[solved] Teleportation at low sanity

[Birdskull]

I'm at a complete loss for how to achieve this one.

Without tying the trait to an item, I want the character I'm currently working on to teleport randomly once their sanity drops super low.

I've been futzing around with the telelocator staff's code, but I don't know how to apply the action directly onto a character... Is this even possible, and if it is does anyone know what the best way to go about this might be?

Thanks in advance.

Edited April 27, 2019 by Birdskull

[Ultroman]

Take a look at the mod RPG Items (not my version). It has an armor proc which teleports the player randomly within a certain radius, if that's what you want. I think he even checks if the placement is valid (not in the sea or blocked or something like that).

For reacting to when the sanity drops low, listen for the "sanitydelta" event on the player, and react when it goes below a certain percentage or flat number, by starting a periodic task which teleports the player randomly. When the "sanitydelta" event reports that the sanity is above the threshold again, you stop the task. Here's how you can work with periodic tasks:

local function DoTeleportation(inst)
	-- Teleportation code
end

local function StartTeleporting(inst)
	if inst.TeleportTask then return end
	-- Call the given function, DoTeleportation, every 8 seconds.
	-- The 0 indicates the initial delay, and in this case you'd probably want it to do
	-- a teleportation immediately, and so we give it an initial delay of 0.
	inst.TeleportTask = inst:DoPeriodicTask(8,
		function(inst)
			DoTeleportation(inst)
		end,
		0)
end

local function StopTeleporting(inst)
	if inst.TeleportTask then
		inst.TeleportTask:Cancel()
		inst.TeleportTask = nil
	end
end

 

Edited February 25, 2019 by Ultroman

[Birdskull]

omg that's exactly what I needed! Thank you so much!!

[Ultroman]

You're very welcome!  I made a change, adding a 0 for the initialDelay parameter to make it call DoTeleportation() immediately, but I forgot to remove the manual call I had to DoTeleportation() before I did that. This means that the code called DoTeleportation() twice the first time. I edited the code in the snippet in my last post to fix this. Take a look.

Also,

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That's all you really need. Then everything else will follow

Edited February 25, 2019 by Ultroman

[Birdskull]

Oops, I didn't even catch that. Fixed! Thanks again~

31 minutes ago, Ultroman said:

That's all you really need. Then everything else will follow

Hoping so!