Do function() if character isnt carrying a spicific item.

[DerpTime]

So I have a problem and im hoping someone might at least be able to point me in the right direction.


I have a character, and i want her to have her sanity drain when she loses or is not carrying her plushy in here inventory.

2 major things I'm running in to for problems.
Keeping in inventory on death.
and
Drain if not present.

Any one got any ideas that might help push me in the right direction?

I know there is stuff like this.

	inst:WatchWorldState("phase", updatedamage)	updatedamage(inst, TheWorld.state.phase)

that runs a function to update the damage every time the "phase" changes.
Is there and event or a check i can exploit to make this work.

second problem is the recovery of the item on Resurrection.
and.... I actual dont have a clue where to start with that.

[Faerl]

Take a look at woodie's code. He has a 'beaverness' tag that's attached to him when he turns. Then during one of the periodic checks if he has that attribute his sanity etc decreases faster. You could do something similar on death so that you toggle some tag and if he's not dead do the sanity hit, if he is then don't.

 

As for holding it in death you could cheat it. Assuming the code above works you don't care about him holding the item in death. What  you'd need to do is spawn (or move) the item when he comes back to life. The tricky part would be to delete the item already existing in the world at the same time, otherwise you'll end up with duplicate items. Not sure how to do that but there should be some way, critters disappear all the time at night. 

[DarkXero]

local TUNING = GLOBAL.TUNING local myitem = "spear"local mycharacter = "wilson" AddPrefabPostInit(myitem, function(inst)    if not GLOBAL.TheWorld.ismastersim then        return    end    local function charge_flux(prev_owner, new_owner)        if prev_owner then            prev_owner:PushEvent("curseddischarge")        end        if new_owner then            new_owner:PushEvent("cursedcharge")        end    end    local old_set = inst.components.inventoryitem.SetOwner    inst.components.inventoryitem.SetOwner = function(self, owner)        local prev_owner = self.owner        old_set(self, owner)        charge_flux(prev_owner, self.owner)    end    local old_clear = inst.components.inventoryitem.ClearOwner    inst.components.inventoryitem.ClearOwner = function(self, owner)        local prev_owner = self.owner        old_clear(self, owner)        charge_flux(prev_owner, self.owner)    endend)AddPrefabPostInit(mycharacter, function(inst)    if not GLOBAL.TheWorld.ismastersim then        return    end    inst.cursedcharges = 0    inst:ListenForEvent("curseddischarge", function(inst)        inst.cursedcharges = inst.cursedcharges - 1    end)    inst:ListenForEvent("cursedcharge", function(inst)        inst.cursedcharges = inst.cursedcharges + 1    end)    inst.components.sanity.custom_rate_fn = function(inst)        return inst.cursedcharges > 0 and 0 or -TUNING.DAPPERNESS_MED    end    inst:ListenForEvent("dropitem", function(inst, data)        if data.item.prefab == myitem and inst.components.health:IsDead() then            inst.components.inventory:GiveItem(data.item, nil, inst:GetPosition())        end    end)end)

@DerpTime.

 

Also alternative snippets to showcase that what you want in the title is possible:

-- Code Alternatives-- 1local function CheckForPlushy(inst)	local function fn(item)		if item.prefab == "plushy" then			return true		end	end	local plushy = inst.components.inventory:FindItem(fn)	if plushy == nil then		return -TUNING.DAPPERNESS_MED	end	return 0endinst.components.sanity.custom_rate_fn = CheckForPlushy-- 2local function CheckForPlushy(inst)	local has_plushy, total_found = inst.components.inventory:Has("plushy", 1)	if has_plushy then		return 0	end	return -TUNING.DAPPERNESS_MEDendinst.components.sanity.custom_rate_fn = CheckForPlushy

I just think that scanning the inventory each sanity tick is not optimized enough.

 

It's better to make the item tell you if it enters or exits your inventory.

Edited July 17, 2015 by DarkXero

[DerpTime]

@DarkXero
Your a god.
This is perfect,

sorry for the late reply ...extended family came over and haven had a chance to try out some new stuff for my mod.