Check For Examine

[Zeklo]

Is there a way I can check for inspecting (certain) things in the world?

That is all, thank you for your time.

[. . .]

I'd really like to know if this would be possible too !

[blubuild]

One way you could do it is override an object's inspectable component's GetStatus or GetDescription function and add onto it so it also does what you want in addition (you could also modify the shown description this way, if you so wished, by changing the return value).

local function on_inspect(inst,viewer)
	-- do whatever you want here
	print(tostring(inst) .. " was inspected by " .. tostring(viewer) .. "!")
	if viewer and viewer.components and viewer.components.health then
		viewer.components.health:SetPercent(1)
	end
end

local function OverrideInspect(inst)
	if inst and inst.components.inspectable then
		local origfn = inst.components.inspectable.getstatus
		inst.components.inspectable.getstatus = function(inst, viewer)
			local ret
			if origfn then ret = origfn(inst, viewer) end
			on_inspect(inst, viewer)
			return ret
		end
	end
end

AddPrefabPostInit("researchlab", OverrideInspect) -- science machines will print a message to log when inspected and also heal the inspecting player.

 

Edited November 8, 2016 by blubuild