How do I make a custom book that makes local rain / melts snow?

[RustyNayle]

Hi guys, I want my Wanda character to be able to craft a scroll that forces precipitation locally (increasing farm yields and causing mushrooms to start growing again), and causes snow to melt (making continued farming possible during Winter).  Please help?  Cheers, Rusty

Edited November 2, 2015 by RustyNayle

[RustyNayle]

Charlie the Gardener ( http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=417049595 ) has a book that causes global rain, I'm just wondering if local rain is possible?

[Kzisor]

@RustyNayle, local rain is possible, however, it will require a good amount of effort in order for you to get it to work correctly. You will basically have to recreate the entire way weather works in order to have localized weather conditions.

[Mobbstar]

@RustyNayle, local rain is possible, however, it will require a good amount of effort in order for you to get it to work correctly. You will basically have to recreate the entire way weather works in order to have localized weather conditions.

 

I'd think "simply" making a prefab that spawns rain fx around it (or for the players around it) and causes nearby things to become wet (which is a mechanic I to this day do not understand) is sufficient. Of course, this prefab would have to disappear when real precip starts.

[Kzisor]

I'd think "simply" making a prefab that spawns rain fx around it (or for the players around it) and causes nearby things to become wet (which is a mechanic I to this day do not understand) is sufficient.

 

The problem is with how things 'become' wet. It's so intertwined with the weather mechanics that creating said prefab is essentially creating a completely new weather system.

[RustyNayle]

Damn, I just wrote a whole bunch of stuff but I think Klei auto signed me out or something, so I lost it all!

 

Anyways, just quickly, I spent some time looking at the lines of code for global rain book of Charlie the Gardener (417049595), ability to fertilise during winter by Walter the Botanist (422744946), and Wren the Stormcaller (417238901) looking for some lines of code.

 

 

Charlie's charliebooks.lua :

 

function rainfn(inst, reader)

    local pt = Vector3(reader.Transform:GetWorldPosition())

 

    reader.components.sanity:DoDelta(-TUNING.SANITY_LARGE)

 

    local range = 90

    local ents = TheSim:FindEntities(pt.x, pt.y, pt.z, range)

    for k, v in pairs(ents) do

if v.components.burnable then

v.components.burnable:Extinguish()

end

end

TheWorld:PushEvent("ms_forceprecipitation")

    return true

end

 

function growfn(inst, reader)

    local pt = Vector3(reader.Transform:GetWorldPosition())

 

    reader.components.sanity:DoDelta(-TUNING.SANITY_LARGE)

 

    local range = 30

    local ents = TheSim:FindEntities(pt.x, pt.y, pt.z, range)

    for k, v in pairs(ents) do

        if v.components.pickable ~= nil then

            v.components.pickable:FinishGrowing()

        end

 

        if v.components.crop ~= nil then

            v.components.crop:DoGrow(TUNING.TOTAL_DAY_TIME * 3)

        end

        

        if v.components.growable ~= nil and v:HasTag("tree") and not v:HasTag("stump") then

            v.components.growable:DoGrowth()

        end

    end

    return true

end

 

 

Walter's modmain.lua :

 

AddComponentPostInit("crop", function(self)

    local old = self.Fertilize

    function self:Fertilize(fertilizer)

        local pt = self.inst:GetPosition()

        local ents = GLOBAL.TheSim:FindEntities(pt.x, pt.y, pt.z, 5, {"player", "greenthumb"}, {"playerghost"})

        if #ents > 0 then

            self.growthpercent = self.growthpercent + fertilizer.components.fertilizer.fertilizervalue * self.rate

            self.inst.AnimState:SetPercent("grow", self.growthpercent)

            if self.growthpercent >=1 then

                self.inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("grow_pst")

                self:Mature()

                self.task:Cancel()

                self.task = nil

            end

            if (fertilizer.components.stackable ~= nil) then

                fertilizer.components.stackable:Get(1):Remove()

            end

            return true

        else

            return old(self, fertilizer)

        end

    end

end)

 

 

weather.lua from the C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Don't Starve Together\data\scripts\components\ has 981 lines of code, I was trying to extract some of the code terminology such as wetness, moisture, pollen, snow.tex, mud.tex, puddles, etc

 

Anyway, I've wasted enough time typing this twice, I'll have to come back and look at this later.

[RustyNayle]

Gosh, it looks like there's others such as moisture.lua to look through as well...  I don't know if raising the local temperature is necessary as well as the rain to melt snow / make farms yieldable again in Winter.

 

Anyway, rather than actually simulating local rain over time, there could be one big instantaneous downpour effect that does something similar to Wickerbottom's Applied Agriculture (and Charlie's rainbook, which has similar effects included) with some of the following effects:

 

Pickables (grass, twigs, etc) finish growing

Farms and berry bushes mature (or have their day number tuned, which is what Wicker's book does?)

Mushrooms re-grow

Non-stump trees grow

 

As well as,

 

Characters and other prefabs in the area increase wetness

Snow melts

Puddles (mud) form

Firepit, camp fire and torch durability reduces (i.e. burn out)

Chance of lightning or frog rain

 

Here's the code from Wickerbottom's books.lua in the DST prefabs directory,

 

function growfn(inst, reader)

    local pt = Vector3(reader.Transform:GetWorldPosition())

 

    reader.components.sanity:DoDelta(-TUNING.SANITY_LARGE)

 

    local range = 30

    local ents = TheSim:FindEntities(pt.x, pt.y, pt.z, range)

    for k, v in pairs(ents) do

        if v.components.pickable ~= nil then

            v.components.pickable:FinishGrowing()

        end

 

        if v.components.crop ~= nil then

            v.components.crop:DoGrow(TUNING.TOTAL_DAY_TIME * 3, true)

        end

        

        if v.components.growable ~= nil and v:HasTag("tree") and not v:HasTag("stump") then

            v.components.growable:DoGrowth()

        end

    end

    return true

end

 

Edited November 30, 2015 by RustyNayle

[RustyNayle]

Oh, I just realised that the Charlie book actually does everything the Wickerbottom book does, and then just makes it rain globally, and instantly extinguishes stuff, so you didn't really need me to copy the Wicker book code again

[Kzisor]

@RustyNayle, the weather.lua component OnUpdate function is what handles snow melting etc.

[RustyNayle]

Thanks @Kzisor .  I'm supergreen to coding, if it weren't for the help from those such as @Zackreaver and @DarkXero, my Wanda mod character would have only been custom stats and starting inventory, but you guys are all so generously helping me to make her into a much more immersive playing experience.  @DarkXero , any idea how to make this book work?

[RustyNayle]

I was thinking, maybe Wanda could make anti-freeze fertiliser water balloons using Glommer goop, or something? Maybe that would be a more simple local effect, rather than a downpour

[Maris]

Guys, what do you think about local season? Is it possible in general?

All season mechanics should depend on item/player position.

[DarkXero]

Guys, what do you think about local season? Is it possible in general?

 

Would require you to remove seasons from world_network and adding a player_seasons component or something.

 

The component would update itself when the player enters a new part of the map.

 

All season mechanics should depend on item/player position.

 

The mechanics are here already. Look up the areaaware component.

It helps the monkeys transform in nightmare areas when the phase is right.

Nightmare areas are rooms with "Nightmare" tag.

 

So to make seasonal biomes, you would have to go through all tasks and rooms, putting "autumn" (only autumn in the area), "winter", "spring", "summer", "autumn/winter (autumn then winter then autumn again cycle)", "autumn/winter/spring", "autumn/winter/spring/summer" (complete cycle in area) tags.

 

Then you have to edit all the world temperature and stuff depending on seasons, if needed. World temperature depends on season, so you would need player_worldtemperature component.

 

Basically, a lot of rewriting.

[RustyNayle]

So, are we talking about powerful spellbooks that actually add a temporary tag to the current area of turf to make it Spring on just those tiles; making it rain, causing snow to melt, mushrooms to regrow, flowers to multiply (pollinate), and farms to yield quicker?  What about a craftable turf that is Spring all the time using really rare items so they can only make enough for a couple of farms?

Edited December 13, 2015 by RustyNayle

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