Not attacking smaller creatures?

[Silhh]

Hey guys we have a small question 

 

My pal @arcade is a lazy bum and sent me here

 

We need help on making our character not attack small creatures such as bunnies, turkeys, birds, etc at all.

 

If you can help us out we would greatly appreciate it, thanks!

[DarkXero]

You can edit CanBeAttacked or IsValidTarget, CanAttack in combat to make either your character run to the target and perform an attack that does no damage, or just make it run to the target and do nothing. Example:

local untouchables = {	rabbit = true,	perd = true,	crow = true,	robin = true,	robin_winter = true}AddComponentPostInit("combat", function(self)	local old = self.CanAttack	function self:CanAttack(target)		local valid = old(self, target)		if valid and self.inst.prefab == "wilson" and untouchables[target.prefab] then			return not valid		else			return valid		end	endend)

 

You can also edit the wilson stategraph to stop the locomotion.

 

However, I presume the most elegant solution is editing PlayerActionPicker, so that your character doesn't get to attack or force attack any of these creatures. But I'm not doing well in building this solution, so in the mean time, I summon mouse.

 

EDIT: This should do the trick, optimizations welcome.

local untouchables = {	rabbit = true,	perd = true,	crow = true,	robin = true,	robin_winter = true}AddComponentPostInit("playeractionpicker", function(self)	local old = self.SortActionList	function self:SortActionList(actions, target, useitem)		if #actions == 0 then			return actions		end		local c = 0		for k, v in pairs(actions) do			if v == GLOBAL.ACTIONS.ATTACK and 			self.inst.prefab == "wilson" and 			untouchables[target.prefab] then				c = 1				break			end		end		if c == 1 then			return {}		else			return old(self, actions, target, useitem)		end	endend)

Edited March 16, 2015 by DarkXero

[Silhh]

Thanks! Worked perfectly!

[rons0n]

Sorry to bring an old topic back to life but I'm having trouble with this tidbit of code.

 

Well actually this issue has been happening since forever ago but I didn't want to fix it quite yet.

 

So yeah, basically auto(force) attack ignores the code posted above. How would I make this so it also stops my character auto(force)-attacking small creatures?

Edited June 17, 2015 by rons0n

[Seiai]

@rons0n, 

i think i remember that there's and action called FORCEATTACK.

 

edit: ah, that was in DS, in DST it's done differently, i think it done via the canforce variable that actions have, but i didnt test it.

Edited June 17, 2015 by Seiai

[DarkXero]

@rons0n,

put this in the common_postinit of your character:

local untouchables = {    rabbit = true,    perd = true,    crow = true,    robin = true,    robin_winter = true}    inst:DoTaskInTime(0, function()    local old = inst.replica.combat.IsValidTarget    inst.replica.combat.IsValidTarget = function(self, target)        if target and untouchables[target.prefab] then            return false        end        return old(self, target)    endend)

You shouldn't make it avoid small creatures because spiders are small creatures.

If you want to include spiders, you can check target:HasTag("smallcreature").

But I think putting the animals in a table is best.