Need Perk help and sound help!

[Boot]

Hello! I am making a modded character for DST and I'm having some issues with the perks and the character's voice.

1. I am trying to make a perk that makes the character not aggro monsters except for giants. I don't know/have any idea how to start that code or what that code is.

2. I edited my character's sound clips in Audacity and exported the audio files as .wav files. In FMOD I added the sounds to their corresponding categories (speech files for talk_LP, etc), and yet the sounds will not sound. They also do not sound in game. Why are the sounds silent? When I play them in media player they are fine.

[Boot]

Anyone able to help me?

[Zackreaver]

10 hours ago, Boot said:

Anyone able to help me?

Give it time, these forum's are full of people willing to help.

1. Put this in your modmain

if GLOBAL.TheNet:GetIsServer() then
	AddComponentPostInit("combat",function(self)
		local old = self.SuggestTarget
		self.SuggestTarget = function(self,target)
			if target and self.inst:HasTag("monster") and self.inst:HasTag("epic") == false and target:HasTag("monsterstealth") then
				return false
			end
			if old then
				return old(self,target)
			end
		end
	end)
end

and give your character 

inst:AddTag("monsterstealth")

at the end of their prefab.lua

And that should prevent "monsters" from aggroing you unless you attack them or they are a giant, this also technically prevents monsters from teaming up on you.  However you said only monsters so this doesn't include bunnymen if your holding meat, as they technically aren't monsters.

2. There's a tutorial on the forum's for custom sounds for characters, I can't quite remember which one I used otherwise I would link it.  If I find it I'll post it, though I think it's in one of the recommended tutorials section.

Edited February 2, 2016 by Zackreaver
Put in a check to see if target is nil.

[Boot]

I put in that large code into modmain and the inst:AddTag("monsterstealth") in the character.lua, but when i try to host the world I crash. What's that edit where you said "put in a check to see if target is nil"?

As for the sound, I used to follow the old sound guide but the download link for the fmod sound template and the guide has been altered since then. I tried following the esctemplate vid and everything should've worked out... I don't know why the sounds are silent.

[Boot]

I added the inst:AddTag("monsterstealth") under the section in the character.lua that said I could "add tags here," rather than at the end of the document. Now that works!  

So I think the only issue left is the sound that is silent.... 


((Merms still attack me o___o ))

Edited February 2, 2016 by Boot
merms still attack me

[Boot]

So I added a merm tag so merms don't hate me now, but tallbirds and MacTusk still hate me. Gosh...

and sound is still silent.

Edited February 2, 2016 by Boot

[Boot]

A friend helping me with the coding and sound. Apparently what you wrote here checks for the monster tag, but some mobs aren't monsters. Although I still need the monsterhealth tag, the code they gave is:

AddComponentPostInit("combat", function(Combat, inst)
    local SuggestTarget_prev = Combat.SuggestTarget
    function Combat:SuggestTarget(target)
        if target and target:HasTag("monsterstealth") and not inst:HasTag("epic") then
            return false
        else
            -- Target normally
            return SuggestTarget_prev(self, target)
        end
    end
end)
 

[Boot]

It's weird... I thought the perk was fixed but for some reason when I join servers with other players, the non aggression perk doesn't activate on me. But when I host alone, it works. Any ideas?