egomassive's Knytt Stories Plus mod

I've not been keeping track up this for a while so I hope I'm not too late to report a bug in the game.

If you use the old third party tools to change Juni's colour, and then activate the hologram, the hologramatic version uses the default sprite colours. (This isn't the case in the original game; I checked it just now).

If you use the old third party tools to change Juni's colour, and then activate the hologram, the hologramatic version uses the default sprite colours.

I'll look into it. Originally I added the Knytt from Knytt as a second built-in character. He had color swapping too, so this probably broke when I later removed him in favor of custom characters.

Wait, Knytt was a built-in character? Is there a way to still have him as the character?

Just checking to make sure this isn't a small bug but ...

The F12 coordinates toggle won't actually toggle unless you move to a new screen or die. Is it supposed to behave like this or is it supposed to toggle on and off regardless?

Ok, here is a long shot, probably too hard to fix issue:  what are the chances you could fix the wallswimish bug that happens when using tilesets with angles, such that if you are going up a ramp into an adjacent screen that continues the ramp, you end up in the floor?  I was thinking if the game could load the first row of tiles of each adjacent screen "off camera" so to speak, the game would know where to put the character on the next screen. 

Meh... that will probably be too much work and will slow down performance.    :shrug:

Wait, Knytt was a built-in character? Is there a way to still have him as the character?

Check the Features Demo or the Character Collection for the Knytt spritesheet. It's not exactly ``Built-in´´ but it works well.

@ Purple Ink: The object that I use to show the coordinates has issues with disappearing. Something else has to cause the screen to refresh, like the edge highlight object. I was surprised that it was working like it should, but I think I must have been testing it with Tints enabled which would make me miss these issues.

@ Headgrinder: I don't think I can draw collision masks outside of the screen. It would also slow down the rendering process which is the last thing I want.

@ Rainulous: Yes. Refer to the Ship Parts level found on the page where you get KS+. You can play as the Knytt in that level. Also, there are instructions on custom characters in the KS+ Instructions.txt included with the KS+ download. As Firecat pointed out, the Features Demonstration can help too because it features in game character switching.

KS+ is officially out of beta! Get Knytt Stories Plus 1.0
OK, I really just ran out of beta version numbers, but I had to do it at some point. This version includes:

• Numerous fixes for OCO's. I'm really shocked at how many issues I found.
• Adjusted Up/Down Key Press objects, and added ability to block user input.
• Removed templates from KS+ download.
• Tweaked F12 behavior.
• Fixed custom skin and clothing colors on hologram.

Woahhhhhhhhhhh.
Well that was unexpected, you know you could've just did 0.10.1 right?
Ah well, testing and good job as usual.

I think it wold be a interesing addition if you could make an object to only block the W / D keys, so you could control the hologram / umbrella on an otherwise interactive sequence.

Don't know if this was covered or not, or if it's a problem or just something that has to be like this, but spawn blocks only work for the highest value spawn placed on the screen. As in, if you had the A, B, and C triggers on the same screen and the A, B, and C spawn on the same screen, only the C spawn block would work. And if only A and B are on the same screen, only the B spawn block would work. Otherwise, the sprites spawn at the designated spot in the script.

@ SecretGlitch: That's a major bug. *star for bug report*

Edit:
Get KS+ 1.0.1 These kind of bugs are so frustrating. I had, "Does Trigger ID = Spawn ID," instead of, "Does Spawn ID = Trigger ID?" The first expression will compare the ID if the active Trigger with the ID of the last spawn object created. The second expression compares the ID of any spawn object with the ID of the active Trigger. I'm going to do some C++ programming now to cheer myself up.

Noticed this in the last version; don't know if it's been fixed/noticed. ctrl+s to toggle sound doesn't work when the monitor is blacked out with crtrl+x.

@ Talps: That's not really a bug, more like an oversight. When the menu bar isn't visible, neither are its functions. Some things, like Ctrl+R, have been made to work regardless. I agree, muting should work at anytime.

Edit:
@ Firecat: Sorry I didn't respond sooner. Your object idea isn't necessary. Directional Key Press objects override user input already. The Block User object will mainly prevent users from jumping, walking, and (de)activating tools.

A question and suggestion:

Exactly how does a map square map calculate what color it should be for a certain screen? It's giving me some colors I outright don't expect. I imagined it would be the average color of the gradient but some things don't seem to turn out that way and it's hard to predict when you have a very dynamic gradient.

And my suggestion is to allow the player on a screen to override the default color for the map square and pick their own color to use. It'd help make sure the map screens are the right color if they seem to not be what you want and allow the map to segregate areas that may be similarly colored. If there is already a way to get a map tile to be a certain color already, though, I'd like to hear it.