Item respawn in co-op

Here's a simple Lua script to bring back ring, coin and monitor respawn in Co-op.

It adds two commands:
"respawnitemcoop" <boolean> lets you turn item respawn in coop on or off.
"respawnitemcooptime" <integer> lets you choose the desired respawn time (when collecting rings/coins, remember that respawn time starts after the sparkles disappear).

The script is pretty heavy, so it will probably cause lag on larger levels with a lot of rings and/or monitors, such as AGZ.

EDIT:Reverted to a simpler check that, while allowing some rings to not respawn under certain extreme conditions, keeps the game actually playable in mid-sized levels.


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[HellHawkX]

I don't get why this was removed in the first place.
One thing I noticed is that Mario coins don't respawn, you should add that in, and maybe the weapons as well.

[gregory_house]

It should work with Mario coins too, now. Also, a couple gifs have been added.
As for weapons, if you mean weapon panels/ammo, that's not really a feature I'm interested in as I never find myself using ringslinger in co-op, but anyone is free to add that.

[Burning-Fox]

Why WAS this removed. Glad to see this exists.

[NotablyPrettyCrazy]

Because, chances are, if everything respawned the same way as in the lua, Lag would happen more often.

[Burning-Fox]

Hopefully it's brought back officially in 2.2. I hate how it's gone, it's unnecessary. Cheats, I can somewhat understand, but even then not so much because it's an optional feature that's off by default. But item respawn? That's almost necessary. It's impossible to beat the Mystic Realm Zone online if you're behind even one person without item respawn.

[MetalKnux101]

There was a lot of things removed in 2.1 that I don't get. Auto-aim was removed too.

[golteam]

Actually, Alyssa got this Lua script in the first place.

[gregory_house]

Uh, that is me.

[golteam]

Apparently, this doesn't seem to work when Version 2.1.15 had released.

[gregory_house]

Thanks, should be back in its sorta working order now.

[Petit The Hedge]

Gregory, y'know, this sure helps a lot, specially in maps like ERZ or AGZ but....... you could make the respawn time have a limit, since i discovered that 2000 rings respawning in the same second causes 2 FPS in my notebook. .-.

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Originally Posted by Petit The Hedge

Gregory, y'know, this sure helps a lot, specially in maps like ERZ or AGZ but....... you could make the respawn time have a limit, since i discovered that 2000 rings respawning in the same second causes 2 FPS in my notebook. .-.

Oh by the way, my notebook is not the best, but i normally play in OGL with Jeck's MD2s and i get 20-32 FPS .-.

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Originally Posted by Burning-Fox

Hopefully it's brought back officially in 2.2. I hate how it's gone, it's unnecessary. Cheats, I can somewhat understand, but even then not so much because it's an optional feature that's off by default. But item respawn? That's almost necessary. It's impossible to beat the Mystic Realm Zone online if you're behind even one person without item respawn.

Uhh buddy, is there a Mystic Realm Zone in SRB2?

'cause i dont remember that. Also, didn't you mean Aerial Garden Zone? Or something like that?

[ThunderFlame]

Originally Posted by Petit The Hedge

Gregory, y'know, this sure helps a lot, specially in maps like ERZ or AGZ but....... you could make the respawn time have a limit, since i discovered that 2000 rings respawning in the same second causes 2 FPS in my notebook. .-.

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Oh by the way, my notebook is not the best, but i normally play in OGL with Jeck's MD2s and i get 20-32 FPS .-.

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Uhh buddy, is there a Mystic Realm Zone in SRB2?

'cause i dont remember that. Also, didn't you mean Aerial Garden Zone? Or something like that?

He’s referring to the final zone in Mystic Realm where the player turns into Super Sonic and must rush to the Eggman boss while still maintaining super form by grabbing rings. It’s basically like the Doomsday Zone from Sonic 3&K.

Since the rings don’t respawn in co-op, it becomes a race against death to even attempt to get a hit in on Eggman. I eventually said screw it and gave everyone 20 starting lives and reluctantly restarted the level so we could beat the level by simply getting a hit in and dying.