Weapon effects mod

[Betelgeuse]

Now that we have objDamage we can apply weapon effects to any object we want. I plan on making a mod encompassing most of these.

planned functions (all effects do at least 1 damage)

(wemApplyDamage spaceObject damage damageType [wmdLevel] [sourceObject] [position])
(wemApplyMomentum spaceObject level position)


I am thinking making the valid damage range from 1 to 200 would anyone need numbers higher than this? Of course I will take a new UNID for this ,I will need 22295 different weapons.

any comments or suggestions?

[digdug]

I will need 22295 different weapons. Shocked

That's a lot

why so many ? how is it going to work ?

[Betelgeuse]

Well each weapon will be a fixed damage weapon. When you call something like

(wemApplyDamage blah 34 laser 3)

It will find the wmd 3 laser that does 34 damage and use it to damage blah.

Maybe I should take an extra argument for the firer. (in case the player is shooting at friendlies)

[Aury]

Can we do negative momentum?

[Atarlost]

You can probably get by with 100 per damage type and just apply multiple passes for stuff above 100. That may not get you no roundoff, but it will get you roundoff only rarely and never where there isn't a HPbonus style resist.

[Betelgeuse]

You can probably get by with 100 per damage type and just apply multiple passes for stuff above 100. That may not get you no roundoff, but it will get you roundoff only rarely and never where there isn't a HPbonus style resist.

The problem with multiple passes is that you get multiple applications of resistance. If we could get the resistance of a shield or armor then we could use that to adjust but I don't know a way of doing that.

[Atarlost]

Resistances are multiplicative so the only way the number of passes matter is if the resist causes damage to be lost to roundoff errors. I think the roundoff errors for 100 damage and 5 seperate should be the same as for 105 in most cases.

[Betelgeuse]

due to onDamage (the core of this mod) being disabled in damage events (the main use of it ) this mod is canceled

Hopefully George makes the function with his resources.

[george moromisato]

Sorry about that. If I understand the problem correctly, you are trying to call (objDamage) from inside an <OnDamageArmor> (or similar) event.

The reason that won't work is because (objDamage) will itself end up firing an <OnDamageArmor> event (because it ends up damaging armor). Which means that you end up in an infinite loop.

Edit: BTW, why can't you call (shpDamageArmor) from inside <OnDamageArmor>? That should work fine, I think.

[Betelgeuse]

the entire reason for this mod was to have a controlled way of damaging shields in damage events.

The infinite loop only occurs if you call objDamage with the same weapon that the OnDamageShield or OnDamageShield with and this mod doesn't have those events thereby avoiding the infinite loop. I agree that it can cause problems but no more than saying loop while true.