Custom Component - Not crashing, but not doing anything

[Eusong]

I'm trying to make a radiation component that, as you get irradiated (variable gets closer to 0) your maximum health goes down. I've been using console commands to change the variable number but nothing's been happening. I'm stumped. Any help?

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[ZupaleX]

What is not working exactly? What did you try to change that had no effect?

Edited September 3, 2017 by ZupaleX

[Eusong]

....I answered your question in my initial post...I'm not sure how else to explain it.

[ZupaleX]

I mean which command did you type in the console? I don't really want to go through the complete mode scripts to figure it out by myself so if you said what you tried exactly that will make it faster...

EDIT: also I just realized you copied player_common and player_classified in your mod to override them and simply put: never do that. That's the worse thing you can do. It makes your mod incompatible with any mod modifying these 2 prefabs.

Edited September 3, 2017 by ZupaleX

[Eusong]

ConsoleCommandPlayer().components.rads:SetPercent(n)

 

Where n was replaced with whatever number I wanted to test out. Anywhere from 0 to 0.5 to 1.

 

Also, how would I edit the player_common and classified otherwise?

[ZupaleX]

You should use the provided functions

AddPrefabPostInit

AddComponentPostInit

AddClassPostConstruct

etc...

Check out the stickied post on this forum, there is a mod API example linked several times which explains how to use the different functions

[Eusong]

Aaand, now it doesn't even recognize rads as a value. 

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[ZupaleX]

You misunderstood how to use the Add[...]PostInit

These functions are here to add functionality to existing prefabs and components. Calling AddComponentPostInit("rads", "player_common") makes no sense beause it means that you want to add to the components Rads a string "player_common".

If you look at the doc I directed you to concerning these functions you will see that it is

AddComponentPostInit("cmponent_to_modify", function)

 

For instance here you want to add the component Rads to the player_common so that should look like

AddPrefabPostInit("player_common", function(inst)
	if TheWorld.ismastersim then
		inst:AddComponent("rads")
	end
end)

From there you should be able to do the rest the same way

[Eusong]

Alright, I changed that in the modmain but it still says rads isn't defined whenever I try to change the value. :/

[ZupaleX]

could you paste the content of your modmain.lua with the "Code" tag (easier than having to download it each time)

[Eusong]

local G = GLOBAL


AddPrefabPostInit("player_common", function(inst)
	if TheWorld.ismastersim then
		inst:AddComponent("rads")
	end
end)

 

[ZupaleX]

I always forget that player_common is special.

This would work for basically any other prefab but to add something to all the player entities, use

AddPlayerPostInit(function(inst)
	if TheWorld.ismastersim then
		inst:AddComponent("rads")
	end
end)