[New Mod] Visible Damage

[RPC]

It was just an idea I had while working on Sandbox, but I was thinking that visual cues for damaged armor segments on enemy ships would be nice for Transcendence. That's why I made the Visible Damage mod, hoping to cure myself of that need. Enjoy!

[FAD]

Handy, indeed! I've DL'd it but haven't tried it yet, but if it helps to identify what segs are critical in cap ships, then it is a must have. As it is now, you have to keep pecking away at the ship on certain angles in order to do critical damage.
Hate when ya get the ship at 100% damage, continuous firing with direct hits and it's still alive! I've battled many a ship for several minutes this way, thinking...
Die already!

[RPC]

I've made a point about the visible damage not being all too precise, so sometimes the damage trail is off by 15 degrees.

[RPC]

Ok, another thing I just realized:
I am currently using an event handler approach to apply the visible damage, but some ships (like the St. Kats traffic), already have event handlers, and there isn't an ObjAddEventHandler.

I was looking towards overlays for my solution, but now there isn't a objFireRecurringOverlayEvent. I'll try to see what using <OnUpdate> will do, but I'd like a function like sysAddObjRecurringTimerEvent for the purposes of my mod.

[RPC]

Ok, I just tried it, and my worst fear came true: every 30 ticks creates a sporadic smoke trail, and not one that is continuous. I'll keep thinking about how I can circumvent the event handler problem.

[RPC]

Ok, reuploaded at 60 downloads and features 2 things:
-new colors for different damage levels
-if a ship has an event handler, an overlay will be applied instead.
Changes from old revision to new:
OLD:

VisibleDamageCut.png (37.9 KiB) Viewed 6460 times

NEW:

Visible damage V2.png (19.69 KiB) Viewed 6460 times

[RPC]

Hi guys, after 692 downloads, V2 is out!

[PM]

RPC: Below is code to fix PSD ships not showing visible damage. Cut this code, highlight everything in <VisibleDamage>, then paste to replace.

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		<VisibleDamage>
			(block Nil
				;(plymessage gPlayer "visidamage on!")
				(enum (sysFindObject gSource "As") ship
					(block (theHand visOn)
						;- - - - - - - - - -
						; PM:  Check if the ship was tagged with visible damage.
						;  Don't use ObjSetData because the data attached to the
						;  player remains on the player even after a ship change.
						;  When player changes ships, visible damage remains on
						;  the old ship, but the data sticks to the player and
						;  transfers to the new ship, making the player immune
						;  to visible damage.  Thus, my edit to eliminate reliance
						;  on data check and just check visible damage directly.
						;- - - - - - - - - -
						(setq theHand (objGetEventHandler ship))
						(if (setq visOn (if theHand True Nil))
							(enum (objGetOverlays ship) theOverlay
								(if (eq theOverlay &ovVisibleDamage;) (setq visOn True))
								)
							)

						;run the check to see if the handler is already installed:
						;or that it already has an event handler [I think there can only be 1 per ship....]
						;if it has an event handler, just install the overlay instead.
						(switch
							;check if it has either visible damage event handler or overlay
							visOn
								;don't do anything
								Nil
							;check it it has event handler
							theHand
								;add the overlay instead
								(block Nil
									(objAddOverlay ship &ovVisibleDamage;)
									)
							;if it has no event handler, add visible damage event handler
							;apply ev handler and fire event
							(block Nil
								(objSetEventHandler ship &evVisibleDamageEventHandler;)
								(sysAddObjRecurringTimerEvent 5 ship "Damage")
								(sysAddObjRecurringTimerEvent (random 30 100) ship "Critical")
								;(dbglog(plymessage gPlayer "visidamage on!"))
								)
							)
						)
					)
				;look for ships
					;add event handler to all ships that don't have it
					;trigger the damage event 
				)
		</VisibleDamage>

[RPC]

Thanks PM, updated now.
Reuploaded at 1290 downloads.
This fix makes Visible Damage compatible with Playership Drones by PM.

[Lordocarrot]

sweet, can't wait to try it out