Way to check equipped item

[それは大被害です]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has come up with a way to check a player's equipped item. I have a torch system I'm trying to implement where a script will check if player has a torch equipped and, if so, start to tick down a variable with each tile moved.

I can get that working, but I am currently not sure how to check if a player is holding a torch. Is there a way to do this in the engine yet?

[Ol' Smaug]

Originally posted by ugly muffins:

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has come up with a way to check a player's equipped item. I have a torch system I'm trying to implement where a script will check if player has a torch equipped and, if so, start to tick down a variable with each tile moved.

I can get that working, but I am currently not sure how to check if a player is holding a torch. Is there a way to do this in the engine yet?

This can be done by accessing the widget where the equipment slot is and checking the item ID of the applicable equipment slot. If there isn't an item in that slot, the "item" property of the slot will be null. For example, the slot element IDs of the built-in equipment widget are "0005", "0006", and "0007", so to check the "right hand" slot you could do something like below (replacing "ITEM_0001" with the torch's ID). Hopefully this helps!

if widget["equipment"].element["0006"].item != null then
   $item_id = widget["equipment"].element["0006"].item.id;
   if $item_id == "ITEM_0001" then
      print("Torch equipped");
   end;
end;

[それは大被害です]

Originally posted by Ol' Smaug:

Originally posted by ugly muffins:

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has come up with a way to check a player's equipped item. I have a torch system I'm trying to implement where a script will check if player has a torch equipped and, if so, start to tick down a variable with each tile moved.

I can get that working, but I am currently not sure how to check if a player is holding a torch. Is there a way to do this in the engine yet?

This can be done by accessing the widget where the equipment slot is and checking the item ID of the applicable equipment slot. If there isn't an item in that slot, the "item" property of the slot will be null. For example, the slot element IDs of the built-in equipment widget are "0005", "0006", and "0007", so to check the "right hand" slot you could do something like below (replacing "ITEM_0001" with the torch's ID). Hopefully this helps!

if widget["equipment"].element["0006"].item != null then
   $item_id = widget["equipment"].element["0006"].item.id;
   if $item_id == "ITEM_0001" then
      print("Torch equipped");
   end;
end;

Thank you, this worked! One more, thing, there seems to be a bug with saving and loading. When I load my game, I can no longer open my player's inventory.

[Ol' Smaug]

No problem! I'm glad that worked. :) I will take a look at the loading bug, thanks for letting me know about it.

[El Chico Gordo]

Ah, that was what I also needed.
Not sure where to get that information about 0006 for the "right hand" but at least I can use that.
Any idea how to use this in a dialogue?
I would like to have a different dialogue if the item is equipped. But all I can make is print to the console. What would be the flow for using this as a condition in a dialog?
Or do I have to create a variable and then read the value as condition or so?

[Ol' Smaug]

Originally posted by El Chico GordoGER:

Ah, that was what I also needed.
Not sure where to get that information about 0006 for the "right hand" but at least I can use that.
Any idea how to use this in a dialogue?
I would like to have a different dialogue if the item is equipped. But all I can make is print to the console. What would be the flow for using this as a condition in a dialog?
Or do I have to create a variable and then read the value as condition or so?

In order to find the ID of a built-in slot, e.g. the "0006", you can duplicate the widget in the Widget Editor, then select the slots and check the ID from the Element Properties panel. I'll try to provide a reference for all of these when I can.

Regarding dialogue, you'd probably need to include a script node at the beginning that does the check above and then stores it into a global property, for example true/false according to whether or not they have the item equipped, then you could check that global property in the condition where needed later in the dialogue. Hopefully that helps!

[El Chico Gordo]

Yea, I did the script solution which then executes one dialog or the other. Just wasn't sure if this could work in the condition statement of the dialoges as well but wasn't sure how to implement this.