Keen: Modding

[Plasma Captain]

First of all, is there a patch for what Keen mugshot appears in the response to Lindsey's message? I know about this patch for changing what appears for Lindsey's mugshot, which I've done, and changing the caches just makes the mugshots look glitched. Basically I would like to change Keen's "thumbs up" shot (after he gives the reply) into the Lindsey picture (which is altered to be another expression for Keen).

Also, I'm wondering about what makes Keen interact with objects when he's dead. At first I thought it was only objects/sprites that are spawned by tiles - items which are placed as tiles can be collected when Keen is dead and bouncing, but items which are placed as straight sprites cannot. But then, enemies will still make Keen bounce some more when he's dead, and they're placed as straight sprites. Ideally I would like sprites such as Lindsey and The Foot in particular to interact with Keen when he's dead and flying. Not sure if this is patch-related or if there's a way to spawn such items through the use of tiles.

(If you're wondering why on the second half, I noticed in Ceilick's Keen 6 mod that you can collect the Battery easily by jumping into a gunshot, dieing, and falling into it through the floor. This doesn't seem to happen with Keen 4 stuff though.)

[levellass]

How Keen (And all other sprites) interacts with objects is defined by the objects collision behavior:

Patch a collision behavior: http://levellord.rewound.net/Index/Keen%204/Sprite%20Patches/14.%29%20Sprite_Collision_1.TXT
Patch what behavior sprites use: http://levellord.rewound.net/Index/Keen%204/Sprite%20Patches/15.%29%20Sprite_Collision_2.TXT


The counter-intuitive thing about this is that Keen is killed not when an enemy touches him, but when HE touches the enemy! Since Keen's object type is always 2, even when he's dead, the dead Keen is spawned whenever he touches a killing enemy. As an illustration, this patch makes the Slugs kill Keen when they touch... each other: