need help

[chaosdc123]

So im trying to make it so a "pet" says something when its low on hp and this is what im trying

 

if inst.components.health.currenthealth < 0.9 then
inst.components.talker:Say("O0of my BonES!")
end

 

but sadly nothing is happening

Edited February 27, 2019 by chaosdc123

[Ultroman]

That code alone won't do anything. You need to be listening to an event pushed by its health-component when its health changes. Put something like this in the initialization function of the pet prefab (usually called fn or master_postinit):

inst:ListenForEvent("healthdelta", function(inst, data)
	-- You can now access both the old percentage (before the change) and the new percentage (after the change),
	-- using the data in the data-parameter, respectively data.oldpercent and data.newpercent
	if data.oldpercent > data.newpercent then
		-- The pet was hurt, not healed, since oldpercent was higher than the new percentage...
		if data.newpercent < 0.9 then
			inst.components.talker:Say("O0of my BonES! Only "..inst.components.health.currenthealth.." HP left!")
		end
	end
end)

You might not want it to say the line every time its health goes down while it's below your threshold, so to combat that you need some kind of system to determine how often it says that. I have not included that in the example code above. If the pet is burning or something else is dealing damage to it over time, the pet will say this line every time the damage ticks in. But who knows? It might not be a problem. Try it out.

Note: Your current percentage is set to 0.9 (90%), which I'm guessing is just for testing purposes. A better value for when it's low on health would probably be 0.3 (30%) or lower.

Edited April 22, 2019 by Ultroman