How do I give the purple amulet effect to a character only when it's nighttime?

[juan104]

Edit: Special thanks to krylincy and Monti18 for their help.

I've been trying to mod the guts the black swordsman mod (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2285521612) and I wanted to make it so that when it's nighttime he gets attacked by monsters. I've been trying different pieces of code but none have worked, here's my latest try.

What am I doing wrong?
 

GLOBAL.require

master_postinit = function(inst:WatchWorldState("isnight", SetInducedInsanity))

 

    local function brandattraction(inst)

        if Theworld.state.isnight then

            inst.components.sanity:SetInducedInsanity(inst, true)

        end

    end

end

Edited June 15, 2021 by juan104

[juan104]

I've also tried with this piece of code

AddPrefabPostInit("guts", function tryspawnthing (inst)

    if TheWorld ~= nil then

        if TheWorld.state.isnight then

            inst:AddComponent("childspawner")

            inst.components.childspawner:SetRegenPeriod(5)

            inst.components.childspawner:SetSpawnPeriod(5)

            inst.components.childspawner:SetMaxChildren(2)

            inst.components.childspawner:StartRegen()

            inst.components.childspawner.spawnradius = {min = 10, max = 30}

            inst.components.childspawner.childname = "nightmarebeak"

            inst.components.childspawner:StartSpawning()

        end

    end

end

)

but it doesn't work. I think TheWorld returns nil when entering the world and then it just doesn't run. What do I do?

[krylincy]

you can watch the world state in your prefab like

AddPrefabPostInit("guts", function tryspawnthing (inst)
	if TheWorld ~= nil then -- not sure if you need this check
		inst:WatchWorldState("isnight", function()
			if inst.components ~= nil then -- this check my be enough
				inst:AddComponent("childspawner")
				inst.components.childspawner:SetRegenPeriod(5)
				...
			end
		end)
	end
end

and then add a watch for day to remove the component again

Edited June 13, 2021 by krylincy

[Monti18]

Do you have a line in your modmain where you wrote 

local TheWorld = GLOBAL.TheWorld

If not, this is one of your problems, as TheWorld without GLOBAL is always nil in the modmain.

In your character prefab you won't need a GLOBAL.

Use what krylincy wrote and add a GLOBAL depending on if you need it.

I think the TheWorld check and inst.components check may not be needed, if there is an error there the game has bigger problems.

[krylincy]

9 hours ago, Monti18 said:

I think the TheWorld check and inst.components check may not be needed, if there is an error there the game has bigger problems.

i thought i always need the component check in a prefab postint to skip the clients, like the default prefab would do with 

 if not TheWorld.ismastersim then
        return inst
    end

 

[Monti18]

inst.components exists on client, so this check doesn't help to check if it's a client.

But you are right, there should be a check for clients. For this, you add the same thing as you wrote.

AddPrefabPostInit("guts", function(inst)
	if not TheWorld.ismastersim then
		return inst
	end
	inst:WatchWorldState("isnight", function()
		inst:AddComponent("childspawner")
		inst.components.childspawner:SetRegenPeriod(5)
		...
	end)
end

I also just saw that the function shouldn't have a name as you define it directly afterwards.

You can also just add to the master postinit this code:

inst:WatchWorldState("isnight", function()
	inst:AddComponent("childspawner")
	inst.components.childspawner:SetRegenPeriod(5)
	...
end)

or this:

inst:WatchWorldState("isnight", function()
	 inst.components.sanity:SetInducedInsanity(inst, true)
end)