[help] special useable item?

[Mobbstar]

I am working on a super secret mod, but I stumbled upon a brain-racking issue. I want to make a inventory item that cannot be equipped but still be used indefinitely to spawn a prefab.

For the most part, this is easy, but I need help with the use part. I have tried the components "useable_item", which seems to require equippables, and "book"/"reader", although I don't know how to disable the animation or replace it with another, more fitting one.

Should I make a new component to suit my needs or is there a good one already? Am I just not understanding the mentioned components enough to fix the stated problems? Are there any mods with helpful guidance code I can look at?

 

Thank you most sincerely for your time and effort, in advance.

[DevilXD]

Hey @Mobbstar, I made a bucket mod, that adds water bucket, and I made it that you can spit water out of it on yourself... You can do this anytime, without equipping the bucket, just right clicking... Look into waterbucket.lua prefab file in my mod, and try doing something similar

Link to the mod: http://www.forums.kleientertainment.com/files/file/783-the-mod-about-buckets/

Cheers !

[Mobbstar]

Thank you very much, devil. I didn't realise that I needed to set a canuse function. Programming at late night...

Also, awesome mod you got there. I'm gonna add you to the long long list of special thanks in the credits. If I had one

[Mobbstar]

Sorry if this is considered necroing but I decided to put several similiar prefab into the same file, based on blowdart.lua

I cannot use the items anymore, I tried adding the component in the individual function already. There is nothing in log.txt

local function xuse(inst)	print ("spawned x")	local pos = inst:GetPosition()	local fellow = SpawnPrefab("x")	fellow.Transform:SetPosition(pos:Get())	fellow.components.follower:SetLeader(player)	player.components.sanity:DoDelta(-TUNING.SANITY_MED)endlocal function yuse()	print ("spawned y")	local pos = inst:GetPosition()	local make = SpawnPrefab("y")	make.Transform:SetPosition(pos:Get())	player.components.inventory:ConsumeByName("nightmarefuel", usedprey)	player.components.sanity:DoDelta(-TUNING.SANITY_TINY)end	local function commonfn(Sim)	local inst = CreateEntity()	inst.entity:AddTransform()	inst.entity:AddAnimState()	inst.entity:AddSoundEmitter()	MakeInventoryPhysics(inst)	    inst:AddTag("irreplaceable")		inst.AnimState:SetBank("papyrus")	inst.AnimState:SetBuild("papyrus")	inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle")		inst:AddComponent("inventoryitem")		inst:AddComponent("inspectable")	inst:AddComponent("useableitem")	return instendlocal function xfn()	local inst = commonfn()	inst.components.inventoryitem.atlasname = "images/inventoryimages/xs.xml"	inst.components.inventoryitem.imagename = "xs"	inst.components.useableitem:SetCanInteractFn(ismaster)	inst.components.useableitem:SetOnUseFn(xuse)	return instendlocal function yfn()	local inst = commonfn()	inst.components.inventoryitem.atlasname = "images/inventoryimages/ys.xml"	inst.components.inventoryitem.imagename = "ys"		local usedprey = 1	inst.components.useableitem:SetCanInteractFn(checkprey)	inst.components.useableitem:SetOnUseFn(yuse)	return instendreturn Prefab("common/inventory/xs", xfn, Assets),	Prefab("common/inventory/ys", yfn, Assets)

What am I doing wrong? I don't get it.

[DevilXD]

This should work

local function xuse(inst)	print ("spawned x")	local pos = inst:GetPosition()	local fellow = SpawnPrefab("x")	fellow.Transform:SetPosition(pos:Get())	fellow.components.follower:SetLeader(player)	player.components.sanity:DoDelta(-TUNING.SANITY_MED)endlocal function yuse(inst)	print ("spawned y")	local pos = inst:GetPosition()	local make = SpawnPrefab("y")	make.Transform:SetPosition(pos:Get())	player.components.inventory:ConsumeByName("nightmarefuel", usedprey)	player.components.sanity:DoDelta(-TUNING.SANITY_TINY)end	local function commonfn()	local inst = CreateEntity()	inst.entity:AddTransform()	inst.entity:AddAnimState()	inst.entity:AddSoundEmitter()	MakeInventoryPhysics(inst)	    inst:AddTag("irreplaceable")		inst.AnimState:SetBank("papyrus")	inst.AnimState:SetBuild("papyrus")	inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle")		inst:AddComponent("inventoryitem")		inst:AddComponent("inspectable")	inst:AddComponent("useableitem")	return instendlocal function xfn(inst)	local inst = commonfn(inst)	inst.components.inventoryitem.atlasname = "images/inventoryimages/xs.xml"	inst.components.inventoryitem.imagename = "xs"	inst.components.useableitem:SetCanInteractFn(ismaster)	inst.components.useableitem:SetOnUseFn(xuse)	return instendlocal function yfn(inst)	local inst = commonfn(inst)	inst.components.inventoryitem.atlasname = "images/inventoryimages/ys.xml"	inst.components.inventoryitem.imagename = "ys"		local usedprey = 1	inst.components.useableitem:SetCanInteractFn(checkprey)	inst.components.useableitem:SetOnUseFn(yuse)	return instendreturn Prefab("common/inventory/xs", xfn, Assets),       Prefab("common/inventory/ys", yfn, Assets)

[Mobbstar]

Thank you very much. I am so silly at times... At least not a missplaced comma

 

EDIT: Thank you very much. I am so uber silly at times... the fault was that canuse never turned true it seems

Edited June 12, 2014 by Mobbstar