Important updates
Many of these changes may impact how previously created levels behave!
Meta
- Paths with periods in them will no longer cause SMBX2 to go haywire.
- Custom range (751-1000) items now have a new icon and name in the editor.
NPCs
- Unfinished NPCs have been temporarily removed from the game.
- Charging Chucks now properly jump over walls.
- Rocks and footballs are no longer initially confused about whether to bounce up or down a slope.
- New Ninjis no longer follow a layer's movement while airborne.
- Maverick Thwomps will no longer hit each other.
- Gas bubbles oscillate twice as fast now, in order to properly reflect SMW.
- Enemies with the nowaterphysics flag enabled will no longer lose their momentum upon entering/leaving a body of water.
- Breaking turn block's respawn rules have been adjusted and made more customizable.
- Cobrats now skip elegantly across quicksand.
Other
- Gliding block (1f0): Experimental behaviour change, fixing various bugs in the process and emulating the SMW behaviour better.
- Kirby Bomb Blocks will now destroy adjacent bomb blocks.
New features
Meta
- Extra-settings files may now be placed in paths relative to the level or episode directory.
- You can now register custom blocks to expandedDefines lists.
New NPCs
- Phanto
- Aggro Phanto
- Furious Phanto
- 2-Arrow Lift
- 3-Arrow Lift
Other NPCs
- Eeries may now use a graph function to define their vertical movement.
- Paratroopa-type NPCs may now select from "Chase 2", "Low Jump", "Horizontal Straight" and "Vertical Straight" movement options.
- Cheep-Cheep-type NPCs may now select from "Bounce", "Horizontal Straight" and "Vertical Straight" movement options.
- "Leaper"-type NPCs such as new Podoboos, Dolphins and Trouters may now optionally be configured to be intangible while in a resting state, using the "friendlyrest" npc config flag.
- Only Trouters use this setting by default.
Other
- SaveData._basegame.starcoinCounter can be accessed at any time in order to retrieve the amount of safely collected star coins in the current episode.
- Darkness.lua: Custom shadowmap support for block IDs.
- onMessageBox and onPause now pass the responsible Player or associated NPC.
Other changes
Meta
- Palace switches properly save pressed state.
- NPC template no longer has a typo.
- background2-#.ini files may now optionally be called background2-#.txt instead.
- The pause menu is now properly considered a "paused" state.
- Redirector BGOs now use the 32 pixel grid.
- Inputs will now be ignored while the game isn't in focus.
NPCs
- NPCs will no longer senselessly give out extra lives from unexpected score combos.
- Potion doors now work in section 1 again.
- The "frequency" NPC config property of NPCs that move in a sine wave now works as intended.
- Fixed various issues relating to the Buster Beetle family of NPCs.
- Fixed various issues relating to the Charging Chuck family of NPCs.
- Fixed various issues relating to the Baby Yoshi family of NPCs.
- Fixed various issues relating to paddlewheels and orbits as a whole.
- Fireballs no longer cause a visual spectacle while within clearpipes.
- Various NPCs now display properly.
Other
- Block:delete() has been adjusted, fixing snake blocks errors.
- Fixed various issues relating to Wario.
- triggerEvent may now be called from onStart again.
- Darkness.lua: Lights attached to BGOs will change if the BGO ID changes.
- Clearpipes can now be properly made invisible.
- Clearpipes will only produce sounds when the affected NPC is onscreen.
- Various other minor fixes.
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