Need Help with Custom Hunger Values from Food for Character

[ViewtifulDom]

I'm creating a character with the following perk:

 

*Eats a lot, but not often.

 

For this, I have doubled the characters max hunger and decreased the hunger rate by 25%.  To compensate, I want him to receive 25% less hunger from anything he eats.  I've tried the following ways to accomplish this:

• The 'oneat' function (doesn't affect the actual eating, just fires when performed)
  
• Editing the GetHunger function (affected all characters despite the clause) see: http://forums.kleien...etables-values/
  
• Editing the 'Eat' function.  I'm not sure how sensible that was in the first place.
  

Looking for advice or tutelage on the subject.  More information can be provided if necessary.  Thank you!

 

- Dominic

[Seiai]

@ViewtifulDom,

the eatercomponent pushes this when u eat something:

self.inst:PushEvent("oneat", {food = food})

so u can just add a listener to your character, read out the eating value of the fooditem, which is passed along with the event, and just reduce your hunger by a fraction of it. Edited May 28, 2015 by Seiai

[DarkXero]

Modifying GetHunger should have worked.

I imagine you replaced GetPlayer with ThePlayer, or left it alone, as despite being deprecated, it works.

 

Since the code runs in the server, ThePlayer is always the host.

So in your case, either everybody would have the hunger modification, or nobody would, depending on the host.

 

The correct edible modification:

-- in modmainAddComponentPostInit("edible", function(self)	local old = self.GetHunger	self.GetHunger = function(self, eater)		return old(self, eater) * ((eater.prefab == "wilson" and 0.75) or 1)	endend)

The Seiai's approach:

-- in master_postinit of character's prefabinst:ListenForEvent("oneat", function(src, data)	src.components.hunger:DoDelta(-0.25 * data.food.components.edible:GetHunger(src), true)end)

[ViewtifulDom]

@DarkXero

 

Months of frustration, and it was six simple lines.  Thanks, man.  On to the last lingering touches, and I've got myself a mod.

[ViewtifulDom]

@DarkXero

 

Hey, so I've encountered an error in this code afterall:

AddComponentPostInit("edible", function(self)    local old = self.GetHunger    self.GetHunger = function(self, eater)        return old(self, eater) * ((eater.prefab == "domo" and .75) or 1)    endend)

It seems to work properly with all the characters, Domo takes less hunger from food and Wilson does not, but as soon as you try to feed something to a pig, it breaks down.

[00:00:53]: [string "../mods/domo/modmain.lua"]:9: attempt to index local 'eater' (a nil value)LUA ERROR stack traceback:    ../mods/domo/modmain.lua:9 in (method) GetHunger (Lua) <8-10>    scripts/prefabs/pigman.lua:65 in (field) onaccept (Lua) <55-86>    scripts/components/trader.lua:113 in (method) AcceptGift (Lua) <90-125>    scripts/actions.lua:732 in (field) fn (Lua) <726-735>    scripts/bufferedaction.lua:23 in (method) Do (Lua) <19-33>    scripts/entityscript.lua:1199 in (method) PerformBufferedAction (Lua) <1191-1209>    scripts/stategraphs/SGwilson.lua:2971 in (field) fn (Lua) <2970-2972>    scripts/stategraph.lua:562 in (method) UpdateState (Lua) <530-574>    scripts/stategraph.lua:601 in (method) Update (Lua) <593-621>    scripts/stategraph.lua:123 in (method) Update (Lua) <107-146>    scripts/update.lua:205 in () ? (Lua) <146-219>

It's apparently losing track of the eater component at some point, but I can't figure out why or where.  Any idea why it's getting hung up?

[DarkXero]

@ViewtifulDom, because

item.components.edible:GetHunger()

in line 65. eater is nil when the pig calls it.

AddComponentPostInit("edible", function(self)    local old = self.GetHunger    self.GetHunger = function(self, eater)        return old(self, eater) * ((eater and eater.prefab == "domo" and .75) or 1)    endend)

[ViewtifulDom]

@DarkXero

 

I see what you mean.  I need to find a way to retrieve the eater without requiring it to be passed to the function.  Can you suggest anything?

Edited October 15, 2015 by ViewtifulDom

[DarkXero]

I see what you mean. I need to find a way to retrieve the eater without requiring it to be passed to the function. Can you suggest anything?

 

I suggested

AddComponentPostInit("edible", function(self)    local old = self.GetHunger    self.GetHunger = function(self, eater)        return old(self, eater) * ((eater and eater.prefab == "domo" and .75) or 1)    endend)

If eater is nil, then

eater and eater.prefab == "domo" and .75

gets evaluated to nil, therefore

nil or 1

gets evaluated to 1.

 

Thus, no more crashes.

[ViewtifulDom]

@DarkXero

 

I'm not sure why that part got lost, but you're right, that fixed it up nice.  Thank you very much!