Modding Help An item which kills all currently-out captive monsters, making them drop their filled pod/teleports

I have two items I wish to create:
The Pet Teleporter and the Pet Retreiver.

The teleporter teleports all your currently out captive monsters to you.
The retriever kills all your currently out captive monsters, making them drop their filled pod.

These are craft-able at the creature capture station. You simply click with whatever hand its in (they're one handed) and it does its job.

I can follow some simple tutorials about how to add the craft-able base items with textures and such, but how do I add the functionality?

Any help appreciated,

-wolfboyft

 

I imagine you'd have to attach a Lua script that would find all nearby monsters and deal lethal damage to them. I'm not sure how you would specify only captive monsters though.

 

You could look the "how" up in captiveState or capturePod.lua, it should definetly be defined in one of them.

 

Hm... trying the teleport whistle first... wait, no, pet telporter.

Code:

 local movement
  if distance > captiveState.teleportDistance then
    movement = 0
    mcontroller.setPosition(ownerPosition)

See that code there? I need the last line, don't I?

 

Guess so... not good at lua, but thats the only thing that makes sense.
No clue why mcontroller is used for so many things tho.

 

It's... so... magical... what is it?

But seriously though...

Do you know whether there's a way to detect, in captivestate.lua, if the owner has used a certain item? I can go from there by using that fantastic line.

 

There isn't, however, there are lots of other scripts defining if the player used an item. You should be able to put that in, lemme get an example.
(COMPLETELY NO GUARANTEE, SINCE Lua (for @Kawa, my dear) NOOB )

 

I think we could use t

You CERTAIN?

local ownerPosition = world.entityPosition(self.ownerEntityId)

We could... take the owner... and... eh. Ok.

 

Wow, I couldn't find anything. (Y U down Lua Docs)
However, one workaround would be adding an item that applies an effect.
You can base the script off that, so when the effect ends the pet is teleported to you.

Btw, checked the other thread alrdy? x:
Not sure if you got the alert.

 

Hmm... could you elaborate? Wait, do you mean... you give the pet the effect now, then... you stick it to get stuck in a hole, run away, then when its effect ends it teleports to you? Or have I totally misunderstood?

 

Lol.
I... well... I'll just pretend that didn't happen.

Consume Item.
Call code thats basically saying:

if (inserteffect) wears off,
teleport (pet entry) to (owner entry)

 

OH! The effect is on the PLAYER! D'oh.

Or have I boobed again?

 

Nono, that's what I meant.
You could also do it on the pet, but well, on getting controlled statusEffects on the player is a lot easier. x:

 

My brain right now. I feel... well, it won't start. NOT RESPONDING -- Oh! There. I feel like a total idiot.

Anyway. So you're saying that when a status effect ends, you have access to a player's pet ID's, letting you teleport them to the player?

 

You always have access to both positions.
Just found something else.

if status.statPositive("breathProtection")

Example, keep that in mind.

So, in logic-language (since I can't do that in code, cuz noob).

local movement
if status.statPositive("YourStat") then
movement = 0
mcontroller.setPosition(ownerPosition)

Don't pin me on that tho, didn't study sb-lua yet.

 

Found out that I'm not so keen on Status Effects...

Maybe... is there... like... another thing...? Ah-ha...? You know here...

Code:

{
  "itemName" : "teleportwhistle",
  "rarity" : "Rare",
  "price" : 50,
  "inventoryIcon" : "tele.png",
  "description" : "Use this to teleport all pets on the map to you!",
  "shortdescription" : "Pet Teleporter",
  "handPosition" : [8, 0],
"effects" : [
           
                         ],
  "emote" : "",
  "emitters" : [ "stimuse" ]
}

The empty effects space, could we get it to simply trigger an event (lua!) that the pets are listening out for?

 

Thats... how all that stuff above works... x:
There are a lot of ways to go for it.
Modifying player resources would work too.
Just attach the written lua to this item.
(Not in the effects bracket tho)

 

Found a way. Storage and self.

If only I could figure out how to retrieve some storage from the owner...

 

Why would you use storage? @.@ I'm slightly confused.

 

The retrieve, in the captivestate.lua for the pet, would say
elseif self.ownerEntityId.storage.iwantyoutoteleporttome == true then
mcontroller.setPosition(ownerPosition)
Or some such.[DOUBLEPOST=1432003364][/DOUBLEPOST]

Self then. It would... basically, I'm just trying to get the player to have some self variable go into him, called tele or whatever, and then the pet be listening for that. Then when it finds one, it will teleport.