Creating a Cooldown Meter

[Wonderlarr]

Hello! I'm attempting to use the Thermal Measurer prefab (winterometer.lua) to represent the cooldown of the abiltiies visually within my mod, I have the whole prefab finished, as it's essentially just a stripped down Thermal Measurer, but I don't know how to do one thing.

How can I pass the values of the cooldown, which is a timer on my character, to the meter? Also, how can I put this on the hud?

[Bigfootmech]

I think prefabs go in the world, not the hud (as far as I've seen).

Screens, and widgets seem to go in the hud.

If you wanted to use the Thermal Measurer (scripts/prefabs/winterometer.lua) as a "cooldown"

I think you'd need to figure out how to repurpose (or take apart) the ANIM file at the top (anim/winter_meter.zip), and make that a widget

Similar to how the Easy Domesticate mod makes a little popup info thing in the bottom right. Other mods off the top of my head that add new UI: The "Minimap HUD", and "Insight" mods both add new things to the UI. You could maybe check them out.

Also, I'm assuming you'd have to write the code to update the value of your cooldown meter. Possibly on every tick, or to "chunk" states after a time if that's too laggy.

As far as I can tell, even the original does this

local function StartCheckTemp(inst)
    if inst.task == nil and not inst:HasTag("burnt") then 
        inst.task = inst:DoPeriodicTask(1, DoCheckTemp, 0)
    end
end

I haven't played much with this stuff yet though. So don't take my word as gospel.

Edited February 12, 2021 by Bigfootmech