Event for whan a shield gets damaged?

[Drako Slyith]

I had a mod idea and need to know if there is an event you can call when a shield is hit, similar to the <OnDamageShields> but that can be used in shield items.

[alterecco]

It's all on the wiki: http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence ... ds_devices

[Drako Slyith]

Ok thanks. I was looking in the Events part of the wiki.
Also, I was looking on Xelerus, and I couldn't find out if there was a command to damage the shields. If there is not one, I'll make a ticket.

[digdug]

about the function, there isn't a function to directly damage a shield (like the one we have for armors: shpDamageArmor), and Betelgeuse already opened a ticket for it:

http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence/trac/ticket/13


About an event for shields, we have <OnShieldDamage>, which is quite a powerful event for making custom shields and it's called every time a projectile hits the shield bearing the event.
http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence ... ds_devices

(don't get confused with <OnDamageShields>, which is a weapon event and it's called when the weapon bearing the event hits a shield)

[Drako Slyith]

Thanks. Just one more thing, is there a way to do an eq for damage type? I tried using both the number for damage and the string, but neither seemed to work.

[alterecco]

If in doubt, dbgLog the value you are doing the eq against.

[digdug]

I'm not actually sure what aDamageType returns. In case of problems you can always (itmGetDamageType aWeaponType) which returns a number between 0 and 15

[Drako Slyith]

I dbgLoged it and got "ion"

[alterecco]

In that case you should be comparing string damage types.

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(eq somestring "ion")

is true is somestring is "ion".