Is there a simple code for walkspeed increase in total darkness?

[Goregonzola]

I've succesfully made my custom character immune to Charlie, the next step would be to make him faster in total darkness.

Is there a simple code for it I could use?

Edited October 8, 2020 by BillTheCipher

[penguin0616]

You can use the function CanEntitySeeTarget to see if you can see yourself in the darkness (how most things usually do it I think).

If yes, give them speed.

if no, remove speed if its there.

Giving/removing speed modifiers is tricky, since it changes based on what version of the game you are running (base, rog, sw, hamlet).

[Yakuzashi]

Hi
@BillTheCipher

At the first glance this might work, but I haven't ran the complex test. You need to copy and paste everything under "master_postinit".

 

local function lanuit(inst)
	if TheWorld.state.isnight then 
		inst.components.locomotor:SetExternalSpeedMultiplier(inst, "ilya_speed_mod", 5)
	else
		inst.components.locomotor:SetExternalSpeedMultiplier(inst, "ilya_speed_mod", 1.25)		
	end
end	
	
	inst:DoPeriodicTask(30, lanuit, nil, inst)

You need to replace "YOURCHARACTER'SNAME_speed_mod" to something like "billy_speed_mod" or whatever your character name is.
Value of "5" is the night speed and the other one (1.25) is the default speed of your characer.

Your mod will check time every 30 seconds thus "inst:DoPeriodicTask(30...". And that means your character might be running on high octane fuel till the next morning.

Cheers!
 

[penguin0616]

@Yakuzashi :SetExternalSpeedMultiplier does not exist in any version of Don't Starve, only DST.

[Yakuzashi]

@penguin0616 My bad. I haven't realized that's DS mod forum.

Anyway, I think he has abandoned this topic so I won't waste time here.
Cheers!

[Goregonzola]

@Yakuzashi

Thanks for the tip, I'll try it out

Modding fell out of my schedule in the past weeks.