I might not be a mod on here anymore because it was pretty much a request to be demoted, but I need to point something out.

Please, please, please, don't fucking wipe a sprite's data on the database and say "See X sprite", because it's stupid and useless. That means the user has to see the original sprite, therefore adding it to the level uselessly just to see the data. That's stupid and it shouldn't be that way. If you think it's good for space, you're wrong. A few fields will not kill anybody.

If it happens and somebody spots it, tell the mods.


StapleButter edit: from now on, anybody doing this gets a ban. Thank you.

What does this mean? Also, sorry for wiping spritedata.

Something could be put into NSMBe that would let you use the same data for multiple sprites, but there isn't much point.

Tbh, as I already told  Hiccup, the sprite db in its current form pretty much outlived its usefulness if only for the fact that storing data as bits (1 to 48) instead of nybbles (1 to 12) would be more far more efficient.
And that's not taking into account that nybbles 1 to 4 will always be reserved for Event IDs, always.

To further strengthen my point, take for example nybbles 11-12 of Actors 278 (Water), 279 (Lava) and 281 (Poison Water):
In its current form the sprite db is unable to handle correctly both direction and speed, whereas if parameters were stored as bits instead, you could set bit 41 alone for the direction (0=Up, 1=Down), and bits 42-48 for speed (from 0 to 127) which is exactly how overlay 54 handles those settings for the aforementioned Actors.
Other examples include Actor 240 (Self activating block) where 32 choices are possible for the item selection, and Actors whose length/height is currently limited by a Modulo "something", indicating that the whole nybble is not needed/might not be enough.


This is the conversation I had with Hiccup on the subject:


I want to prove to myself that I am capable of driving the project up to part 2, since part 3 involves requirements out of my control, and maybe that could also serve to prove that I can get something significant done for once that doesn't ends up in immediate failure.
Part 1 is already done, 2 is WIP, and 3 as I said pretty much falls on  Dirbaio.

I also think there should be fields for more technical data about the actors/sprites.
e.g:
* "class hierarchy" info http://nsmbhd.net/thread/1594-nsmb-class-hierachy/
* full actor set and overlay info http://nsmbhd.net/post/50992/
* info on how the actor/setting is used (spawned by other actors as actor/sprite, placed in level, unused)
* if the actor/setting is functional

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