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EarthsVisitor
December 20th, 2007, 10:03 PM
I want some input, and help on this idea I've had for awhile.

In Rocket's Revenge you start off as a Measley Grunt, that is assigned a very unimportant task for Giovanni, your boss.
As the game progresses and you accomplish more missions, and impress Giovanni your rank would go up. Now instead of some flashy badge, or other stupid Gym type things, I want to show this rank-up with a new costume.

The sprite of the character would generally become more impressive and cool looking as the player becomes better.

Now, the trainer backsprite I could care less about, but would anyway know how to change a sprite almost permately after a certain point?

Another similar idea would be with stealing a Police Officer Uniform. It would be an item that would temporarily change your sprite to a Police Officer, and give you some extra perks, or is required to progress in the story. I know how to do all this, except creating the item that would switch this sprite.

I considered replacing the bike sprite with the Police Officer sprite, since I know how to script things relating to the bike, but how would I stop the player from moving twice as fast?

Any development on this idea, or any scripts or general knowledge you could contribute would be greatly valued.

My idea was to create a sprite, and have it stored at a certain value, then find the script for things like surfing, and figure out how to switch a sprite according to a certain setflag.

Visual
December 20th, 2007, 10:37 PM
It's a fabulous idea, but it requires major scripting and ASM Hacking..
I've never seen anything like this before, infact I have never seen a change costume idea before. It's very unique, One thing I could suggest is changing the bike into something different, if you're not using it ofcourse, you could change it's picture and name. And then the overworld for the bike to make it a police overworld or something like that, because then you can put it on or off. And then if your not using the bike you could change the bike road to a building, so when you walk into the building the guard won't let you in without the uniform on..

Hopefully that helps a little?

Edit:
Just noticed you already mentioned that ^^.

I dont' think there is anything else you could do, if there was, it would take a while to find out, looking through hex codes and so on.

LastHand
December 20th, 2007, 11:58 PM
The only time I have ever seen something remotely like that is in Prism.

thethethethe
December 21st, 2007, 01:04 AM
There are ways to use the Bicycle and Surf, using specials, but these are only temporary. Unless, you want to completely, re-do the level scripts within every map in the game, this probably isn't that helpful. And that only gives you three possible pieces of clothing.
Otherwise, you'll have to speak with someone about some kind of ASM alternative.

yunghove
May 26th, 2008, 01:00 AM
Doesnt belong here, put it in the Rockets Revenge thread as a post or a poll

Destined
May 26th, 2008, 04:32 AM
Doesnt belong here, put it in the Rockets Revenge thread as a post or a poll

Well actually your wrong, it does belong here as the Scrapbox is intended for brainstorming ideas for your hack.

yunghove
May 26th, 2008, 04:46 AM
Well actually your wrong, it does belong here as the Scrapbox is intended for brainstorming ideas for your hack.

Well your also wrong because you need to have a features section.
Also, the scrapbox is for your hack, not some costumes.

MudMast
May 26th, 2008, 04:53 AM
as said earlier, this is in the wrong place.

though, i think it has something to do with flags/levels.


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