Grimrock

(PLEASE NOTE: Thread was originall titled: "[QUESTION] Altering Player Cooldown?" I just didn't want to throw more threads up on the board, when all of my questions involve altering the party setup in some way.)

[Original post:] Is it possible to alter the length of time it takes for the player character to cooldown after an attack, or is this hard-coded into the game?

Its coded into the various weapons definitions. However, I believe it is hardcoded.

Im pretty sure you can define a weapon instead of clone it, and just set the "coolDownTime = " to whatever you like. Look at examples in the items.lua asset to get an idea of what you want.

Thanks guys! It never occured to me to check the weapons...that did the trick nicely.

I've hit a couple more potential roadblocks, so I'm going to lay this all out on the table.

I've come up with an idea for a mod that I think would be pretty fun and a bit different, but it all hinges on getting the player character setup correctly from the start. If certain qualities aren't met, the entire mod would become pointless. Being the kinesthetic learner that I am, I'm having a difficult time working my way through threads like viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3201 and getting anything in return except errors, so I'm hoping someone out there will be able to help with some answers.

First, I need to ensure the character (there is only one, and I already have him setup correctly), never regenerates health on his own. If there isn't a way to turn off regereation, is there a way to start the game off immediately hungry? I have no need for food in this mod, and being hungry should produce the effect I need (in that he won't regenerate health without potions or a healing crystal). I see in the assets that there is a way to call Energy Regeneration Rate and Food Consumption Rate, but I'm not sure about a global call function for these, nor how to actually script such a thing.

Second, I need the game to not end. If the player reaches zero HP, I need to be able to teleport him back to an earlier level (if that's hard-coded, as I suspect it is, maybe there's a way to do this if the player reaches 1 hp?).

There are a couple more things that need to be worked out, but these would be the game-breakers. If these can be worked out, then I think the rest can be managed. I'd definitely like to take a partner on in this (who knows lua). If anyone is interested, please PM me and I'll tell you exactly what I'm working on (and can send you the source files if you're interested). Once these few things are written, nothing new should pop up.

Please forgive my covertness; I simply don't want to shout this thing out if it's not possible.

[EDIT to add: I realized after re-reading this that Energy Regeneration Rate is moot; my concern is health regeneration.]

If there isn't a way to turn off regereation, is there a way to start the game off immediately hungry?

You can also set him as diseased with an unbelievably high duration and reset his disease from time to time (say, check that he's diseased and set so otherwise in onTurn and onMove party hooks - just to prevent healing crystals to heal the disease). If you want to go the food route, there is champion:consumeFood, but I never used it.

If the player reaches zero HP, I need to be able to teleport him back to an earlier level (if that's hard-coded, as I suspect it is, maybe there's a way to do this if the player reaches 1 hp?).

Maybe in the onDie party hook, you can return false (to prevent death, this would heal him completely afaik) and teleport him where you want (you can use my teleporter script : viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3764)

If you need more help revealing details, PM me

Xanathar wrote:

If there isn't a way to turn off regereation, is there a way to start the game off immediately hungry?

You can also set him as diseased with an unbelievably high duration and reset his disease from time to time (say, check that he's diseased and set so otherwise in onTurn and onMove party hooks - just to prevent healing crystals to heal the disease). If you want to go the food route, there is champion:consumeFood, but I never used it.

If the player reaches zero HP, I need to be able to teleport him back to an earlier level (if that's hard-coded, as I suspect it is, maybe there's a way to do this if the player reaches 1 hp?).

Maybe in the onDie party hook, you can return false (to prevent death, this would heal him completely afaik) and teleport him where you want (you can use my teleporter script : viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3764)

If you need more help revealing details, PM me

Thanks Xanathar; I appreciate your time. I'm hoping their is a cleaner way to do this than to have to go the diseased route. I'm sure there's a way to access health regeneration, just not sure how yet.

That teleporter script is interesting...I actually had that one pretty well figured out (but a bit differently than your setup), but the trick was in how to tie that it dwindling HP. My problem is that my creativity is always ten steps ahead of my ability!

Well, the maps are underway at least. I have to clone pretty much everything in the game with new stats, so that will keep me busy for a while, as well.

I'm sure there's a way to access health regeneration, just not sure how yet.

I already foraged into this, I wouldn't be so sure if I were you, although I would love to be proved wrong. The best I could come with was to damage the champion every x seconds, so that its health wouldn't regen, but it's far from convenient.

You can make a character instantly hungry with champion:modifyFood(-1000).

Another alternative is to manage health directly. A bit of experimentation showed that regeneration happens in increments of 0.2 or 0.4, at intervals of no less than one second. Thus, the following script should work, with checkHealth called from a timer with an interval of around 0.5 divided by the number of levels in the dungeon (to account for slower updates of distant levels).
Two problems are that other sources of healing that work in those increments are also nullified, and a tick of regen can get through if the champion is simultaneously damaged or healed. A faster timer makes the second one less likely to occur, though. I could probably fix those issues if needed, though it would make the script rather more cumbersome.

Ancylus wrote:You can make a character instantly hungry with champion:modifyFood(-1000).

That's it! That's exactly what I was looking for. And it has the added bonus of not being affected by healing crystals. Thanks, Ancylus...this is now starting to look possible.

@cromcrom (your name always cracks me up for some reason ): Modifying the food like above will ensure your champion does not regen health. Handy, that!

SpiderFighter wrote:Second, I need the game to not end. If the player reaches zero HP, I need to be able to teleport him back to an earlier level (if that's hard-coded, as I suspect it is, maybe there's a way to do this if the player reaches 1 hp?).

Now all I need to do is figure this part out, and it's a go.