Outdated Temperature Returns [UG] v0.5.1 ( Hot Fix )

Hello. First of all, I'm just now starting out serious modding, rather than the simple code changes I have done before for personal use, so I apologize if any of my ideas are not possible, as for now they are more musings.

I have looked over some of the publicly listed Lua and JSON API for Starbound, and while I cannot provide a proof of concept or even example script yet, I am wondering about the plausibility of modders being able to create their own "AoE" by way of sensor calls from the player character script. For clarification, the script would check to see if certain object entities are within a certain distance of the player, and if it returns true, applies a status effect such as warming when it detects that a torch is nearby.

The primary issue I see, however, is script lag caused by the function calls being too frequent. I would not know if every ten seconds, in line with the update time for your proof of concept API, would be too often or not. I'll be looking into some of this myself, as well as looking to implement your API into at least two serious mod projects I have in mind where temperature changes would be desired.

Regards,
RDG

 

Ah, thank you very much. I've actually been rather annoyed the past 24 hours regarding trying to find documentation on certain aspects, as on OmnipotentEntity's post on Lua API Documentaion, where they state a link to automatically updated Lua API information, the link consistently returns a 404, and multiple pages on Starbounder are heavily incomplete or Redlinked, with the one on Animations even being listed specifically as deleted or moved, but with no mention of why or to where.

I'm glad to hear that AoE for Objects is being reimplemented officially in a future update. Still, I feel better knowing my idea is plausible, and even already implemented via pets, as that would prove useful in scripting certain NPC and Monster interactions with the environment that I plan on doing in several of my mods.


PS: I find it somewhat amusing that even a link in a quote from a forum moderator that points to official Starbound Documentation by Chucklefish trips the spam filter on new accounts.

 

No, no, I fully understand spam filters. I think it should be an implemented feature on forums regardless of prior bot attacks. I just found it odd that it doesn't recognize that I was quoting a Moderator's post, which happened to have a link to an official documentation page. Hardly spam-worthy, in my opinion, but eh.

 

Nice mod! I look forward to this getting completed enough to be released to the general public. Hunger will make food have a purpose again (food right now seems a little pointless considering how much of it there is in the vanilla game).

 

i was looking for a mod like this but one that had the hardcore setup of fallout NV where you have to eat, drink, and sleep or you get debuffs if you don't i was looking for that kind of mod for starbound

 

I've got a problem. whenever I start the game, it doesnt stop raining. at all. might just be the garden, but I cant get past that without freezing to death Dx

 

Are areas of effects back in Nightly? :O

 

Thats really smart. It'll be useful for stable players too. I'm a bit afraid of unstable games anyway xD

 

This sounds like good news. I've been having fun even though this is only an experimental/proof of concept mod.

 

So I'm guessing it wouldn't be wise to try this mod with Glad Giraffe?

 

Hope this is still an ongoing project. Now that hunger is coming back I'm hopeful that cold will be a thing again too. Thanks for all the hard work so far.