[Resolved in TDM 2.06] Possible to make food give you more health?

[Wallace]

Im not sure if my game is bugged, but I dont see any visible increase in health when I eat food, even after eating a kitchens worth of grub, I see 0 health regain. Was food supposed to restore health?

[Springheel]

It heals 1 hp, so you'd have to eat a lot to notice.

[Araneidae]

I don't think I've ever seen food in TDM give health. Think it would be quite a nice idea, seem to remember you could get marginal health gain from food in Thief. However, I think the impact on gameplay would be nil.

[Araneidae]

It heals 1 hp, so you'd have to eat a lot to notice.

 

1hp? Ah well, nearly as close to nil as I thought!

[Sotha]

I could swear it heals nothing. It would be easy to test: add a testmap with a bunch of eatables and one AI. Get hurt and eat the food to see if the health bar moves at all.

[demagogue]

I recall a spawnarg sets the healing level. So if you wanted more you could tweak that spawnarg in the general def file and it'll apply to all maps. DIY tip.

[Wallace]

Any chance the next update could tweak food to be more useful? Not like making each apple a health potion, but at least a notable increase in health. I've eaten entire kitchens and saw no health increase

 

Stumbling across a kitchen full of food would offer a nice place to take a breather and get a little healing before the next journey.

 

 

It heals 1 hp, so you'd have to eat a lot to notice.

 

What is the default amount of full health?

Edited June 20, 2015 by Wallace

[Wallace]

I recall a spawnarg sets the healing level. So if you wanted more you could tweak that spawnarg in the general def file and it'll apply to all maps. DIY tip.

Is that in the TDM folder? What is it called?

[Destined]

You will have to extract the file "tdm_defs01.pk4". In there you will find all the def-files, in which item properties (and a lot more) are defined. In the def-folder you will need the file "tdm_moveable_food.def", where you can find all food in the game. I just checked, the healing amount really is 1. The max health of the player is 100.

Edited June 20, 2015 by Destined

[Sotha]

I just checked, the healing amount really is 1.

 

That does not necessarily mean the healing effect is working.

[Sotha]

Proof:

 

 

I let AI kick my ass before killing them.

 

 

 

25 delicious "atdm:moveable_food_apple", which the editor claims: "An apple a day keeps a doctor away. Two apples a day keep two doctors away. See under Moveables/Junk for apple core. This food heals 1 HP when eaten."

 

After eating all 25 apples, there is absolutely no change in the health bar.

 

End conclusion: food healing does not work as advertized. Shall I file a bug tracker entry?

 

It would be fair if the food healed 1 hp if it is promised to do so. Eating a full pantry would easily give back around 25% health, which would be significant in gameplay terms.

[Springheel]

If it's not working then please file a tracker.

[Sotha]

If it's not working then please file a tracker.

 

Done.

 

http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=4166

[Wallace]

Awesome job Sotha

[Sotha]

Awesome job Sotha

 

Thanks, but I've merely just confirmed the issue.

 

Now we need an awesome coder/scripter/def wizard to actually fix it... That's where the real work lies.

[Wallace]

I think the most recent update must have broken it somehow, I distinctly remember food healing from an older version ie a clear increase in health even just eating one piece of food. It added a good survival element.

[SteveL]

The current implementation was definitelty broken. I've fixed it for 2.04, so that the "heal_amount" spawnarg does what you'd expect.

 

Is there a wiki about food and healing? I haven't found one with a quick search. Not that it needs one, but if there is one I need to update it. The way this was implemented was that you could (in theory) have used any and all of the spawnargs that are used by healing potions to make food heal over time, for example. But that didn't and couldn't ever have worked, so I've changed it to a simple one-shot heal, of whatever amount is specified in ther "heal_amount" spawnarg. It defaults to 1.

[Sotha]

That was a lightning-fast fix, StevelL. Great job!

[Wallace]

Great job steve, do we have to wait until the next TDM update or can I just re-run the tdm_update .exe?

[Sotha]

Great job steve, do we have to wait until the next TDM update or can I just re-run the tdm_update .exe?

 

Gotta wait for the update to get this along with other candy.

 

In the mean time, mappers should start stocking their WIP maps with pantries full of delicious healing items!

[SteveL]

It won't work in existing maps until 2.04. But if any mappers want to release a map with working food in the meantime, I can tell them how to fix it. It didn't need any game code changes, just changes to a def file and a script, so mappers can package the fix with their map in the meantime if they wish.

[grayman]

The "L" in "SteveL" stands for "Lightning-fast service".

[Airship Ballet]

"Lightning-fast service".

[c0mputer-fr0d]

It's really easy logic to implement the problem is understanding the system first to know how to put that functionality in. I could fix this so easily if I just understood the system better but I'm working on it. I just need to figure out the scripting system so I can assign health values to the food items and then when the item is consumed increment the player entity's health by the number assigned to the food. I'll start work on this now.

Edited June 21, 2015 by c0mputer-fr0d

[RPGista]

But my friend, SteveL just fixed the issue. No need to worry about it no more.

 

You only eat food in a mission for a moral boost anyway (you imagine it tastes good), I never expected the vitamins to work their healing on my wounds inside the mission time so I never missed the HP bonus anyway.

Edited June 22, 2015 by RPGista