The easiest way to make "magical" container

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Adrageron
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The easiest way to make "magical" container

Post by Adrageron »

I apologize if this has already been discussed somewhere, I did not find such information on the forums.
To prevent the container from taking into account the weight of its content, you just need to give a custom name to the ContainerItem component. Like this:

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class = "ContainerItem",
name = "sack",
And that's it, the game will not recalculate it's weight. Be careful though if you already have such non-empty containers on the map, because the editor will generate an error when trying to initialize them.
To be honest, I have not tried to achieve this effect, quite the opposite, one of my custom containers "broke", and I tried to figure out the root of this bug for quite a some time :)
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Re: The easiest way to make "magical" container

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Unfortunately this will have some other side effects:
- The "(Right-click to open)" text won't appear on in the tooltip for the item
- PartyComponent:isCarrying() won't detect items in the container
- Compasses inside the container won't work
- Herbs inside the container won't multiply for Alchemists
- The dungeon editor won't recognize that the ids of objects inside the container are taken, so for example, if you have an item in the container called "rock_1", the dungeon editor will still auto-generate "rock_1" as the default id for the next rock you place.
- The dungeon editor's search dialog won't be able to find the object
- CraftPotionComponent won't be able to use herbs from the container
- The container won't be highlit in the inventory while open
- The object inspector in the dungeon editor will allow recursive inspection of containers inside the container (this could actually be useful though!)
- onInit hooks for objects inside the container won't run
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Adrageron
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Re: The easiest way to make "magical" container

Post by Adrageron »

minmay wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 8:58 pm Unfortunately this will have some other side effects:
Wow, that was informative!
Thank you for warning! No easy way to do magick it seems :mrgreen:
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