How to activate/wake a small bunch of off-screen entities [solved]

[XueYanYu]

I want to make all plants (evergreens, grass, berrybushes and farmplants) near a non-player entity (ocuvigil) grow when no player is around. Is there any inst.entity:xxx() function to do so?

I have tried AddPrefabPostInit to set nearby entities not going sleep:

AddPrefabPostInit("sentryward", function(inst)
    if not GLOBAL.TheWorld.ismastersim then
		return inst
	end

    local function SetActive(inst)
        local x, y, z = inst.Transform:GetWorldPosition()
        local producerList = TheSim:FindEntities(x, y, z, 20, nil, nil, { "plant", "wx" })
        for k, v in pairs(producerList) do
            v.entity:SetCanSleep(false)
            if v.components.growable ~= nil then
                v.components.growable.growoffscreen = true
            end
        end
    end

    inst:DoTaskInTime(0, SetActive)
    if inst.task ~= nil then
        inst.task:Cancel()
        inst.task = nil
    end
    inst.task = inst:DoPeriodicTask(60, SetActive)
end)

But it seems not working. I guess it's because the ocuvigil tried to set plants entities not sleeping after they were loaded.

And I don't know if AddPrefabPostInitAny could work.

AddPrefabPostInitAny(function(inst)
	local KEEP_WORKING_DIST = 20
	local nearby_sentryward = FindEntity(inst, KEEP_WORKING_DIST, function(ent) return ent.prefab == "sentryward" end)
	if inst:HasTag("plants") and nearby_sentryward ~= nil then
		inst.entity:SetCanSleep(false)
	end
end)

 

Or is there any other way to do so? Like periodically update the state of these plants entities? Thanks.

Edited January 11, 2022 by XueYanYu

[XueYanYu]

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[XueYanYu]

AddPrefabPostInit("sentryward", function(inst)
    if not GLOBAL.TheWorld.ismastersim then
		return inst
	end

    local function GrowPlants(inst)
        local x, y, z = inst.Transform:GetWorldPosition()
        local producerList = TheSim:FindEntities(x, y, z, 20, nil, nil, { "plant" })
        for k, v in pairs(producerList) do
            if v.components.growable ~= nil then
                v.components.growable:OnEntityWake()
            end
        end
    end

    if inst.task ~= nil then
        inst.task:Cancel()
        inst.task = nil
    end
    inst.task = inst:DoPeriodicTask(60, GrowPlants, 0)
end)

It seems that inst.entity:SetCanSleep(false) is not necessary.

A periodic task of inst.components.growable:OnEntityWake() can make plants update its growing stages.

(However, I still don't know how to wake mobs.)