<Events> triggered upon taking armor hit?

[TheLastBrunnenG]

Simple code request, I hope: I want to trigger an event every time the player's ship takes an armor hit. Could be something as simple as displaying a message to the player: "Ouch! That hurt!"

Is there a function I can stick in an <Events> tag on the armor that would do this every time the armor was hit?

I could probably check something from within an <OnAIUpdate>, but that only checks every so often - I want to trigger a message (and later more, of course) upon every armor hit, real-time.

Ideas?

[digdug]

I want to trigger an event every time the player's ship takes an armor hit.

TheLastBrunnenG,
you can use the new <OnDamageArmor> event that is for weapons:
http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence ... on_devices

[TheLastBrunnenG]

I thought <OnDamageArmor> was for use in weapons. I'm looking for something I can put in the <Events> tag of the armor itself.

[Betelgeuse]

not currently we have them for the ship being hit and the weapon but not for the armor. But that is a high priority 1.1 thing.

[Alex_]

Not sure, but you might be able to add an overlay to the playership <OnInstall> that uses <OnDamage> to do what you want. I think you might get freaky stuff happening if you ended up with multiple <OnDamage> overlays.
I guess it would work most of the time.