solved Recipe weirdness

[whismerhill]

I don't get it:

I am rewritting pretty much from scratch a mod to dig out sinkholes (e.g. create caves). I know you can do it in console but what's the fun in that ? ^^

Mainly because all mods I found on the subject overwrite cave_entrance.lua & therefore have a bunch of issues, since there's at least 2 versions of it, depending on DLC. So the goal was for the sinkhole to not be covered by rock so I got this idea :

temprecipe = GLOBAL.Recipe("cave_entrance.open", {Ingredient("rope", 20)}, RECIPETABS.TOWN,  TECH.NONE, "cave_entrance_placer")

the strange thing, is "cave_entrance.open"  worked ... once. Since then I had image/atlas/string problems and strangely this does not work anymore

when you place it, the character says : "I can't do that". "cave_entrance" works but places the rock on it which you will dig out & recover lots of ingredients used for construction.... plus it doesn't make much sense to dig out access to the underworld, and then place a rock on it to dig it out again xD

Edited September 28, 2016 by whismerhill

[Mobbstar]

You could create a dummy prefab to spawn a cave entrance and unplug it immediately.

[whismerhill]

after trying again & again I must have dreamed that it worked one time...

So I'm trying to go the dummy prefab way : here's the result

everything is working, got recipe, text, image, placer but on placing the recipe I get the error message (in console, doesn't crash DS)

Spoiler

scripts/mainfunctions.lua(145,1) Failed to spawn    cave_entrance_dummy

here's the content of cave_entrance_dummy.lua :

require "prefabutil"
local function onbuilt(sim) 
	local item = SpawnPrefab("cave_entrance")
	-- _G.cave_entrance.Open(item)
	--inst:remove()
end
return Prefab ( "cave_entrance_dummy", onbuilt, nil, nil), MakePlacer( "common/cave_entrance_placer", "cave_entrance", "cave_entrance", "idle_open" )

as you can see there's some commented out stuff. I'm trying to make the dummy work first & foremost ^^. Have a hard time finding examples of dummy prefabs out there

[Mobbstar]

you forgot "return item" at the end of the "onbuilt" function

...
return item
end
return Prefab ...

[whismerhill]

haaaaa return is not my friend I'm afraid xD. Thanks a bunch this dummy prefab now works, just need to Open it now lol (which is the whole point of its existence)

Edited September 28, 2016 by whismerhill

[Mobbstar]

44 minutes ago, whismerhill said:

haaaaa return is not my friend I'm afraid xD. Thanks a bunch this dummy prefab now works, just need to Open it now lol (which is the whole point of its existence)

inst.components.workable:WorkedBy(GetPlayer(), inst.components.workable.workleft)

GetPlayer() is exclusive to singleplayer, it won't work in DST, but you could easily work around that using the "onbuilt" event.

[whismerhill]

Thanks. replaced "inst" with "item" and it works right away.

So in fact this code makes the player do the action I want to do, but instantly. Interesting... the whole time I wanted to execute a function located in the prefab, or apply to it a property.

 "getplayer" & "work" on the generated prefab is a completely different approach xD

I'll try to keep this outlook on stuff in mind in the future.

Edited September 28, 2016 by whismerhill