Custom Character - Changing vegetables values

[Inward]

Hi everybody,

 

My name is Inward, I'm a software developper in France.

I'm a Don't Starve player almost since its release and now I would like to create my own mods.

 

I started with a custom character with a friend studying graphism art.

 

I almost did all the job and now I'm adding some powers to my character (I will give more details about him on a new thread when he will be able to play).

 

I want him to eat monster meat, so I added :

 

character.lua :

inst.components.eater.strongstomach = true

But my character hates vegetables. What I want to do is that he can eat them, but their hunger values are 0.

So I can keep their health and sanity bonus/malus, but the hunger value is always empty.

 

I already did that :

 

modmain.lua :

AddComponentPostInit("edible", function(Edible, inst) local oldGetHunger = Edible.GetHungerfunction Edible:GetHunger(eater)	local multiplier = 1		local ignore_spoilage = (eater and eater.components.eater and eater.components.eater.ignoresspoilage) or self.hungervalue < 0		if self.inst.components.perishable and not ignore_spoilage then		if self.inst.components.perishable:IsStale() then			multiplier = self.stale_hunger		elseif self.inst.components.perishable:IsSpoiled() then			multiplier = self.spoiled_hunger		end	end		if self.foodtype == "VEGGIE" or self.foodtype == "SEEDS" then		self.hungervalue = 0	end	return oldGetHunger(self, eater)	--return multiplier*(self.hungervalue)endend)

It works well, I surcharge the GetHunger() function from the Edible class, adding what I want. But now there is a problem : this edit is enabled for all the characters (example : because of this modification, Wilson can't eat vegetables, same for the others).

 

I would like to give this "power" only to my custom character.

 

I have looked for a solution for severals hours now and I still don't find it.

 

Can anyone help me please ?

 

Thanks in advance

[seronis]

if self.foodtype == "VEGGIE" or self.foodtype == "SEEDS" then        self.hungervalue = 0    end

since this is the only part that seems to currently be getting used, just place it inside another if clause that checks if the player has a  'hatesveggies' tag. Of course then you would need to add that tag to your character.  Alternately you could just check the character prefab name but that is less extensible.

[Inward]

Thank you very much for your answer !

 

I already found the solution about checking the prefab character, but I guess you're right that this solution is less extensible.

I added a tag in character.lua :

local fn = function(inst)	inst:AddTag("hatesVegetables")		-- other stuff hereend

And then I check if the character has this tag in my modmain.lua :

GetPlayer = GLOBAL.GetPlayerAddComponentPostInit("edible", function(Edible, inst)local oldGetHunger = Edible.GetHungerfunction Edible:GetHunger(eater)	local multiplier = 1	local character = GetPlayer()	if character:HasTag("hatesVegetables") then		if self.foodtype == "VEGGIE" or self.foodtype == "SEEDS" then			multiplier = 0		elseif self.foodtype == "MEAT" then			multiplier = 1.5		end	end	return (multiplier * oldGetHunger(self, eater))endend)

You can also notice that I changed a bit the way to change the food value : I change a multiplier variable and then I return the old value of the item with a multiplication.

The old way (changing directly the hungervalue) caused some bugs : if I would multiply it (for example hungervalue = hungervalue * 2), each time the function is called, the value is again changed with the previous value.

A "meat" has 25 hungervalue.

First call : 50

Second call : 100

With a multiplier, we always return multiplier * 25 (because 25 is never changed)

 

I hope it can help.