Thanks for the tips. But so far I'm still having trouble to even get the single-map usecase to work.
How or where would I override or append to game:on_started? Is there an example? I also found I need special behavior when starting each map or multimap area, for spawning the 2nd hero with the map functions. Is there maybe a way to override map:on_started for all maps?
When I tried to register "on_started" on sol.main.get_metatable("map"), it was never called. When I tried register "on_started" on sol.main.get_metatable("game"), the returned hero from create_hero was nil. That using the map metatable with "on_started" doesn't work has apparently been
reported by other users. The reason may be that the map already has the function, and the docs say that the
instance field always has priority. However, I haven't found any other hook in the map startup that I could use.
local game_meta = sol.main.get_metatable("game")
game_meta:register_event("on_started", function(game)
local x, y, z = game:get_hero():get_position()
local hero2 = game:get_map():create_hero {x = x, y = y, layer = z}
print("This is called without error, but hero2 is nil here, and doesn't show: ", hero2)
end)
local map_meta = sol.main.get_metatable("map")
map_meta:register_event("on_started", function()
print("This is never called.")
end)
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