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Make sure it is the party that kills a monster
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 4:24 pm
by cromcrom
In my mod, the party gains XPS, general, and skill xps, or loot, suposedly when it kills a monster.
However, there are times when a monster will get stuck in a damaging tile, and die out of "natural" causes. In this case, the onDie is called, and the party receives the benefits, even tho it never touched the monster.
How to make sure it is the party that killed the monster ?
I thought of creating "cadaver" objects, that would be spawned onDie, and would need party pick up to give the benefits of the death to the party.
Maybe something easier/different could be done ?
Re: Make sure it is the party that kills a monster
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 12:30 am
by Isaac
The easiest way to not have monster's die on a damage tile, is to not have them trigger the plate ~if you are using plates to trigger damageTile.
(If appearance matters, then you can use floor_triggers (set to not activate on monsters) and cosmetic pressure plates (connected to nothing, or connected just to the damage audio/visual effects), in the same locations. That way monsters appear to trigger the plate when they step on it.)
Alternatively:
You could allow the damageTile to hurt them until their health is below 50% (or other amount).
Example: Connect plates to this script. Monsters that step on the plates get hurt ~unless below a certain percentage of health.
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function hurt(caller)
local threshold = 50
local damage = threshold/3
for entity in caller.go.map:entitiesAt(caller.go.x, caller.go.y) do
if entity.monster then
local health, maxHealth = entity.monster:getHealth() , entity.monster:getMaxHealth()
if health < threshold then
entity.monster:setHealth(health+threshold) --Optional healing to allow future damage.
delayedCall(self.go.id, .9, "blast" ,caller, damage)
return
end
end
end
delayedCall(self.go.id, .9, "blast" ,caller, damage)
end
function blast(caller, damage)
caller.go:createComponent("Particle")
caller.go.particle:setParticleSystem("fireburst")
caller.go.particle:setOffset(vec(0,1.5,0))
caller.go.particle:setDestroySelf(true)
playSound("fireburst")
damageTile(caller.go.level, caller.go.x, caller.go.y, caller.go.facing, caller.go.elevation, 1, "fire", damage)
end
Re: Make sure it is the party that kills a monster
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:45 am
by cromcrom
Thanks a lot. I LOVE you guys scripts and stuff
Re: Make sure it is the party that kills a monster
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:14 pm
by Isaac
A third alternative is to use normal pressure plates, and dynamically decide if they damage the target at all. In this method, monsters take no damage from triggering the plate, but the party does.
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delay = 0.9
damage = 20
function hurt(caller)
for entity in caller.go.map:entitiesAt(caller.go.x, caller.go.y) do
if entity.monster or entity.monstergroup then
delayedCall(self.go.id, delay, "blast" ,caller, damage ,false)
return
end
end
delayedCall(self.go.id, delay, "blast" ,caller, damage, true)
end
function blast(caller, damage, attack)
caller.go:createComponent("Particle")
caller.go.particle:setParticleSystem("fireburst")
caller.go.particle:setOffset(vec(0,1.5,0))
caller.go.particle:setDestroySelf(true)
playSound("fireburst")
if attack then
damageTile(caller.go.level, caller.go.x, caller.go.y, caller.go.facing, caller.go.elevation, 1, "fire", damage)
end
end