Quad/Invinc ever comming out?

[Adam-g1]

Sorry.. I know these both are bugged, don't work, or we cant figure them out yet, but I'm itching to make some quad rocketing / quad pipe maps. Is this going to be added / fixed in the next patch? Thanks!

[shock]

Have you tried a trigger_hurt with negative amounts triggered by a trigger_multiple (ontouch) ?

I know its just a workaround but better than nothing i guess.

[Mulchman MM]

There are some callbacks that get run on the Lua side when a player takes damage where you can modify the damage and such given out.

In the base_soldierarena.lua you can see "player_ondamage" which takes a player object [ie. CFFPlayer *] and a "damageinfo" object [ie. CTakeDamageInfo].

From the "damageinfo" you can adjust the damage value, see who the attacker is, see who the inflictor is, etc. Note: some of these values might be null sometimes so you need to make sure you check conditions like that.

Anyway, if you marked a player as having quad somehow - like giving them some kind of item - in the player_ondamage you could see if the attacker is this player based on if they had the item then do something like:

damageInfo:SetDamage(damageInfo:GetDamage() * 4)

to scale the damage up 4x.

As for the item part of it just treat the quad model part of it like a CTF flag - perhaps something like this [untested code]:

function player_ondamage(player, damageinfo)

	-- Entity that is attacking
	local attacker = damageInfo:GetAttacker()

	-- If no attacker do nothing
	if not attacker then return end

	-- If attacker not a player do nothing
	if not IsPlayer(attacker) then return end
	
	-- Get the attacker as a player [ie. CFFPlayer *]
	local playerAttacker = CastToPlayer(attacker)

	-- Find the quad entity (this is an expensive call - storing a reference to the actual quad object somewhere would be tons better)
	local quadEntity = GetEntityByName("red_quad")

	-- If "red_quad" couldn't be found do nothing
	if not quadEntity then return end

	-- If the quad isn't carried (ie. a player doesn't have it) then do nothing
	if not quad:IsCarried() then return end

	-- Find out who is carrying the quad
	local quadCarrier = quad:GetCarrier()

	-- If something bad happened do nothing
	if not quadCarrier then return end

	-- Cast the quad carrier as a player
	-- NOTE: We could have already known this if we grabbed a reference to this when the quad was touched/taken (but be sure to watch when its dropped as well!) [ie. have a trigger_ff_script that when touched gives the player touching it the quad - right there we should store a reference to the player and then all this other crap ^^ isn't needed]
	local quadPlayer = CastToPlayer(quadCarrier)

	if quadPlayer == playerAttacker then
		damageInfo:SetDamage(damageInfo:GetDamage() * 4)
	end
end

So that might work... but I'm not sure if the "quadPlayer == playerAttacker " comparison will actually do what we want it to do. If it doesn't then you can compare the players' entindex's through "GetId()" so like:

if quadPlayer:GetId() == playerAttacker:GetId() then

[A1win]

damageInfo:SetDamage() isn't working at the moment though, hopefully fixed in the next patch?

[Mulchman MM]

Are you sure or is there a typo somewhere that's choking the script? I can't remember if "Warning()"'s get compiled out of release builds but if they don't then on a local server you should see red text in the console saying if shit failed in Lua.

[A1win]

After fixing all the typos and problems in the script and editing it to fit what I need, it looks like this:

function player_ondamage( player, damageInfo )

	-- Entity that is attacking
	local attacker = damageInfo:GetAttacker()

	-- If no attacker do nothing
	if not attacker then return end

	-- If attacker not a player do nothing
	if not IsPlayer(attacker) then return end
	
	-- Get the attacker as a player [ie. CFFPlayer *]
	local playerAttacker = CastToPlayer(attacker)

	if not playerAttacker:HasItem("flag") then return end

	damageInfo:SetDamage(damageInfo:GetDamage() * 4)

end

It works until the SetDamage function, which gives me this in console:

[SCRIPT] Error calling player_ondamage (no overload of 'Damage:SetDamage' matched the arguments (const Damage, number)
candidates are:
Damage:SetDamage(custom [float])
) ent: NULL

Oh btw: http://www.fortress-forever.com/foru...ad.php?t=10791
Why did you make a new thread about this?

[Mulchman MM]

I just modified ff_dm's player_ondamage and everything is working for me.

function player_ondamage( player_entity, damageinfo )

	if not player_entity then return end
	if not damageinfo then return end

	local attackerPlayer = CastToPlayer(damageinfo:GetAttacker())
	if not attackerPlayer then return end

	local weapon = damageinfo:GetInflictor():GetClassName()
	local player = CastToPlayer(player_entity)

	if ( player:GetId() == attackerPlayer:GetId() ) then
		
		if ( weapon == "ff_projectile_rocket" ) then
			damageinfo:SetDamage(damageinfo:GetDamage() * 4);
		-- green pipes
		elseif ( weapon == "ff_projectile_pl" ) then
			damageinfo:SetDamage(0);
		-- blue pipes
		elseif ( weapon == "ff_projectile_gl" ) then
			damageinfo:SetDamage(0);
		end
	end
end

This allows self shot rockets to do 4x damage to yourself and then self shot green/blue pipes won't do any damage to yourself. The only difference I see are the semi-colons which shouldn't matter (it's just a habit from C/C++ to automatically put one at the end of certain lines).

I'm testing on debug code though, about to try it on what you guys got.

EDIT: Hrm, so it works on a debug build but not a release build.

[Mulchman MM]

This will be fixed in the next version.