If-clauses in JSON

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Hey fellas,

for my Fortify-Mod I have recently been working on a working drawbridge. The main feature should be, that if the opened animation is triggered, the bridge should add a temporary collision-Box in front of it.
The wanted result is, that one can build this door in front of a river and enable hearthlings to cross that river without actually building a bridge (with a max river width of 4 blocks).

My first attempt is an if-claus like this:

{"if" : [{"==" : [{"var":"state"}, "opened"]}, "bridge", "no bridge" ]}

“bridge” and “no bridge” are placeholders for the whole collision-box thing. The “state” var should be filled with the active animation.

Now my questions:

  • Is this even possible in json? Or is this a task for a lua file?
  • Where to add the lines of code above? I guess in the “components” section, but I’m not quite sure.

Thank you for your attention.

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Json is not code, it is just a list of values. Those are read by some code elsewhere, in Lua.

Yes, a component would be necessary. I think you could maybe just invert the door behavior. Instead of being solid when closed, be solid when opened.

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And steal the lockable code from the lockable door so you can lock it closed, which means it’s non traversal? Clever

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True, Json is not code, but json can work with logic operators. So I thought of giving it a try. I’m not good with lua (at the moment).

Fantastic idea! The more I think of my previous idea, the more stupid it gets.
My attempt would probably mess with the whole pathfinding-thing.

Cherry on top.