Keeping powerup across a hub (PERSISTENTPOWER and HUBPOWER isn't working??)

[IvDraco830]

Ok, so I want to keep the effects of a power up across levels on a hub and thus I added the +INVENTORY.PERSISTENTPOWER and +INVENTORY.HUBPOWER to the powerup (not the powerup giver) but as I test it out it just... doesnt work at all :/
I have no idea of why this is happening.

This is my code:

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Class PowerCarPlayer : PowerMorph
{
	Default
	{
	Powerup.Duration 0x7FFFFFFF;
	PowerMorph.PlayerClass "CarPlayer";
	PowerMorph.MorphStyle (MRF_ADDSTAMINA|MRF_FULLHEALTH);
	PowerMorph.MorphFlash "NoFlash";
	PowerMorph.UnMorphFlash "NoFlash";
	+INVENTORY.PERSISTENTPOWER
	+INVENTORY.HUBPOWER
  }
}

[Player701]

The flags definitely do work in the sense that the powerup remains in the player's inventory after changing maps.

I suspect the real problem here is that the player is automatically unmorphed at the end of the level and is not morphed again because InitEffect does not get called. (Persistent morph powerups have apparently never been considered by the devs?)

To work around this, you could add a Travelled override to call InitEffect manually:

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override void Travelled()
{
    InitEffect();
}

Note that I haven't tested this, and it might be buggy or even cause a crash. If it does, you should probably file a bug report.

[IvDraco830]

Hey! First I want to thank you for your answer. I wouldn't imagine such a thing could be the issue. Next I want to say sorry for taking such a long time in answering, I hope this doesn't count as a bump or something.
So I've tried this method you shared but sadly it didn't work :/ Not that it crashed or anything, it just did nothing as far as I can tell.

[Player701]

Yeah, unfortunately it doesn't appear to be as simple as I thought. The problem is that the unmorphing code removes all PowerMorph items from the inventory.

We can attempt to circumvent this by giving the player an additional inventory item that indicates that they should be morphed upon level change:

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class MorphToken : Inventory
{
    Default
    {
        +INVENTORY.UNDROPPABLE;
    }

    override void Travelled()
    {
        if (Owner != null)
        {
            Owner.GiveInventory('PowerCarPlayer', 1);
        }
    }
}

class PowerCarPlayer : PowerMorph
{
    Default
    {
        ...
    }

    override void InitEffect()
    {
        Owner.GiveInventory('MorphToken', 1);
        Super.InitEffect();
    }

    override void DepleteOrDestroy()
    {
        Owner.TakeInventory('MorphToken', 1);
        Super.DepleteOrDestroy();
    }
}

Note that you do not need to explicitly take away the MorphToken when you want to undo the effect because the above code already accounts for it (taking away PowerCarPlayer will also remove the token). Also, the code assumes that the powerup will never expire on its own.