Changing Item description by looking at it

[sirK2005]

Hi again,

another question I hope someone has already found a solution to.

I am trying to make a watch. Meaning an item that shows how much time has passed since the game started.

I thought of simply using a timer that every minute counts a counter upwards. Then the watch, one of the characters has, could change its own description according to how much the counter has already counted and thus presenting all passed minutes.

Now I realized that items only have a onUseItem-Hook. So my ideas for scripting something based on an onLookAtItem-Hook are gone.

Does anyone have a solution for how to do something like that?

Best
Chris

[sirK2005]

Well,

I sadly didn't get the lookAtItem thing going (that would have been nice though), but I got the clock working. It was actually easier than I thought.

I simply created a clock object, that's basically a scroll:

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	cloneObject{
		name = "clock",
		baseObject = "scroll",
		uiName = "Clock",
		model = "assets/models/items/compass.fbx",
		description = "It's a chronometer. Its two hands move magically\nin circles.",
		gfxIndex = 161,
		weight = 0.2,
	}

I created a timer that increments a counter every sec and activates a script, which goes as follows:

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function time()

	local newText = "" .. (counter_3:getValue()-(counter_3:getValue()%60))/60 .. ":" .. counter_3:getValue()%60
	
	local itemCnt = 11
	local champCnt = 1
	
	while champCnt <= 4 do
		itemCnt = 11
		while itemCnt <= 31 do
			if party:getChampion(champCnt):getItem(itemCnt) ~= nil then
				if party:getChampion(champCnt):getItem(itemCnt).name == "clock" then
					party:getChampion(champCnt):getItem(itemCnt):setScrollText(newText)
				end
			end
			itemCnt = itemCnt + 1
		end
		champCnt = champCnt + 1
	end

end

This script goes thorugh every champ and every item slot of the champ and if there's a "clock"-item (the one we defined) than it changes its scrollText.
Oh, and the newText is a bit ugly. I dont know if there is a way to divide through a number and get an integer rather than a float/double. Well in short the line

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local newText = "" .. (counter_3:getValue()-(counter_3:getValue()%60))/60 .. ":" .. counter_3:getValue()%60

turns a number like 121 into 2:1.
So, if you want, you can take this code and adapt it, to make an even better clock

Best
Chris

[Neikun]

What if a counter does a set item text by referencing a table of possible texts?

[sirK2005]

Hi,

I am not quite sure to which part of the code you are referring.
Are you proposing another way of creating a clock?

[Neikun]

I'm not entirely sure what it'd look like but basically on every count, the script would do another scroll text.
I think in order to do this, you're going to need a scroll with a different icon/model

[sirK2005]

Yes, that was my idea too. I basically created a scroll (and used the compass model) whichs scrollText is updated every second by a timer.