Characters that come with a follower/pet

[beforeidecay96]

How exactly would I go about making a follower for my DST character?

 

I want to learn how to make a follower that's similar to Abigail, but I want it to be a human character instead of a ghost, and I'm not sure where to start or how to do something like that. I've tried looking at the lua and brain files for Abigail, but I still can't figure it out (I feel really overwhelmed trying to understand brain files).

 

Is there anyone who knows how to go about making a follower that can help me?

[beforeidecay96]

UPDATE: Me and my twin sister figured out how to get a follower on a character, but now we ran into a problem where each time we log in the character starts with another one of that follower.

Here's a photo in case my explanation was confusing:

And here's the prefab for the item that spawns the follower:

Spoiler

local assets =
{
Asset("ANIM", "anim/sukonbu.zip"),
Asset("ATLAS", "images/inventoryimages/sukonbu.xml"),
Asset("IMAGE", "images/inventoryimages/sukonbu.tex"),
}

local prefabs =
{

}


--Part of the Eyebone Testing
local SPAWN_DIST = 30

local function GetSpawnPoint(pt)
local theta = math.random() * 2 * PI
local radius = SPAWN_DIST
local offset = FindWalkableOffset(pt, theta, radius, 12, true)
return offset ~= nil and (pt + offset) or nil
end

local function SpawnKagura(inst)
if not inst.owner then
print("Error: Eyebone has no linked player!")
return
end
--print("kagura_eyebone - SpawnKagura")

local pt = inst:GetPosition()
--print(" near", pt)

local spawn_pt = GetSpawnPoint(pt)
if spawn_pt ~= nil then
--print(" at", spawn_pt)
local kagura = SpawnPrefab("summonkagura")
if kagura ~= nil then
kagura.Physics:Teleport(spawn_pt:Get())
kagura:FacePoint(pt:Get())
if inst.owner then
inst.owner.kagura = kagura
end
return kagura
end

--else
-- this is not fatal, they can try again in a new location by picking up the bone again
--print("kagura_eyebone - SpawnKagura: Couldn't find a suitable spawn point for kagura")
end
end

local StartRespawn

local function StopRespawn(inst)
--print("dogoo_kagura - StopRespawn")
if inst.respawntask ~= nil then
inst.respawntask:Cancel()
inst.respawntask = nil
inst.respawntime = nil
end
end

local function RebindKagura(inst, kagura)
kagura = kagura or (inst.owner and inst.owner.kagura)
if kagura ~= nil then
if inst.owner then
end
inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle", true)
inst:ListenForEvent("death", function()
if inst.owner then
inst.owner.kagura = nil
end
StartRespawn(inst, TUNING.CHESTER_RESPAWN_TIME)
end, kagura )
end
end

local function RespawnKagura(inst)
--print("kagura_eyebone - RespawnKagura")
StopRespawn(inst)
RebindKagura(inst, (inst.owner and inst.owner.kagura) or SpawnKagura(inst))
end

StartRespawn = function(inst, time)
StopRespawn(inst)

time = time or 0
inst.respawntask = inst:DoTaskInTime(time, RespawnKagura)
inst.respawntime = GetTime() + time
inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("dead", true)
end

local function StopRespawn(inst)
--print("kagura_eyebone - StopRespawn")
if inst.respawntask ~= nil then
inst.respawntask:Cancel()
inst.respawntask = nil
inst.respawntime = nil
end
end

local function FixKagura(inst)
inst.fixtask = nil
--take an existing kagura if there is one

if inst.components.inventoryitem.owner ~= nil then
local time_remaining = 0
local time = GetTime()
if inst.respawntime and inst.respawntime > time then
time_remaining = inst.respawntime - time
end
StartRespawn(inst, time_remaining)
end
end

local function OnPutInInventory(inst)
if inst.fixtask == nil then
inst.fixtask = inst:DoTaskInTime(1, FixKagura)
end
end

local function OnSave(inst, data)
--print("kagura_eyebone - OnSave")
--data.EyeboneState = inst.EyeboneState
if inst.respawntime ~= nil then
local time = GetTime()
if inst.respawntime > time then
data.respawntimeremaining = inst.respawntime - time
end
end
end

local function OnLoad(inst, data)
if data == nil then
return
end

if data.respawntimeremaining ~= nil then
inst.respawntime = data.respawntimeremaining + GetTime()
end
end

local function GetStatus(inst)
--print("smallbird - GetStatus")
if inst.respawntask ~= nil then
return "WAITING"
end
end

local function fn()

local inst = CreateEntity()

inst.entity:AddTransform()
inst.entity:AddAnimState()
inst.entity:AddNetwork()

MakeInventoryPhysics(inst)

inst.AnimState:SetBank("sukonbu")
inst.AnimState:SetBuild("sukonbu")
inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle")

inst:AddTag("_named")

if not TheWorld.ismastersim then
return inst
end

inst.persists = false

inst.entity:SetPristine()


inst:AddComponent("inspectable")
inst.components.inspectable.getstatus = GetStatus
inst.components.inspectable:RecordViews()
inst.components.inspectable.nameoverride = "kagura_eyebone"

inst:AddComponent("inventoryitem")
inst.components.inventoryitem.keepondeath = true
inst.components.inventoryitem.imagename = "sukonbu"
inst.components.inventoryitem.atlasname = "images/inventoryimages/sukonbu.xml"
inst.components.inventoryitem:SetOnPutInInventoryFn(OnPutInInventory)

inst:AddComponent("leader")
inst:AddComponent("named")

inst.fixtask = inst:DoTaskInTime(1, FixKagura)
inst.RebindKagura = RebindKagura

return inst

end


return Prefab("common/inventory/sukonbu", fn, assets, prefabs)

 

Some help would be really nice. Thanks!

[rons0n]

Are you using my caster mod to make this pet? Sadly to say that's really botched up with large chunks of the code smashed from other mods creating some messy goop. The pet doesn't do things as intended and there's a lot of redundancies(code-wise) in it.

If I we're you I'd work with the Personal Chester Mod instead and try to figure it out from there rather then work out the mess i've made.

If not, then good luck on your endeavors!

Edited January 15, 2016 by rons0n

[beforeidecay96]

12 hours ago, rons0n said:

Are you using my caster mod to make this pet? Sadly to say that's really botched up with large chunks of the code smashed from other mods creating some messy goop. The pet doesn't do things as intended and there's a lot of redundancies(code-wise) in it.

If I we're you I'd work with the Personal Chester Mod instead and try to figure it out from there rather then work out the mess i've made.

If not, then good luck on your endeavors!

We were using the rulebreaker prefab from your caster mod and the rest was from the bear Tibbers from your Annie mod.

At first my sister was trying to use the assassin just changing the animation where it looks like her character, but it wouldn't eat or accept items. So she looked around and then found Tibbers and decided to use the stategraph, brains, and Tibbers prefab. That fixed the problems with the follower not eating or accepting items, but now it spawns another each time she logs in.

We're going to take a look at the Personal Chester mod now, thank you so much for suggesting it!

Your mods are really good, and coding is hard sometimes, so don't get discouraged or feel like you shouldn't make mods. ^^;

[beforeidecay96]

UPDATE: My sister was able to fix the spawning issue, all thanks to your suggestion to look at the Personal Chester mod! Thank you so much, rons0n!!<3