Scripting - Extra Food

[Lawrence]

Hello everyone, I was wondering if it is possible to make a custom char. who can eat things like wood, grass...

I found a similar question in the forum, http://forums.kleientertainment.com/index.php?/topic/23441-help-is-it-possible-to-code-the-character-to-eat-cut-grass-or-twigs/?hl=%2Bfoodprefs#entry244257

but I didn't understand...

 

Can you help me?

[Hugo M.]

Its easy, just add:

local fn = function(inst) table.insert(inst.components.eater.foodprefs, "WOOD") end

[Lawrence]

Ah ok, thanks.

But what about editing the "hunger" and "health" given by the food?

[Lawrence]

Ah ok, thanks.

But what about editing the "hunger" and "health" given by the food?

 

Ah, I have to write the proprieties in mod main? Am I right?

[RCatta]

Ah, I have to write the proprieties in mod main? Am I right?

 

 

Most food values are predetermined , you can find then in the tuning files if I remember correctly. 

 

If you wanna create new foods too , you can write the proprieties in the prefab , otherwise yes , in the modmain.

[Lawrence]

Ok I'll take a look to the original files to try making proprieties

[Lawrence]

Ok I did this in tuning:

 

 

TUNING.XXX_FOODS=
{
"twigs",
"cutgrass",
"log",
}

 

[\CODE]

 

and this in prefab

 

[code]

 

local fn = function(inst)
 
table.insert(inst.components.eater.foodprefs, TUNING.XXX_FOOD)
 
end

 

[\CODE]

 

Obviously does not work... Am I doing all wrong?

[Lawrence]

Ok I did this in tuning:

 

 TUNING.XXX_FOODS=

{

"twigs",

"cutgrass",

"log",

} [\CODE] and this in prefab [code=auto:0] local fn = function(inst)

 

table.insert(inst.components.eater.foodprefs, TUNING.XXX_FOOD)

 

end

 

[\CODE]

 

Obviously does not work... Am I doing all wrong?

 

*sigh* I can't even do a code window in the forum -_-

[RCatta]

Well , first off , you don't have to modify the tuning files themselves. I'll give you an example that would make WIlson eat twigs.

 

 

You first copy your "twigs.lua" to /mods/yourmod/scripts/prefabs and add the following code to twigs.lua.

 

  

  inst:AddComponent("edible")    inst.components.edible.foodtype = "TWIGS"

 

 

The foodtype can be anything you want. Doesn't matter ,just make sure it's in caps to avoid crashes.

 

Although I imagine something similar should exist due to the fact that Woody can eat such things in the beaver thing form.

 

 

Aaaanyway , now you want to give it some value.

 

    inst:AddComponent("edible")    inst.components.edible.foodtype = "TWIGS"    inst.components.edible.healthvalue = TUNING.HEALING_HUGE    inst.components.edible.hungervalue = TUNING.CALORIES_HUGE    inst.components.edible.sanityvalue = TUNING.SANITY_HUGE

 

or if you wanna give it your own values

 

  

  inst:AddComponent("edible")     inst.components.edible.foodtype = "TWIGS"     inst.components.edible.healthvalue = 100  inst.components.edible.hungervalue = 10  inst.components.edible.sanityvalue = 30

 

You can make you food add only to 1 stat , or all 3.

 

 

 

Ok , so now you got your food. Moving on to making your character actually be able to eat the food. Again , copy the character you wanna edit's lua to yoursmod/scripts/prefabs. Following my example ,that would be Wilson.lua.

 

Opening that , you need to add to the local fn function:

 

local fn = function(inst)codecodemore codeyep,you guessed it : codetable.insert(inst.components.eater.foodprefs, "TWIGS")code code blah blah

So basically the "TWIGS" written in the table.insert are the "TWIGS" foodtype you created earlier. Again , they can be named anything you want instead of TWIGS , but they have to coincide when you insert them to the table.

 

 

And..that's it. Now you just have to write your modmain and modinfo and you're good.

[TheDanaAddams]

Instead of duplicating and editing the prefab files, you should be able to make those changes through Prefab PostInits.

Much cleaner, and it means you won't have to do it all again if there's an update to the files.

[RCatta]

Instead of duplicating and editing the prefab files, you should be able to make those changes through Prefab PostInits.

Much cleaner, and it means you won't have to do it all again if there's an update to the files.

Or that ,yes , if you know how to use those.

 

But it might be confusing trying to use them if you're new at this.

[simplex]

Or that ,yes , if you know how to use those.

 

But it might be confusing trying to use them if you're new at this.

But, especially if you're new to this, not using them and seeing your mod break every update, as well as being incompatible with a bunch of other mods, can be very dissuading. Learning how to do things "the proper way" right from the start pays off.

[Lawrence]

Uff... I still cannot understand...

 

I tried to combine what RCatta and TheDanaAddams told me to do, by writing this

---food    inst:AddComponent("edible")    inst.components.edible.foodtype = "TWIGS"        inst.components.edible.twigs.healthvalue = 100    inst.components.edible.twigs.hungervalue = 10    inst.components.edible.twigs.sanityvalue = 30

directly on prefab of my custom character... Nothing works.

I tried to look at the original files, couldn't find anything useful for what I want to do.

 

 

I can't even figure if "inst.components.edible.twigs.healthvalue" etc is an existing code, I improvised

[Armentia]

I can't even figure if "inst.components.edible.twigs.healthvalue" etc is an existing code, I improvised

 

Just comparing notes here, but RCatta gave you some decent code to piece this together with. You added twigs between edible and healthvalue when that was not in what he had put together for you. Try removing those and seeing what happens.

inst.components.edible.healthvalue = 100inst.components.edible.hungervalue = 10inst.components.edible.sanityvalue = 30

[RCatta]

Uff... I still cannot understand...

 

I tried to combine what RCatta and TheDanaAddams told me to do, by writing this

---food    inst:AddComponent("edible")    inst.components.edible.foodtype = "TWIGS"        inst.components.edible.twigs.healthvalue = 100    inst.components.edible.twigs.hungervalue = 10    inst.components.edible.twigs.sanityvalue = 30

directly on prefab of my custom character... Nothing works.

I tried to look at the original files, couldn't find anything useful for what I want to do.

 

 

I can't even figure if "inst.components.edible.twigs.healthvalue" etc is an existing code, I improvised

You didn't read my post carefully. 

 

You add that code to "twigs.lua" , not to yourcharacter.lua

[Lawrence]

I read it, but Dana said

 

Instead of duplicating and editing the prefab files, you should be able to make those changes through Prefab PostInits.

Much cleaner, and it means you won't have to do it all again if there's an update to the files.

 

So I tried to follow both suggestions @_@

[TheDanaAddams]

You need to do something like this in your modmain:

 

function TwigPostInit( inst )  inst:AddComponent("edible")     inst.components.edible.foodtype = "TWIGS"     inst.components.edible.healthvalue = 100  inst.components.edible.hungervalue = 10  inst.components.edible.sanityvalue = 30end AddPrefabPostInit("twigs", TwigPostInit)

 

The only thing you add to your character's prefab file is this:

table.insert(inst.components.eater.foodprefs, "TWIGS")

[Lawrence]

Thanks, I did not understand .. I'm really slow sometimes :S

[Lawrence]

I feel so dumb -_-

[Lawrence]

YEEHEH!!

 

I'm trying to do a thing with the function dotaskintime, but I cannot figure how it should work

 

the idea is to make an action if the char eats an amount of a certain item (in this case meat) in less than 10 seconds.

 

So I made this:

local function EatTime(inst)     	if inst.EatingStuff == true then --Activated when character eats a piece of meat		inst:DoTaskInTime(10, function()  			inst.MeatEaten = 0 --it should prevent to do the action						inst.EatingStuff = false		EatTime(inst)	end)	 end	  end

To delete the variable value if the character doesn't eat the N number of meat in less than 10 seconds.

 

Strange to say (XD) it doesn't work

 

What am I doing wrong? :/

[Lawrence]

YEEHEH!!

 

I'm trying to do a thing with the function dotaskintime, but I cannot figure how it should work

 

the idea is to make an action if the char eats an amount of a certain item (in this case meat) in less than 10 seconds.

 

So I made this:

local function EatTime(inst)     	if inst.EatingStuff == true then --Activated when character eats a piece of meat		inst:DoTaskInTime(10, function()  			inst.MeatEaten = 0 --it should prevent to do the action						inst.EatingStuff = false		EatTime(inst)	end)	 end	  end

To delete the variable value if the character doesn't eat the N number of meat in less than 10 seconds.

 

Strange to say (XD) it doesn't work

 

What am I doing wrong? :/

 

*Facepalm* Ok it works, I just put the code in a wrong position.

 

Why I always realize after asking? XD XD