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

I'm really no SB-Lua pro but I don't think that'll work... x:
Might want to consider someone who actually worked in lua before, maybe. So I'll draw-back from this thread for now. xD

 

Ok...

 

Hm. Anyone who does know lua scripting...

Got any ideas about callscriptedentity?

Could I use captivestate.lua to have a thing in it that uses ownerEntityId as the entity ID in a callScriptedEntity function-call, and... then the function would be to check for any status effects on the player? A custom one, designed to do nothing.

 

I'm fairly certain there's a function that you can use to have a Lua script check what the player is holding in their hand. So basically what you might be able to do is, in the captivestate.lua :

if( entityHandItem(ownerID, 'monsterWhistle');
{monster.die()}

or something like that. This is not working code. This idea would make the captured monster return to its pod as soon as you take out the whistle.

 

So there's really nothing to check if the player has used it? Okay.[DOUBLEPOST=1432103665][/DOUBLEPOST]Hi. I tried this...

Code:

... if distance > captiveState.teleportDistance then
    movement = 0
    if world.entityHandItem(self.entityOwnerId, "primary") == "monsterWhistle" then
    mcontroller.setPosition(ownerPosition)
    end
  elseif ...

But it didn't work. The captive entities just stay there. Nothing. I assume this is to do with the captivestate.lua thing being errored, so...

no chance of the teleport working then.

There's the full code.

Code:

captiveState = {
  closeDistance = 4,
  runDistance = 12,
  teleportDistance = 36,
}

function captiveState.enter()
  if not isCaptive() or hasTarget() then return nil end

  return { running = false }
end

function captiveState.enterWith(params)
  if not isCaptive() then return nil end

  -- We're masquerading as wander for captive monsters
  if params.wander then
    return { running = false }
  end

  return nil
end

function captiveState.update(dt, stateData)
  if hasTarget() then return true end

  -- Translate owner uuid to entity id
  capturepod.updateOwnerEntityId()

  -- Owner is nowhere around
  if self.ownerEntityId == nil then
    return false
  end

  local ownerPosition = world.entityPosition(self.ownerEntityId)
  local toOwner = world.distance(ownerPosition, self.position)
  local distance = math.abs(toOwner[1])

  local movement
  if distance > captiveState.teleportDistance then
    movement = 0
    if world.entityHandItem(self.entityOwnerId, "primary") == "monsterWhistle" then
    mcontroller.setPosition(ownerPosition)
    end
  elseif distance < captiveState.closeDistance then
    stateData.running = false
    movement = 0
  elseif toOwner[1] < 0 then
    movement = -1
  elseif toOwner[1] > 0 then
    movement = 1
  end

  if distance > captiveState.runDistance then
    stateData.running = true
  end

  entity.setAnimationState("attack", "idle")
  move({ movement, toOwner[2] }, stateData.running, captiveState.closeDistance)

  return false
end

 

Forgot to say that I turned it into the teleporter idea instead

 

*Uses blabbering emote*

IT...

WORKS...?

AFTER SOME MODIFICATION...

if world.entityHandItem(self.ownerEntityId, "primary") == "monsterWhistle" then
movement = 0
mcontroller.setPosition(ownerPosition)

WORKS! But... ah, who cares. It works.

 

Well... congratz then.

 

Congrats on the mod release! I'm gonna have to try it out soon!