Checking for current season

[DampArsonist]

Hello, this is my first time modding for Don't Starve and I'm trying to add an effect to my character's movement speed based on the season. I have looked around and found other modders' success, but I can't seem to understand what I am doing wrong. I have taken to figuring it out by looking through code of other characters that people have made, more specifically a character named Wurbert, a snow man made by "The Tiddler" on the steam workshop.

 

They have used an if statement like this to detect winter and summer:

if GetSeasonManager():IsWinter() then...

elseif GetSeasonManager():IsSummer() then...

And so I used it for my own: (note: it is in  a "local fn = function(inst)"  and the numbers are exaggerated for testing purposes)

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if GetSeasonManager():IsWinter() then
      inst.components.locomotor.walkspeed = (TUNING.WILSON_WALK_SPEED * 3)
      inst.components.locomotor.runspeed = (TUNING.WILSON_RUN_SPEED * 3)

elseif GetSeasonManager():IsSummer() then
      inst.components.locomotor.walkspeed = (TUNING.WILSON_WALK_SPEED 0.5)
      inst.components.locomotor.runspeed = (TUNING.WILSON_RUN_SPEED * 0.5)

else
      inst.components.locomotor.walkspeed = (TUNING.WILSON_WALK_SPEED)
      inst.components.locomotor.runspeed = (TUNING.WILSON_RUN_SPEED)

end

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But the code keeps on crashing Don't Starve when I enable the mod.

Can anyone help?

It is also my first time with lua codding.

Thanks.

[Ultroman]

First of all, it sounds like you need an introduction to DS/DSTmodding. This post should answer most of the starter questions and help you get truckin'.

Second, we can't really help without the log files, so follow the guide in the post I just linked, to find your log files, and attach them to a reply by dragging the files onto your reply. Also please include a zip of your mod, so we can see what you're doing.

It's good to note that you're modding for Don't Starve and not Don't Starve Together, since in DST it'd be really bad to change the tuning variables, since it would affect everyone. However, even in DS, it's a good idea to search the game files for the tuning-variable you're about to change, because it MIGHT be used for something other than the player character. I don't think that's the case for run- and walk-speed, but maybe the pigmen have their movement speed set by using the same variable, and that wouldn't be good  There are tips for how to do this ("Find in files" in Notepad++) in the post I linked, as well.

Edited February 13, 2019 by Ultroman

[DampArsonist]

Thanks you!

I didn't how the game debugged until now! I got it working, thanks!