning star in Casinopolis, could you give an advise?

[frail matrix]

of?

[jovial echo]

I want to make a variant of lightning effect

[frail matrix]

the bullet?

[cunning wind]

I suspect so.

[jovial echo]

ya

I'm planning to recreate these:

[frail matrix]

the regular squid lightning gun is hardcoded

the only custom lightning turret is the star lighting gun

[jovial echo]

the ships will be in one sprite and this is planned to be the bullet

[jovial echo]

is it possible to create something like this with star guns?

[frail matrix]

i don't think so

[jovial echo]

hm, alright

[cunning wind]

The folks at Platypus 2 Reclayed made smth like that before the lua days, but it's unpolished.

[frail matrix]

you may make it more easily with lua
really you would only need like 2 entities
or 1 if you pass the lightning as a spritesheet with a collider

[cunning wind]

Ye, it's very primitive by today's standards. 😅

[jovial echo]

lua =/= easy for me at the moment

I can just reuse existing assets and behaviours

[jovial echo]

that looks pretty cool

[frail matrix]

tecnically you have everything you need for that in the saucer example
you only need to make the looping lightning which
is just 2 lines

and add it as a child entity to the saucer
-# you can even skip this step if you add it as a turret

[jovial echo]

well, sounds do-able, but I still don't know how to make a child enti-

the turret way seems more like it

[frail matrix]

they are kinda the same thing anyways

of course lua has more flexibility

[jovial echo]

that's for the animation loop?

[frail matrix]

uhm
that is the sprite movement for the saucer, not a loop

all you need for a loop is
self.animator.AnimateToNextFrame(true)

[jovial echo]

sigh it sounds simple, but as you can see, I still don't know how to make that

a

so if I change the sprite a little bit so it loops (lightning on and lighting off and repeat)

that should be it? I assign the sprite and the colission sprite and I can attach it to everything as a turret?

[frail matrix]

yes

[jovial echo]

ok, imma just show the data from animations, entities to make sure I didn't mess somethin' up

entity for the saucer

entity for the lightning

sprite for the lightning

oh I'd forget, is it possible to add some sound?

[cunning wind]

I think you can make it play a sound in its lua file.

[jovial echo]

ok,
how do I play a sound in lua?

[cunning wind]

Playsound("s_enemykazap")

[jovial echo]

-# could you be more precise?

like where in the line?
I guess under the function OnTick() ?

[cunning wind]

That's where you'll have to figure where. Luckily, lua codes can be edited without the need for reloading the game.

[jovial echo]

oki

-# and how to loop the sound?

[jovial echo]

maybe that's a separate function?

[cunning wind]

Unfortunately, I'll leave the rest up to you for now. I need to go to sleep now.

[jovial echo]

ok, goodnight

[jovial echo]

@frail matrix could you please check this? I'm so close to finishing that one enemy

at least the coding part

[frail matrix]

you wrote something in your entity json wrong

you wrote the wrong thing in the behaviours name

[jovial echo]

-# if it's the L instead of l in "lua" then I'm gonna-

something new

[jovial echo]

maybe something's wrong here

[frail matrix]

it's your lua

[jovial echo]

I've been trying to find out where the sound is supposed to be put

removed the sound code

[jovial echo]

it was supposed to be simple

[frail matrix]

are you sure? this seems to be coming from another lua script

[jovial echo]

hm

[frail matrix]

seems that it is the main saucer one

it is missing it fire pattern data

so the lua script of the saucer crashes due not having that data in the entity json

[jovial echo]

ah, I accidentally added it to the laser entity

but how do I make so the saucer does not shoot anything

[frail matrix]

take that part of the code

[jovial echo]

and how to spawn saucer to move usually and not get stuck in one place

[jovial echo]

but it cannot be missing

[frail matrix]

it can if you take it out properly

[jovial echo]

please elaborate

[frail matrix]

just take everything related to the shooting code and just leave the movement logic

[frail matrix]

why is firepattern there

[jovial echo]

because og saucer has it

and the game has been calling for one

[frail matrix]

i don't think that's where you put it

[jovial echo]

that's the og saucer

-# hold up.

[frail matrix]

it is under custom behaviour data, not in turret

[jovial echo]

ya, noticed

usually turret is in custom behaviour data I think

maybe that's the issue?

[frail matrix]

turret is not in custom behaviour data

[jovial echo]

okay, I think I got that sorted

how to get rid of fire patterns at all

[jovial echo]

and that, most saucers use commands as randsaucer and saucer

something happening

[jovial echo]

that's literally the last piece

though I think imma just use spawnentity and focus?

[frail matrix]

you are making me dizzy

anyways to spawn your entitys you use spawnentity
since the rest are just pre made spawn commands for the game which are hardcodded

[jovial echo]

I am sorry.

As I mentioned, when I have enough knowledge I won't be asking anyone again.

one last thing

how do I implement the sound?

after that I should be able to do stuffs around this code as my base
-# so no disturbing from me

[frail matrix]

you already have the function in your lua

[jovial echo]

last time I tried putting it inside the code, it didn't work.

also, I remember someone planning to make a squid with wave pattern bullets

[frail matrix]

are you sure is an valid sound name?

[jovial echo]

well, maybe I should've checked that

it still goes in the function on tick, right?

[frail matrix]

if you want to spam the sound every tick then sure

[jovial echo]

.

that doesn't sound like a normal bzzzzz sound I'm trying to achieve

there must be something similar to wait command then?

[frail matrix]

i don't think lua has that, so you gotta figure it out on your own

[jovial echo]

ok, it will wait then
how about the fire pattern?

is it possible to remove firing completely?

[frail matrix]

yes

[jovial echo]

could you tell me how?
how to make the game stop calling for it?

[frail matrix]

remove that part of the saucer code

[jovial echo]

but it did ask for it last time

[frail matrix]

it won't if you take all of the shooting code

[jovial echo]

ok, removing custombehaviourdata (from saucer)

[frail matrix]

the script will only error if it calls something that has no data of

[jovial echo]

it indeed did

[frail matrix]

there something calling fire data

[jovial echo]

that's what I remvoed

[frail matrix]

then is not any of your entities

check for any entity that you are summoning
that is calling fire data

[jovial echo]

only the saucer

and the zaps

[frail matrix]

it can't be either of those

[jovial echo]

everything goes fine when the patterns stay

without the patterns, the saucers stop

[frail matrix]

oh yeah since your behaviour is a vanilla one it need that data

[jovial echo]

ah

[frail matrix]

why are you chaging the saucer

[jovial echo]

used as a base (it's a copy btw)

og saucers exist on their own. I'll now copy the behaviour of saucer lua and remove the fire pattern

[frail matrix]

also why did you put 0

it would only make it attack even faster

[jovial echo]

ya, noticed.

[jovial echo]

is there an easier way to disable that or do I have to make a copy of saucer's lua

[frail matrix]

it is recomended to make a copy

[jovial echo]

ok

didn't I remove too much?

[frail matrix]

if it works, it works

[jovial echo]

we will see

[frail matrix]

also i didn't knew they update the saucer.lua to add debris on death

i guess i gotta add that to everything in my mod now

[jovial echo]

and it does not

[frail matrix]

what does it tell you is missing

[jovial echo]

plus this

-# yes, the trashcan in the menu is intentional

[frail matrix]

your forgot everything in

`function OnInitialise()
if self.commandArgs.HasField("speedY") then my = self.commandArgs.GetFieldFloat("speedY") else my = self.data.speed end
if self.commandArgs.HasField("maxSpeedY") then myMax = self.commandArgs.GetFieldFloat("maxSpeedY") else myMax = self.data.speed * 1.25 end

if self.commandArgs.HasField("fireSFX") then fireSFX = self.commandArgs.GetFieldString("fireSFX") else fireSFX = "s_laser2" end

allowedToShoot = math.random(0, 100) < Globals.firingChanceSaucer.Get()
firePattern = NewFirePatternFromEntityData(self.data)

yAcceleration = myMax / 25

end`

[jovial echo]

but isn't that related to firing, which I'm trying to remove?

[frail matrix]

only the allowedtoshoot and firesfx
and fire pattern

[jovial echo]

okay, what about the trash can? I've been messing up with the new entity and stuffs to avoid getting mistaken with the default lightning

[frail matrix]

what do you mean

what is wrong with it?

[jovial echo]

this

[frail matrix]

just make it attack slower

[jovial echo]

trash can uses the custom lightning, it's not intended for it

it was intended for the custom enemy only

the main reason the custom lightning is made a separate entity

[frail matrix]

you accidentally override the vanilla one with your custom one

change it name

[jovial echo]

ah, I see.

well, success?

still asks for the pattern though

[frail matrix]

you forgot to take some code away

[jovial echo]

hm, I guess it's the if CanFire() then ?

[frail matrix]

yes

[jovial echo]

still the same

[frail matrix]

can you take a picture?

[jovial echo]

I can even send the whole thing

though I think I see another suspect

local my
local myMax
local yAcceleration

local shootMinX = 60
local shootMaxX = 620

function OnInitialise()
if self.commandArgs.HasField("speedY") then my = self.commandArgs.GetFieldFloat("speedY") else my = self.data.speed end
if self.commandArgs.HasField("maxSpeedY") then myMax = self.commandArgs.GetFieldFloat("maxSpeedY") else myMax = self.data.speed * 1.25 end

if self.commandArgs.HasField("fireSFX") then fireSFX = self.commandArgs.GetFieldString("fireSFX") else fireSFX = "s_laser2" end

allowedToShoot = math.random(0, 100) < Globals.firingChanceSaucer.Get()
firePattern = NewFirePatternFromEntityData(self.data)

yAcceleration = myMax / 25

end

function OnTick()
if math.abs(my) >= myMax then
yAcceleration = -yAcceleration
end
my = my + yAcceleration

self.movement = { x = -4, y = my, z = 0 }

local spriteIndex = round((1 + (my / myMax)) * (self.animator.totalFrames - 1) * 0.7)
spriteIndex = clamp(spriteIndex, 0, self.animator.totalFrames - 1)
self.animator.AnimateTo(spriteIndex);

if self.position.x < -160 then
    self.Deactivate()
end

end

function OnKill()
self.SpawnShipShards(10, -6, 0, -15, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
end

function CanFire()
return allowedToShoot and self.position.x > shootMinX and self.position.x < shootMaxX
end

function HasCollision()
return true
end

function ShouldKillPlayerOnTouch()
return true
end

-# ugh. I see another thing.

[frail matrix]

if self.commandArgs.HasField("fireSFX") then fireSFX = self.commandArgs.GetFieldString("fireSFX") else fireSFX = "s_laser2" end

allowedToShoot = math.random(0, 100) < Globals.firingChanceSaucer.Get()
firePattern = NewFirePatternFromEntityData(self.data

this

[jovial echo]

oh

ladies and gentlemen, I think a milestone has been hit in Bananawar

@frail matrix ,
I want to thank you A LOT
and I mean it.
You've guided me literally by each step

And I am sorry for exhausting you, that was the last of the last of my intentions

Thank you for all your help

[crimson linden]

GG

[cunning wind]

GG! You are on the verge of making a spiritual successor to an earlier iteration of the PSP Lightning Saucers.

[cunning wind]

I don't think anyone else dared to recreate Lightning Saucers in lua until now.

-# Correct me if I'm wrong though.

[cunning wind]

@safe rover, @solemn nest, @opaque island
I hereby request for more flexibility to enemy lightning attack patterns, such as having the durations for on and off states.

[safe rover]

That's a bit of a tricky one as those patterns are heavily limited by the old sound effect that we are using

[cunning wind]

The enemy kazap SFX?

[safe rover]

I think that's the one

[cunning wind]

Hmmmm...
Well, at least the SFX seems to be controlled by the duration of the lightning on screen.

[safe rover]

Except that it is only 3 seconds long hmm

[cunning wind]

Is it because of the awkward looping when its sound duration is shorter than certain lightning attacks like Purple Batoids and Octopus Lightning arms?

[safe rover]

I remember there being something about the length that made it hard to adjust, but looking at the sound file I don't quite see what it was

[cunning wind]

Well, good thing the sound file is totally customizable.

Some of the already published workshop add-ons feature custom lightning SFX that are able to cover the entire length to enemies with the longest lightning attack duration.

[jovial echo]

speaking of sfx

[cunning wind]

Furthermore, I would also look forward to additional customizability to all starfish gun turret types.

[jovial echo]

I realised that if you spam a very short sound (add udner Function onTick) then it should work as a zap sound

[safe rover]

The poor audio engine is not going to like that haha

[jovial echo]

oh

[cunning wind]

You can use the PSP version of zap, since it's far shorter. ;3

[jovial echo]

well, imma test it anyways

[jovial echo]

it would be nice

[safe rover]

You can add a cooldown to the audio clip, that way it doesn't fire every tick

[jovial echo]

I tried setting the lightning as a bullet for the rotating gun, but it ended too soon, so the electricity did not generate

[jovial echo]

no idea how

[cunning wind]

Cooldown frames in audio.json.

[jovial echo]

example please?

[safe rover]

Examples are in audio.json

[jovial echo]

-# ok, imma look to it as soon as I can

[jovial echo]

so currently there isn't a way to achieve that, ya?

[cunning wind]

I'm on phone, sry.
But I do have something funny to share.

[jovial echo]

thanks

[cunning wind]

Here's the funni video I'm talking about. :3

[cunning wind]

So this quirky behavior seems unique to laser hoverships.

[jovial echo]

how long is one cooldown frame?

[jovial echo]

could I get a little help on how to implement the code for playing the sound? I tried to implement it and whole thing broke.

[safe rover]

One "cooldown frame" is one tick, the game runs at 60 ticks per second, so 1 tick is 1/60 seconds

[jovial echo]

oki

[jovial echo]

and about the code, what did I mess up here?

[safe rover]

I think the error message you are getting should help you track it down more.
As a hint: Lua is case sensitive

[safe rover]

Hmm, yeah that's not as helpful

It's PlaySound not Playsound

If you use the lua language server extension, VSC will give you warnings for these things

[jovial echo]

gotta try that

[jovial echo]

thanks, it works now

now just gotta adjust the cooldown and it should be fine

[frail matrix]

been wondering but how do you exacly you stetup this

specifically the checkcollision part
haven't got how to check the collision properly

the moment it has to check the collision of the sprite sheet it crashes

[safe rover]

Oh, that's not good... Maybe there is a bug there
The object you are adding the collider to should not already have one, though I think it just returns the existing one
AddCollider is also not meant to be called super often, check collision you'd do in the tick while the adding of the collider you'd do in the init function

[frail matrix]

well that's a lot

well atleast is good to know add collider is in init

[cunning wind]

@safe rover, I wonder if there is a lua function where the collision does not kill the player, but disallows the player from going through it.

[safe rover]

If I understand correctly you want some kind of wall that you can go all the way up against? If so I gotta disappoint you

[cunning wind]

Yes, and I'mma embrace disappointment. :p

[cunning wind]

I think it is something the cave walls in PSP level 4 do.

[safe rover]

I've not made official support for it since it wasn't in Reclayed's specification, but there may be a way to hack it together if we expose Player.SetPosition

I wouldn't expect official support for a non-hack solution, but I can sneak "exposing SetPosition" into the spreadsheet Alex is chosing things from 👀

[cunning wind]

Interesting...

[safe rover]

Also would allow for things like teleporters, but I'm getting ahead of myself

[cunning wind]

DW, the time is the least of our concerns.

[cunning wind]

I'm kinda curious if there already are such things as GenericBoat and GenericTrain behaviours.

IIRC, some folks at Platypus 2 Reclayed project requested for these entity behaviors months ago.

[cunning wind]

@safe rover, is there a way to add a changeable speed multiplier to animation frames?

[safe rover]

No, the game usually handles animations that need more fine tuning by setting the sprite to exactly what it needs to be in code

Squid Guns and Fish Fighters for example

[cunning wind]

Thus, we are currently unable to configure the actual speeds of the animations regardless of their frame count then?

[safe rover]

Oh, if it is the constant value that you want to change then that's "updateCounter" within animations.json that you can adjust.
Pretty sure that's also the value you find in SpriteAnimator.timePerFrame

[cunning wind]

So, what could I do with SpriteAnimator.timePerFrame in lua?

[safe rover]

timePerFrame could be the same as updateCounter, but I am not 100% sure it is.

updateCounter represents the amount of ticks an animator waits before evaluating their next step, so for a looping animations 1, would mean that the animation advances ever game tick

Probably safe to assume it is the same, though of note is that this is read only

[cunning wind]

I do plan to have a dynamic animation speed in Lua.

Where certain conditions I set up will change the speed.

[safe rover]

We used SpriteAnimator.GoTo(index: integer) extensively for anything that isn't constant

[cunning wind]

I wonder where to place it?

[safe rover]

Wherever your custom logic decides that it is time to switch to another sprite

[cunning wind]

I assume the integer is the value I have to type, right?

[safe rover]

It expects an integer from 0 (inclusive) to SpriteAnimator.totalFrames (exclusive)

I know this breaks Lua conventions, but during development lua was dismissed, so the current implementation has to sit ontop of what is there

[cunning wind]

i.e. it is currently complicated to do so with the current system we have?

[safe rover]

"Complicated" is rather subjective and depending on your coding background

[cunning wind]

That makes sense.

[cunning wind]

Nevertheless, is there an example of it?

[safe rover]

You can take a look at saucer.lua, there it does something similar, but instead of using GoTo to set the sprite, it uses AnimateTo

Which is essentially the same, except that it uses that updateCounter delay to go to the target frame so we don't skip any frames

This is how the hatch on boss1 is controlled for instance:

firewait being a number that decreases by one every frame

int hatchFrame = 3;
if (firewait < 20 || firewait > 90) hatchFrame = 4;
if (firewait > 24 && firewait < 86 || firewait > 124) hatchFrame = 2;
if (firewait > 27 && firewait < 83 || firewait > 127) hatchFrame = 1;
if (firewait > 30 && firewait < 80 || firewait > 130) hatchFrame = 0;
missileAnimator.GoTo(hatchFrame);```

[cunning wind]

Interesting.

Anyway, my plan for the animations of a custom entity I am working on is the animation runs faster the higher its movement speed and vice versa.

[safe rover]

Certainly doable!

My advice would be that you get a variable in your script that you continuously increment, incrementing it faster on higher speeds and slower on lower speeds. Then you'll just have to convert that number into a usable frame index (just that integer between 0 and the amount of frames you have) and you're set

[cunning wind]

This is how it currently looks like:

local speed

local timer
local forwardTimer

function OnInitialise()
    timer = 50
    forwardTimer = 400
    speed = 0.5
end

function OnTick()
    timer = timer - 1

    if forwardTimer >= 0 then
        if timer <= 0 then
            timer = 50
            speed = speed * 1.2
        end
    end

    if forwardTimer <= 0 then
        if timer <= 0 then
            timer = 25
            if speed >= 0.5 then
                speed = speed * 0.8
            end
        end
    end

    self.animator.LoopAnimation()
    self.animator.AnimateTo(speed, true)

    if self.position.x < -200 then
        self.Deactivate()
    end
end

function HasCollision()
    return true
end

function ShouldKillPlayerOnTouch()
    return true
end

This is the result:

speed = 2

It kinda works, but looks janky.

[safe rover]

Two big things, you don't want to be looping your animation anymore, you are telling it what frame you want directly
Also speed is just the speed, you want to change another value with speed that represents where in the animation you are

[cunning wind]

Gotcha

[safe rover]

There isn't

[cunning wind]

I see.

[jovial echo]

Tary, I really am very, truly sorry for pressuring, disturbing you on that day.
Please tell me, are you still mad at me?
You have a reason to be, I know it.
I really can't stop thinking about that, day and night.
I really am sorry, I wish I could make up for what I did.
-# I'm considering never talking about lua again, never asking for anything.
Please tell me, please respond to this message.

[frail matrix]

?

Am not mad

[jovial echo]

-# I'm so glad to hear that!

[cunning wind]

Pardon the late response, but will there be generic entities of trains, boats, and big cannons in the next modding update?

@safe rover

[frail matrix]

boats wouldn't be that hard to make, since they are an linear entity
of course you need to add an spritesheet for the moving water

[cunning wind]

I can handle that. :D

The train tho.

[frail matrix]

trains and cars should be easy too

really the only issue should be the base and the wheels

[cunning wind]

The wheels are something that's tricky to implement, at least for me.

[frail matrix]

i wonder if the wheel are an entity

[cunning wind]

Hmm... are you on PC rn?

[frail matrix]

yeah

they indeed are

i wonder if you can attach them as a child entity

talking about child entities i wonder if kroporo found the way so they always render above or behind the parent entity

[cunning wind]

Speaking of which, have you actually converted some of your turret entities to their respective child entities on your mod?

Just curious. :3

[frail matrix]

is just like 1 extra line
, but the result was the same as using it as a turret

of course i may be able to do more fun stuff later with it

[safe rover]

There exists a list of things that we want to get into the next update which includes more Lua examples, but work on it hasn't started yet (at least not from my side)

[cunning wind]

I wonder what are the planned sample Lua entities.

Would be interested to see Lua replicas of reclayedTurret, squidGun, and a few more related entities I can't think of right now.

[frail matrix]

it would be appreciated an turret replica, of course since it would have ported all turret data into lua,
also so i don't have to keep reusing the same gas pipe code for every turret

[cunning wind]

and have those unneeded lines of code for certain entities, lol.

Well, I did review most of your Lua files over the past few days, and yeah...

[safe rover]

That one is up to me actually, but the idea will be to get objects that use many of the reoccurring concepts

And 1 boss, who is absolutely not going to be boss 5 :)

Implementing inverse kinematics in Lua will have to be done by someone else haha

[cunning wind]

I understand. :3
-# Quadrapus is like the most complex boss ever.

[frail matrix]

what about this one?

[cunning wind]

Oh btw, @jovial echo is going to thank you a lot.

[crimson linden]

A Sky Serpent example would be great
I mean we already got BigThruster ships, so the idea is there
It'd be like building Lego's, but with Sky Serpent parts

[jovial echo]

waaaaiiit

[jovial echo]

have I read it right? A one boss will be soft-coded?
Or atleast in a new DLC there will be a softcoded boss using other bosses' behaviours?

[cunning wind]

I feel like Sky Serpent would make the most sense, since I personally think it is surprisingly the simplest boss in terms of the codebase. It doesn't have any twists like the Submarine or Squid Mother.

[cunning wind]

All the DLC-exclusive bosses are made under the GenericSquid behaviour, which is already built-in to the game.

[jovial echo]

that's what I already know

[jovial echo]

I kinda don't get this one yet?

[cunning wind]

That's because the Claymatic team is working on a boss replica.

[jovial echo]

[cunning wind]

OFC it won't be Quadrapus, since it's by far the most complex boss ever made in Platypus Reclayed.

[jovial echo]

duuh!

[jovial echo]

Well, you were right! I'd be over the moon if that was released

[cunning wind]

Has anyone made some sort of grace periods for enemy collision activation, where they are initially immune to player collision but not player shots?

@safe rover

I'm planning the said collision activation to be based on position.

The video below demonstrates my lua generic boat despawning at the exact position where the vanilla missile boat activates its collision sprite.

To anyone curious, below is the X position where the lua boat despawns for demonstration purposes.

OFC, I want it to have the collision sprite disabled until it reaches the given threshold.

[safe rover]

You can make that happen with the "kills player" function and a custom player collision function that just doesn't apply damage, can't tell you what those are called exactly right now, but they should both be overridable functions

[cunning wind]

What is the exact name of the "kills player" function?

[safe rover]

I'd probably rate that guy as second or third most complicated enemy, it's a close race with the train :)

[cunning wind]

Oh, I see.

[safe rover]

Something like "KillsPlayerOnCollision" or something, you'll have to look at the list

It returns a boolean

[cunning wind]

Thanks.
-# Didn't know there is a list of params.

[cunning wind]

Apparently, it is called ShouldKillPlayerOnTouch.

Now all I have to do is to make it set to true once the X coordinate threshold is reached.

I think I'm getting this wrong.

It is under function OnTick() btw.

Oh, and another thing...

Is it possible to give the entity a default spawn position under function OnInitialise()?

[safe rover]

Spawn position is determined by the caller, so not really

ShouldKillPlayerOnTouch is a function just like OnTick, it is called for you if it exists

[cunning wind]

I see. So is it static, and therefore cannot be changed directly by other ticking functions?

And instead, is there a separate argument that toggles the ability to kill the player on touch on and off?

[safe rover]

Not sure I'd use the word static

function ShouldKillPlayerOnTouch()
    return self.position.x > 50
end```

[cunning wind]

Oh nice!

I'm abt to test them real quick.

It actually works.
Thanks Kroporo!

[safe rover]

Note that this will still damage the enemy when you're colliding with it, so you'll have to make a custom response to colliding with the player in a similar way

[cunning wind]

I think it already works accordingly.

Even without the custom player response you were alluding to.

[safe rover]

Even better in that case!

The default response might already be checking this value

[cunning wind]

Anyway, since I plan the generic boat entity to also be able to move backwards through configurable x speed, I want to make it so when it goes backwards, the ability to kill players on touch is always on regardless of the x threshold.

[safe rover]

The lua script is your canvas

You can tell it exactly when and when not to kill the player with that function

[cunning wind]

function ShouldKillPlayerOnTouch()
    return if mx <= 0 then self.position.x > -10
end

I don't think the above is right, since I tested it, and failed.

[safe rover]

Yeah, that is not valid lua syntax

[cunning wind]

So, does the return syntax only support one at a time?

[safe rover]

It supports returning of a boolean value, however that value is determined is up to you

[cunning wind]

Heya @safe rover, is there a way to offset the position of SpawnAttachedSpriteAnimator?

[safe rover]

Can't look at the documentation until Monday

[cunning wind]

@frail matrix, have you figured out how?

[frail matrix]

oh yes

i have been messing with it lately

core = self.SpawnAttachedSpriteAnimator("Sprites/Enemies/small nautilus bottom", -1) core.position = { x = -20, y = -35 }

[cunning wind]

TY

[frail matrix]

the clay heart should be an server emoji, i thought it was in already,

[cunning wind]

IDK why it still isn't...

But yeah, I rendered it available for use on Discord, but I'm not an admin of Claymatic Discord Server, so I can't make it official here.

[cunning wind]

Gotta ping @night stream for this.

[frail matrix]

also the spawned spritesheet can be used as a regular animator thing

like core.AnimateToNextFrame(true)

first time i used it was to shown the damage phases of boss 3, so anything that can be applied to the self animator, can be applied to the spritesheet

also another note

self.animator is to acess the animator field of the base entity

but since core is alreaady that you only need to do core.

[cunning wind]

About the damage frames of the core, I know why there are 8 duplicates of bossquito's core damage frames.

Because apparently, the core frames should share the same amount of frames as the parent entity.

[frail matrix]

kinda, is that the function that handles that molds with the entity max sprites

you could manually make the function yourself if you want to about that

[cunning wind]

If a child entity has been set up, will said entity still need to be reflected in entities.json?

[frail matrix]

yeah, child entities works like putting a turret in something, and turrets are entities

however spritesheets don't need an entity

[cunning wind]

What is the syntax for setting up a child entity btw?

AFAIK, I haven't seen an example of it yet.

[frail matrix]

SpawnEntityChild("spiralTurretTriple", self, { x = 0, y = 0 }, args)
kinda similar to regular entity

---@param entityName string ---@param parent BaseEntity ---@param positionOffset Vector2 ---@param arguments JSONObject function SpawnEntityChild(entityName, parent, positionOffset, arguments) end

theoretically you could parent a child with another child, but haven't tested

[cunning wind]

Are these below needed to be written right above the function SpawnEntityChild?
---@param entityName string
---@param parent BaseEntity
---@param positionOffset Vector2
---@param arguments JSONObject

I remember the child entity thingy is supposed to be just one line.

[frail matrix]

those are just the parameters that acepts

entityname, needs a string
parent needs a base entity
positionoffset needs a vector2
arguments need a jsonobject

[cunning wind]

I see. So I reckon all these things are to be written inside the () next to said function.

[frail matrix]

you can see in SpawnEntityChild("spiralTurretTriple", self, { x = 0, y = 0 }, args)

where spirtalturret is a string, self is a base entity, the vector is a vector, and args is a json entity

[cunning wind]

I see.

Anyhow, thanks.

[frail matrix]

in args, you can just put NewJSONObject() if you won't do much with it besides just spawning it

[cunning wind]

DW, I've been using NewJSONObject() and there are absolutely no issues. :3

Oh btw, have you managed to configure some sort of initial delay for the turrets as child entities?

[safe rover]

nil might work too with a bit better performance

[frail matrix]

only to hand made turrets, haven't find if is posible to regular ones

[frail matrix]

that's good to know

[cunning wind]

I hope there is a Lua replica for GunShipReclayed and Squid, both of which give their respective turrets the initial cooldown.

[cunning wind]

Replace NewJSONObject() with nil, is that what you mean?

[crimson linden]

Isn't there a way to temporarily deactivate the "has collission" option, tho?

[cunning wind]

Yes, maybe.

function HasCollision()
    return timer <= 0
end

[safe rover]

Not 100% sure, but it might beat creating it

[cunning wind]

Something like this maybe?

[cunning wind]

There's a bit more to do than just that, so if it doesn't work, let us know.

[night stream]

Noted

[cunning wind]

So I did manage to make it actually work (all I did is to use the same system as the timer bomb script @frail matrix made). But there is a caveat...

Once sprite exceeds the amount of available frames on a given spritesheet, it stops animating, so I tried to make it loop by having the value reset to 0 once the threshold is it.

But here's the problem...

Once set back to 0, it sort of quickly rewinds the entire sprite animation back to the start before it can start the cycle again, which is something I do not want.

[frail matrix]

oh yeah, that is something that was about to say,

the game never snaps instanly onto a sprite
nor foward or backward, it will go trought all sprites in 1 tick till the said value

[cunning wind]

So for the time being, I had to make copies of the frames and add more of them in the same spritesheet.

Which is a pretty chonky workaround, since the spritesheet contains more frames, therefore bigger file size.

[frail matrix]

welcome to the spritesheet shenanigans club

[cunning wind]

However, this is theoretically just not feasible if the planned entity would stay on screen indefinitely.

The spritesheet probably wouldn't keep up without bloating the file size, especially when the animations are smooth, therefore more frames per second.

[cunning wind]

I think one of my custom enemies in the works have a spritesheet containing a whopping 200 frames, with 20 frames forming a loop, thus, there are a total ten loops within the entire spritesheet.

[cunning wind]

Alright, so I managed to have the ShouldKillPlayerOnTouch work on the following conditions:

1. If the entity is moving to the right and its self.position.x exceeds the given threshold.
2. If the entity is moving to the left regardless of its self.position.x.

Here's the syntax:

function ShouldKillPlayerOnTouch()
    return self.position.x > 10 or mx <= 0
end

-# Excerpt from genericBoatSmall.lua.

By this point, all the generic boat entities are functionally complete.

-# The only thing left now is to figure how to recreate the exact same dispersion of debris upon death as their vanilla counterparts.

[frail matrix]

Have you messed with the create debri function yet?

[cunning wind]

Not yet. :p

[frail matrix]

It should gives you all the tools for that

[cunning wind]

I'm pretty late with the Lua bandwagon NGL.

Where is the updated list of Platypus Lua tools?

[frail matrix]

In streaming folder,
Is type.lua

[cunning wind]

Oh wow! TIL

[cunning wind]

Thx

[frail matrix]

So here you are basically giving it a false value all the time till the condition is met

Since that function always need a boolean

[cunning wind]

But it works nonetheless. :3
-# As demonstrated in the video above.

[frail matrix]

There only 1 issue here i could see and is that if the boat returns backward, the thing will lose it hitbox again

Oh wait that is what the other thing is for

[cunning wind]

Have you watched the full video?

[frail matrix]

My internet connection is poor at the moment

[cunning wind]

Because in the video, I demonstrated the reverse boat still killing the player despite already conforming to self.position.x > 10.

So basically, if the boat is reverse, it will override the position condition, and if not, then the position condition will be the only one to control the function.

[frail matrix]

Yeah due the mx <= 0

[cunning wind]

If I were to use and, then both of them must be met, meaning the boat going forwards will never activate the function. :p

[frail matrix]

When my power come backs i will mess with it, i wanna try too

[frail matrix]

Also there 2 spawnshard functions

1 is for ship shards, the greys ones

And 1 for the color shards

It will use the main and secondary shard of the entity json field

[cunning wind]

That's nice to know.

Yeah, types.lua is definitely a must-see file for any Lua modders out there.

And like you said, it can be found here at: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Platypus Reclayed\Platypus_Data\StreamingAssets

[frail matrix]

Tecnically you aren't suposed to read it

Is for programs autocompletioms

[cunning wind]

LMAO

[cunning wind]

What happens if I mess up the file? 😏

[frail matrix]

Uhm i'm not sure if the game is using that file and either way you couldn't do much

[cunning wind]

I see.

[frail matrix]

I only mess with new functions once i get to work on an entity that needs it

I think there a layer changing function, that surely will be handy 😉

[cunning wind]

Once I finish the code for the boat entities, I'll publicly post them in the server for anyone to use.

And OFC, include them as part of Mod Advanced Pack.

[cunning wind]

Attention fellow modders:

Below is the link for the base boat entities which can be used for making custom boat enemies:
#1437926250374103234 message

[crimson linden]

Can I use it on my Platypus2 port if needed? Credit will be given, ofc

[cunning wind]

At that point, I am pretty much contributing to all things Platypus 2, well, indirectly.

So...

Y E S

[safe rover]

I use the types file all the time, it functions as documentation, though functions don't have written descriptions

The game itself does not use it, but it is generated from the game and therefore a pretty good indicator of what's there

[cunning wind]

Alright, so I managed to get it to loop without the janky rewind animation.

Apparently, I had to set the ⁨loopFrames⁩ param to true, as seen below in the excerpt from ⁨types.lua⁩.
⁨```
---@param index integer
---@param loopFrames boolean?
function SpriteAnimator.AnimateTo(index, loopFrames)

Thus, with that kind of knowledge, it should be fully possible to create a Lua-based train wheel animation whose animation speed is tied to the parent entity's move speed.

Oh, and I discovered an example of that from Tar's ⁨mosquito.lua⁩. LOL

[frail matrix]

i actually kinda used loopFrames for the og nautilis miniboss
so after the frame ends it doesn't go trought every frame to 0
and it goes instantly to 0

[frail matrix]

oh right , that too

-# why is mosquito lua so popular in dissecting?

[cunning wind]

Prolly because @crimson linden wanted to make homing green fish fighter code using some parts of the mosquito code. :3

[cunning wind]

Oh ya, funny that I actually ended up being the one who made the green fish fighter script using mosquito.lua as a derivative.

[cunning wind]

@safe rover, is there a way to integrate ⁨Globals.fishFire⁩ onto ⁨allowedToShoot = math.random(0, 100) < Globals.firingChanceRandomFishFighter.Get()⁩?
-# I intend to have a Lua-based fish fighter enemy to be controlled by both ⁨fishFire⁩ and ⁨firingChanceRandomFishFighter⁩ globals.

[safe rover]

Yeah, I think you got access to all of those!

[cunning wind]

Well, I do, thanks to ⁨types.lua⁩.

All I have to do is to have them well-executed.

The syntax I made below is wrong for sure as I have tested:
⁨⁨allowedToShoot = math.random(0, 100) < Globals.firingChanceRandomFishFighter.Get() and Globals.fishFire()⁩⁩

[cunning wind]

Apparently, the custom fish fighter only targets the first player, which is something I do not want. I intend to have the enemy target either of them, then switch targets once the original target has been destroyed. Oh, and on a similar note, I also want the enemy to just go on its last trajectory when all players are dead, just like vanilla homing missiles.

Similarly, a lot of the Casinopolis enemies that track down the player's position exclusively takes the first player into account, and will absolutely ignore the second player no matter what.

[frail matrix]

Well that is because i specifically called for player 1

I could make it so the closest player get the priority

[cunning wind]

I'mma follow suit once you figure it out.

I'm currently developing a different entity for a different project ATM.

[cunning wind]

Oh, BTW, like what MAKYUNI said before for the green fish fighter behaviour, it would be ideal if enemies that normally home towards the player continue with their current trajectory when no player is onscreen, just like vanilla homing missiles.

[crimson linden]

Maybe it could be an optional feature too, in case someone wants the opposite

[frail matrix]

well is because the game never unloads the player while death, so the player is there invisible

[cunning wind]

Oh boi

I took a look on ⁨types.lua⁩, and AFAIK, I don't see any function that checks the presence of the player.

@safe rover, is there a way to have the Lua script unload the player when the player is dead?

[safe rover]

Unload? No

[frail matrix]

not sure if you want to unload the player

that can lead to stuff, like the game breaking

[cunning wind]

Oh man

[frail matrix]

just a way to know if the player is invulnerable seems about right

[cunning wind]

Sounds like it, but if this is the case for vanilla homing missiles, then they won't target the player while invulnerable.

Normally, the missiles will continue where they left off whenever no player is onscreen until a player respawns, which then causes the missiles to retarget said player.

Latest iteration of the green fish fighter code.

[cunning wind]

@frail matrix, with how the current iteration of our player targeting system works, I can imagine some of your Casinopolis enemies would exhibit this janky ass behavior.

[frail matrix]

hmmmmm

[cunning wind]

Maybe this is the solution.

[frail matrix]

@cunning wind try this

[cunning wind]

Copying it as is causes them to only target player 2. :p

[frail matrix]

let me see the code 1 second

[cunning wind]

Actually, is there anything to replace?

[frail matrix]

is just that part

, but maybe you are mixing the 2
since i change some order

[cunning wind]

Either way, this is how it looks like right now.

[cunning wind]

I see.

[frail matrix]

i change the order so 2 is above

[cunning wind]

Alright, it works.

[frail matrix]

🎉

[cunning wind]

I'll be asking a random question here:
Is it possible for Lua to give a sprite a rotation, just like how enemy lightning can be rotated?

[cunning wind]

Oh btw, thanks a lot. :D

[cunning wind]

Curious as to which Lua file was it excerpted from.

[frail matrix]

nautilus

[cunning wind]

Ah shit, here we go again...

[frail matrix]

who the hell is playing as the second player alone

[cunning wind]

IKR, but this is what happens when the first player dies and can't continue, but the second player still lives.

[safe rover]

There is a function to get a random active player that the game makes use of a lot

[frail matrix]

well this one, uses the closest player, and so it tend to grab the unactive player too

[cunning wind]

I guess that explains the ⁨ReclayedTurret⁩ turrets randomly switching targets.

⁨```
if length1 > length2 and GetRandomActivePlayer() then
dx = vx2 / length2
dy = vy2 / length2
else
dx = vx1 / length1
dy = vy1 / length1
end

^ This doesn't change anything. :33333

Also, those schools of green fish are being funny AF.

[frail matrix]

uh well get random player returns a player value
those go in the get player position

[cunning wind]

Okay, this is going pretty well...

-# Except for the fact that they all despawn once no player is onscreen.

[frail matrix]

now is constantly switching between the 2 players

[cunning wind]

Ye, I noticed.

[cunning wind]

I made it so when no player is onscreen, they will continue where they have left off, tho it only works when no player is ACTUALLY ACTIVE.

[cunning wind]

Tried recreating the big gun fire pattern from the cannon boat. The red bullet represents the Lua cannon boat, whereas the blue one is the vanilla one. As you can see, the Lua one is far from perfect.

Also, as I experimented with the two entities, I found some interesting data about the vanilla cannon boat. Its initial fire cooldown is 1350 ticks long, with a fire pattern of 150 ticks.

Definitely Claymatic Wiki material if you ask me. :3

Either way, @safe rover, will there be an official standalone turret entity behaviour for big guns, the ones used by cannon boats?

[cunning wind]

@frail matrix, curious as to what math functions did you use to achieve this sort of attack pattern for your food dispenser enemies?

[frail matrix]

i think is

                    local t = (bullets > 1) and (i / (bullets - 1)) or 0.5
                    local angleDeg = startAngle - 120 / 2 + t * 120
                    local angleRad = math.rad(angleDeg)
                    local mxb = math.cos(angleRad) * speed
                    local myb = math.sin(angleRad) * speed

tho it might be inneficient

[cunning wind]

Oh no, I saw what ClayBot did...

I see.

Hope you didn't get muted, but anyway, now I'll ask about the barrel animation.

Is the barrel a static sprite that "animates" according to movement just like the vanilla big guns?

[frail matrix]

which barrel

[cunning wind]

The one used on your food dispenser.

Specifically the one shown in the enemy showcase video.

[frail matrix]

yeah static

or animated, i'm mixing stuff

[cunning wind]

Okay, I just thought it was just a moving barrel sprite with damage frame support.

[frail matrix]

it shouldn't be hard to do that

[cunning wind]

Anyhow, ty for the info.

[cunning wind]

I might as well code that for myself.

Or at least, try doing so...

Oh btw, is there a needed set of functions for OnInitialise()?
-# For the cannon fire pattern.

[frail matrix]

just

startAngle = 90

[cunning wind]

How about for the endAngle?

[frail matrix]

i thikn end angle is no longer used

anyways the whole thing is

 for i = 0, bullets - 1 do
                    timer = 45
                    local t = (bullets > 1) and (i / (bullets - 1)) or 0.5
                    local angleDeg = startAngle - 120 / 2 + t * 120
                    local angleRad = math.rad(angleDeg)
                    local mxb = math.cos(angleRad) * speed
                    local myb = math.sin(angleRad) * speed

                    local pos = { x = self.worldPosition.x, y = self.worldPosition.y + 40}
                    local args = NewJSONObject()
                    args.AddFieldFloat("mx", mxb * 0.8)
                    args.AddFieldFloat("my", myb)

                    SpawnEntityWorld("enemyshot_food", pos, args)
                end

[cunning wind]

Oh boy, it seems ClayBot now has beef towards snippets of Lua code lately.

[frail matrix]

is the in the snippets

[cunning wind]

[frail matrix]

jailed

don't know why i can grab pfps

[cunning wind]

Anyway, so previously, I used the same angular system as the barrage goldfish turret entity. :p

Which explains the imperfections behind the angular alignment of the shots.

What is the syntax you used for local angle in particular?

Seeing that endAngle is unused according to you.

[frail matrix]

is just startAngle

that is what happens when you don't rename your vars

[cunning wind]

Okay thanks.

Okay, the result is pretty funny. :p

[frail matrix]

did you set bullets?

[cunning wind]

Yes, 7 to be precise.

[frail matrix]

there 3 bullets vars

the last 2 makes the arc flexible with the ammount of bullets

i wonder how that happend anyways

[cunning wind]

Well, surely this was ripped straight from the file right?

[frail matrix]

i can give you the file itself

[cunning wind]

Sure thing. :D

[cunning wind]

Okay, it seems I forgot to rename the following:

FROM

            local mxb = math.cos(angle) * speed - 0.5
            local myb = math.sin(angle) * speed + 3.5

TO

            local mxb = math.cos(angleRad) * speed - 0.5
            local myb = math.sin(angleRad) * speed + 3.5

This is what happens when I manually copied the syntax instead of straight up using Ctrl C+V. 🙃

Once again, TY

[pearl ether]

Good for platypus 2 spinning turret

[cunning wind]

The cannon squid?

[pearl ether]

Yep

Will be on Remam

[pearl ether]

Cannon fins actually

[pearl ether]

He shoots only once btw

[cunning wind]

Yeah, IK. :p

Mortar barrel looking cursed.

[pearl ether]

how it can move like cannon boat?

[cunning wind]

This?

[pearl ether]

yep

[cunning wind]

My current progress with the barrel recoil animation via movement.

[pearl ether]

lemme just make it kinda... move

[cunning wind]

Apparently, movement isn't supported on attached sprite animator.

[frail matrix]

oh right forgot to tell you that

maybe see if the coordinates offset can be updated in real time
so it simulates movement

[cunning wind]

But at least the position can directly be modified OnTick.

[pearl ether]

at least I tried

[cunning wind]

I did it.

function OnTick()
    barrel.position = { x = 0, y = my }
    if my <= 0 then
        my = my + 1
    end
    
    timer = timer - 1
    if timer < 0 then
        timer = 149
        my = -30
    end
end

[cunning wind]

Now I just need to figure how to force the barrel to load behind the base entity.

[pearl ether]

"sortOrder": 10000,

[frail matrix]

is it a spritesheet right?, in the summon spritesheet there a 1 there, you can set it to -1
for it to go behind

[cunning wind]

Let me try it then. :D

It didn't work.

function OnInitialise()
    barrel = self.SpawnAttachedSpriteAnimator("Sprites/Boss 1/big barrel", -1)
    barrel.position = { x = 0, y = 0 }
end

[frail matrix]

rip

[pearl ether]

sortorder

[cunning wind]

It doesn't work either.

Welp, at least the Lua cannon entity is feature complete.

[pearl ether]

full Cannonfins from Platypus works

well... kinda

[cunning wind]

Remove this

    timer = timer - 1
    if timer < 0 then
        timer = 149
        my = -30
    end

Add my = -30 right below timer = 45

[cunning wind]

At last...

[pearl ether]

What u do?

[cunning wind]

    "name": "luaCannonBoat",
    "sprite": "Sprites/Enemies/cannon boat",
    "behaviour": "Lua",
    "customBehaviourData": {
      "luaScript": "genericBoatBig"
    },
    "turrets" : [
      {
        "turretEntity": "boatCannon",
        "turretX": -65,
        "turretY": 30
      }
    ],
    "explosionEntity": "explosionBig",
    "explosionX": 0,
    "explosionY": 0,
    "mainDebrisEntity": "debris_grey_1",
    "secondaryDebrisEntity": "debris_grey_2",
    "sortOrder": 100,
    "isEnemy": true,
    "shieldPenetrating": true,
    "maxHitPoints": 600,
    "highlightPoints": true,
    "points": 1000,
    "primaryTargetValue": 5
  },
  {
    "name": "boatCannon",
    "sprite": "empty",
    "behaviour": "Lua",
    "customBehaviourData": {
      "luaScript":"boatCannon"
    },
    "sortOrder": -100
  }

Boat entity's sort order is 100, whereas the cannon itself is set to -100.

Also this:
barrel = self.SpawnAttachedSpriteAnimator("Sprites/Boss 1/big barrel", -100, false)
-# in its Lua file.

[pearl ether]

Certified Sortorder

[pearl ether]

cool

[pearl ether]

close

[cunning wind]

@safe rover, is there currently a Lua function that overrides the fire cooldown of attached turret or child entities?

[safe rover]

Not that I'm aware of

[cunning wind]

Enemies like flip planes for example do not fire their turrets when positioned at far left.

And then we also have gunships and squids that have initial fire cooldowns.

[safe rover]

That's not done by overriding, turrets ask their parents if they can fire before they fire themselves

[cunning wind]

Thus, the child entities have a function that asks their parent entities the consent then?

[safe rover]

No, but they too call CanFire on their parent

[cunning wind]

So, if I set up a CanFire function to a base entity, will any attached child entity abide by it?

[cunning wind]

I just recreated the missile boat in Lua.

Now I'mma give 'em more flexibility.

[cunning wind]

@safe rover, do custom Lua turret entities need to have if CanFire() then function for it to ask for the attached parent entity's CanFire() conditions?

Actually, what is the sample syntax for both parent and turret entity?

[cunning wind]

---@class TurretData
---@field bulletCount DiffDictInt
---@field bulletSpawnDistance number
---@field bulletOriginOffX number
---@field bulletOriginOffY number
---@field bulletSpeed DiffDictFloat
---@field bulletSpreadAngle number
---@field bulletEntity string
TurretData = {}

So I tried tinkering with TurretData in Lua. ^^

And so far, only bulletCount and bulletSpeed worked. I couldn't get anything else to work, including bulletEntity and bulletSpreadAngle.

    turretData = NewTurretDataFromEntityData(self.data)
    bulletCount = turretData.bulletCount.Get()
    bulletSpeed = turretData.bulletSpeed.Get()

@safe rover, sorry for the several pings lately, but what does FireParams do and how to apply to Lua entities?

[cunning wind]

Also, is there a way for Lua args to force the missile to briefly travel along a set path before it starts using its homing behaviour?

I've been trying to replicate the exact missile launch behaviour from the vanilla counterpart.

[cunning wind]

Oh BTW, how does this work?

---@return integer
function FirePattern.GetTicksTillFire() end

[pearl ether]

Time before the entity fire

Like those thrusterships or gunship

On flyby phase btw players can walkthrough them tho

[pearl ether]

Usefull when you play remam

Or those midboss enemies

[cunning wind]

As I was tinkering with it, I found out that it simply gets the ticks needed before firing, which is useful for creating turret animation before actually firing.

[pearl ether]

Yep

Like those squidguns stuff

Btw what is lua randomized method?

Math.random?

[cunning wind]

Yeah

[pearl ether]

Math.random(integers)?

[cunning wind]

Ex: math.random(0, 100)

[pearl ether]

Oh ok...

[cunning wind]

I made it so the Lua Missile Boats can have configurable missile launch timers.

As you can see, they fire every 100 ticks.

[safe rover]

• Turret data is pretty much read-only data
• FirePattern.GetTicksTillFire() Does what it says on the tin, it returns the number of ticks until the fire pattern thinks it should fire again (assuming it is updated every tick)

[cunning wind]

FirePattern.GetTicksTillFire() is something I have figured out later down the line BTW. :D

[safe rover]

Depends on how you implement your entity, all Claymatic entities probably check the parent firing within their own CanFire for convenience

GetTicksTillFire is mostly there to allow you to adjust animations without having to assume the fire pattern, take the squid guns for instance, they play their whole gun animation a little bit before they start firing

By the time FirePattern.CanFire() returns true, you're too late

[cunning wind]

Which is exactly what I did to the softcoded boat missile launcher. :3

[cunning wind]

I wonder what is the sample for these?

[safe rover]

Not lua, but this is a common setup:

public override void OnTick() {
    if (CanFire()) {
        firePattern.Tick();

        if (firePattern.CanFire() && CanFire()) {
            firePattern.MarkFired();
            Fire();
        }
    }
}

public override bool CanFire() => parent.CanFire();```

[cunning wind]

What's with &&?

[cunning wind]

is public override equivalent to function in Lua?

[pearl ether]

Me when override

[cunning wind]

Also, this doesn't seem to work, unless there is something else I should consider:

function CanFire()
    return parent.CanFire()
end

-# Worth noting that the fire pattern function on my Lua missile launcher works as intended.

[safe rover]

&& is just and

[cunning wind]

Also, that one is actually a turret entity.

[safe rover]

We treat you defining the CanFire function as overriding it

[cunning wind]

This?

[safe rover]

public override is not generally equivalent, but in our implementation, when you define a CanFire function, we no longer call the default CanFire function (which always returns true) but instead call your CanFire function instead

[cunning wind]

I assume it is local then?

Okay, I found out that I have to put self prefix to parent.CanFire().

[cunning wind]

I did it.

function CanFire()
    return self.parent.CanFire()
end

[safe rover]

I'd have to go into more technical details, but I believe that would be more confusing than helping

[cunning wind]

DW, I got it to work.

[cunning wind]

Either way, thank you for this sample script. :D

Now moving on, how about the args that force the homingMissile entity to not home for a brief period of time?

[cunning wind]

So these ones work on my end:

    turretData = NewTurretDataFromEntityData(self.data)
    bullets = turretData.bulletCount.Get()
    speed = turretData.bulletSpeed.Get()

And then these do not:

    spreadAngle = turretData.bulletSpreadAngle.Get()
    entity = turretData.bulletEntity.Get()

[cunning wind]

Basically, any of the TurretData fields that use string or number as seen in this replied message just do not work.

I think they are asking for indexed numeric values.

[cunning wind]

@frail matrix, I now know how to make any custom turret entity abide by the parent entity's CanFire() function.

[frail matrix]

lua saucer has this

tho i'm not sure myself

[cunning wind]

This is for its fire patterns.

[frail matrix]

welp, it may be worth waiting for that lua turret

since i moved with lua i haven't mess with vanilla entities that much

[cunning wind]

So the boat behavior I used is the Lua version.

Normally, any attached turret will fire immediately after spawning.

But with this:

function CanFire()
    return self.position.x >= 154.5 and mx > 0 or self.position.x <= 770.5 and mx < 0
end

The turrets' fire patterns will be on halt until the conditions for the CanFire function are met.

[cunning wind]

Before this knowledge, any custom Lua turret did not have the functionality of their own, which meant regardless of the parent entity's CanFire condition, it will always bypass the condition and therefore keep on firing regardless.

But thanks to self.parent.CanFire(), now it will pause their fire patterns until conditions are met, just like most vanilla turret entities.

I hope you get my point @frail matrix.

[cunning wind]

Stuff like homing squids would benefit from this, since they'd typically use vanilla squid gun turret entities:

function CanFire()
    return fireCooldown <= 0
end

[frail matrix]

hmm

[cunning wind]

Just a funny demo of vanilla squid gun turrets asking their parents for consent with the CanFire function.

[frail matrix]

that can be useful

time to rework all entities again

[cunning wind]

Lua Green Big Un in the works.

A couple months ago, Tartaz attempted to recreate Green Big Un in Lua, but couldn't complete it.

[cunning wind]

Anyway, I got it to produce smoke trail, but...

Alr, I got the smoke trail working perfectly.

[pearl ether]

What smoke trail does it use?

[cunning wind]

Now, only the damage effects are left, which is apparently one of the main reasons Tartaz gave up back then.

[pearl ether]

This might make had an idea

You know those Jellyfish from platypus 2

The bigger one not the smaller ones

[cunning wind]

Ye

[pearl ether]

I wonder if it's possible to remake it

Cuz the jellyfish is animated

[cunning wind]

It is.

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@safe rover, are these below needed for applying damage effects to a Lua entity?

---@field damageEffects DamageEffectData
EntityData = {}

---@class DamageEffectData
---@field frame integer
---@field parachuterChance number
---@field parachuterX integer
---@field parachuterY integer
---@field shards ShardData
DamageEffectData = {}

I've been trying to make it so the damage effects from its JSON entity data would work.

[cunning wind]

Successfully recreated the Missile Ship in Lua.
-# ||Oh, and I too made Zippers in Lua!||

The bottom one is the Lua variant.

You'll notice that the way it fires its missiles is off, even when the launch positions are perfectly replicated.

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Oh BTW, I forgot to mention that I added a functionality where any turret attached to the Lua green big un cannot fire until the enemy moves past the X position threshold. This meant the turrets won't ever fire immediately after spawning.

Vanilla green uns don't have this function.

[pearl ether]

Peak