yeah maybe we'll have to use a combination of custom buttons cause Nextwpn and Prevwpn is needed in some other addons like BuddyEX where you have to press nwpn and pwpn to switch. Seven shoes per emerald? how many shoes was there in Sonic X? using numeric keypad would be problematic for mobile users that wants to play it too
But i think we should try making a menu instead, like pressing custom1 and 2 will make a menu appear which is the shoe selector, using the directional buttons will navigate you on what shoes are available/unlocked and using the jump button will accept it, spin is for decline and turning off the menu
(Another) but what would even the shoes do if they have no abilities? cosmetics? design? and besides it will just literally add more work for BlueBlur to resprite and code, it will make the character file fatter. He'll need to resprite every single sprite of regular sonic with different shoes which means more delay
please remember that respriting every frame is hard and i know that since i animate in adobe and tried to make cosmetics for a test game i worked on, it literally took me a week just to finish one shoe resprite for every frame that contains the regular one
BlueBlur obviously has a life of his own outside in the MB which means he can't just waste his time over the addon, he'll have to take constant breaks sometimes to not let the addon die and just be remembered as a disappointing cancels since I know a lot of people like X-Sonic to be in SRB2 (mainly my friend group but obviously there is more of them that i don't know, SonicX is literally a classic for adult to younger Sonic fans), We all don't like dogwater addons since it just doesn't feel the same vibe we used to on whatever character it is so please don't put a lot of ideas, Adventure Sonic had a lot of stuff packed onto it since GoldenShine took his time working on it, BlueBlur then needs time since he (i think) has only a decent amount of coding knowledge while Shine has (arguably) the best coding knowledge in SRB2 based on what i've seen in SMS, SA-Sonic, Metroid and other stuff he was part on
BlueBlur please don't let this addon die out and take your time
Anyway thats the end of my long ted talk