A Few Questions

[Aquaterion]

I don't wanna spam the forums with threads so im just gonna post all my questions here...

1. Can you get where the player is looking(North/south/east or west)?

2. Is there anything I can do to check if spawned prefab spawns over water? Say I wanna spawn something at random coords, it has a chance of spawning over water, which I want to avoid..

3. Are Animated equipped items/inventory items possible? I feel like this would be possible by code but I don't know about using an actual animation done in .scml

4. Is it possible to make an equip item modify only the eyes?

5. Is there a way to test the client-side version of the mod without having 2 steam accounts or 2 computers?

6. I've seen people say you can change the priority of when your mod is loaded, but I can't find an example.. anyone know how?

7. Can you resize text for the item name in a recipe? Long names seem to just get cut off.

 

If you know the answer to any of these, put the number of the question on your reply or something

 

Edited March 15, 2016 by Aquaterion

[Muche]

1. widgets/hudcompass.lua|GetCompassHeading() is using TheCamera:GetHeading().

2. consolecommands.lua|c_tile() and components/map.lua are using TheWorld.Map:GetTileAtPoint(point).

5. I routinely test client-side of a mod by starting my local dedicated server (via Steam/Tools/DST Dedicated server; same account, same PC).
This does require more powerful computer than just running the client. Also some things could be more tricky to test: e.g. non-admin functionality, or interaction between two players.

Edited March 9, 2016 by Muche

[Aquaterion]

8 minutes ago, Muche said:

1. widgets/hudcompass.lua|GetCompassHeading() is using TheCamera:GetHeading().

2. consolecommands.lua|c_tile() and components/map.lua are using TheWorld.Map:GetTileAtPoint(point).

5. I routinely test client-side of a mod by starting my local dedicated server (via Steam/Tools/DST Dedicated server; same account, same PC).
This does require more powerful computer than just running the client. Also some things could be more tricky to test: e.g. non-admin functionality, or interaction between two players.

I'll check out 1 and 2 when I can, as for 5, do dedicated servers support non workshop mods? or do I have to keep uploading the new versions?

[Muche]

Since it is running on my local machine, I can do whatever I want with it, including enabling non-workshop mods. Just make sure that server and client have the same version of the tested mod, otherwise you could be trying to investigate bugs that at the first sight make no sense whatsoever.

[Muche]

Mine is at Documents/Klei/DoNotStarveTogetherDedicated/Cluster_1/cluster_token.txt, as the server_log states it is loading it from there.

[Aquaterion]

On 3/9/2016 at 8:47 PM, Muche said:

1. widgets/hudcompass.lua|GetCompassHeading() is using TheCamera:GetHeading().

2. consolecommands.lua|c_tile() and components/map.lua are using TheWorld.Map:GetTileAtPoint(point).

As for 2. It worked great thanks, but for 1, while I haven't tried it yet, I feel that would only get the rotation of the camera(when you press Q and E) and not where the player is actually looking, so i need to also get the player rotation.. hmm tricky

[Muche]

components/locomotor.lua|RunInDirection() is using inst.Transform:SetRotation(); there is indeed inst.Transform:GetRotation(), also accessible via inst:GetRotation().

[Aquaterion]

1 minute ago, Muche said:

components/locomotor.lua|RunInDirection() is using inst.Transform:SetRotation(); there is indeed inst.Transform:GetRotation(), also accessible via inst:GetRotation().

ye that's what i meant by player rotation, but I thought i will have to do some math with camera and rotation, but that's not that case, however, turning the camera doesn't update your rotation, only moving does

[Kzisor]

7 hours ago, Aquaterion said:

ye that's what i meant by player rotation, but I thought i will have to do some math with camera and rotation, but that's not that case, however, turning the camera doesn't update your rotation, only moving does

if not TheCamera:GetHeading() == ThePlayer:GetRotation then
	-- use camera heading
else
	-- use player rotation
end

 

[Aquaterion]

Added 2 more questions

[Muche]

6. Set priority variable in modinfo. Higher number (i.e. positive) means earlier loading, lower number (i.e. negative) means later loading.
I'd suggest adding a comment next to it with an explanation what mod is this reference to.

 

7. You can try something like

AddClassPostConstruct("widgets/recipepopup", function (self)
    local old_Refresh = self.Refresh
    function self:Refresh()
        old_Refresh(self)
        local len = #self.name:GetString()
        if len > 20 then
            self.name:SetHorizontalSqueeze(20/len)
        else
            self.name:SetHorizontalSqueeze(1)
        end
    end
end)

 

@V2C, is is somehow possible to reset the RegionSize property of TextWidget, so subsequent call of text:GetRegionSize() returns true length of the text, that is, so following examples return the same sizes?

local Text = require "widgets/text"

local t1 = Text(DEFAULTFONT, 24, "Foobar", WHITE)
local w1, h1 = t1:GetRegionSize()
print(string.format("w1=%d, h1=%d", w1, h1))

local t2 = Text(DEFAULTFONT, 24, "Foobar", WHITE)
local w2a, h2a = t2:GetRegionSize()
t2:SetRegionSize(20, 20)
-- t2:SetRegionSize(nil, nil) -- example
local w2, h2 = t2:GetRegionSize()
print(string.format("w2a=%d, h2a=%d, w2=%d, h2=%d", w2a, h2a, w2, h2))

 

[Aquaterion]

2 hours ago, Muche said:

6. Set priority variable in modinfo. Higher number (i.e. positive) means earlier loading, lower number (i.e. negative) means later loading.
I'd suggest adding a comment next to it with an explanation what mod is this reference to.

 

7. You can try something like

AddClassPostConstruct("widgets/recipepopup", function (self)
    local old_Refresh = self.Refresh
    function self:Refresh()
        old_Refresh(self)
        local len = #self.name:GetString()
        if len > 20 then
            self.name:SetHorizontalSqueeze(20/len)
        else
            self.name:SetHorizontalSqueeze(1)
        end
    end
end)

 

 

Thanks that worked, while very long names are barely readable, I only have 1 really long name which I can probably shorten, so ye thanks

[V2C]

5 hours ago, Muche said:

@V2C, is is somehow possible to reset the RegionSize property of TextWidget, so subsequent call of text:GetRegionSize() returns true length of the text, that is, so following examples return the same sizes?

Unfortunately that does not work in our code, as you will see we've worked around that in many of our screens as well.