Need (More) Mod Help

[WalrusMan]

Hello, people who are reading this!

I need some help making a character mod.

The things I need help with:

1. How do I make it so my character isn't an enemy of walruses and ice hounds?

2. How do I make my character spawn with a fishing rod?( and make it a custom item fishing rod)

3. How do I give Maxwell a custom speech for my character instead of "Say pal, you don't look so good. You better find something to eat before night comes!"

4. How do I change his damage/ defense?

[bigpak]

I can try and help, which won't be very much since I'm not the best but I can try.

 

1. I'm not sure where to start, its over my head, apologies.

2. To spawn with an item upon a new world so when you generate the world, try this: 

local start_inv = {	"prefabname",}

replace prefabname with the prefab you want to use, so for lets say a piece of honey you would do:

local start_inv = {	"honey",}

To make a new fishing rod, you would need to create a new prefab, which is fairly simple, however if you want it to have custom animations it gets harder, but you can follow this tutorial, I did for one of my first equippables:http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/29427-tutorial-creating-a-handslot-equippable-item-from-scratch/

 

3. I'm not sure, but I am fairly sure there have been topisc in the past about it, I can try and find them

 

4. you would edit your characters prefab file, try these lines.

 

for damage:

	inst.components.combat.damagemultiplier = 3

this would increase the damage by 3 times, so a spear would do 34x3

 

for health: 

inst.components.health:SetMaxHealth(300 )

that would set his health to 300

 

I am sorry I couldn't be more help, please post if you have more questions or need explanations, apologies

[Blueberrys]

1. How do I make it so my character isn't an enemy of walruses and ice hounds?

 

See this post.

 

3. How do I give Maxwell a custom speech for my character instead of "Say pal, you don't look so good. You better find something to eat before night comes!"

STRINGS = GLOBAL.STRINGSSTRINGS.MAXWELL_SANDBOXINTROS = {    ONE = "Say pal, you seem hungry",    TWO = You'd better eat somethin' before night!",}

 

[WalrusMan]

See this post.

STRINGS = GLOBAL.STRINGSSTRINGS.MAXWELL_SANDBOXINTROS = {    ONE = "Say pal, you seem hungry",    TWO = You'd better eat somethin' before night!",}

Where do I find the Maxwell speech

NEVERMIND

[Blueberrys]

Where do I find the Maxwell speech

"..\scripts\strings.lua"

[WalrusMan]

@Blueberrys Am I supposed to create that file? :/

EDIT:

Also, can I add a line 3?

[Blueberrys]

@WalrusMan Umm, no. You asked where to find it, that's.. where you would find it. xD

 

Yes, you can add a line 3, but it won't work in his speech unless you add it into the maxwellintro prefab too.

local function maxintro_post(inst)    local SpeechThreeObj = {        string = STRINGS.MAXWELL_SANDBOXINTROS.THREE,        wait = 3,        anim = nil,        sound = nil,    }    table.insert(inst.components.maxwelltalker.speeches.SANDBOX_1, SpeechThreeObj)endAddPrefabPostInit("maxwellintro", maxintro_post)

[WalrusMan]

@WalrusMan Umm, no. You asked where to find it, that's.. where you would find it. xD

Yes, you can add a line 3, but it won't work in his speech unless you add it into the maxwellintro prefab too.

local function maxintro_post(inst)    local SpeechThreeObj = {        string = STRINGS.MAXWELL_SANDBOXINTROS.THREE,        wait = 3,        anim = nil,        sound = nil,    }    table.insert(inst.components.maxwelltalker.speeches.SANDBOX_1, SpeechThreeObj)endAddPrefabPostInit("maxwellintro", maxintro_post)

There is only Prefabs and Speech under Scripts

[Blueberrys]

There is only Prefabs and Speech under Scripts

Huh..? We're definitely not on the same page here. Let me clarify.

The scripts folder of your game has a file called "strings.lua". Inside that file, you can find the text which maxwell says during his speeches.

Specifically, the scripts folder at:

Steam/Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\dont_starve\scripts

Standalone/Windows: C:\Program Files\dontstarve\scripts

Standalone/Mac: /Applications/Don't Starve/Don't Starve.app/Contents/scripts

Steam/Linux: /home/username/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/dont_starve/scripts

[WalrusMan]

Huh..? We're definitely not on the same page here. Let me clarify.

The scripts folder of your game has a file called "strings.lua". Inside that file, you can find the text which maxwell says during his speeches.

Specifically, the scripts folder at:

Steam/Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\dont_starve\scripts

Standalone/Windows: C:\Program Files\dontstarve\scripts

Standalone/Mac: /Applications/Don't Starve/Don't Starve.app/Contents/scripts

Steam/Linux: /home/username/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/dont_starve/scripts

Yeah, we weren't on the same page. I thought you meant in the mods files. Thanks for clarifying this, but will it only say that for my characters mod? Probably not.

[WalrusMan]

Huh..? We're definitely not on the same page here. Let me clarify.

The scripts folder of your game has a file called "strings.lua". Inside that file, you can find the text which maxwell says during his speeches.

Specifically, the scripts folder at:

Steam/Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\dont_starve\scripts

Standalone/Windows: C:\Program Files\dontstarve\scripts

Standalone/Mac: /Applications/Don't Starve/Don't Starve.app/Contents/scripts

Steam/Linux: /home/username/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/dont_starve/scripts

I edited some of the strings folder. Now the game crashes on start up

[bigpak]

Log? Also, are you editing it via a mod or through the original game files?

[WalrusMan]

Log? Also, are you editing it via a mod or through the original game files?

Original game files.

Also, where's the log?

[bigpak]

You should edit it through a mod, also

 

C:\Users\NAME\Documents\Klei\DoNotStarve\log.txt

[Blueberrys]

Original game files.

Oh no.. no no no. Did you make a backup, at least?

 

Edit: Logs.

[WalrusMan]

Oh no.. no no no. Did you make a backup, at least?

Edit: Logs.

I can just re-download my games original files (Thanks, Steam!) and I'll backup my mod. But how am I supposed to edit the strings files in a mod if it's only in the original game files?

[Blueberrys]

@WalrusMan

 

STRINGS = GLOBAL.STRINGSSTRINGS.MAXWELL_SANDBOXINTROS = {    ONE = "Say pal, you seem hungry",    TWO = You'd better eat somethin' before night!",}

 
Just put that in your modmain?

[WalrusMan]

@WalrusMan

Just put that in your modmain?

I thought it was strings ;-;

[Blueberrys]

@WalrusMan Yes and no. You are modifying the STRINGS variable from your modmain.lua file. Not modifying the strings.lua file.

[seronis]

Never modify a vanilla file unless there is utterly no other way to inject your feature.  Only modify the data, not the file.

[WalrusMan]

I'm not going to start a new thread over this:

How do I make him transform like Woodie does?

[seronis]

Honestly I dont know but how much have you looked into woodies prefab file? Or looked at Fidooops markiplier mod (or someother) that does transformations ?

 

When it comes down to it if you dont need a visual effect you can just swap the animation batch with a new one same way you originally set it in the   fn()  constructor in your characters prefab.