[Help] How to change a custom character speed ?

[AzurasLight]

Hi everyone, I'm pretty new in the modding of character and I need your advices.

I'd like to make my character run pretty fast when it's "day" period, a little less faster during "dawn" period, and at the same speed as Wilson at "night".

Do you guys know how I could do this ? I guess it's in the "scripts" and "prefabs" folders and into the character's_name.lua file, but I don't know how to do this, but I know that it's possible.

Thank you for your attention !

Edited February 17, 2016 by AzurasLight

[Kzisor]

On 2/17/2016 at 2:57 PM, AzurasLight said:

Hi everyone, I'm pretty new in the modding of character and I need your advices.

I'd like to make my character run pretty fast when it's "day" period, a little less faster during "dawn" period, and at the same speed as Wilson at "night".

Do you guys know how I could do this ? I guess it's in the "scripts" and "prefabs" folders and into the character's_name.lua file, but I don't know how to do this, but I know that it's possible.

Thank you for your attention !

prefab file

local day_speed = 5
local dusk_speed = 2.5
local night_speed = 1

local function onphase(inst, phase)
	local speed = 1
	
	if phase == "day" then speed = day_speed
	elseif phase == "dusk" then speed = dusk_speed
	else speed = night_speed
	end
	
	inst.components.locomotor:SetExternalSpeedMultiplier( inst, "Acceleration", speed )

end

master_postinit

inst:WatchWorldState("phase", onphase)

 

[SenL]

Wow cool code.

What is "Acceleration"? I see the function takes 3 params: source, key and m.

source is inst. speed is m. key is "Acceleration" ... is this just a custom key of locomotor internal array?

[Kzisor]

Just now, SenL said:

Wow cool code.

What is "Acceleration"? I see the function takes 3 params: source, key and m.

source is inst. speed is m. key is "Acceleration" ... is this just a custom key of locomotor internal array?

This is correct, because we need to have a way of knowing which speed multiplier to change. Technically you can have N speed multipliers on your character, where N is infinite(or as large as lua allows arrays).

[SenL]

So it can be any literal string we want?

 

Also speed =5 at day ... won't that be extremely fast? even 1.4 is very fast already.

Edited February 19, 2016 by SenL

[Kzisor]

2 minutes ago, SenL said:

So it can be any literal string we want?

Yes any string which lua allows.

[SenL]

I got a crash on "inst:WatchWorldState("phase", onphase)" saying attempting to index global 'inst' (a nil value).

Maybe put in prefab lua?

Edit: Omg I misread. Thought you said put in modmain lua.

Edited February 19, 2016 by SenL

[AzurasLight]

Ah, nice it works !

Thanks a lot !

Have a nice day !