Check Monster Dead? Help!

[Mysterious]

Hello all.

I have tried a few methods of finding out if a Monster is dead or not, but have failed badly I don't know how to do the Coding for this at all as I have discovered.

What I need is to find out if eg: forest_ogre_1 is dead, if he is then it runs a script function. If he is still alive then it would run a different script function.

I basically want to use this code for a couple of quests. Any help on this please, thank you.

[minmay]

MonsterComponent:isAlive() returns true if the monster is alive, and false if the monster is dead.

[Isaac]

What I need is to find out if eg: forest_ogre_1 is dead, if he is then it runs a script function. If he is still alive then it would run a different script function.

Just as minmay said above; the general solution.

In your case, for your monster, it should probably be the following:

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function deadCheck()
  if findEntity("forest_ogre_1") and forest_ogre_1.monster and not forest_ogre_1.monster:isAlive() then
     print("forest_ogre_1 is dead!")
    else
     print("forest_ogre_1 is alive!")
   end
end

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Alternatively:

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function deadCheck(monster_id)
 local target = findEntity(monster_id)
  if target ~= nil then
     if target.monster and not target.monster:isAlive() then
       print(monster_id.." is dead!")
      else
       print(monster_id.." is alive!")
       return false --not dead
     end
  end
 return true --dead	
end

script_entity_1.script.deadCheck("zarchton_1")

*Edited to swap target for findEntity

[Eleven Warrior]

Thxs matey this is cool I was looking for something like this the other day. Thxs

[Zo Kath Ra]

How about this:

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function monsterIsAlive(monster_id)
	local entity = findEntity(monster_id)
	
	if (entity) and (entity.monster) and (entity.monster:isAlive()) then
		return true
	else
		return false
	end
end

[THOM]

I don't understand, why you all are asking for the monster-component? And the isAlive could be important if the monster was killed a few seconds before the query of the script. But isn't it in most cases enough to ask simply

if ogre_1 ~= nil then

[minmay]

No. The parent object hangs around for a few seconds after the monster is killed, to handle the death particle effect and so on. You must use MonsterComponent:isAlive().