[Help] How do I make a healing aura and a growing aura?

[Mitzimber]

Hello!

I am working on a water elf character mod for dst, and I was wondering:

1. How do I make a healing aura? I would like her to emit a healing aura, so she is a more supportive character.

2. How do I make a growing aura? By this I mean, how do I make her emit an aura that allows plants/farms near her to grow faster while she stands near them?

Thanks a bunch, in advance.

[CarlZalph]

5 hours ago, Mitzimber said:

Hello!

I am working on a water elf character mod for dst, and I was wondering:

1. How do I make a healing aura? I would like her to emit a healing aura, so she is a more supportive character.

2. How do I make a growing aura? By this I mean, how do I make her emit an aura that allows plants/farms near her to grow faster while she stands near them?

Thanks a bunch, in advance.

Both things would be done with your character's master_postinit callback to contain a periodic timer for polling.

 

The growth aura would be a bit involved as to what you'd want to grow faster.

A lot of prefabs have their own type of components used and handle differently.

Check out data/scripts/prefabs/books.lua's trygrowth function.

This is the function used to make things grow when using Wickerbottom's book, and you might be able to see what sort of components you'd be wanting to look for for your character.

 

Here's a simple health regen one to give 1hp/5s to all players within 4u(1turf), including the character itself:

inst:DoPeriodicTask(
    5.0,
    function(inst)
        local x, y, z = inst.Transform:GetWorldPosition()
        local ents = TheSim:FindEntities(x, y, z, 4.0, {"player"}, {"playerghost"})
        for _,v in pairs(ents)
        do
            v.components.health:DoDelta(1)
        end
    end
)

Note that hp regen is very powerful in this game and can be easily overpowered, especially if it's always on.

[Mitzimber]

Great, thanks.

And noted, as well.