components.talker:Say doesn't actually say anything

[whismerhill]

Hi,

having an issue here.

I made a character which has two ways to level up : either it eats stuff & gets awarded experience or it battles creatures & gets awarded experience.

When leveling up from battle the character says something & it works fine. When leveling up from eating, the character is supposed to say the same something but it does not fire up. I suspect it's because the eating animation is taking place ??? IF that's the case then how to circumvent that problem ? maybe wait till eating is finished ? but I have no idea how to do that.
Thanks.

Spoiler

local function levelupfx(inst)
	-- NEED to apply a factor 1000 to each level instant
	-- REASON is floor & floating point values do not behave correctly
	-- example when incrementing from  by 0.1 values, 5 might become in reality 4.999999999999
	-- then floor 4.99 = 4 whereas 5 was the expected result
	inst.HUD.controls.status.heart:PulseGreen()
	inst.HUD.controls.status.stomach:PulseGreen()
	inst.HUD.controls.status.brain:PulseGreen()		
	inst.HUD.controls.status.brain:ScaleTo(1.3,1,.7)
	inst.HUD.controls.status.heart:ScaleTo(1.3,1,.7)
	inst.HUD.controls.status.stomach:ScaleTo(1.3,1,.7)
	local lvl = (math.floor(inst.level))/1000
	inst.components.talker:Say("Level Up! : " .. lvl)
	SeasonManager:DoMediumLightning()
end

 

local function oneat(inst, food) --leveling up on eating fish	
	if food then
		if (food.prefab == "fish" or food.prefab == "tropical_fish" or food.prefab == "fish_raw") then
			if inst.level < 60000 then
				local previouslevel = math.floor(inst.level/1000)
				local xpdivisor = (math.floor(inst.level/50/1000)+1) *100
				if inst.level < 30000 then 
					inst.level = inst.level + 500 --instead of 0.5 since multiplied by 1000 (half a level)
				else
					inst.level = inst.level + 200 --instead of 0.1 (tenth of a level)
					if previouslevel ~= math.floor(inst.level/1000) then
						levelupfx(inst)
						applyupgrades(inst)
					else
						inst.components.talker:Say("Current XP: " .. ((inst.level/1000 - previouslevel)*xpdivisor) .. " Next level at:" .. (xpdivisor) )
					end
				end
			end
		end
	end	
end

 

Sidenote1: the medium lightning from season manager is not working either, though that wasn't the point of this post, and I'm probably gonna post about this later. Actually searching for an effect more visible than "pulsegreen" without having to create art (which I'm very bad at)

Sidenote2: the XP "say" doesn't work either (and again it works for the award battle xp function)

Sidenote3: some comments are outdated

[Mobbstar]

If you want a lightning flash, call the clock component using "GetClock()" and do lightning lighting. You could instead use wolfgang's "powerup" though.

I think the cracked tallbird egg does what you are trying to achieve.

[whismerhill]

GetClock():DoLightningLighting works but only for the battle xp system. Thanks.

again having the issue that :

- when using the battle system, levelups & xp display & lightning flash work

- when eating, levelups, xp display & lightning do not work. however the greenpulse do fireup

 

EDIT: no idea what you meant for the tallbird cracked eggs ... I looked at the tallbirdegg prefab didn't see anything particular

Edited May 23, 2016 by whismerhill

[DarkXero]

46 minutes ago, whismerhill said:

- when eating, levelups, xp display & lightning do not work. however the greenpulse do fireup

You don't need your code to get a green pulse when eating something.

What triggers the oneat function? An event? Is it a function assigned to your eater component?

 

Put prints inside your function like

print("I'm here")

to follow the ifs.

[whismerhill]

local fn = function(inst)
	inst.soundsname = "wendy"
	inst.MiniMapEntity:SetIcon( "h02.tex" )
	inst.level = 0
	inst.components.eater:SetOnEatFn(oneat)

 

THANKS A TON Darkxero ! Your input actually put me on the right track, I reviewed my code and the if statement that fired up the levelupfx is badly located ... don't know how I missed that, I've written that part of the code I should know better

fixed & works now. OMG what a stupid mistake lol. Here's the corrected oneat function for reference :

Spoiler

 

local function oneat(inst, food) --leveling up on eating fish	
	if food then
		if (food.prefab == "fish" or food.prefab == "tropical_fish" or food.prefab == "fish_raw") then
			if inst.level < 60000 then
				local previouslevel = math.floor(inst.level/1000)
				local xpdivisor = (math.floor(inst.level/50/1000)+1) *100
				if inst.level < 30000 then 
					inst.level = inst.level + 500 --instead of 0.5 since multiplied by 1000 (half a level)
				else
					inst.level = inst.level + 200 --instead of 0.1 (tenth of a level)
				end
				if previouslevel ~= math.floor(inst.level/1000) then
						levelupfx(inst)
						applyupgrades(inst)
					else
						inst.components.talker:Say("Current XP: " .. ((inst.level/1000 - previouslevel)*xpdivisor) .. " Next level at:" .. (xpdivisor),5)
				end
			end
		end
	end	
end

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 24, 2016 by whismerhill