Questions about shields

[Wurmish]

I'm starting to mod my shields, and I have some questions (Sadly I don't have time for IRC, otherwise I'd ask there)

Is there a way to modify a shield's resistances? Preferably similar to how the Omsk works with armor? Failing that, I can sort of imagine a work-around based on the Jotun with the number of armor segments affecting your maximum 'charge'

Is there a function that lets you determine what damage type has just hit your shield/armor?

Sort of related - is there a nice compendium of functions (and descriptions thereof) so I don't have to post questions like this?

[Arisaya]

Omsk doesn't modify the resistance - it modifies HP. You can use <onShieldDamaged> to find out if the shield has been hit, and by obtaining the damage type, you can then manually check for things and decide how much of the damage you want to let affect the shield, get passed to the armor, or if the projectile should be deflected.

[Wurmish]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant how an Omsk modifies the shield (HP for its case), can the same concept be applied with resistances?

And for the shield damage, is there a function that, in bad pseudocode, reads

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if (damageType) {
return True
} else {
return False
}

or

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onShieldDamaged
return damageType

I'm guessing there's a function that does the latter since there HAS to be some way to determine pass-through and reflecting, but I don't know what it is.

[ThePrivateer]

I'm guessing there's a function that does the latter since there HAS to be some way to determine pass-through and reflecting, but I don't know what it is.

I know it's not much help, but have you tried looking in
"StdShields.xml" and "Transcendence.xml" ?

StdShields holds all the regular types of shields.
As for Transcendence.xml, use a "Search" function in your text editor [Ctrl-F in most programs] and type in "onShieldDamaged" and see what comes up.

Sorry I can't help more

EDIT : Okay, I found this page on Xelerus has common functions:
http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=functions&all=yes
May or may not help you. Type into the search bar the things you want and it may or may not come up with something helpful.

[digdug]

the most updated list of functions we have is here:
http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence ... ions/index

It's basically an updated mirror of Xelerus.

there are a couple of functions from the last 2 updates that are missing.

as far as I can understand this list is what we are trying to keep updated.
this is the main page of the functions on the wiki:
http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence/wiki/functions