Omit hunger announcement?

[RevelHalcyon]

I'd like my character to not announce when she's hungry as part of her downsides, but not be entirely mute like Wes.

I've tried searching for ANNOUNCE_HUNGRY to try and locate the call to it, but from what I can tell it's tied to some generic character class.

Commenting out the ANNOUNCE_HUNGRY line in her speech file or replacing it with nil just calls Wilson's instead, and leaving the line as "" still causes her to make a sound and flap her lips.

It's very probable that I just don't know what I'm looking for in order to get this functionality I'm after, so any help would be appreciated.

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the announcement for being hungry I believe is in the wisecracker component

I think what you should do is copypaste the wisecracker component and rename it to your own thing like "wisecracker_mychar" then in the component just get rid of the listenforevent/code which makes the player announce they are hungry then in yourchar.lua remove the old wisecracker component and add the new one you made

[RevelHalcyon]

Ah alright then, that sounds like solid reasoning. I'll give that a shot.

[RevelHalcyon]

Well, it seems that didn't work.
For clarity; I did as you suggested and added in a copy of wisecracker into my mod's scripts/components folder, renamed it (and the self references inside to match), commented out the hungry listener.

Then, within my character.lua's master_postinit I did:

inst:RemoveComponent("wisecracker")

inst:AddComponent("wisecracker_mychar")

 

It seemed not to work immediately (character still announces she's hungry) so I did a quick test, and within my version of wisecracker I changed ANNOUNCE_HUNGRY to ANNOUNCE_BEES. This did indeed make her scream about bees when she's hungry, so I know she's looking at the right version of wisecracker. However if I remove the hungry listener it just reverts to the default announcement rather than removing it all together.

[CarlZalph]

Removing the old component won't make the event listener it creates vanish.

This is one of those components that was created a long time ago without the foresight of components being able to be removed.

[RevelHalcyon]

I see. So there isn't a way to override it?

EDIT:

So I figured out a solution, I'll post it here for the sake of anyone else who may search for this topic;

I removed my custom wisecracker_mychar and replaced it with just a plain old copy of wisecracker (still not really used to the idea of being able to include official files and have the game take them over the basegame)

and I just wrapped the hunger listener in an additional if statement that checks to see if the instance doesn't have my character tag on it first.

    inst:ListenForEvent("hungerdelta",
        function(inst, data)
            if not inst:HasTag("mycharactertag") then
                if data.newpercent <= TUNING.HUNGRY_THRESH and data.oldpercent > TUNING.HUNGRY_THRESH then
                inst.components.talker:Say(GetString(inst, "ANNOUNCE_HUNGRY"))
                end
            end
        end)

Edited June 18, 2019 by RevelHalcyon