ROM Hack [WIP] The Fourth Dimension: A Super Mario 3D land level editor

[mustafag32g]

Yeaa @exelix11 I am working, but university, work and life generally also are in the scene

So I can't get it out too fast. However 7 levels are completely done. It is going to be a 2 world hack.

Starlight is helping me, but he has also got school...

But it will be finished eventually though

 

[exelix11]

Yeaa @exelix11 I am working, but school, work and life generally also are in the scene

So I can't get it out too fast. However 7 levels are completely done. It is going to be a 2 world hack.

Starlight is helping me, but he has also got school...

But it will be finished eventually though

uh, i understood that it was almost completed, i don't know how to make 3d models, or else i would have helped you.
Also, how do you repack the romfs to play in citra ? I wanted to add this feature to the editor for a while but i can't make it work.

 

[mustafag32g]

Well I use a program called "3dstocia converter". It has many useful options including the repack you are talking about.

Yoou caan find it on youtube and google :-)

Yeaa btw we decided we wanted to make a 2 world instead a one world

 

[exelix11]

Well I use a program called "3dstocia converter". It has many useful options including the repack you are talking about.

Yoou caan find it on youtube and google :-)

Yeaa btw we decided we wanted to make a 2 world instead a one world

Ok, got it working, I was using makerom to build a cci but citra won't boot it

 

[StarLight42]

@Louiskovskie

DO NOT DO THIS. I tried making the walls bigger and my whole level glitched out. Seriously, Mario would fall to his death as soon as the level started. When I rescaled the walls back to their original size everything worked correctly again. It seems these walls were not meant to be scaled.

@exelix, definining the number of walls to be placed horizontally and vertically would be great! This is exactly what i'm looking for! 2D Areas would be a breeze to make if these feature was implemented! Just make sure we can define the x coordinate of all of them.

Also, it could ask to add two sets with different x coordinates among both of them, to make a 2D area instantely. This could be a seperate function in the editor... a "2D Area Maker" or something, idk

Thank you for considering my suggestion.

 

[Dan-the-Rebirth]

a DB of costom sm3dl levels would be nice....

 

[Louis Miles]

Exelix11, is it possible, to split the database into two different databases? The one stores all the information and the friendly names, like normal, and the other only stores information, which model of objects will be displayed in the editor. And maybe it could be definied, that, when an object has a specific ARG, that the model will be changed. I mean, if for example the kuribotower get an ARG of 5, that it will display another modell with 5 goombas.

DO NOT DO THIS. I tried making the walls bigger and my whole level glitched out. Seriously, Mario would fall to his death as soon as the level started. When I rescaled the walls back to their original size everything worked correctly again. It seems these walls were not meant to be scaled.

Hmm. In my level i used a scale of 3 and works fine. Maybe bigger scales are not supported.

 

[StarLight42]

Yeah I scaled mine much bigger. Like 25 or something. I still would rather prefer a feature that adds multiple of them rather than adding fewer of them that are scaled to 3 as it's more stable.

 

[exelix11]

Exelix11, is it possible, to split the database into two different databases? The one stores all the information and the friendly names, like normal, and the other only stores information, which model of objects will be displayed in the editor. And maybe it could be definied, that, when an object has a specific ARG, that the model will be changed. I mean, if for example the kuribotower get an ARG of 5, that it will display another modell with 5 goombas.


Hmm. In my level i used a scale of 3 and works fine. Maybe bigger scales are not supported.

I would rather keep the database like it's now, having a different way to show model based on args would be pretty complex since for every object that has this would require an extra check, and the code is already pretty messy.

Anyway i just added loading models from objects from another folder called CustomModels, this will allow using your object pack without having to edit the database, since the changes would be overwritten every startup when the latest database is downloaded.
Models are loaded by name if they exists, so just make sure the model has the same name of the object in the game + .obj

Yeah I scaled mine much bigger. Like 25 or something. I still would rather prefer a feature that adds multiple of them rather than adding fewer of them that are scaled to 3 as it's more stable.

Done
Just one thing i noticed, those walls are squares, maybe it glitched because you didn't scale uniformly

 

[Louis Miles]

Anyway i just added loading models from objects from another folder called CustomModels, this will allow using your object pack without having to edit the database, since the changes would be overwritten every startup when the latest database is downloaded.

That's really cool

Just one thing i noticed, those walls are squares, maybe it glitched because you didn't scale uniformly

That could be the problem. I noticed, that some airshiplevels has transparent walls with incredible big scales.

 

[StarLight42]

i dont know what scaling uniformly means

 

[exelix11]

i dont know what scaling uniformly means

Use the same value for scale_x, scale_y and scale_z

 

[StarLight42]

Oh, yeah, I did not scale uniformly. This is because I did not want the z scale to be any bigger than 1.

 

[StarLight42]

Okay. The feature I requested will definitely be necessary. I tried using uniform scaling and the walls were still all glitched up when scaled at 10x10x10

 

[mustafag32g]

Are you sure you have rotated the walls right?

If they somehow have been turned opposite way they glitch. I tried that before.

Only one side is solid...

 

[SunakazeKun]

I think I should post this here as well. First of all, this isn't a custom level at all. In fact, this is a port of the original World 2-1 from the E3 2011 demo version. Nothing interesting, actually. I had to make some changes to the stage files and the models, because the E3 demo uses an earlier ActorInfo format.
You can download it from here.

 

[Louis Miles]

Cool idea!
It's really sad, that the demo has not much levels.

 

[SunakazeKun]

The most interesting things from the E3 demo include the two unused and unfinished levels TestIwasaSpBalanceTrack02Stage and SpTestLava03Stage. Here is a short video on the first unused level:

You can find more information about these two unused levels here.

 

[StarLight42]

Are you sure you have rotated the walls right?

If they somehow have been turned opposite way they glitch. I tried that before.

Only one side is solid...

You are so totally right. Wow, I am a frickin moron. The 2D Area works fine now with two transparent walls scaled at 11x11x11

@exelix11 Sorry I requested a useless feature.

On the bright side, this means I will be able to get a level done for 3DL1.5 very soon!

 

[Louis Miles]

Does someone know, how the boss Bunbun works?
I'm trying, to make a boss battle with him. But whenever Mario enters the SwitchOnArea, which should activate him, the game crashes. Is there something needed, to get him working. I already looked at 2-5: Bumbum will be activated by an Area (SwitchAppear) and when the battle begins, bunbun kills the PlayerControllOff Area (SwitchA). And when he is defeated, he activates a pipe (SwitchDeadOn). I already made it the same way, but it still crashes..