I get the concept here, but I'm clueless on calculating the necessary offset.  I can make this work for one specific state against one specific opponent, but I'm totally lost on how to do this against any opponent, in any anim.

Hmm... I understand!  I'll give this a shot when I get home from work.  Thanks man, I'd never think of this.

Mind = Blown. 

I know not to try setting/changing vars within a custom state, but I've been racking my brain, and searching high and low on Google, on how the hell to read P1's vars from within a custom state.  This is awesome information right here.

I have a custom get-hit anim for P2 using that sprite   But the issue is that the animation jumps depending on where P2's axis orientation is when touching the light.

I'm hoping to have the animation behave as I envision, with P2 freezing immediately when he touches the light, whether standing, crouching, in mid-air or whatever, then flying directly into the center of Jailbot's face.  I have a basic understanding of throw mechanics, but I'm not keen on changing the axis orientation smoothly between frames (or in this case, States)

When the attack hits the opponent, make the screen flash white

Nobody will notice the sudden jump in anims

Scale = (20.0/Const(size.height)*1.0),(20.0/Const(size.height)*1.0)

**EDIT** Is there any way to set this calculation as a var, and have it recognized by P2 in the custom state?  I've tried all the redirections I can think of without success, and can't find anything about it through Google

fall.envshake.time = 0 ; To disable the fall.envshake entirely.
fall.envshake.freq = (20.0/enemynear(0),Const(size.height)*1.0)

scale = GetHitVar(fall.envshake.freq)

wait i know what needs more priority than what all of you said

ELECBYTE COMING BACK.

Sorry, I deleted that post because I figured it didn't add that much of interest.
(but don't let that stop you from responding anyway)

That'd be true if we actually had a say in Mugen's evolution. We don't. We can post on elecbyte's forum, but if there's something that really can't be done right now AND Elecbyte just won't fix it because reasons, you're still shit out of luck in spite of any ideals of a perfect world.
The only thing we can discuss is community standards, but history shows that there simply isn't enough people who follow them for it to make any sort of difference, even on forums with an active community that actually bothers to try and set up some new standards. So in practice, the best you can hope to do is a full game for yourself where you're the one who can make sure everything works the way you want it. ... That also almost never happens (proportionally speaking).

mugen is a hammer, and it's lacking the little bit on the back that is used to take nails out. someguys use mugen as a paper weight and it being a hamemr it works, other guys use it as a screwdriver which requires a lot of work, but hey, more power to them, and some guys get pissed off because when they want to use it as a proper hammer to take some nails out, it's lacking the bit and they have to do a lot of extra work.

Hard work pays off. I have ridiculously complex chars waiting to be tested & assure you there's no limit to what MUGEN "allows". I'm also getting disrespectful comments from people who appear to have been doing this for a while but are clearly limited artistically & mentally. ill try to push MUGEN forward through my little website. at least this way i wont have to worry about strangers attacking my opinions. you all have an idea of what ill be releasing from my previous post & I appreciate the awesome advice. use this discussion to build each other.peace

ps: forgot about Electr0 stages,he's the shit.hahaha

I once created a double sided K' for mugen. Custom states fucked me over even in a fullgame environment with stuff that range from animations taking the wrong "animation side" during the first element of an animation all the way to both hitdef enemy facing and changestate facing parameters fucking the entire animation for no reason because MUGEN.

...Never again I said and ditched the entire thing and reused the second side sprites for his EX mode

environmental hazards has to be possible but I haven't seen it yet