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Salute To The Flags: The Hitbox Flag Directory (upd. Jul 23 '13)

Toomai

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SALUTE TO THE FLAGS
THE HITBOX FLAG DIRECTORY
[/cheesy]​
DISCLAIMER
(read this you maggots)​

While I've documented all the hitboxes of every character and item, I haven't yet done things like ATs and Pokémon, while stage and enemy attacks may be their own thing entirely.

PREAMBLE
(the witty bit)​

So you've opened up your favourite character editing program (i.e. the only one that works) and are dutifully working away on your moveset editing or whatever. But there's always the time when you're changing a hitbox and you run into a string of eight digits that you don't really know what they do. Maybe you know it does something with the attack's effects or sound, but you can't find a pattern. You probably copy the unhelpfully-labelled "flags" from an attack that does what you want, but wouldn't it be better if you could completely control it instead? That's where all this comes in.

(To skip the rest of the preamble, you can go right to "The Roles Of Flags".)

WHUTS R FLAGGS?
(non-newbies can skip this part)​

A flag is basically a bit. You probably know that a bit can be either 0 or 1. Often, bits work together to store numbers or text, but flags sometimes work alone as well.

So, a flag is a bit. But now you're probably thinking, "But the thing called 'Flags' is made of numbers and letters, not 0s and 1s!" That because you're looking at hex digits. Hex (or hexadecimal) is a way to write down four bits in one number - for example, the bit string 0110 is equal to 6. Letters are used because there are only 10 digits, whilere there are 16 possible 4-digit bit strings. For example, D is equal to 13, which is equal to a bit string of 1101. The list of decimal-hex-binary conversions is this:

Code:
+----------------+-----------+-------------+
|Number (decimal)|Digit (hex)|String (bits)|
+----------------+-----------+-------------+
|        0       |     0     |     0000    |
|        1       |     1     |     0001    |
|        2       |     2     |     0010    |
|        3       |     3     |     0011    |
|        4       |     4     |     0100    |
|        5       |     5     |     0101    |
|        6       |     6     |     0110    |
|        7       |     7     |     0111    |
|        8       |     8     |     1000    |
|        9       |     9     |     1001    |
|       10       |     A     |     1010    |
|       11       |     B     |     1011    |
|       12       |     C     |     1100    |
|       13       |     D     |     1101    |
|       14       |     E     |     1110    |
|       15       |     F     |     1111    |
+----------------+-----------+-------------+
What does this mean? The thing labelled "flags" is eight digits long, but since each digit represents 4 bits, we're talking about 32 bits here. For example, the flag 39030200 as a string of bits, is 00111001000000110000001000000000. (Note: If you see a flag that's less than eight digits long, you have to fill in 0s at the beginning until it is before you can work with it properly.)

DIVISION OF LABOUR
(breaking it up)​

The first time you looked at flags, you may have guessed that each of the eight digits had a purpose. That's not a bad idea, and it's partly true - however, it breaks down once you actually try it out. The real culprits are the bits that the digits are made of - they don't work together in evenly-distributed groups. This leads to one attribute overlapping two or even three of a flag's hex digits. Lucky for you, after looking at hundreds of flags, I've pieced together how everything goes together. Let's take the simple 39030200 as an example:

39030200​
3 9 0 3 0 2 0 0
0011 1001 0000 0011 0000 0010 0000 0000
00111001000000110000001000000000​
00 1 1 1 00100 0000 1 1 00 00001 0 00 0 00000

See how the bits are in unevenly-sized groups? Now we just have to convert them into decimal (understandable numbers), and:

00 1 1 1 4 0000 1 1 00 1 0 0 0 0

And now you have some meaningful numbers. Or almost - the meaning of the numbers is the subject of the next section.

(if you don't know how to put a big binary number into decimal, you can put "0b00001000 in decimal" into Google)

THE ROLES OF FLAGS
(the entire point)​

The following is a list of how to make the flags do what you want them to do. There are still a few mystery bits, but I believe all the important ones are known.

Bits 1-2: These bits do not seem to be used in any known hitboxes.

Bit 3: Direct As far as I can tell, if this bit is 0, then the attack is considered Special:Indirect; as a result almost everything in the Subspace Emissary will resist it slightly. I don't think it has any effect otherwise.

Bit 4: Rebound (nonfunctional) If this were Melee, this bit would control whether the move rebounds (gets interrupted with the character entering the bounceback animation) when it clangs. In Brawl however the concept appears to be disabled; regardless of this bit, every move that can clang will rebound.

Bit 5: Clang This is the clang bit. You've probably heard of "clang" before - it's when two attacks hit each other and they're both interrupted. This bit controls whether a hitbox is able to clang with other hitboxes - if it's 1, it will; if it's 0, it won't. This doesn't mean it will always clang with any other attack (attacks can only clang if they're both grounded and they deal similar damage within 9%), but it does mean that it will be able to, for example, cancel out similarily-damaging projectiles.

Note: Many people will understand this better if I call it the "priority" bit, with 1 being normal priority and 0 being transcendent priority. However, since it's a single bit, convention dictates that 1 be a "yes it can" and a 0 be a "no it can't", and thus I call it the clang bit.

Bits 6-10: Type You generally won't care about what these bits contain, unless you intend your edits to be useful in the Subspace Emissary (or you just like being thorough and complete). That's because these five bits determine what type an attack is, and thus what kinds of stickers will work on it. Most attacks in a character's basic moveset are given a type, while items are only given a type if they can appear in the Subspace Emissary; in the same way Giga Bowser's and Wario-Man's movesets generally lack typing, as (most likely) do Pokémon and Assist Trophies. (The data would have taken up no more space, so it's just a case of the developers being lazy.) When the five bits are interpreted as an integer (number without a decimal), these are the types:

0: Typeless Most anything that doesn't appear in the Subspace Emissary gets this, as do attacks that don't fit into the other categories (like Mario's Fireball).
1: Head Things like Yoshi's up smash have this typing.
2: Body This is applied to things like shoulder rams, bellyflops, and the like.
3: Butt Moves that use one's rear end as a weapon get this type.
4: Hand Punches, slaps, and so on.
5: Elbow Very few moves have this type.
6: Foot Kicks, generally.
7: Knee You can probably count these ones on one hand.
8: Throwing Throws don't have flags like normal hitboxes do, but throws like Mario's back throw that hurt bystanders using the throwee have this type. Interestingly, the non-grab suction of Kirby's and Dedede's Inhales have this type as well. It can be assumed that for sticker purposes all throws are of this type.
9: Weapon This applies only to weapons in general, like Mario's FLUDD.
10: Sword This should be obvious.
11: Hammer Again, obvious.
12: Explosive Most explosives have this type, but there are a few surprising ones, like Samus's fire blasts, R.O.B.'s burner attacks, and Ivysaur's bulb blasts.
13: Spin Anything that involves spinning for generally more than one or two revolutions. Note that you cannot have a hitbox that's Spin and something else at the same time (like say Arm/Spin).
14: Bite Omnomnom.
15: Magic Again, you can't have a Magic/Arm attack, since they take up the same slot.
16: PK Or Psychic, if you wanna call it that.
17: Bow The vast majority of Pit's attacks are this, including his arrows (though Link's arrows aren't, what the crap).
19: Bat Only applies to Ness's f-smash; for some dumb reason the Home-Run Bat is considered Weapon.
20: Umbrella Applies to Peach's Parasol only (for documented attacks).
21: Pikmin All of 'em.
22: Water Only Squirtle gets this - FLUDD is considered Weapon. I think this is what triggers Water stickers, but I'm not sure.
23: Whip Attacks that involve something whiplike. I certainly wouldn't have thought of making this its own type if I was the designer, but unlike some of the other stuff up there it makes a degree of sense. Includes ZSS's whip attacks, Ivysaur's vines, and Sheik's chain.
24: Tail Why is this so late in the order?
25: Energy Things like Fox's Blaster, Samus' Charge Shot, Ray Gun shots, and so on. Also Beam Swords.

You've probably noticed two things:

1. Type 18 is missing, and I can't find it in any character or item hitboxes. Maybe it doesn't exist?
2. There are more types than sticker effects. I can guess there were going to be Elbow stickers and such at some point, but they decided that there were too few such attacks and merged it with Hand to get Arm stickers. Same with Body/Butt, Foot/Knee, Weapon/Sword/Hammer/Bat/Umbrella (probably), and so on.

Bits 11-14: These bits appear to be unused.

Bit 15 and Bit 16: Aerial and Grounded Bits These two work in tandem to determine whether a hitbox can hit aerial targets, grounded targets, or both. If it's 1, it can hit said target, if it's 0, it cannot. Most moves have both bits as 1, so it'll hit both aerial and grounded targets. Sometimes, a move will have two hitboxes of the same size in the same place, with one hitting air and the other hitting ground; this is used so attacks can have different behaviour on different opponents. A good example of this is Samus' up tilt, it only Meteor Smashes opponents that are grounded.

Bits 17-18: These bits appear unused.

Bits 19-23: Sound When interpreted as an integer, these bits determine what noise you hear when the hitbox strikes an opponent. (Most non-Smasher targets override these sounds, such as breakable walls and such). If an attack deals no damage, the sound will not play. The currently known sounds are as follows:

0: None/Unique (nothing if used with the S level, otherwise seems to produce a noise unique to the user/source; used by: Triforce Slash last hit, Critical Hit, Bumpers, Squeaky Golden Hammer, and some part of Falcon Dive)
1: Punch
2: Kick
3: Slash
4: Coin
5: Bat (as in Home-Run Bat)
6: Paper
7: Shock
8: Burn
9: Splash
11: Explosion
13: Thud (as in Snake's attacks)
14: Slam (as in Ike's attacks)
15: Thwomp (as in Dedede's attacks)
16: Magic zap
17: Shell
18: Slap
19: Pan
20: Club
21: Racket
22: Aura
27: Bat (as in Ness's f-smash)

Bit 24: Also appears unused.

Bits 25-26: Sound Level This number determines how much oomph the impact sound has.

0: Small
1: Medium
2: Large
3: Huge

Not all sound types have all levels; for example most of the categories don't have a Huge variant, and you'll get nothing. Another note: the Ping sound is Large Bat (as in Home-Run Bat).

Bit 27: This one appears unused too.

Bits 28-32: Effect This is a rather significant attribute. These are also used for sticker purposes in the Subspace Emissary, although they have a much greater effect, so no hitboxes have been skirted like they were for type. Here's the list:

0: Normal Uses the standard hit effects and the "jagged" impending angle indicator.
1: None? Only one attack that I know of uses this: the non-damaging hitboxes used to determine if Raptor Boost has hit someone. Has no apparent hit effects (and is probably used because of this).
2: Slash Uses cutting hit effects and the "boomerang" impending angle indicator. Assuming that this is what activates Slash stickers, this gives rather odd attacks the Slash property - such as Luigi's f-smash and Ray Gun blasts.
3: Electric Shocks the target, leaving them to spark for a bit. Causes Hotheads to grow and does jack to Yellow Pikmin. I'm pretty sure making an attack electric doesn't change the freeze frames, but it's hard to tell.
4: Freezing All ice attacks freeze the target; I believe the freeze time is based only on knockback taken. Hitting a frozen opponent with an ice attack won't increase or reset the freeze time.
5: Flame Aside from the normal effect, flame is by far the most common effect. Fire attacks will set opponents alight and instantly explode Blast Boxes, as well as thaw frozen enemies and deal 110% knockback to Ivysaur. Squirtle takes only 90% knockback from fire attacks, whereas Red Pikmin are completely immune. Also causes Hotheads to grow. Essentially all explosive attacks use the fire effect.
6: Coin Causes a coin to pop out of the opponent. Does not cause the coin noise, this is set seperately as above. This is what the Super Jump Punch (and a flubbed Fire Jump Punch) uses.
7: Reverse Turns the opponent around. Mario's Cape is the best example of this. Hacking this effect onto attacks that deal regular knockback will cause the target to take minimal fixed knockback (in the opposite direction due to the reverse), making the move impossible to KO with. I'm pretty sure this does not allow an attack to naturally reflect projectiles.
8: Slip This is not the same as having a trip chance of 100%. With a trip chance, the opponent must take little enough knockback that they remain on the ground. With this, the opponent is guarenteed to remain on the ground and trip. This applies even when hacked onto regular attacks - they'll still take all the sideways knockback, so they'll be sliding while tripping.
9: Sleep Opponents hit by a sleep attack will take no knockback, instead going to sleep. Hitting a sleeping opponent with a sleep attack will not increase or reset the duration. Only grounded opponents can go to sleep; I believe aerial opponents will take whatever knockback the move has.
11: Bury Has no extra effect on aerial opponents, but anyone on the ground will find themselves stuck in the dirt. Burying someone already embedded will not increase or reset the duration, although unlike other attacks they won't be sent flying. Hitting an airborne opponent with this does nothing special (normal knockback).
12: Stun This puts the target into their "I'm drunk" state as if their shield broke. Hitting them again won't increase or reset yadda yadda yadda.
14: Flower Poisons Plants a flower on the target's head, dealing damage constantly. Hitting them again will increase the flower's staying power up to a point.
17: Grass Squirtle takes 110% knockback from these attacks, while Charizard takes 90%. Otherwise, this effect doesn't do anything special. Uses Slash-like impact effects.
18: Water This causes Charizard to take 110% knockback while Ivysaur takes 90%. This also gives Blue Pikmin a relaxing, completely non-threatening bath. No effect otherwise. Uses Normal-like impact effects. I don't think this triggers Water stickers, seeing as some of Squirtle's attacks are Water-type but not Water-effect (they use water but don't have type effectiveness, maybe to force fixed knockback?).
19: Darkness Sets the opponent on purple fire. Ganondorf and Giga Bowser are the general culprits here, although White Pikmin use the effect as well (just for the visuals; they aren't immune to it).
20: Paralyze This effect makes the target shake in place for a while before taking any knockback. ZSS uses this a bit, as do some Final Smashes.
21: Aura If Lucario is the user, this effect will cause the attack to get stronger or weaker depending on his damage and place in the match. Otherwise, it'll do nothing but produce blue fire.
22: Plunge This is what Pitfalls do - normally it's identical to burying, but it will shove people downwards through soft platforms.
23: Down Hitting with this causes the opponent to immediately lie on their back like Snake's down throw (throws are not hitboxes but do have effects). Hitting in succession will keep the target down. Aerial opponents take minimal knockback in what appears to be the down-back direction, which makes me speculate that this is what actually causes the effect.
24: Flinchless This effect does damage but nothing else; the target will not flinch or get any freeze frames. Interestingly, while Training Mode will correctly report how much damage the hit did, it will not report on consecutive hits or total damage; they will be left unchaged from whatever the previous hit displayed.

You'll see that a few numbers are missing, namely 10, 13, 15, 16, and everything from 25 to 31. As far as I know these effects are undefined; an undefined effect has no hit effects but does deal normal damage and knockback.

SPECIAL HITBOXES
(double trouble)​

If you've done moveset stuff, you may have noticed that some hitboxes have two extra parameters. These are special hitboxes - they may have characteristics that most hitboxes don't need denoted (such as reflectability). The first parameter is the rehit rate (makes the hitbox hit repeatedly every X frames), while the second one is - an entirely new 32-bit set of flags.

Bit 1: Flinchless While I'm not 100% sold on this one, it looks like all attacks the deal knockback without flinching (FLUDD, Gale Boomerang, Inhale) have this on. Attacks that deal no knockback (like Fox's Blaster) don't use this bit, since if the knockback is 0/0 the target doesn't flinch anyway.

Bit 2: No idea. Sorry.

Bit 3: Freeze Frame Disable When set (as in equals 1), the hitbox does not produce any freeze frames. Don't know what the difference is between this bit being set and just giving the hitbox a freezeframe multiplier of 0.

Bit 4: Piercing? People say this will allow a hitbox to ignore invincibility frames. I have yet to confirm this myself.

Bit 5: Grippy I believe that having this bit set will prevent the hitbox's knockback from releasing the target from a grab or throw; this is based on the fact that all pummels and multihit throws, with the exception of Giga Bowser's and Jigglypuff's pummels, have it on.

Bits 6-7: These bits don't seem to be used.

Bit 8: Absorbability If this bit is 0, put away PSI Magnet and Oil Panic, because they're useless. But if it's 1, put up your energy shield and the hitbox will be absorbed.

Bit 9: Reflectability If this bit is 0, don't bother with your Capes and Reflectors. But if it's 1, return postage ahoy.

Bit 10: Shieldability This is normally 1 for obvious reasons. But if this bit is 0, your normally-reliable concentration bubble/egg will fail to save you. This will also make a move go through counters.

Bits 11-12: Seem to always be 0 (that is, unused).

Bits 13-26: Hit Bits These bits control what kind of targets the hitbox will be able to hit; things like special move grabs use this to produce "extra" hitboxes for use in the Subspace Emissary (as they don't otherwise work on enemies). Exactly what is what is sketchy right now, but the following are the plausible ones:

Bit 17: Damageable Floors
Bit 18: Damageable Walls
Bit 19: Damageable Ceilings
Bit 25: SSE Enemies
Bit 26: Smashers

Bit 27: Looks to be unused.

Bit 28: Stretchy When set, the hitbox will turn from a sphere into a tube, stretching from its position to the bone it's attached to. Basically, it starts at the bone with an offset of [0,0,0], it ends at the position it's specified at, and it also covers all the space in between.

Bit 27: Also looks to be unused.

Bits 30-32: Angle Flipping Normally, an attack will always send the target away from the attacker. However, these bits can change it up a bit, depending on what the value is:

0, 2, 5: Regular angles; the target is always sent away from the attacker.
1, 3: The target is always sent the direction the attacker is facing. Examples include Toon Link's f-smash (second hit) and the Knee.
4: The target is always sent the direction the attacker is not facing. So far, I've only seen this on the first hit of Peach's back throw, Sheik's bair, and Dedede's Inhale (but not Kirby's).
6, 7: Now THIS is a wacky one. A hitbox with this as an angle flipper will cause the target to face the screen. They will be unable to walk or run, but they can move through the air normally. They will be unable to use f-tilts, and using an air attack in either direction produces a fair. Special moves tend to act as if the character is facing right. Knockback taken by these hitboxes will have no horizontal component. Getting hit by something else, using an f-smash, or using a side special will end the strangeness.

EXAMPLE
(the fun part)​

So now you're armed with information. Now you just gotta put it into practice - how do you do that?

Say you want a hitbox to be an Hand/Flower attack that plays the Ping noise. You don't care about whether it clangs, and rebound is basically always 1 anyway, so you leave them as a "yes", and you want it to hit both aerial and grounded opponents. So, write it out:

Direct: Yes; Rebound: Yes, Clang: Yes; Type: Hand; Hits aerial: Yes; Hits grounded: Yes; Sound: Ping; Effect: Flower​

Now, convert into numbers. Remember that the Ping sound is Large Bat.

1; 1; 1; 4; 1; 1; 5; 2; 14​

Convert those numbers into binary. Remember that Type, Sound, and Effect are 5 bits long, while Sound Level is 2 - don't leave out the leading zeros.

1; 1; 1; 00100; 1; 1; 00101; 10; 01110​

Now you need to fit these bits into the correct spaces - the Rebound and Clang bits are bits 4 and 5, the Type bits are 6 to 10, and so on. Use 0s to fill in the space.

00 1 1 1 00100 0000 1 1 00 00101 0 10 0 01110​
00111001000000110000101010001110​

Finally, convert it into hex.

0011 1001 0000 0011 0000 1010 1000 1110​
3 9 0 3 0 A 8 E​

And there you have it, your flags are 39030A8E!

CLOSING
(teh edn)​

Now you know a few things about making your own flags, instead of just copying the ones already in the game. You ain't gonna find an Energy/Grass attack that makes a slapping noise in pre-existing code, are you? Would you even want that kind of hitbox? Well, if you did, you should be able to do it now.
 

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CONTRIBUTIONS
(them peeps who helped and what they did)​

AMKalmar: Wrote a little Flash called Flagger, which will do conversion from numbers to flags (for regular hitboxes).

Higure Hokousha: Wrote another program that converts things into flags for you, with more of a text-based interface (requires .net framework). Also does the known bits of special hitboxes; given that they're still mostly undocumented don't expect it to work completely.

Hozu: Tipped me off that there's a mystery flag out there that lets moves hit teammates regardless of Team Attack.

Muhznit: Let me know that special bit 4 is self-susceptibility.
 

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Wow! This is a lot of information (For someone like me to take in)
As confusing as that all looks... it actually is rather easy to follow...
Thanks for putting this up! :)
 

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There's an odd bit somewhere that allows attacks to hit teammates when Team Attack is off. B- Ike has it set on his smash attacks. That should fill in at least 1 of the unknown bits.
 

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I didn't know that was possible... Then again I never play with team attack off.

Is it possible that bits 1-4 are grouped 12, 3, 4?
 

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There's an odd bit somewhere that allows attacks to hit teammates when Team Attack is off. B- Ike has it set on his smash attacks. That should fill in at least 1 of the unknown bits.
Well, I went and looked at Puff Up and Galaxia Darkness (they both always hurt teammates). Their regular flags were ordinary, so I looked at the special ones. Galaxia Darkness didn't help at all (I didn't find the part that hurts bystanders with a quick look), but Puff Up has bits 4 and 6 on, whereas nothing else I've looked at so far does. It's probably one of those.
Is it possible that bits 1-4 are grouped 12, 3, 4?
It's possible, but it's just as likely that they're grouped 1,2,34, or 12,34, or even 1234. It's even possible that the first two bits are dead space.
 

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Ok, looking at the B- Ike .pac file, his attacks have a value of 1 for bits 13 and 14. However, he has these "Speciall Offensive Collision" lines with flags of 100000000000110000000000000000 (also 13th and 14th bit set) and those ones are responsible for being able to hurt teammates while Team Attack is off. I removed these lines from his Fsmash and I was unable to hurt my teammates, but his other attacks have the 13th and 14th bits set... wtf?
 

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Assuming stages/pokemon/assist trophies/bosses/sse characters use the same offensive collision event as playable characters, do you think there are sounds or events that are not used by regular characters? There's room for 256 sounds and you only have 33 listed. Have you done any testing regarding this or have you just been looking at existing collisions for playable characters?
 

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Assuming stages/pokemon/assist trophies/bosses/sse characters use the same offensive collision event as playable characters, do you think there are sounds or events that are not used by regular characters? There's room for 256 sounds and you only have 33 listed. Have you done any testing regarding this or have you just been looking at existing collisions for playable characters?
There's definately sounds, probably effects, and possibly types (unlikely) that are currently undiscovered simply because my current focus is on documenting characters. However, I have looked at various other things and found the following:

Items use the same hitbox system. Presumably, this means Assist Trophies and Pokémon do as well.

Stages have no reason to use a different hitbox system, although I've been unable to confirm this, and I think the community as a whole is having trouble finding stage hitboxes.

Subspace Emissary stuff is not looking good in terms of using the same system, although since BrawlBox is failing quite a lot when it comes to exporting files from such I may just be looking in the wrong place. It would make no sense to me as a game designer to have two systems for one game element.
 

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It turns out that the only stage in the entire game that has hitboxes you can easily edit is stgfamicom. Only because the crabs and turtles are grabbable items, they have ItmParams. Export their itmparam and view it OSA2. Edit the hitboxes with a hex editor and save it. Replace the itmparam in brawlbox and in game it completely works. :D
 

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Alright, so I used hacks to attach various sounds onto attacks so I could find out what some of the missing ones are. I did a bit (which I put into the list) and found that quite a lot of them are either null or duplicates (as far as I can tell). Some of the null ones may simply be unloaded (2 in particular, since it's part of a Final Smash), but that idea in general I don't find to make sense.
 

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How exactly does the flagger program work? I know it converts the normal numbers into the hex used for flags, but could I possibly use this to create a flag that, for example has two hit types, like fire/Electric?

Or would having the normal flag (the newly generated one) have the one hit type and changing the last two digits using the other method work?
 

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Okay, I'm trying to make a hit flag that's an energy type and has a darkness atribute and makes the frying pan sound when it connects lol but whenever I use it in game it comes out wrong. Either that or it freezes the game >_>

What about special offensive collisions, don't they have two places for flags?
 

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No. It's the amount of frames it waits before it refreshes.
When set to 0, it doesn't refresh.

For example, on My Guard Slayer Snake's C4 hitbox, I set it loop every 2 frames.

It terminates it's instance in about 7 frames, so it hits the target(s) 3 times for triple damage and increased knockback.

Yes, Guard Slayer Snake is meant to be broken.
 

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Hey, is there any problem with using a capitol letter in place of the lowercase letter if the flagger program provides a lower case letter in the hex/translated numbers?

For Example

3a820683

would work the same if I had it as 3A820683 in the psa?
 

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No. It's the amount of frames it waits before it refreshes.
When set to 0, it doesn't refresh.

For example, on My Guard Slayer Snake's C4 hitbox, I set it loop every 2 frames.

It terminates it's instance in about 7 frames, so it hits the target(s) 3 times for triple damage and increased knockback.

Yes, Guard Slayer Snake is meant to be broken.
Ah, right. I went off of memory. I was close though. :V
 

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Okay, I'm trying to make a hit flag that's an energy type and has a darkness atribute and makes the frying pan sound when it connects lol but whenever I use it in game it comes out wrong. Either that or it freezes the game >_>
Maybe it's freezing because the frying pan sound is only loaded if Peach is present; this however makes no sense from what I know about the file structures. As for the flags themselves, PSA uses uppercase, so I suggest you stick with that; even though technically it doesn't matter, the program might care. Also, what exactly is "coming out wrong"?
What about special offensive collisions, don't they have two places for flags?
Yes, but they do completely different things and cannot be used as a copy of the regular flags.
 

MetroidMaster1

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could anyone please tell me why using the 'ping' sound in a flag makes it freeze? >_> Also whenever I have both areal and grounded set to 1 the game always freezes when I select that character....
Could you maybe try to find these sounds with the flagger thing?

The Zap noise that ZSS's lazers make when they hit you (I'm not sure if it's a seperate sound or what)
Pikachu's thunderbolt/up B sound
 

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could anyone please tell me why using the 'ping' sound in a flag makes it freeze? >_> Also whenever I have both areal and grounded set to 1 the game always freezes when I select that character....
Could you maybe try to find these sounds with the flagger thing?

The Zap noise that ZSS's lazers make when they hit you (I'm not sure if it's a seperate sound or what)
Pikachu's thunderbolt/up B sound
Well I don't really know what your problem is. Sorry.

The Paralyzer's sound is out there somewhere. Those two Pikachu noises are likely part of Pikachu (they're not impact noises) and as such are probably not part of the flag system.

Also, I discovered that Pit's arrows have a so-far unique typing.
 

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I hate to double-post, but this is an incredibly strange discovery here.

When the Angle Flipping bits of a special hitbox are set to 6 or 7, characters hit will face the screen, unable to walk, run, f-tilt, bair, or hit most things (since their hitboxes are off the plane of play). Using an f-smash or side special fixes it.
 

MetroidMaster1

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Has anyone found a way to give an attack two types of flags yet?

Also how do I use refresh rate? I've tried using Decimal values but it doesn't do anything.
 

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Has anyone found a way to give an attack two types of flags yet?
This is a nonsensical question. Normal hitboxes have one set of flags while special ones have two (the first set plus an extra set). If you mean "Can we make an attack be both Flame and Darkness?", then the answer is "As much as you can jump across the English Channel".
Also how do I use refresh rate? I've tried using Decimal values but it doesn't do anything.
Technically that's offtopic, but I'll tell you anyway - refresh rate is an integer amount of frames. Trying to use decimal values winds you up having a refresh rate of like 38 digits which obviously won't work.
 

Higure Hokousha

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Made a program similar to Flagger for use with Special collisions. It supports both Normal and Special collisions, and also internally shows the flag value list. It requires the .Net framework. Just run the setup file and it will install. A shortcut will be added to your desktop.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3894dnv7cdvel7b

(Gltches Fixed: Download from my post below.)
 

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Made a program similar to Flagger for use with Special collisions. It supports both Normal and Special collisions, and also internally shows the flag value list. It requires the .Net framework. Just run the setup file and it will install. A shortcut will be added to your desktop.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3894dnv7cdvel7b

(There was a rather severe glitch I managed to miss. Special hitboxes don't work properly yet. It works perfectly otherwise. I will try to fix and reupload soon.)
this is pretty sweet other than the glitch! :joyful:
 

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Made a program similar to Flagger for use with Special collisions. It supports both Normal and Special collisions, and also internally shows the flag value list. It requires the .Net framework. Just run the setup file and it will install. A shortcut will be added to your desktop.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3894dnv7cdvel7b

(There was a rather severe glitch I managed to miss. Special hitboxes don't work properly yet. It works perfectly otherwise. I will try to fix and reupload soon.)
Cool.

Also, Bat is apparently a seperate type. That means Type 18 has to be something. Place your bets.
 

Higure Hokousha

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Okay, I believe all of the glitches are gone. A little explanation is in order, however.

Firstly,special hitbox flag digits 1, 2, 4-7, 27, 28, and 29 default to 0. Since these are not always zero (but are unknown), you will have to manually edit them in order to set them up.

Secondly, all of the unknown hit bits default to one. So you will have to manually edit these as well if you wish to change them.

Lastly, the edit button will disable the normal controls when it enables the binary text box for modification. If you press it after editing the binary by hand, then it will revert to the original value, so all manual edits must be finalized while the text box is enabled.

If more info becomes available, I will update the unknown digits. Enjoy.

http://www.mediafire.com/?e92t4p25bnj3uxv
 

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So now I find out that Pit's arrows aren't actually Light-type, they're actually Bow-type, as are most of Pit's attacks. But Link's (and Toon Link's) arrows are Weapon-type, not Bow-type.

I dunno, the further you get into this the less sense it makes. While at the same time other things make more sense (i.e. having Water as both a type and an effect lets you seperate attacks that are boosted from Water stickers from attacks that cause water-based type effectiveness).
 

rPSIvysaur

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Can you make the date in the form of Month/Day/Year instead of Day/Month/Year, please?
 

rPSIvysaur

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Yep, I was like December 1st... of 2011!?!
Most users on this site are American :p
 

MetroidMaster1

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Okay, I believe all of the glitches are gone. A little explanation is in order, however.

Firstly,special hitbox flag digits 1, 2, 4-7, 27, 28, and 29 default to 0. Since these are not always zero (but are unknown), you will have to manually edit them in order to set them up.

Secondly, all of the unknown hit bits default to one. So you will have to manually edit these as well if you wish to change them.

Lastly, the edit button will disable the normal controls when it enables the binary text box for modification. If you press it after editing the binary by hand, then it will revert to the original value, so all manual edits must be finalized while the text box is enabled.

If more info becomes available, I will update the unknown digits. Enjoy.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3894dnv7cdvel7b7
Hai just tried the new program and it works okay.
But I can't download the mediafire link in that post, it just takes me right to my mediafire user page =_=;
 
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