Burnable Chests

[uberquake]

I'm trying to make a small mod that simply allows chests to be ignitable as well as being able to catch fire and propagate said fire.

 

"Why" might you ask?  Well, I like the trash can mod that was uploaded, but for some reason it glitches a little for me and sometimes crashes my game.  Not to mention, I'm not a fan of having sixteen followers.  I almost never find Chester anymore - for one reason or another and probably because of one of the crazy amount of mods I'm running - but I have Waldo because he's funny and that's pretty much enough for me.

 

Instead, I'd love the ability to set treasurechests - particularly the player built ones, or simply all wooden ones in general - to be able to be set alight and for all objects within to drop as ashes - excepting, of course, the irreplaceable ones, like Lucy, which should just drop.  This would allow chests to be used as trash cans for a bunch of junk that you just don't want to see anymore.  Craft a chest, throw everything you want incinerated inside, and use your torch.  It'd be awesome.

 

Now, I've tried simply adding the        

MakeMediumBurnable(inst)MakeSmallPropagator(inst)

into my code.  I don't think I'm doing it right, but that's because I'm not sure how to call on a specific chest within a prefab.  There are four chests listed in the treasurechest.lua prefab.  I only want one of them to be ignitable/burnable.  I also realize that, if something is burnable, it needs some sort of timeline for when it extinguishes, but I'm not sure if that's built into those commands.  Anyway, what I have so far is this:

function BurningChestsPostInit( inst )  if bank == "treasure_chest" then	MakeLargeBurnable(inst)	MakeSmallPropagator(inst)    inst.components.burnable:SetOnIgniteFn(OnIgnite)  endAddPrefabPostInit("treasurechest", BurningChestsPostInit)end

So tell me what I'm doing wrong please.  I don't know this coding language and, so far, I'm sort of frankensteining codes together to figure out how things work.  It's progressing me in my understanding, but I lack the basics still.

 

Thanks in advance for any help you may be. 

[Heavenfall]

You have nested logic operators.

 

function BurningChestsPostInit( inst )

  if bank == "treasure_chest" then

    MakeLargeBurnable(inst)

    MakeSmallPropagator(inst)

    inst.components.burnable:SetOnIgniteFn(OnIgnite)

  end

end

 

AddPrefabPostInit("treasurechest", BurningChestsPostInit)

 

Although I'm not sure where the variable bank is being defined. And I don't see an OnIgnite function either.

[uberquake]

Yes, I had an OnIgnite function, but I managed to leave it out somewhere in my editing and forgot to put it back in.  Thank you for pointing that out.  By the way, I really like your RPG Items mod. 

 

1.  What is this nested logic operator that you're talking about?  I don't understand this language, and I'm trying to figure it out by myself through simple trial and error.

 

2.  The variable "bank" isn't defined by me.  I'm not sure how, in a prefab that has multiple chests (data/scripts/prefabs/treasurechest.lua), to select just one of those treasure chests.  I don't want ornate chests, for instance, being burnable.  I do want regular treasure chests to be burnable and ignitable.  So, I'm going to try adding the OnIgnite function and I'll let you know of the results.

[uberquake]

local require = GLOBAL.requirelocal SpawnPrefab = GLOBAL.SpawnPrefabfunction treasurechestPostInit( inst )    local chests = {        treasure_chest = {            bank="chest",            build="treasure_chest",            }        }    MakeLargeBurnable(inst)    MakeSmallPropagator(inst)    inst.components.burnable:SetOnIgniteFn(OnIgnite)endAddPrefabPostInit("treaasure_chest", treasurechestPostInit)

Alright, so I did this in my modmain.lua.  This is all there is.  It doesn't crash the game (which is a huge step for me, ), but it doesn't do anything.  I pulled the code for the chest directly from treasurechest.lua.  I figured if I gave the game its own code back and just added in my changes it would have no problems.  Apparently it doesn't, but again, it doesn't do anything.

 

Suggestions?

[seronis]

    local chests = {        treasure_chest = {            bank="chest",            build="treasure_chest",            }        }

This is pointless. You create the local variable 'chests' but then you never use it. What is your intention with that piece of code?

[uberquake]

It mostly relates to the fact that I don't have any idea what I'm doing...  I'm looking for help.  That's all.