Configurable Dark Sword

[Spoderthewhiteknight]

I was wondering if anyone could help me here. I wanted to know if there was a way to make my character be able to spawn with a Dark Sword by toggling it on in the mod menu. and have the option to leave it and have him spawn sword-less

[PanAzej]

--- in master_postinit ---
inst.OnNewSpawn = function (inst)
	if some value then
		local sword = SpawnPrefab("nightsword")
		inst.components.inventory:GiveItem(sword)
	end
end

Something like that?

[Spoderthewhiteknight]

I keep putting it in Master_postinit but the the configuration doesn't show up when enabling the mod. and if i host a game with it the game crashes.
I get the error msg 'then' expected near 'value'

Edited August 4, 2016 by Spoderthewhiteknight

[DarkXero]

To make something configurable, you add an option in configuration_options in modinfo.

Example:

configuration_options =
{
	{
		name = "start_dark_sword",
		label = "Start With Dark Sword",
		options = {
			{description = "Yes", data = true},
			{description = "No", data = false}
		},
		default = true,
	},
}

Now we retrieve in modmain, the value of the configuration:

GLOBAL.TUNING.WAFFLES_START_WITH_DARK_SWORD = GetModConfigData("start_dark_sword")

and we store it in the tuning table of the game with a unique identifier.

Now in our character prefab we have access to that value in the tuning table.

For example, my character starts with two meat, and one optional dark sword:

local start_inv = {
	"meat",
	"meat",
}

if TUNING.WAFFLES_START_WITH_DARK_SWORD then
	table.insert(start_inv, "nightsword")
end

If the value stored is true, then we get a sword in our starting inventory.

start_inv is a parameter of the MakePlayerCharacter function at the end of our character prefab file.

return MakePlayerCharacter("waffles", prefabs, assets, common_postinit, master_postinit, start_inv)

 

[Spoderthewhiteknight]

Thank you both alot for the help. Its working now.