Adding medications

Advanced Roleplay Environment supports modular medications. This means you can easily add medications or edit them accordingly.

Adding medications

In order to add a medication we just need to add the medication inside the medications file and configure the properties accordingly.

Adding the medication

Since all medications are saved inside script/entities/medications.lua, we will open this file. This should look like this:

script/entities/medications.lua

Now we will scroll to the bottom and just copy a medication from above and edit it to our needs so it should look like this:

script/entities/medications.lua

Configuring the medication

There are many options available for us to configure the medication perfectly to our needs.

Option	Description	Example
painReduce	This property is a number and contains the value of how much the pain get reduced.	painReduce = 0.3 The pain get reduced by 0.3 * effectRatio per second.
hrIncreaseLow	This property is a table contains a table { minIncrease, maxIncrease } how much the heart rate will increase or decrease if the heart rate is below 55 bpm.	hrIncreaseLow = { -10, 10 } The heart rate will in minimum decrease by 10 or in maximum increase by 10 if the heart rate is below 55 bpm.
hrIncreaseNormal	This property is a table contains a table { minIncrease, maxIncrease } how much the heart rate will increase or decrease if the heart rate is >= 55 bpm and <= 110 bpm.	hrIncreaseNormal = { 5, 20 } The heart rate will in minimum increase by 5 and in maximum by 20 if the heart rate is >= 55 bpm and <= 110 bpm.
hrIncreaseHigh	This property is a table contains a table { minIncrease, maxIncrease } how much the heart rate will increase or decrease if the heart rate is > 110 bpm	hrIncreaseHigh = { 2, 7 } The heart rate will in minimum increase by 2 and in maximum by 7 if the heart rate is above 110 bpm.
timeInSystem (maxTimeInSystem)	This property is a number and contains the value how long a medication is kept in the system before removing it. Also it will be used to calculate the effect ratio. (in seconds)	timeInSystem = 1800 The medication is kept 1800 seconds in system before removing it. Calculation for the effect ratio: effectRatio = min((timeInSystem / timeTillMaxEffect) ^ 2, 1) * (maxTimeInSystem - timeInSystem) / maxTimeInSystem To understand the effect ratio formula we need to define the values where: - timeInSystem is variable and describes the current time in the system in seconds. - timeTillMaxEffect is a constant and describes the time till the effect ratio reaches 1. - maxTimeInSystem is a constant and describes how long the medication will stay in the system until it reaches 0.0 effect ratio at the end. - min(valueA, valueB) will always return the lowest value of both so if valueA is 5 and valueB is 8 it will return 5. In our example it is a calculation and 1 so it will always be less <= 1.
timeTillMaxEffect	This property is a number and contains the value when the max effect ratio is reached. (in seconds)	timeTillMaxEffect = 30 The medication will reach its max effect after 30 seconds so a effect ratio of 1.
maxDose	This property is a number and contains the value after how many medications in system the function onOverDose will be triggered.	maxDose = 5 The property onOverDose will be triggered after 5 times of injection of this medication.
onOverDose	This property is a function and will be triggered if the number of the same medication in the system is >= maxDose	onOverDose = function() print("hello!") end The function will print "hello" after this function has been triggered.
viscosityChange	The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to gradual deformation by shear stress or tensile stress. For liquids, it corresponds to the informal concept of "thickness". This value will increase/decrease the viscoty of the blood with the percentage given. Where 100 = max. Using the minus will decrease viscosity.	viscosityChange = -10 The peripheral resistance will reduce by maximum 10 and viscosityChange * effectRatio per second.