Help setting up mod config settings and getting the prefab of the item being added the data

[blazerdrive09]

Can someone show me how to properly set up the mod config data and be able to send the settings that you choose to the prefab lua file of the item being added? I know the code such as GetModConfigData(Variablename) that you can use in the modmain lua file but how does one get the settings sent to the prefab lua file. For example, I want to add a tag to the item as it is being created, however, AddPrefabPostInit in the Modmain lua file to add this tag so i want the config data to be sent to the prefab file so that the tag can be added in the prefab file instead which will make it usable by other lua files. This is for the don't Starve Together if the AddPrefabPostInit doesn't work in that as that would explain why the tag isn't getting added when it should in my current code. I want to start off adding the config settings fresh, don't want to fix my old code but if you can give me insight as to why it wasn't working that would be great.

 

ModMain:

PrefabFiles = 
{
    "compost_box"
}

Assets = 
{
        Asset( "IMAGE", "minimap/composter.tex" ),
        Asset( "ATLAS", "minimap/composter.xml" ),
        Asset("IMAGE", "images/inventoryimages/composter.tex"),
        Asset("ATLAS", "images/inventoryimages/composter.xml"),
}

        AddMinimapAtlas("minimap/composter.xml")
        
local require = GLOBAL.require
local Vector3 = GLOBAL.Vector3
local TUNING = GLOBAL.TUNING
local IsServer = GLOBAL.TheNet:GetIsServer()
local TheInput = GLOBAL.TheInput 
local ThePlayer = GLOBAL.ThePlayer
local net_entity = GLOBAL.net_entity

        STRINGS = GLOBAL.STRINGS
        RECIPETABS = GLOBAL.RECIPETABS
        Recipe = GLOBAL.Recipe
        Ingredient = GLOBAL.Ingredient
        TECH = GLOBAL.TECH
        local decaysinto = GetModConfigData("WHATTODECAYINTO")
        
        GLOBAL.STRINGS.NAMES.COMPOSTER = "Composter"

        STRINGS.RECIPE_DESC.COMPOSTER = "Get that Fertalizer!"

        GLOBAL.STRINGS.CHARACTERS.GENERIC.DESCRIBE.COMPOSTER = "It smells"

        local composter = GLOBAL.Recipe("composter",{ Ingredient("cutgrass", 6), Ingredient("poop", 2), Ingredient("log", 2) },                     
        RECIPETABS.FARM, TECH.SCIENCE_ONE, "composter_placer" )
        composter.atlas = "images/inventoryimages/composter.xml"
        
local function ComposterPost(inst)
    if GetModConfigData("WHATTODECAYINTO") == 1 then
            inst:AddTag("guano")
    else
        if GetModConfigData("WHATTODECAYINTO") == 2 then
            inst:AddTag("rot")
        end
    end
end
AddPrefabPostInit("compost_box", ComposterPost)

 

ModInfo:

name = "A composter"
description = "Let the fertalizer roll in!"
author = "Blazerdrive09 and Jd5team"
version = "1.0"

forumthread = ""

api_version = 6

dst_compatible = true
dont_starve_compatible = false
reign_of_giants_compatible = false
all_clients_require_mod = true

icon_atlas = "composter.xml"
icon = "composter.tex"

configuration_options =
{
{
    name = "WHATTODECAYINTO",
    label = "Decays Into",
    hover = "Whether food in the composter turns into guano or rot",
    options =    
    {
        {description = "Guano", data = 1},
        {description = "Rot", data = 2},
    },
    default = 1,
}
}    

[Mobbstar]

perhaps you should call "GetModConfigData" outside of the postinit fn and save the result in a variable

[blazerdrive09]

I tried that earlier with the local decaysinto = GetModConfigData("WHATTODECAYINTO") that I left then switched the GetMOdConfigData in hte postint fn with the decaysinto variable. It didn't work or should I not be making the decaysinto variable a local variable?

[DarkXero]

I switched the AddTags for print(1) and print(2) and it worked properly.

This should be working.

How do you know the tags aren't there?

Is there a mod I can check?

[blazerdrive09]

What do u mean print(1) and print(2)? As for how I know the tags aren't there, when i was testing it multiple times with different values for the data and other ways, The default being set to guano in all cases, it would always produce rot even if the default was guano and even if i went into the config options and made sure it was set to guano. I even removed the rot section: 

On 7/3/2016 at 11:29 PM, blazerdrive09 said:

 else
        if GetModConfigData("WHATTODECAYINTO") == 2 then
            inst:AddTag("rot")
        end

so that there it would only check if guano was selected or not and wouldn't ever run the addTag("rot") (which i never use in the file that checks if it needs to produce guano or rot anyway) and it would produce rot still (as rot is defaulted unless the tag guano exists).

As for Mod you can check, right now the version without config settings at all is uploaded to the steam workshop which I can link and it produces guano for all items put into the composter besides eggs. What I did to try to get the config settings right was add the settings to the modinfo, add the addprefabpostint to the modmain as seen above, then I added a section Owner:HasTag("guano") to the if statement in the perishable file (similar to how it checks if the container is an icebox or something else) where it turns a perishable item into rot so that i can check whether it has to turn into guano instead.

Steam link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=717667020

Edited July 6, 2016 by blazerdrive09

[blazerdrive09]

I figured it out through another method, I added a Global Tuning value in which I stored the modconfig data then in the prefab of the file, I called upon the tuning data and used an if statement to add the tags needed depending on the data and it worked. Thanks for all the help anyway guys, dont know why the original way i was trying to do it wasn't working.