Keen: Modding

I just thought I'd repost this here at Keen:Modding, especially since I've posted a couple threads asking for help with it in the last four years. :P Either comment here or post about it in the general forum...or both, whatever floats your boat.

The problem is that the vertical shooter, whether it fires horizontally or vertically, still doesn't get destroyed when the heart is shot. Is this a version thing? Or does neither one actually get destroyed after the heart is shot?

It does destroy every sprite, it appears, including moving platforms--EXCEPT horizontal shooters (or at least, the one there is in the level.) That is the only thing that doesn't get destroyed, which is very inconvenient for my purposes. :P EDIT: I just realized I can make vertical shooters fire hor...

Thanks a lot. I had to change a lot of patches that used an obsolete (Patchotron) alphanumeric system but now I can do more with them anyway. I still haven't fixed the text problem...I've tried all sorts of things with blank lines, special characters and spacing, and nothing has done the trick thus ...

Ahhh, levellass you are brilliance! Now progress on the mod can continue. :) I guess the only unanswered question I have is the tilde thing...I have this written in STORYTXT.CK3: ~ ~ COMMANDER KEEN ~ in ~ THE BOBRICK TOWER And for some reason, the first line of text doesn't show in special text, and...

You did type a response...I'm not sure why you can't see it because I can. :P I removed some of the enemies and will probably stick with the number I have now. When the mod is done enough I'll probably PM it to a few people for playtesting to make sure it doesn't break. As for the size, it is litera...

1. I can find this patch for Keen 1, but not for Keen 3 (or Keen 2 for that matter.) 2. I can also only find this for Keen 1, I remember it being posted on the PCKF a while ago. I'll keep looking for a Keen 3 equivalent. 3. As I said, the patch index seems to list patches for every other VortiPress ...

I have a few patch requests and some small problems I'd like to bring up concerning my ever-more-completed Keen 3 mod. A couple of the requests I've brought up in Spleen's thread, but I'll repeat them here. I would appreciate... *One-button firing with spacebar, and enter/return showing the status s...

I fixed the problem by reloading a backup version...I accidentally overwrote all the graphics I'd drawn since the last backup but I'm backing it up more regularly so it shouldn't be a problem (plus I'm not copy/pasting the BMPs any more, since those clearly aren't going to be the source of the probl...

I'm having the same problem with the same level that I posted about a few years ago: for whatever reason, the level stopped working and now I can't enter it again. I can try editing the level but that doesn't fix the problem. I have a backup version but it's kind of old now and I didn't think I'd ne...

I was going to start a separate thread but it turns out I also need both the infinite lives and score/shots reset patches. Although I can also use a patch which simply sets both score and shots to zero upon death if that's easier.

Thanks, you are brilliance :D

I have to ask for another one...I want to have one spark in the level, and when it's destroyed I want all the shooters in the level to stop firing. Is there a way at all to make this happen?

These are some Keen 3 patch requests I have...I haven't found any patches for the following, so here we go... Most important: I need a patch that allows you to play a level an indefinite number of times. This shouldn't be too hard, I wouldn't think...the teleporter in Keen 1 basically already does t...

You could always try to use sprites that take up less memory. The memory-hogging-ness of Keen 3 sprites as near as I can tell is jack/ball <vortikid vortninja < vorticon < shooter guns< foob < meep/vortimom < arm/leg stampers That's handy right there. :) Where do moving platforms fall on the scale?...

Interesting...in that case, if I find ways of opening up memory elsewhere (disabling unused/unwanted menus and saving, things like that) then will there be more room for sprites, or is the memory for those used and stored differently? Whatever I do, I'll be walking a razor's edge and the only way I'...