Lua [TFS 1.3] Monster:onDropLoot question

[Evil Puncker]

Hello everyone, its me again, I have a table with monsters names, and one of them get selected on startUp and set its name into a variable, now I want to edit the monsters.lua OnDrop function so that specific creature gets twice the chance to drop loot, but I don't know how, can you guys help me?

-- here is where I set the creature from a table with monsters name
local boostedMonster = boostedMonstersList[Game.getStorageValue(1232)]

-- here is the piece of code from data\events\scripts\monsters.lua that I think is needed to change:

        local monsterLoot = mType:getLoot()
        for i = 1, #monsterLoot do
            local item = corpse:createLootItem(monsterLoot[i])
            if not item then
                print('[Warning] DropLoot:', 'Could not add loot item to corpse.')
            end
            -- autoloot
            if item > 0 then
                local tmpItem = Item(item)
                if player and player:getAutoLootItem(tmpItem:getId()) then
                    if tmpItem:moveTo(player) then
                        autolooted = string.format("%s, %s", autolooted, tmpItem:getNameDescription())
                    end
                end
            end
        end

or maybe this file is not where I should mess with? I've found this function but I don't know how/where to use it, any help is welcome, thanks for reading

 

[Infernum]

data/lib/core/container.lua

function Container.createLootItem(self, item, rate)
    multiplier = multiplier or 1

    if self:getEmptySlots() == 0 then
        return true
    end

    local itemCount = 0
    local randvalue = getLootRandom()
    if (randvalue / rate) < item.chance then
        if ItemType(item.itemId):isStackable() then
            itemCount = randvalue % item.maxCount + 1
        else
            itemCount = 1
        end
    end

    if itemCount > 0 then
        local tmpItem = self:addItem(item.itemId, math.min(itemCount, 100))
        if not tmpItem then
            return false
        end

        if tmpItem:isContainer() then
            for i = 1, #item.childLoot do
                if not tmpItem:createLootItem(item.childLoot[i]) then
                    tmpItem:remove()
                    return false
                end
            end
        end

        if item.subType ~= -1 then
            tmpItem:setAttribute(ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_CHARGES, item.subType)
        end

        if item.actionId ~= -1 then
            tmpItem:setActionId(item.actionId)
        end

        if item.text and item.text ~= "" then
            tmpItem:setText(item.text)
        end
    end
    return true
end

And just replace the createLootItem used in monster.lua with this:

local item = corpse:createLootItem(monsterLoot[i], nil, boostedMonster)

Assuming `boostedMonster `contains the multiplier for the drop chance.

 

[Evil Puncker]

@Delusion boostedMonster contains the chosen monster name from this:

BOOSTED_MONSTER = 56404
boostedMonstersList = {"rat", "spider", "troll", "orc", "demon"}

function globalevent.onStartup()
    local randomMonster = math.random(#boostedMonstersList)
    Game.setStorageValue(BOOSTED_MONSTER, randomMonster)
    local boostedMonster = boostedMonstersList[Game.getStorageValue(BOOSTED_MONSTER)]
    print("Today boosted monster is: " .. boostedMonster)
    return true
end

 

[Infernum]

Shouldn't be that complicated to make a table with monster names->rates and use that rate in the dropLoot function.

 

[juninho100k]

not working?