Config: Caretaker

A robotic NPC that can be talked to. It can also quest the player for some specific task and make a Power Star appear using event flows. In order to spawn the Power Star, a properly configured Scenario entry as well as a dialogue with flow nodes need to be set up.

Arguments

Name	Type	Games	Required?	Description	Values
Obj_arg0	Integer	Both	False	Event Type: The special event behavior to be used. Value 2 is broken as he does not carry the actual tool.	-1: Nothing 0: Bomb/Fire Flower challenge 1: Spawn Power Star 2: Spawn Power Star with tool animation
Obj_arg1	Integer	Both	False	Mini-game Timer for Mario: How much time the player has during a mini-game. Default is 30. In SMG1, this is only used when playing as Mario.
Obj_arg2	Integer	SMG1	False	Mini-game Timer for Luigi: How much time the player has during a mini-game when playing as Luigi. Default is 30.
Obj_arg3	Integer	Both	False	Color Frame: The color frame to be used.	-1: Green 1: Red 2: Blue 3: Yellow
Obj_arg4	Integer	Both	False	Behavior: How it behaves when talking to it.	-1: Normal 1: Sad, hands and gear move slowly 2: Head spins around 3: Surprised 4: Bouncing gear 5: Panicking 6: Panicking & damaged

Switches

Name	Games	Required?	Description
SW_APPEAR	Both	False	Appears when this switch is activated.
SW_A	Both	False	If activated, the player wins the mini-game after the timer runs out.
SW_B	Both	False	Gets activated when the mini-game was failed.
SW_AWAKE	Both	False	Enables rendering and resumes updates when this switch is active.

Talking

Name	Games	Required?	Description	Values
Message	Both	False	The text dialogue's label format is Caretaker%03d, where %03d is the text message ID.
EventFunc	SMG2	False	Object-specific behavior for EventFunc event flow nodes.	0: Spawn Power Star 1: Kill player 2: Replace number variable with Purple Coin count 3: Reset scene 4: Replace number variable with high score
AnimeFunc	SMG2	False	Object-specific behavior for AnimeFunc event flow nodes. This can be used only if Obj_arg0 is set to 0!	0: Start "TalkNormal" animation 1: Start "TalkAngry" animation 2: Start "TalkCry" animation
BranchFunc	SMG2	False	Object-specific behavior for BranchFunc branch flow nodes. If Obj_arg0 is set to 0, only function 0 can be used!	0: Has 0 Purple Coins? (Obj_arg0 is not 0) / SW_A activated? (Obj_arg0 is 0) 1: Has 1 to 49 Purple Coins? 2: Has 50 to 79 Purple Coins? 3: Has 80 to 89 Purple Coins? 4: Has 90 to 94 Purple Coins? 5: Has 95 to 100 Purple Coins? 6: Has 100 Purple Coins?

Setup

Name	Games	Required?	Description
Rail	Both	False	The optional path that it can move on.
Group	Both	False	Used to group several trash piles for use with the bomb mini-game.
AppearPowerStar	Both	False	Gets spawned after triggering a special message flow.
Camera	Both	False	Registered but never used.
MarioFaceShipNpcRegister	SMG2	False	Can be registered to a Starship Mario object appearance event.

Properties

Name	Games	Description
YoshiTargetable	SMG2	Can be targeted and licked by Yoshi.