Can I temporarily change a CONSTANT for a specific prefab?

[Wonderlarr]

I need to extend time values for basically every stategraph in the game, and I really DON'T feel like rewriting every Stategraph, so I'm wondering if I can somehow change constants for a specific prefab, or run their stategraphs at double speed somehow. Not sure if this is possible, it's really remote.

Alternatively, if someone can figure out how to slow down an entire prefab more easily, I would love to know how you'd do that.

[Gleenus]

3 hours ago, TheSkylarr said:

I need to extend time values for basically every stategraph in the game, and I really DON'T feel like rewriting every Stategraph, so I'm wondering if I can somehow change constants for a specific prefab, or run their stategraphs at double speed somehow. Not sure if this is possible, it's really remote.

Alternatively, if someone can figure out how to slow down an entire prefab more easily, I would love to know how you'd do that.

In my Enerlectrics project, I wanted to make an enerlectric axe that cut tree fast as Woodie
The only way I found to do this was:
"store the onenter function of the state"
"create a new onenter function"
"in this new onenter function, if the new axe is equipped, go to my custom state"
"else, return the original state"

I know this work fine

BUT I see in some codes people using debug functions to change local variables
It is weird, I don't know exactly how it work, but it work

If you look in your mod folder, usually the functions to do that are called

"getval" and "setval"
They use the debug functions "debug.getupvalue" and "debug.setupvalue"

The mod ("workshop-2187646441") uses that to apply custom colour cubes

[Wonderlarr]

6 hours ago, Gleenus said:

In my Enerlectrics project, I wanted to make an enerlectric axe that cut tree fast as Woodie
The only way I found to do this was:
"store the onenter function of the state"
"create a new onenter function"
"in this new onenter function, if the new axe is equipped, go to my custom state"
"else, return the original state"

I know this work fine

BUT I see in some codes people using debug functions to change local variables
It is weird, I don't know exactly how it work, but it work

If you look in your mod folder, usually the functions to do that are called

"getval" and "setval"
They use the debug functions "debug.getupvalue" and "debug.setupvalue"

The mod ("workshop-2187646441") uses that to apply custom colour cubes

Here's the weird thing, in my case I'm trying to replace a global variable in a stategraph, FRAMES, do you think it would work for that? I can't test it myself right this second sadly or I would just go for it.

[Gleenus]

2 hours ago, TheSkylarr said:

Here's the weird thing, in my case I'm trying to replace a global variable in a stategraph, FRAMES, do you think it would work for that? I can't test it myself right this second sadly or I would just go for it.

I think not

You need to route the stategraph to a custom one

I can show how I did it if you want, just pm-me

@edit
Or I can show here later

Edited May 18, 2021 by Gleenus

[Gleenus]

Here is my code to make a very fast axe (similar to Woodie, but a bit faster)

local chop_saw=State{
        name = "chop_saw",
        tags = { "prechop", "chopping", "working" },

        onenter = function(inst)
            inst.sg.statemem.action = inst:GetBufferedAction()
            inst.sg.statemem.iswoodcutter = inst:HasTag("woodcutter")
            inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation(inst.sg.statemem.iswoodcutter and "woodie_chop_loop" or "chop_loop")
            inst.SoundEmitter:PlaySound("dontstarve/wilson/hit_metal")
        end,

        timeline =
        {

            TimeEvent(2 * FRAMES, function(inst)
                inst:PerformBufferedAction()
            end),

            TimeEvent(4 * FRAMES, function(inst)
                inst.sg:RemoveStateTag("prechop")
            end),

            TimeEvent(6 * FRAMES, function(inst)
                if inst.components.playercontroller ~= nil and
                    inst.components.playercontroller:IsAnyOfControlsPressed(
                        CONTROL_PRIMARY,
                        CONTROL_ACTION,
                        CONTROL_CONTROLLER_ACTION) and
                    inst.sg.statemem.action ~= nil and
                    inst.sg.statemem.action:IsValid() and
                    inst.sg.statemem.action.target ~= nil and
                    inst.sg.statemem.action.target.components.workable ~= nil and
                    inst.sg.statemem.action.target.components.workable:CanBeWorked() and
                    inst.sg.statemem.action.target:IsActionValid(inst.sg.statemem.action.action) and
                    CanEntitySeeTarget(inst, inst.sg.statemem.action.target) then
                    inst:ClearBufferedAction()
                    inst:PushBufferedAction(inst.sg.statemem.action)
                end
            end),

            TimeEvent(8 * FRAMES, function(inst)
                    inst.sg:RemoveStateTag("chopping")
            end),

    },
}



AddStategraphPostInit("wilson",function(sg)
    sg.old_states_chop_onenter = sg.states.chop.onenter
    sg.states.chop.onenter = function(inst)
        if inst.components.inventory and inst.components.inventory
            and inst.components.inventory.equipslots['hands']
            and inst.components.inventory.equipslots['hands']:HasTag("ee_saw") then
           inst.sg:GoToState("chop_saw")
           return
        else
            return sg.old_states_chop_onenter(inst)
        end
    end
end)

AddStategraphState("wilson",chop_saw)

You will probably need to set some "GLOBAL" before some functions
In my code I set the state in a secondary file, that is why I didn't need it