[Solved] Prevent Death Upon No HP

[Zeklo]

Would anybody happen to know a clean way to prevent death from activating when having no health?

Not reviving, not turning into a ghost, yata yata. Just plain old not dying.

I want to implement some custom antics in its place when certain requirements are met, but I dunno if there is a simple way of doing this or if I'll have to take more complicated measures.

Edited November 1, 2016 by Zeklo
Error

[Leonardo Cox]

You can try messing around with the EventHandler for death in the stategraph:

--taken from Wilson's SG.

EventHandler("death", function(inst)
        if inst.sleepingbag ~= nil and (inst.sg:HasStateTag("bedroll") or inst.sg:HasStateTag("tent")) then -- wakeup on death to "consume" sleeping bag first
            inst.sleepingbag.components.sleepingbag:DoWakeUp()
            inst.sleepingbag = nil
        end
        inst.sg:GoToState("death")
    end),

You could use a Stategraphevent in your modmain to edit Wilson's SG (assuming you are using his for your character.)

--put this somewhere in your modmain.lua, it should overwrite the Eventhandler for death.
local EventHandler = GLOBAL.EventHandler

local newdeath = EventHandler("death", function(inst)
	if inst.sleepingbag ~= nil and (inst.sg:HasStateTag("bedroll") or inst.sg:HasStateTag("tent")) then -- wakeup on death to "consume" sleeping bag first
            inst.sleepingbag.components.sleepingbag:DoWakeUp()
            inst.sleepingbag = nil
        end
	if inst.prefab ~= "your characterprefab name here"	then
        inst.sg:GoToState("death")
	else
		--whatever antics you want here
	end
end
),

AddStategraphEvent("wilson", newdeath) --if not wilson, then its probably SGwilson.

 

[DarkXero]

No, no messing with the death state.

Do something else.

local function CanDie(inst)
	local death = false
	if inst.components.sanity.current < 50 then
		death = true
	end
	return death
end

local function master_postinit(inst)

	local health = inst.components.health
	local health_SetVal = health.SetVal
	health.SetVal = function(self, val, cause, afflicter)
		if val <= 0 and not self.inst:CanDie() then
			self.currenthealth = 1
		else
			health_SetVal(self, val, cause, afflicter)
		end
	end
	inst.CanDie = CanDie
end

Like that.

Leave the hp at 1 and only let it die when the CanDie function allows.