Scripting combat

[shadowwulf]

so in on attack i want to do the following.

run my subs for player development on both parties-done
calculate/perform roll for the target to dodge the attack-designed but not scripted
calculate damage to be done-where i have trouble
calculate/perform roll for chance to crit-designed but not scripted
reduce damage if hit based on target def-designed but not scripted

now i can mess with the damage variable all i want but what about weapons?
if i change it i am ignoring weapon bonuses.
i didnt see any commands for checking the damage.
would i have to script all weapons?

[balliztik1]

No, you wouldn't. The OnAttack sub has a damage parameter. You can still use that to get the damage that the player would deal.

[munro]

on attack… does it count bows and magic too?

[balliztik1]

Nopes. OnArrowHit controls bows. There's no sub for magic, though. There should be. It'd make for some sweet element systems.

[munro]

oh i didnt know there was an on arrow hit sub XD

yea some kinda of onmagiccast or something would be helpful

[shadowwulf]

im dumb… now that i read this the next day i realize that if damage is basically the weapon damage then i should just use damage=damage+mycalculations

right?

icould do the same for bows i guess... but it takes the player somuch skill to hit with bows already....

[brutal]

You could do "damage=damage+mycalculations" but when the sub ends it wont add it to the damage they are doing, You would have to set that yourself. with```
Call DamagePlayer(PersonDoingDamageIndex, PersonRecievingDamageIndex, DamageAmount)
```

[shadowwulf]

isnt that the same as calling damageplayer?

[brutal]

No, Because the sub dosent return "damage" back to the server. Mellowz might add this, IDK, I did find a fix for RunCodeReturn in the SadScript class, so maybe he will take advantage of that and use it.

[dg1423]

wait, what? when scripting is enabled, all damage is handled by sadscript. the server just calculates the damage, then damageplayer damages it in the onattack sub in main.txt. if you delete damageplayer from onattack, you can't damage anything. so if you modify the damage, you can change the damage people are doing. I don't know what Brutal is talking about with returning the damage, but modifying the damage variable will work if you modify it before the damageplayer call.

[shadowwulf]

exactly what i thought.
the only question is how is damage being figured before OnAttack?
i know the weapon is a factor and there is no other way to get a bonus from weapon damage.
so making damage equal only my calculations is bad.
but how else do i get weapon bonus?

[brutal]

Yes, I was talking to DG about this on MSN, It turns out they changed it in the source from the last time I was here. Sorry for the misleading information.

[balliztik1]

@Shadowwulf:

> exactly what i thought.
> the only question is how is damage being figured before OnAttack?
> i know the weapon is a factor and there is no other way to get a bonus from weapon damage.
> so making damage equal only my calculations is bad.
> but how else do i get weapon bonus?

```
Damage = Damage - GetPlayerStr(index) \ 2
```

Adding that line should make damage equal to just weapon and item bonuses. The Damage variable doesn't include an enemy's defense beforehand, I think. I haven't tested, though, so I'm not sure.

[dg1423]

yes, yes it does.