Character with multiability who can swim underwater

[calliecoolswag]

Is it possible to have a character with two abilities, one of them being a swim that only works underwater? I'm unable to get it working with my limited lua knowledge despite trying.

 

[Micro]

CA_SWIM is an ability

 

[calliecoolswag]

CA_SWIM is an ability

I know. I'm asking if theres any way to have CA_Swim and another ability with LUA.

 

[SilverVortex]

CA_SWIM is an ability

CA_SWIM doesn't have an ability for above-ground use.

that being said though, you can perfectly well change a skin's ability depending on the context. using the (player prefix).ability userdata, you can change it to whatever value you want using lua. i won't write the code for you, you'll definitely want to look at a tutorial + the wiki's extensive but slightly unfinished lua documentation.

for this kind of thing, you'll want to look at:

hooks
userdata structures
object flags

i hope this helps!

 

[amperbee]

You can change the player's ability when checking if the player is underwater or not.
There is a player flag for being underwater, and the player structure stores the player's current ability in the charability player variable.

What have you tried so far?

 

[Cosmic]

Here's some code you can use:

addHook("ThinkFrame", function()
	for player in players.iterate do
		if player.mo.skin ~= "mechatails" then
			continue
		end
		
if (player.mo.eflags & MFE_UNDERWATER) then
    player.charability = CA_SWIM
else
    player.charability = CA_NONE
       end
    end
end)

replace mechatails with the desired skin name and "CA_NONE" with your desired land ability.