shpdamagearmor

[Atarlost]

There is no way to either directly set the current hitpoints of a piece of armor or damage armor that ignores resistances.

Xelerus incorrectly claims that calling shpdamagearmor with a damage type of 0 will damage without resistances, but calling shpdamagearmor with a damage type of 0 simply does no damage.

This prevents switchable armors from properly carrying over damage.

There is no way to get an armor's resistance to a specific damage type which would have allowed a workaround.

This will also create problems for alternate damage systems.

[digdug]

so, what we would need is something like "armGetResistance" and "objGetShieldResistance" that should return an usable value (or list) of resistances of the item.

Thanks for testing the function, xelerus will be fixed soon.

[Betelgeuse]

you can use objGetArmorDamage to get the amount of damage to an armor.
As for resistances that is static so if need be we can put that in static data. Of course if we can get it from code that would save alot of effort.

[Atarlost]

Found a workaround. It's not pretty, though. Apparently shpDamageArmor cannot under any circumstances kill you. Calling it for insanely high damage won't kill and your armor, but will leave it at 0. HP can then be set with objRepairArmor, which works uniformly across all armors.

The side effects are a red flash and a bunch of critical damage warnings.

In the case of switchable armor one red flash and critical damage warning for each armor plate of the same type as the one activated. Not good, but no longer a complete blocker.