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PSA for dummies!

[TSON]

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K, so, since PK is ever-busy, I'm gonna be guidin' as his (temporary?) replacement. I'll keep it (EXTRA EXTRA) noob friendly, and update religiously. Don't worry XD.

HOW TO OPEN THE PACS
(because I know you all need help here, it's super hard isn't it.)​

Alright, so let's get into it! Open up SmashAttacks.exe, and you'll be greeted by this screen:


Looks scary, huh!​

Alls ya gotta do now is click File at the top, click Open; now you're here:

Oh, this looks familiar!​

All you have to do is find your way through the folders and pick the file that you need. They should be named "Fit(something).pac" without any numbers. My personal favorite is "FitNess.pac", *flex*.

So anyways, double click on it to open it:

WOAH WHAT IS THAT.​

This may look extremely intimidating, but it really isn't. Once we go over the terms, this'll be simple, I promise.

THE TERMS
(Pay attention! D:<)​

Alright, so let's begin with interface terms (that's everything outside of the square).

Action Events - Located at the top of this screen under file, this is the "tab" of the program that contains the attack data. This baby has all of your B moves, all of your smash attacks, all of your tilts, dodges, and jabs -- everything.

Attributes - Also located at the top of the screen, but next to Action Events, this is the "tab" that controls the "stats" of your character. Jump height, weight, landing lag, run speed - it's all here. This tab is so massive that not everything is documented! Try experimenting and maybe you can find something new for us to use!

Now that you're caught up with the two tabs, let's dive in deeper.

*finishes slowly*
 
Oni K4ge

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^^lol is it because people kept asking stuff like this? I hope you actually do update this with basic operations in psa, itd be a good thing for the community (and have it stickied).
 
Indigo Jeans

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This is awesome. I suck at programming and the like, but I want to learn PSA. You rock TSONO.
 
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IF this is a serious replacement you can remove the temporary.

Also something important to add:

When you want to open multiple .pac files, you will need to copy the whole "smash attacks" directory to a different location and open your second .pac from the new location.
 
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The Paprika Killer said:
IF this is a serious replacement you can remove the temporary.

Also something important to add:

When you want to open multiple .pac files, you will need to copy the whole "smash attacks" directory to a different location and open your second .pac from the new location.
Click to expand...
Alright.

102030
 
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Hah, I'm going to need this one too.

This will probably be the main PSA guide, because its seems like one you get the concepts people really get rolling.
 
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Since im not sure where else to ask this;
Is it possible to give snake more than two grenades, or more than one mine/c4. If so, how?
 
superyoshi888

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Dude, I will love you forever if you do this. I'm designing a PSA character atm, already pretty much have a moveset and everything worked out, but I have no clue how to edit anything outside of attributes.
 
Dantarion

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TSON, if you want, you can make a tutorial on the OpenSA Wiki, it might be easier than trying to do complex tutorials on the forums.
 
ds22

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Is it possible to give a character who can't crawl the ability to crawl?
Because I know you can give a character wall jumps and even wall sliding, but I'm not sure this is also the case with crawling.
 
[TSON]

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I'd imagine so. Just in all of the idles put a change subaction: to a blank one.

I'll just write it out lol.

In Wait1, Wait2, Wait3:

If Button Pressed: Down
Goto: (Empty Subaction, like 4)

In the empty subaction:

Set Loop: Infinite
--If button is held: Down
----If Button is pressed: Left
------Character Momentum Add: Horizontal: -0.3 Vertical: 0.1
----Else If: Button is pressed: Right
------Character Momentum Add: Horizontal: 0.3 Vertical: 0.1
----End If
--End If
Else:
--Loop Rest
End If:

It could be off, since I don't have the formatting to look at, and this code is lengthy enough where I'd need to test it and play around with it to get it right, but that's basically it.
 
ds22

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It makes sense.
I however need it in code for I use a older version of PSA (0.2.1 beta).
EDIT:
Should it look something like this?

Set Loop Infinite
If Button Pressed: 2
Character Momentum: 1-FFFD40E0, 1-EA60, 0-0, 0-0,
Else:
If Button Pressed: 4
Character Momentum: 1-2BF20, 1-EA60, 0-0, 0-0,
End If:
End If:
Else:
Loop Rest:
End If:
 
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I just realized you also need a crouching animation and the crawling subaction needs to detect if you let go of down.

But whatever, easy fix if you understand what it's doing. Just stick an If Button Held: (Whatever down is) at the beginning at it should in theory work (things like this usually require some messing with).

That, and you're using the wrong Momentum Code, we want Add Momentum :p
 
ds22

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I now only need the digits for joystick left, right and down.
Also if I would give this character the SquatF and the SquatB animations, and subroutine to that, would he then do the crawl animations?
 
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