Uncommon action for item

[Dragold]

I'm trying to make new hand item witch custom action.

In my modutil.lua I have code like:

AddAction("MYACTION", "Do Act", function(act)
   	--DO SOMETHING
end)

In myitem.lua added:

inst:AddComponent("tool")
inst:SetAction(ACTIONS.MYACTION)

Obviously doesn't work, game crashes ("attempt to call SetAction nil value"), but i have no idea how to add action to "tool" or go around problem.

[DarkXero]

inst.components.tool:SetAction(ACTIONS.MYACTION)

 

[Dragold]

Your solution causes another problem: invalid tool action.

I foud that actions are saved in TOOLACTIONS variable in constats.lua but when im trying do add my action by TOOLACTIONS["MYACTION"] = true in modmain.lua game crashes. Btw. I can't see why. My log.txt is always empty, even if I had like 20 crashes so far with info like "check your log.txt".

 

I had to copy my addaction code from modutil.lua to modmain.lua becouse of ""actions" nil value". modutil.lua is a big lie. Game don't see it. So wy some people writes about using modutil.lua?

Edited July 18, 2016 by Dragold

[DarkXero]

19 hours ago, Dragold said:

So wy some people writes about using modutil.lua?

They say use, as in, read it and use the functions it provides to use in the mod environment.

You can use AddAction in modmain because in modutil you can read

env.AddAction = function( id, str, fn )

and other classic ones like

env.AddComponentPostInit = function(component, fn)

and

env.AddPrefabPostInit = function(prefab, fn)