Mod to Mute Chester?

[ChampagneFerret]

Hello!

I am revisiting after being away from the game for a bit. I'd like to create a mod to mute Chester, as I find him very loud. I've gone so far as to leave him a little ways from my base to avoid hearing him. Where would I start on something like this? I've seen mods to mute critters but no luck for Chester.

Any ideas?

[Hekkaryk]

I'll add that option to my mod - [Hk]Control++ (client-side)  

If you want it now, try this:

RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/pant", "nil") -- this is Chester's panting / idle sound
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/hurt", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/death", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/open", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/close", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/pop", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/boing", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/lick", "nil")

On the other hand I'm unable to find a way to mute Mandrake's "annoy" song - any ideas, anybody ^_^" Name of sound is not in prefab/brains/stategraph  

EDIT: Note that above solution will fill client_log.txt with

FMOD Error: Can't play event <sound name here>: An invalid parameter was passed to this function.

it's a simple sound remapping... there might be a way to remove sound from everything related to Chester but it would be time-consuming at best. If anybody knows default silence sound I'd gladly use it instead of "nil"
EDIT2: Here's Workshop link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1116211359

Edited January 1, 2018 by Hekkaryk

[Aquaterion]

35 minutes ago, Hekkaryk said:

I'll add that option to my mod - [Hk]Control++ (client-side)  

If you want it now, try this:

RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/pant", "nil") -- this is Chester's panting / idle sound
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/hurt", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/death", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/open", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/close", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/pop", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/boing", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/lick", "nil")

On the other hand I'm unable to find a way to mute Mandrake's "annoy" song - any ideas, anybody ^_^" Name of sound is not in prefab/brains/stategraph  

EDIT: Note that above solution will fill client_log.txt with

FMOD Error: Can't play event <sound name here>: An invalid parameter was passed to this function.

it's a simple sound remapping... there might be a way to remove sound from everything related to Chester but it would be time-consuming at best. If anybody knows default silence sound I'd gladly use it instead of "nil"
EDIT2: Here's Workshop link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1116211359

does RemapSoundEvent not allow you to use actual nil (not a string with "nil" inside)?

[Hekkaryk]

2 hours ago, Aquaterion said:

does RemapSoundEvent not allow you to use actual nil (not a string with "nil" inside)?

No, it crashes with:
 

Quote

[00:00:06]: ModIndex:GetModsToLoad inserting moddir,     [Hk]Control++    
[00:00:06]: modimport: ../mods/workshop-343753877/announcestrings_english.lua    
[00:00:06]: [string "scripts/modutil.lua"]:514: bad argument #1 to 'RemapSoundEvent' (string expected, got nil)
LUA ERROR stack traceback:
        =[C] in function 'RemapSoundEvent'
        scripts/modutil.lua(514,1) in function 'RemapSoundEvent'
        ../mods/[Hk]Control++/modmain.lua(226,1) in function 'DisableSound'
        ../mods/[Hk]Control++/modmain.lua(234,1) in main chunk
        =[C] in function 'xpcall'
        scripts/util.lua(709,1) in function 'RunInEnvironment'
        scripts/mods.lua(511,1) in function 'InitializeModMain'
        scripts/mods.lua(485,1) in function 'LoadMods'
        scripts/main.lua(259,1) in function 'ModSafeStartup'
        scripts/main.lua(319,1)
        =[C] in function 'SetPersistentString'
        scripts/mainfunctions.lua(25,1) in function 'SavePersistentString'
        scripts/modindex.lua(77,1)
        =[C] in function 'GetPersistentString'
        scripts/modindex.lua(64,1) in function 'BeginStartupSequence'
        scripts/main.lua(318,1) in function 'callback'
        scripts/modindex.lua(539,1)
        =[C] in function 'GetPersistentString'
        scripts/modindex.lua(513,1) in function 'Load'
        scripts/main.lua(317,1) in main chunk
[00:00:06]: [string "scripts/mainfunctions.lua"]:1023: variable 'global_error_widget' is not declared
LUA ERROR stack traceback:
        =[C] in function 'error'
        scripts/strict.lua(23,1)
        scripts/mainfunctions.lua(1023,1)
        =[C] in function 'SetPersistentString'
        scripts/mainfunctions.lua(25,1) in function 'SavePersistentString'
        scripts/modindex.lua(77,1)
        =[C] in function 'GetPersistentString'
        scripts/modindex.lua(64,1) in function 'BeginStartupSequence'
        scripts/main.lua(318,1) in function 'callback'
        scripts/modindex.lua(539,1)
        =[C] in function 'GetPersistentString'
        scripts/modindex.lua(513,1) in function 'Load'
        scripts/main.lua(317,1) in main chunk

 

[ChampagneFerret]

10 hours ago, Hekkaryk said:

I'll add that option to my mod - [Hk]Control++ (client-side)  

If you want it now, try this:

RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/pant", "nil") -- this is Chester's panting / idle sound
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/hurt", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/death", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/open", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/close", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/pop", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/boing", "nil")
RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/lick", "nil")

On the other hand I'm unable to find a way to mute Mandrake's "annoy" song - any ideas, anybody ^_^" Name of sound is not in prefab/brains/stategraph  

EDIT: Note that above solution will fill client_log.txt with

FMOD Error: Can't play event <sound name here>: An invalid parameter was passed to this function.

it's a simple sound remapping... there might be a way to remove sound from everything related to Chester but it would be time-consuming at best. If anybody knows default silence sound I'd gladly use it instead of "nil"
EDIT2: Here's Workshop link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1116211359

 Woah! Thanks so much! I'm not sure how to use the coding part, but I'll look into it and give your mod a shot!

[Hekkaryk]

11 hours ago, ChampagneFerret said:

 Woah! Thanks so much! I'm not sure how to use the coding part, but I'll look into it and give your mod a shot!

In case you ever want to quickly made your own mod, below is the bare minimum (2 files in a folder placed mods directory):

modinfo.lua

Bare minimum:

name = "Mod name"
description = "Mod description"
author = "Mod author"
version = "1.0.0"
forumthread = ""
api_version = 10
dst_compatible = true
dont_starve_compatible = false
reign_of_giants_compatible = false
all_clients_require_mod = false -- true for most server mods
client_only_mod = true -- false for server mods
server_filter_tags = {}
configuration_options = {}

Example:

-- you can any comments after prepending then with --
name = "Mod name"
description = [[Sample description 
allowing simple multiline formating
;)]]
author = "Mod author"
version = "1.0.0"
forumthread = "" -- leave blank to point to Steam Workshop's page of the mod
api_version = 10
dst_compatible = true
dont_starve_compatible = false
reign_of_giants_compatible = false
all_clients_require_mod = false
client_only_mod = true
server_filter_tags = {"first tag", "second tag"}

-- if you mod don't use options:
configuration_options = {}

-- if you mod use options:

-- sample, 100% optional functions
-- creates option for use in configuration option
local function option(description, data, hover)
    return {
        description = description,
        hover = hover,
        data = data
    }
end

-- sample, 100% optional function that creates configuration option in simpler way
local function config(name, label, hover, options, default)
    return {
        name = name,
        label = label,
        hover = hover,
        options = options,
        default = default
    }
end
-- here ends optional part

configuration_options = {
    {
        name = "first_option_name",
        label = "1st label",
        hover = [[First option hover - this can be long but won't wrap
support multilines tho]],
        options = {
            {
                description = "value 1",
                hover = 'it\'s easy to quote here "I do not know what to quote tho"',
                data = true
            },
            {
                description = "value 2",
                hover = "value 1 hover\nalternative way of line breaks",
                data = false
            }
        },
        default = true
    },
    {
        name = "second_option_name",
        label = "2nd label",
        hover = "this can also be defined this way",
        options = {
            {
                description = "value 1",
                hover = "out of ideas, numeric demo",
                data = 1
            },
            {
                description = "value 2", -- sadly, DST copies any other hover for option if left nil
                data = 2
            },
            {
                description = "value 2",
                hover = "yeah, I skipped hover in last value and repeated description - it's allowed",
                data = 3
            }
        },
        default = 2
    },
    config(
        "simpler_way_option",
        "Option label",
        "Option hover",
        {
            option("first", "first_value", "first value hover - yes, options can be strings"),
            option("second", "second_value") -- sadly, DST copies any other hover for option if left nil
        },
        "first_value"
    )
}

modmain.lua

Bare minimum:

Example:

if GetModConfigData("first_option_name") then
    print("first_option_name was true so I'm muting Chester! ^_^")
	RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/pant", "nil")
	RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/hurt", "nil")
	RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/death", "nil")
	RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/open", "nil")
	RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/close", "nil")
	RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/pop", "nil")
	RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/boing", "nil")
	RemapSoundEvent("dontstarve/creatures/chester/lick", "nil")
else
	print("first_option_name was nil or false so mod is doing nothing :P")
end

 

[ChampagneFerret]

10 hours ago, Hekkaryk said:

In case you ever want to quickly made your own mod, below is the bare minimum (2 files in a folder placed mods directory):

modinfo.lua

Thanks again! I've been wanting to try and make a mod, so this is a great start! Thanks for all the help. Total newbie at this but it's nice to meet helpful people