Client Stategraph Issue Question

[Stikyhooves]

Hey folks. I think this may be my first post. I am having an issue with a stategraph for my character mod.

Here is the scenario: (the working parts first for background) 

• Custom character has a rifle.
• The rifle is re loadable with a crafted clip. - this part works great.
  • (thank you to Ecu and his Blowgun-revamped for a lot of the coding I borrowed for this. ) 
• The loading the rifle currently uses a local function,  AddAction, Actionhandler, and AddStategraphActionHandler to cause doing the reload in game to que the "dolongaction" bit. - This works great and I like it. (additionally much borrowed from Ecu I think... but it has been a while and this code was revamped quite a bit) I have this working for both client and server. 

Here is where my trouble comes in: 

• There are also AddActions, Actionhandlers, and AddStategraphActionHandlers for the act of shooting the gun. (Thanks to ZupaleX for the excellent Archery mod - I did borrow considerably from this) 
•  Right now the mod works great when I am hosting, but if anyone else is hosting the mod crashes when I fire the gun. Other than that there are no issues. The crash log. 
  • [00:02:20]: [string "scripts/actions.lua"]:573: attempt to index field 'combat' (a nil value)
    • LUA ERROR stack traceback:
          scripts/actions.lua:573 in (field) fn (Lua) <572-575>
          scripts/bufferedaction.lua:24 in (method) Do (Lua) <20-34>
          scripts/entityscript.lua:1234 in (method) PerformBufferedAction (Lua) <1226-1244>
          ../mods/Wren 0.10 - 754/modmain.lua:494 in (field) fn (Lua) <491-496>
          scripts/stategraph.lua:568 in (method) UpdateState (Lua) <536-580>
          scripts/stategraph.lua:607 in (method) Update (Lua) <599-627>
          scripts/stategraph.lua:125 in (method) Update (Lua) <109-148>
          scripts/update.lua:209 in () ? (Lua) <150-223>
  • My understanding here is that I am not correctly setting up my initial references. to the combat action. I don't think that the issue is in the 'bulk' of the stategraph. 
     
• All of the below code is in my modmain
  • Here is my action code: (also, I am aware right now that this code results in the blowdart being swung like a melee weapon. I can fix that, but it is not a priority right now) 

  • local newshootaction_client
     
    local function newshootaction_client(inst)
                if not (inst.replica.health:IsDead() or inst.sg:HasStateTag("attack")) then
    				local weapon = inst.replica.inventory:GetEquippedItem(EQUIPSLOTS.HANDS) or nil
    				if weapon and weapon:HasTag("sniper_rifle") and not inst.sg:HasStateTag("attack") and inst.replica.combat then
    					if inst.replica.combat then
    					return (weapon:HasTag("sniper_rifle") and "snipershot")
    					end
    				else
    					return "attack"
    				end
    			end
    end	
    
    AddStategraphActionHandler("wilson_client", ActionHandler(ACTIONS.ATTACK, newshootaction_client))

     

  • Here is the heading of my stategraph. (I am happy to post the whole thing if that is helpful, but it is very long):

  • local snipershot_client = State({
            name = "snipershot",
            tags = { "attack", "notalking", "abouttoattack", "autopredict" },
    
        onenter = function(inst)
            local buffaction = inst:GetBufferedAction()
            local target = buffaction ~= nil and buffaction.target or nil
    		local equip = inst.replica.inventory:GetEquippedItem(EQUIPSLOTS.HANDS)
    		local wornhat = inst.replica.inventory:GetEquippedItem(EQUIPSLOTS.HEAD)
    		
    		global_weapname = equip.prefab
    		
            inst.components.locomotor:Stop()

     

  • Here are my initial declarations that are in the modmain separate from a function: (I will confess that this is messy as I have multiple things going on)

  • local resolvefilepath = GLOBAL.resolvefilepath  -- What is this for?
    
    local require = GLOBAL.require
    local STRINGS = GLOBAL.STRINGS
    local Text = require "widgets/text"
    local Image = require "widgets/image"
    local Recipe = GLOBAL.Recipe
    local RECIPETABS = GLOBAL.RECIPETABS
    local TECH = GLOBAL.TECH
    
    ---------------------------FROM GUN--------
    local FRAMES = GLOBAL.FRAMES
    local ACTIONS = GLOBAL.ACTIONS
    local State = GLOBAL.State
    local EventHandler = GLOBAL.EventHandler
    local ActionHandler = GLOBAL.ActionHandler
    local TimeEvent = GLOBAL.TimeEvent
    
    local EQUIPSLOTS = GLOBAL.EQUIPSLOTS
    
    local require = GLOBAL.require
    
    
    GLOBAL.INVINFO = {}
    -----------------------------
    
    local global_facing
    		 
    local global_targetisok          
    local global_gunisloaded         
    local global_conditions_fulfilled
    
    local global_weapname

     

• I feel like I know just enough to get in deep but still make rookie mistakes. Hopefully what I am missing will be obvious to someone here. I've been stabbing at this for a week now and just can't get it quite right.
  
   

Any help would be appreciated. Otherwise I will just keep using my rifle like a blowgun in my non-hosted games.   (in my alternate 'client friendly' version)

 

Bonus question: On an unrelated note, in case someone feels they know. I also can't use my gun in melee range. I don't mind this because it seems like a bad idea, but I am not sure why this is taking place. I assume this has to do with tags in the weapon's prefab. 

[Ecu]

Just popping in to give ya a lil bump and to let you know that I'm glad someone got use out of my code.  I couldn't figure out how to do the animation for it, so never managed to get it working perfectly.  It is good to hear that you got use out of it none the less.