Question about new waxwelljournal

[kelsuis]

so we got an update with Maxwell and his journal that dropped on the floor and let us craft follower from it.

I try to edit this to use in my own mod. Idea is to activate crafting follower on equip x item instead of drop it on the floor.

I carefully follow what it need to create shadow follower so far, but stumble on this lines from waxwelljournal that I don't understand.

inst:AddComponent("prototyper")
    inst.components.prototyper.onturnon = onturnon --
    inst.components.prototyper.onturnoff = onturnoff -- } not sure what these three lines meaning, but it relate to fuction that mostly 
    inst.components.prototyper.onactivate = onactivate -- start animation or make some sound
    inst.components.prototyper.trees = TUNING.PROTOTYPER_TREES.WAXWELLJOURNAL -- not sure what to with this

looking into prototyper component doesn't help me much too.

I know we create recipe in mod main and restrict it to tech needed to craft it, but how to do it in this case?

also notice that I need to add some line into "OnEquip fucntion" to activate prototyper somehow, but which one.

[Muche]

I think the reason the journal has to be on the ground when using it is the way prototyper availability is done - components/builder:EvaluateTechTrees() gets the list of available prototypers by calling

local ents = TheSim:FindEntities(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z, TUNING.RESEARCH_MACHINE_DIST, { "prototyper" }, self.exclude_tags)

i.e. it looks for nearby entities.

You could try changing inst.components.builder.*_bonus in OnEquip and OnUnequip functions.

[kelsuis]

1 hour ago, Muche said:

I think the reason the journal has to be on the ground when using it is the way prototyper availability is done - components/builder:EvaluateTechTrees() gets the list of available prototypers by calling

local ents = TheSim:FindEntities(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z, TUNING.RESEARCH_MACHINE_DIST, { "prototyper" }, self.exclude_tags)

i.e. it looks for nearby entities.

You could try changing inst.components.builder.*_bonus in OnEquip and OnUnequip functions.

Yes this definitely work for activate builder on equip. Thank you.