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I am trying to design a vertical level in which lava is rising and you have to climb to the pipe at the very top of the level. When I enter the level, I cannot scroll horizontally. I can only use subscreen left and I can't move to the right screen. What am I doing wrong?

Originally posted by angelofdeath

I am trying to design a vertical level in which lava is rising and you have to climb to the pipe at the very top of the level. When I enter the level, I cannot scroll horizontally. I can only use subscreen left and I can't move to the right screen. What am I doing wrong?

Vertical levels with layer 2 scrolling up can only use one screen, so its very limited. I think there is a custom sprite that does the same thing, but allows both screens.

I was told that to use lava on layer 1 and the level on layer 2, and then add the layer 2 fall sprite. It seems to glitch because the lava all of a sudden falls when you go higher and mario somehow falls on a surface. Is there another sprite or properties to use so that I can have lava rise without having to glitch? I don't care about having two screens anymore, I just want a rising lava level.

I was wondering how to do this as well. it seems very confusing.

Best way to create an elevator/lava chase level: build the level on layer 1, put the lava or elevator on layer 2, and insert this custom autoscroll sprite into the level. Unlike the Layer 2 Falls method, this will allow you to use both subscreens, as well as let you use normal sprites in the level.

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So put the custom autoscroll on layer one with the other sprites, and how do you edit layer 2 for an elevator or lava?

Let's start in the beggining. You go to change other properties in header and try clicking on every one of the levels, note that there will be a text telling you if it is hori., vert., or unusable. There will also be a stat to which it will tell you if layer 2 can be interacted by looking at the second column. then you add the elevator or lava to layer 2, add the sprite, and you are done.

And thanks for the help. I was thinking that putting lava on layer 1 would make bugs. Now I know I was right the first time, but I will thank the other person on my other thread for tyring to help me. I got started and the level should be completed in about 3-4 days from now.

I now have this problem. I inserted the custom sprite and the lava rises nicely, but layer 2 seems to glitch because when mario approaches to the right side and vice versa, it scrolls with layer 1 and he gets pulled back from the direction he came from. I also tried other sprites in the rom, but with the same glitchness. there is only one way I can do this, but it applies better with an elevator and not rising lava. I can turn off the vert. scroll, but I want layer 1 to not scroll hori. and I want layer 2 to scroll vert. without the fall glitch. I am just about to give up because I am extremely fed up with 10 hours of non-stop pain-staking editing and no results. I need help so badly. If you can help me solve this problem, I will thank you a billion times. This is my hack [http://bin.smwcentral.net/u/15629/SMW%2Bplus%2Btest..zip] (It is modified to start at the point where this problem occures. Also, you go to your right to go to my level)

Sounds to me like you have layer 2 horizontal scroll set to the wrong value.

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I managed to fix scrolling issues, the only problem is the lave does not stay, it falls with the layer 2. I'll try to see if there is a problem.

This is very tricky to me because layer 2 is set in the middle of the level, and if I set to the left half of the level, mario appears ander the surface and in the dirt tile to fall to his death. The fall generatior is the only solution because layer 1 does not scroll horizonltally, but neither does layer 2 if you want to take up the entire width of the vertical level. The problem is that if you enable layer 1 to have vertical scroll at will, the lava will "fall" if you move up faster than layer 2, and at some point, mario "falls" with the level and the lava suddenly reappears.
This hack will clear up what I mean:

http://bin.smwcentral.net/u/15629/SMW%2Bplus%2Btest2.zip

This will only work if vert. scroll is disabled, but I don't like it, I could save this for a boss elevator level in the near future. Other than that, I am still looking for a solution.

Any solutions out there. I am still having trouble and I am just about to terminate this level in about 3-5 days. The two hacks are listed above.

Please let me know if you found a solution for one or both below:

hack 1: have layer 1 not scroll horizontally and scroll vertically at will have layer 2 stay in place also with vertical scroll at will, or scroll with layer 1 horizontally and also have vertical scroll at will on both

hack 2: have layer 1 scroll vertically at will without glitching and have layer 2 scroll vertically at will, too.

I have downloaded other custom sprite generators with custom vertical scrolling and right now testing them. Please help.

I have until saturday to come up with another level to replace my glitchy scroll level.

If anyone can help me out there, PLEASE, you are welcomed.

here are the hacks to show you two of the glitches I am encountering

Custom layer 1 rise sprite
http://bin.smwcentral.net/u/15629/SMW%2Bplus%2Btest..zip

Layer 2 fall sprite
http://bin.smwcentral.net/u/15629/SMW%2Bplus%2Btest2.zip