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LUA Help: Adding Health
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:12 pm
by MasterSaitek009
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OnObjectDamage(
function(object, damager)
if GetCharacterTeam(player) == DEF then
if GetCharacterClass(damager) == 2 then
SetProperty (damager, "AddHealth", 20)
end
end
end
)
So here is what I want to happen:
Unit damages another unit
Damager, if it is a certain certain class and it is the defender team, recieves 20 health
It should be simple but the above code is generating the below error:
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Message Severity: 2
.\Source\LuaCallbacks_Mission.cpp(635)
Entity "0" not found
What am I doing wrong?
If you help me your name will be added to the readme of the map that this code goes in,
which should be released before Christmas.
Thanks,
-Saitek
And just for the record we need an LUA forum
Re: LUA Help: Adding Health
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:52 pm
by [RDH]Zerted
You do have some problems. First, what is player? Second, you are assuming the damager is still alive, he may not be (use nil checks). Third, you have to add health to the damager's unit, not the character itself. Use a nil check before the first time you use a GetCharacter function and another one on the unit you get from your missing GetCharacterUnit() call. Also, I believe adding a value to AddHealth will give that player a health regen, not increase the player's health by that amount.
Re: LUA Help: Adding Health
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:13 am
by MasterSaitek009
First, what is player?
Oops...
I was messing around with different ways of doing it I forgot to switch it back to the actual one
So would this work?
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OnObjectDamage(
function(object, damager)
if damager != nil then
if GetCharacterTeam(damager) == DEF then
if GetCharacterClass(damager) == 2 then
//So what would go here then?
// something like
if damager != nil then
SetProperty (GetCharacterUnit(damager), "CurHealth", CurHealth +20)
end
end
end
end
end
)
Re: LUA Help: Adding Health
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:23 am
by [RDH]Zerted
More like
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OnObjectDamage(
function(object, damager)
--skip invalid players
if damager == nil then return end
--check player's team and class
if GetCharacterTeam(damager) == DEF then
if GetCharacterClass(damager) == 2 then
--get the player's unit object
local unit = GetCharacterUnit(damager)
--skip dead units
if unit == nil then return end
--set the player's health to 80
SetProperty(unit, "CurHealth", 80)
end
end
end
)
I don't know of a way to get the player's current health. Just saying
CurHealth + 20 won't do it. I guess you could use IsCharacterAlive() instead of the nil unit check, but I've never done it that way.
Re: LUA Help: Adding Health
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:41 pm
by [RDH]Zerted
Good news, I did find method to get an object's health. Its GetObjectHealth(). Use it on the player's unit.
Retail Example:
SetProperty("turbineconsole", "CurHealth", GetObjectHealth("turbineconsole") + 1)
Re: LUA Help: Adding Health
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:06 pm
by MasterSaitek009
So final trigger of:
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OnObjectDamage(
function(object, damager)
if damager == nil then return end
if GetCharacterTeam(damager) == DEF then
if GetCharacterClass(damager) == 2 then
local unit = GetCharacterUnit(damager)
if unit == nil then return end
SetProperty(unit, "CurHealth", GetObjectHealth(unit) + 1)
end
end
end
)
I'll test it out!
Thanks a lot Zerted
Re: LUA Help: Adding Health
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:18 pm
by [RDH]Zerted
That will increase the unit's health by 1. It might be hard to test an increase of 1. Also, there might be a problem if the unit's CurHealth goes over its MaxHealth. I never did that to see what happens.