target of a tool

[whismerhill]

hi,

I'm trying to build a mod that will add new "interesting" tools, that the player will want to spend precious resources on, but they will also have detrimental effects that can be mitigated given the right conditions, or that you might even be able to use to "work for you" !!!

Anyways, I'm currently trying to find a way to acquire the target of a tool

for example there will be red gem based tools, so the target might catch fire (hence why I need the target inside the tool prefab), at first I thought it would be simple since , components.weapon.onattack function has parameters : self, owner & target , but finiteuse.onusedasitem doesn't...

do I need to use TheSim:FindEntities ? even then,  if entities (such as saplings) are tightly packed together, I'm not sure it will return the right one in my opinion...

edit: forgot to precise I also thought of using inst:ListenForEvent("FinishedWork",ToolWorkFinished(inst, data)) which has the same problem, it's attached to the tool prefab... so don't know what's the target of the tool ...

[whismerhill]

found something in workable.lua

    worker:PushEvent("working", {target = self.inst})
    self.inst:PushEvent("worked", {worker = worker, workleft = self.workleft})
...
worker:PushEvent("finishedwork", {target = self.inst, action = self.action})

I wonder if I can " ListenForEvent " inside " onusedasitem " function. I'll have to try it out I suppose ^^

[whismerhill]

on another note : I can't find back the wiki that had some information on DS modding....

[whismerhill]

Spoiler

		inst:AddComponent("finiteuses")
		inst.components.finiteuses:SetMaxUses(data.uses)
		inst.components.finiteuses:SetUses(data.uses)
		inst.components.finiteuses:SetOnFinished( onfinished)
		inst.components.finiteuses:SetConsumption(data.action, 1)

			inst.components.weapon.onattack = onattackred
			inst.components.finiteuses.onusedasitem = onusedasitemredaxe
			STRINGS.CHARACTERS.GENERIC.DESCRIBE.REDAXE = {	
				"I don't think it will set the trees on fire, will it?", 
				"So shiny...",
				"It's really warm...",
			}

	local function onusedasitemredaxe(self, action)
		print("whis_onusedasitemredaxe")
		local owner, dat
		--local tempfunc
		self.ListenForEvent("working", function(owner,dat) print("whis_listen") return owner,dat end )
		local objectworkedon = dat.target
		if owner.components.temperature then	-- player overheats
			owner.components.temperature:DoDelta(0.1)
			print("whis_overheat")
		end
		local rng = math.random()*100 -- the chance will be for each single hit !!!
		if  rng < 100 and objectworkedon.components.burnable and not objectworkedon.components.burnable:IsBurning() then 
			print("whis_burnable")
			if objectworkedon.components.freezable and objectworkedon.components.freezable:IsFrozen() then           
				objectworkedon.components.freezable:Unfreeze()            
			elseif objectworkedon.components.burnable:IsSmoldering() then
				objectworkedon.components.burnable:Ignite(true)
			else
				prin("whis_startwildfire")
				objectworkedon.components.burnable:StartWildfire()
			end
		end
	end

 

here's my first try: it doesn't do anything. I'm probably missing something obvious.

scratch that, the whole function is not fired, no wonder it's not working lol

added the code that generates onusedasitem. I tested out that the redaxe item description works, which means this part of the code is fired up. so I don't get why when using the redaxe to cut trees, when using "prints", none appear in console....