[SOLVED] Detect Held Item

[Sir_Kasalott]

Hey

I'm trying to make a Char that can only hold one item. Right now I'm testing it out with an axe, but I don't know how to do it.

Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

	-- Drop Items
	local function drop(inst)
	local hand = inst.components.inventory:GetEquippedItem(EQUIPSLOTS.HANDS)
	if hand ~= "axe" then 
		inst:DoTaskInTime(0.0, function()
				local item = inst.components.inventory:Unequip(EQUIPSLOTS.HANDS)
				inst.components.inventory:DropItem(item)
			inst.components.talker:Say(GetString(inst, "ANNOUNCE_UNEQUIP_TOOL"))
				inst.AnimState:ClearOverrideSymbol("swap_object")
		end)
	end

I know that this part is wrong, I just guessed what goes there.

if hand ~= "axe" then

[w00tyd00d]

What you'll want to do (if it's going to be a DST exclusive mode) is change the "hand" variable to this instead:
 

local hand = inst.replica.inventory:GetEquippedItem(EQUIPSLOTS.HANDS)

because "replica" is essentially a wrapper component that returns the "component" information if the player is the host or the "classified" information if the player is a client

But to solve the problem you're having, that function gets the entity of the item in your hand, but you want to check specifically what prefab it is which is a value in the entity's table. So just change the check to this and it should identify it properly:
 

if hand.prefab ~= "axe" then

Hope this helps

[w00tyd00d]

It's only important to replace the "component" to "replica" when it comes to checking the data in the inventory component, so with the actual command to do whatever you want to do you can just use "inst.components.inventory" and the game will automatically do what it has to do to apply it to clients.

Also you will need to either need to call "EQUIPSLOTS" from the global table in your function there or write a local variable referring to the global table, like this:

local EQUIPSLOTS = GLOBAL.EQUIPSLOTS

 

[Sir_Kasalott]

Thank you so much w00tyd00d, I haven't tried it yet. but I'll let you know how it goes.

EDIT: OMG it works perfectly, it's exactly how I wanted it. Thank you so so soo much!

Edited October 10, 2017 by Sir_Kasalott

[Seilakk]

On 09/10/2017 at 3:29 PM, w00tyd00d said:

Also you will need to either need to call "EQUIPSLOTS" from the global table in your function there or write a local variable referring to the global table, like this:

where should i place this part?

[w00tyd00d]

16 hours ago, Seilakk said:

where should i place this part?

Usually it's good to declare it at the top of your modmain since it must be declared before anything else that uses it in your modmain. Same rule applies for any variable that's local to a script.