Knuckles Life Icon won't load...

Yea well, title says it all...


You see, I put it so that when you play Knuckles then he loads his own icons, monitors, signpost, etc. Anyway everything loads properly when I press start with Knuckles on the title screen... Except, his life icon...


But, when I go to the level select and go to any level with Knuckles... Once again, everything load properly... EVEN his LIFE ICON!!!


Anyway, I'm really confused right now... I've tried to fix this many times but I just can't do it... For example, I tried fiddling with the LoadPLC: and LoadPLC2:.


And I still couldn't get it load when you play with Knuckles (without Level Select of course =P).


So, I need help guys... If anyone has a clue on how to fix this, please help me. I'm really clueless right now...


Thanks

 

The hud/extra life patterns are loaded at the titlescreen, which means if you are to select a different character that uses different hud art after the titlescreen data has loaded, then it will not change because it does not get reloaded again. The best way to go about this is to move to PLC load for the hud from the titlescreen startup to the level startup, however this can be tricky as when the PLCs are busy with art already being loaded, you don't wanna go interfering with it. to fix for your use, the best way would be...


Title_ClrObjRam2:


On that routine you'll notice:


moveq #0,d0


bsr.w LoadPLC2


Cut them two commands from there (Removing them), and then goto


Level_TtlCard:


Paste those two commands right above this command


jsr Hud_Base


It's the perfect place for the that specific art to be loaded.

 

Again, thanks so much Markey! The icon loads properly now... But:





And, don't say I did anything wrong dude. I did everything you told me here and on MSN. =P lol!

 

Whats up with the monitors? Also I have this problem with the lampost, I tried comparing artloadcues in loadplc and loadplc2 but it doesn't work.

 

What do you mean? There the Debug monitors... You know? Monitors that enable debug mode, obviously. =P


Or is it the art? =/


Sorry, getting off topic here... ^^'

 

Ok... I was refering to the red numbers that you get in tile errors, like in sonmaped... didn't know it was a debug mointor, I thought it was the goggles monitor that had debug.

 

*Sigh*


Simply change..



moveq #0,d0
bsr.w LoadPLC2


jsr Hud_Base



..from that, to this..



moveq #$00,d0
bsr.w LoadPLC2


Level_LiveHud:


move.b #$C,($FFFFF62A).w ; set VBlank routines to run


bsr.w DelayProgram ; run VBlank


bsr.w RunPLC_RAM ; decompress and dump Art


tst.l ($FFFFF680).w ; are there any items in the pattern load cue?


bne.s Level_LiveHud ; if so, branch to loop


jsr Hud_Base ; load the uncompressed patterns over the hud art in VRam



..happy now smartarse? =P (I commented this because most people will just copy/paste it without bothering to understand what it does).

 

Thats wasn't for me was it.

 

Son of a bitch, I forgot about the Vblank!


That's what I was missing when I tried to fix it.


My bad...


But anyway, thank you very much MarkeyJester.


Now, for this point system thingy on SSRG. I have no idea how this questions point system works or how to give points and I see no reason to do so.


I mean what's the point? It's not like you win a chaos emerald for getting 50 points or some shit like that. lol!


But still, if you want the points then tell me how to give points or tell Qjimbo or something...


But anyway thanks. I hoped now you fixed Manic's life icon on S1BroTro...

 

Whats the point in points? You have a point.


*drums*


But in all seriousness the points system is a nice way of knowing who contributes a lot, however it's not possible (yet) to use IPB to edit and add points to a non-question topic. Perhaps that is something I will work on soon (alongside giving/receiving points in the Basic Q&A thread).

 

while we are on the subject of vblank... are there any rules to how and when it should be called/used?

 

I think a discussion about VBlank should be left for another topic, because it's one of those "Long time to explain" topics me thinks.