New starting items do not appear

[ElMilojita]

Hi guys I am trying to add the idols as starting items for woodie, but it doesn't work, it does not show up as images either when picking the character. I think it has something to do with inventory gamemode? I inserted the whole woodie lua.

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local start_inv =
{
    default =
    {
        "lucy",
        "wereitem_beaver",
		"wereitem_goose",
		"wereitem_moose",				  			   
    },
}

 

woodie.lua

[FurryEskimo]

@ColombianCam
I never really understood the code, but this is in my character's prefab file:

-- Defines starting inventory
if startinginventory == 1 then
	TUNING.GAMEMODE_STARTING_ITEMS.DEFAULT.FURRYESKIMO = {
		--Nothing
	}
elseif startinginventory == 2 then
	TUNING.GAMEMODE_STARTING_ITEMS.DEFAULT.FURRYESKIMO = {
		"heatrock",
	}
elseif startinginventory == 3 then
	TUNING.GAMEMODE_STARTING_ITEMS.DEFAULT.FURRYESKIMO = {
		"icepack",  --Probably overpowered.
	}
elseif startinginventory == 4 then  --Default
	TUNING.GAMEMODE_STARTING_ITEMS.DEFAULT.FURRYESKIMO = {
		"blueamulet",  --May be overpowered, but intended to help if player spawns in summer.
			"nightmarefuel", "nightmarefuel", "nightmarefuel",
	}
elseif startinginventory == 5 then
	TUNING.GAMEMODE_STARTING_ITEMS.DEFAULT.FURRYESKIMO = {
		"houndwhistle",
	}
else
	TUNING.GAMEMODE_STARTING_ITEMS.DEFAULT.FURRYESKIMO = {
		"blueamulet",
			"nightmarefuel", "nightmarefuel", "nightmarefuel",
		"houndwhistle",
	}
end

--Involved in assigning starting inventory(?)
local start_inv = {}
for k, v in pairs(TUNING.GAMEMODE_STARTING_ITEMS) do
	start_inv[string.lower(k)] = v.FURRYESKIMO
end
local prefabs = FlattenTree(start_inv, true)

-and this is in the character's prefab file too, but in the master_postinit section:

--Sets starting inventory.
	inst.starting_inventory = start_inv[TheNet:GetServerGameMode()] or start_inv.default

Hope this helps!!

Edited January 28, 2021 by FurryEskimo

[Serpens]

do not alter gamefiles directly. Always search for a way to achieve your goal with new files or within modmain.lua.

But you can use game files to inform yourself how things work. So in the original woode.lua you will find this code:

local start_inv = {}
for k, v in pairs(TUNING.GAMEMODE_STARTING_ITEMS) do
    start_inv[string.lower(k)] = v.WOODIE
end

This means, that the start inventory is used from TUNING. Which means all you need to do is changing the TUNING value within your modmain.lua.
Open the tuning.lua from the gamefiles. Search for GAMEMODE_STARTING_ITEMS and WOODIE (in the DEFAULT section, if you want it for normal games).
Now you see how this looks and what is in there (currently only lucy).

TUNING is an array/list and it is globally accessable (it is a convention that global variables are writte in capital letters).
That means you can access and change it within your modmain.lua.
So the following simple line in your modmain.lua should do it:

TUNING.GAMEMODE_STARTING_ITEMS.DEFAULT.WOODIE = {"lucy","wereitem_beaver","wereitem_goose","wereitem_moose"}

-- or even better, use only the following line:

GLOBAL.ArrayUnion( TUNING.GAMEMODE_STARTING_ITEMS.DEFAULT.WOODIE ,  {"wereitem_beaver","wereitem_goose","wereitem_moose"} )

The first line directly overwrites the old list with the new list.
The other line with ArrayUnion is merging the old list with your new list. The second way is more compatible to changes by the devs, eg. if they decide to add another start item to woodie.

Edited January 28, 2021 by Serpens