SetMaxHealth default value?

[heckmate]

I'm trying to make an object that, when eaten, temporarily makes you a giant, changing your size and max health, sanity, and hunger. Here's the function for that: 

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local function OnEaten(inst, eater)
    eater.Transform:SetScale(10, 10, 10)
    eater.components.health:SetMaxHealth(600)
    eater.components.hunger:SetMax(400)
    eater.components.sanity:SetMax(200)
    eater:DoTaskInTime(60, smallagain)
end

Above it I have another function called smallagain that returns you to your original size after 1 minute:

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local function smallagain(inst)
    inst.Transform:SetScale(1, 1, 1)
    inst.components.health:SetMaxHealth(?)
    inst.components.hunger:SetMax(?)
    inst.components.sanity:SetMax(?)
end 

So my question is, what's the value that should replace "?", since some characters have a dramatically different health than Wilson's default health  (like Maxwell and Wolfgang)? I wouldn't want the effect to wear off and these characters to end up with a health of 150.

Thanks in advance!

[YakumoYukari]

You want to make it get back to the character's default stats right?
Unfortunately, SetMaxSomething() method nor stats components don't have a feature to store the one's "Default Max Stat".
So you have to save the one's default status data when OnEaten calls.

 

local function OnEaten(inst, eater)
	inst.oldmaxstats = { inst.components.health.maxhealth, inst.components.hunger.max, inst.components.sanity.max }
    
    eater.Transform:SetScale(10, 10, 10)
    eater.components.health:SetMaxHealth(600)
    eater.components.hunger:SetMax(400)
    eater.components.sanity:SetMax(200)
    eater:DoTaskInTime(60, smallagain)
end

 

local function smallagain(inst)
  	local _old = inst.oldmaxstats
    inst.Transform:SetScale(1, 1, 1)
    inst.components.health:SetMaxHealth(_old[1])
    inst.components.hunger:SetMax(_old[2])
    inst.components.sanity:SetMax(_old[3])
end 

Kind of this code will work.
You can create and store some values and then attach it to the entity.
 

However, You have to consider more things if you want to make your food applies to all characters.
1) After being "Giant", the character's stats will be very low since you don't save the character's stats 'current percent'
2) Wolfgang's transformation or other scale-changeable characters will override your SetScale value. Use inst:ApplyScale() Instead.
3) Wickerbottom has 250 max sanity by default. Her sanity will be reduced if transform. I'd recommend to SetMax on OnEaten like

eater.components.sanity:SetMax(math.max(inst.oldmaxstats[3], 200))

4) If you go to the cave or disconnect during the effect will simply vanish some data as well as the effect itself. I think you have to use net_var and store its duration instead.
5) Setting the scale to (10, 10, 10) means your entity's moving speed will be x10 as well which will let it easily go through land borders.

Edited April 4, 2019 by YakumoYukari

[heckmate]

hi, thank you very much for your reply! 

so I replaced the smallagain and OnEaten functions to include the oldmaxstats string, but whenever I try eating the item, it crashes the game and returns this error: 

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 (line 23 is inst.oldmaxstats = { inst.components.health.MaxHealth, inst.components.hunger.max, inst.components.sanity.max })

And thanks for your advice about the sanity; I believe my workaround for that will be to simply make the Max sanity much higher than the default's (so 400 instead of 200, basically). I'll also try to change the scaling to ApplyScale instead.

I don't think I'll be able to troubleshoot the caves thing, unfortunately. I'm extremely new at coding; the absolute extent of it comes from simply looking at the game files and other people's mods, and I wouldn't even know where to begin to do that. 

thanks again for your help though! 

[YakumoYukari]

Oh all the inst.oldmax thingies should be eater instead

Except for the one in smallagain

Edited January 19, 2019 by YakumoYukari