How use act.invobject when making custom actions

[Norfeder]

Hi there! I'm working on some kind of machinery that works differently based on the resources given. I was able to get the custom action and animation to work. But somehow it only works when I put my cursor on other entities.

I wanted it to works only when putting an special item over the machine. Like putting the klaus key over the loot stash and the unlock action shows up.

local VENDINGMACHINE = GLOBAL.Action({ mount_valid=true })    
VENDINGMACHINE.str = "Suicide"
VENDINGMACHINE.id = "VENDINGMACHINE"
VENDINGMACHINE.fn = function(act)
    if act.doer ~= nil and
    act.target ~= nil and
    act.doer:HasTag("player") and
    act.target.components.vendingmachine and
    act.target.prefab then

        act.target.components.vendingmachine:working(act.doer)
        act.doer.components.health:DoDelta(-9999) -- to check if the action is success
        return true
    else
        return false
    end
end

AddAction(VENDINGMACHINE)

AddComponentAction("SCENE", "vendingmachine", function(inst, doer, actions, right)
    if right then
        table.insert(actions, ACTIONS.VENDINGMACHINE)
    end
end)

local vendingmachine_handler = ActionHandler(ACTIONS.VENDINGMACHINE, "dolongaction")

AddStategraphActionHandler("wilson", vendingmachine_handler)
AddStategraphActionHandler("wilson_client", vendingmachine_handler)

 

I know I have to use act.invobject in function(act). But when I tried, the character just said that he can't do that and the action longer works. Does anyone  know how to make it work in the way I wanted? Thanks.

Edited January 31, 2018 by Norfeder
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