Hey all,
Lately I was thinking of something that is exclusive to New Super Mario Bros. U that I wish someone here could please replicate as a sprite, and that is the Slide Lift. It's basically a pair of line guided blocks that go around a rectangular track, and while they can be helpful to the player, they can also be an obstacle that can be difficult to pass depending on their placement, and they can even crush the player against any solid surface, or even another Slide Lift, and they also block projectiles. I'm thinking that in order to eliminate as much of the potential jank as possible here, the sprite would need to have code to kill the player if it ends up blocking them in an appropriate direction, am I right? As an example used by another sprite, ShadowMistressYuko's reverse donut sprite kills the player if it pushes them up against a ceiling, so if someone wants to claim this, you can look at that sprite for a reference.
So yeah, if someone does decide to claim this request, I'd prefer its dimensions to be customizable so that they always use twelve 16x16 tiles in total (e.g. 2x6, 3x4, 4x3, or 6x2), including center tiles if the sprite was either 3x4 or 4x3. The sprite doesn't necessarily need to be line guided; I personally think it would work best if used with the line guided any sprite, although in that case, to make it truly replicate the Slide Lift, it would probably need to be placed twice in diagonal intervals in order for the sprites to slide against each other when they're moving, though I'll leave that up to whoever claims it, if this is claimed.
I can post a pic of the different dimensions of the sprite if desired, anyway, thanks in advance.
Edit: Just so I don't forget, here's a link to MarioWiki's
page on the Slide Lift, which can be used as a reference.
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