New to scripting need a little help with a few things I would like to do for a character

[samebutirl]

I am creating a character that I would like to make it so she losses no sanity around Catoon, beefalo, birds, and chester the frog thing. I would also like to make it so she losses sanity more quickly while being around spiders. I am not sure if such a script could be made but If so I would love to know how to create a script like this. 

 

Thanks. - Xavier

[HandsomeJack]

Can you link your characters prefab files? I would like to take a look and see if I could help you

[samebutirl]

I think this is what you would be looking for I can also send the alura_none.lua if that is what you would be looking for like I said quite new to all of this. 

alura.lua

[HandsomeJack]

Thank you. That's all I need I will be updating here if I make any progress  Not exactly sure myself how this works yet, but I'll do my best

[samebutirl]

Thank you even for the attempted  

[Zer000]

AddPrefabPostInit("spider", function(inst)

inst.components.sanityaura.aura = -TUNING.SANITYAURA_MED(or LARGE)

I don't know if it works like that, but you could try..

 

[IvanX]

First of all. How does sanity drain aura work:

Sanity drain is caused by sanityaura component on the given PREFAB towards OBSERVER. That means if you want catcoon to give you sanity, then you have to:

1. AddPrefabPostInit("catcoon", ...)
2. check if catcoon has sanityaura component
2.2. if he does not - call AddComponent("sanityaura") on him
3. perform assignment inst.component.sanityaura.aurafn = YourSanityAuraFunction

To see an example you can open prefabs/spiderqueen.

The point is spider queen gives has sanity aura that affects everyone except webber, whats so special about webber? He has "spiderwhisperer" tag.

Thus, add a custom tag to your character aka "animalhater"

And within YourSanityAuraFunction, add the same stuff that prefabs/spiderqueen:CalcSanityAura function has:

local function YourSanityAuraFunction(inst, observer)
    return observer:HasTag("animalhater") and -TUNING.SANITYAURA_MEDIUM or 0
end

 

This way only your character will suffer sanity aura drain.

Edited July 22, 2016 by IvanX

[IvanX]

Note also, that you have to check if the animal already HAS some sort of inst.component.sanityaura.aurafn.

Incase it does you should do something like this:

local old_aurafn = inst.components.sanityaura.aurafn
local new_aurafn = function(inst, observer)
	return observer:HasTag("animalhater") and -TUNING.SANITYAURA_MEDIUM or old_aurafn
end
inst.components.sanityaura.aurafn = new_aurafn

 

Edited July 22, 2016 by IvanX