Why doesn't this work ...

[shanharlmal]

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local function oneat(inst, food) --poop fun stuff
       
      if food.name == "nitre"
       then    
        SpawnPrefab("gunpowder").Transform:SetPosition(inst:GetPosition():Get())
         
      end
     end

 

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I would like only to have my character poop certain things when he eats a certain thing, not a whole foodtype.

Honestly can't even test what is wrong because nothing happens. Not sure what is used for the eat event trigger. Also tried to make nitre its own foodtype and use the pigman.lua  VEGGIES poop code but nothing. 

 

I am putting this in my prefab.lua not main.   yes?

 

 

 

[Mobbstar]

lol, you need not create a new foodtype.

 

1. In the main function of your prefab (usually called "fn"), you want to make sure there's:

inst.components.eater.oneatfn = oneat

 

2. It's food.prefab, not food.name

[shanharlmal]

lol, you need not create a new foodtype.

 

1. In the main function of your prefab (usually called "fn"), you want to make sure there's:

inst.components.eater.oneatfn = oneat

 

2. It's food.prefab, not food.name

 

Well it crashes now so thats neat.  Least something is happening...

 

I added the inst.components.eater.oneatfn = oneat within the local fn  in main.  Before my oneat function.

[Mobbstar]

Well it crashes now so thats neat.  Least something is happening...

 

I added the inst.components.eater.oneatfn = oneat within the local fn  in main.  Before my oneat function.

 

You mean something like the following?

inst.components.eater.oneatfn = oneat

 

local function oneat(inst, food) --poop fun stuff

 

Because that is the wrong way around. Lua reads top-to-bottom, and things need to be made before they're assigned. It is correct like the following:

 

local function oneat(inst, food) --poop fun stuff

--[...]

end

inst.components.eater.oneatfn = oneat