help How to make an OnEquip announcement shut up during loading?

[Chesed]

Sorry for the thread title I'm tired.

I have items that cause the user to announce a string when the item is equipped.

When the character enters the cave/surface with the items equipped, or otherwise loads into the server with the item on, the character talks. This causes a bug where the character's dialogue gets stuck on the bottom left of the hosts' screen.

I don't know why this happens and can't reliably reproduce it, so the easiest solution seems to be to make the character silent on loading in.

I already have a function in the item's OnEquip to make them not talk under certain circumstances and with a cooldown.

Quote

local silent = owner.sg:HasStateTag("silentmorph") or  owner.sg:HasStateTag("busy") or owner.sg:HasStateTag("talking") or owner.sg:HasStateTag("notalking") or not owner.entity:IsVisible()
            if not silent and owner.shutupBlake == nil then
            owner.components.talker:Say(GetString(owner, "ANNOUNCE_EQUIPBLACKMASK"))
            owner.shutupBlake = owner:DoTaskInTime(TUNING.MASKSPEECHTIMER, shutup_Blake)
            end

what is the easiest and least painful way to stop the character talking on loading in. Because I have to account for every item I feel like I'm massively overthinking this when there is probably a simple tweak I can make.

...I also just tried adding "or owner._loading" to my code, along with putting the PreLoad and OnlLoad bits from Wormwood's prefab into my character's prefab (as he's the only one who can use the items), and that didn't help either. I have literally no idea what I'm doing so I might have just made an error somewhere.

Edited January 8, 2025 by Chesed

[yanecc]

When you enter the world, your character and inventoryitems are spawned. Then, the equipment is equipped to your character according to the savedata, triggering the `Equippable.onequipfn` method. So, I think the solution is to start listening for the event of being equipped only after some delay from the initialization of your equipment.

inst:DoTaskInTime(1, function()
    inst:ListenForEvent("equipped", onequipped)
end)