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Check Monster Dead? Help!
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2016 6:55 am
by 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.
Re: Check Monster Dead? Help!
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2016 7:55 am
by minmay
MonsterComponent:isAlive() returns true if the monster is alive, and false if the monster is dead.
Re: Check Monster Dead? Help!
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 7:30 am
by Isaac
Mysterious wrote: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
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
Re: Check Monster Dead? Help!
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 8:27 am
by Eleven Warrior
Thxs matey this is cool I was looking for something like this the other day. Thxs
Re: Check Monster Dead? Help!
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:37 pm
by 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
Re: Check Monster Dead? Help!
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:54 pm
by 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 
Re: Check Monster Dead? Help!
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:21 pm
by 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().