Help with creating weapon skill like Wigfrid's spear

[Cigg]

Hi!
Currently trying to add the elding spear's spell to a custom weapon I made. So far reticule works, proper chargetime, most everything, but I need help with the following:

>Adjusting the length of aoeweapon_lunge's distance
>Making the character glow during lunge (much like wigfrid's actual elding spear effect). I could do owner.AnimState:SetAddColour and LightOverride to OnLunge but I don't know how to revert the character back to normal, except if I brute force it via dotaskintime. I'm sure there's a better method.

Been looking over spear_wathgrithr but can't seem to figure it out myself, and I was hoping one of the many amazing coders here could. Can anyone help out? Thanks!

Edited February 7, 2024 by sournvitriol2

[Cigg]

Hello once again,

I figured out the above (some new math for distance and then use ListenForEvent:"animover" for doer), but now I'm looking towards understanding which prefab spawns during aoeweapon_lunge during the default OnLunged. Am trying to change the swipe effect for it. Can anyone point me to the right direction? Thanks!

[ant7735]

Have you checked any type "onuse' or "onhit" methods within the spear prefab ?
Most likely, if any AOE prefab is being spawned in, that is where you should look

EDIT:

This code may be of help

local function LightningSpearCommonFn_Base(inst)
    -- aoeweapon_lunge (from aoeweapon_lunge component) added to pristine state for optimization.
    inst:AddTag("aoeweapon_lunge")

    -- rechargeable (from rechargeable component) added to pristine state for optimization.
    inst:AddTag("rechargeable")

    inst:AddComponent("aoetargeting")
    inst.components.aoetargeting:SetAllowRiding(false)
    inst.components.aoetargeting.reticule.reticuleprefab = "reticuleline"
    inst.components.aoetargeting.reticule.pingprefab = "reticulelineping"
    inst.components.aoetargeting.reticule.targetfn = Lightning_ReticuleTargetFn
    inst.components.aoetargeting.reticule.mousetargetfn = Lightning_ReticuleMouseTargetFn
    inst.components.aoetargeting.reticule.updatepositionfn = Lightning_ReticuleUpdatePositionFn
    inst.components.aoetargeting.reticule.validcolour = { 1, .75, 0, 1 }
    inst.components.aoetargeting.reticule.invalidcolour = { .5, 0, 0, 1 }
    inst.components.aoetargeting.reticule.ease = true
    inst.components.aoetargeting.reticule.mouseenabled = true
end

Same with:
 

local function Lightning_OnAttack(inst, attacker, target)
    if target ~= nil and target:IsValid() and inst:CanElectrocuteTarget(target) and attacker ~= nil and attacker:IsValid() then
        SpawnPrefab("electrichitsparks"):AlignToTarget(target, attacker, true)
    end
end

Both of these functions are found in spear_wathgrithr.lua

Edited March 1, 2024 by ant7735
Adding Code

[Cigg]

Thanks for the snippets, I did check those out. But looks like the FX for the lunge itself is directly tied to the anim itself, and is animated along with the lunge, so I can't modify that without modifying the animation itself. (its called player_lunge in the anim files.)

I was able to change the range and distance of the lunge however. Thanks anyway!

[kimLimo]

Hello, I was searching for that subject - custom item that has skill like wigfrid's lightning lunge spear - and I really want to know how you did it. If that's fine with you, can you help me?