character coding help?

[Seven Static]

hello! before i start asking anything, i do want to state one thing:
I am very new to this forum page, to if this topic is posted in the wrong place, please forgive me. i am also new to modding, so im sorry if i sound like a noob.

 

Okay! so first all, i am trying to get familiar with coding and such, as im trying to make a character for myself and my friends on DST. but i have ran into questions and problems.

1) how can i make my character immune to cold?
2) How can i make my character considered a monster (like webber i believe?)
3) is there a way to add custom voices (like bass instruments)
4) can i make my character gain sanity at night, and picking flowers lowers it?
5) how to i make my character start out with items at spawn?
6) I have played the tecolin mod, and how do i make hounds and clockworks friendly to my character?
7) On the character menu, if i hover over a character (ex: wes) then switch t my character the name doesnt change, but the stats and such do?

Im REALLY sorry for so many questions!!! also, could anyone possibly link screenshots if they have an answer? sorry.

 

edit: forgot to mention i have also followed dleowolf's tutorial for making dst characters.

Edited January 21, 2018 by Seven Static

[IronHunter]

Welcome to the forums

1) A common solution I've seen for this is to set the min temperature to above freezing

inst.components.temperature.mintemp = 20
--in master_postinit

2) Webber has the tag in common_postinit

inst:AddTag("monster")
-- in common_postinit

3) There should be a tutorial on the forums

4) Good example on how to do this, other examples above this post too.

John Watson has a good example on how to overide the flowers

Spoiler

AddPrefabPostInit("flower", function(inst)
	local ic = inst.components
	
	local _OnPickedFn = ic.pickable.onpickedfn
	ic.pickable.onpickedfn = function(self, picker)
        if picker and picker.components.sanity and picker.prefab=="esctemplate" then
            picker.components.sanity:DoDelta(-TUNING.SANITY_TINY*2)
        end
		return _OnPickedFn(self, picker)
	end
end)

This works for your needs without getting too busy.

5) If you followed the esctemplate, there is a:

local start_inv = {
	"cutgrass",
	"twigs",
}

--Just make sure at the bottom of the file start_inv is there
return MakePlayerCharacter("esctemplate", prefabs, assets, common_postinit, master_postinit, start_inv)

6) Looking at the tecolin mod, its code to befriend can be pretty much copy pasted from the modmain.lua, you can make a variant of it to apply for clockworks.

7) Excerpt from notes.txt from the esctemplate, the dst names require a specific naming scheme to appear properly in game.

Quote

After compiling names_[character].png, open names_[character].xml in a text editor.
Change the Element name to "[character].tex". (Do not change the Texture filename)

Hope this helps,

Cheers

Iron_Hunter

Edited January 22, 2018 by IronHunter
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