Creating a skill map..quad/invinc?

[Adam-g1]

I have everything going smoothly, bags and all, it's just.. I can't seem to figure out how to give quad damage and invincibility to the players. I know this is controlled through Lua, but I have no idea where to start really. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Thanks!

[Circuitous]

function player_ondamage( player, damageinfo )
	damageinfo:SetDamage( 0 )
end

There's invulnerability. Quad I still haven't figured out. It's not a simple command.

[nodnarb]

Originally Posted by Circuitous

function player_ondamage( player, damageinfo )
	damageinfo:SetDamage( 0 )
end

There's invulnerability. Quad I still haven't figured out. It's not a simple command.

If you got that out of my map, it doesn't work.

[Circuitous]

I just wrote that. No reason for it not to work.

[nodnarb]

-- Disable damage
function player_ondamage( player, damageinfo )
	damageinfo:SetDamage(0);

[Circuitous]

Needs an end.

[nodnarb]

oh, oops
Forgot to copy it. =/

-- Disable damage
function player_ondamage( player, damageinfo )
	damageinfo:SetDamage(0);
end

[hlstriker]

I actually saw that exact code in some random file on google. I tested it last night and it didn't work. I even fiddled around with it, and it still didn't work. All that worked was the console spitting errors out at me :P

[A1win]

function player_ondamage( player, damageinfo )
	player:AddHealth( 400 )
end

You lose and gain health but at least you don't die

I still want to know how it's done properly though. It seems you are giving wrong parameters for damageinfo:SetDamage(). If I use your script, this is what I get in console every time I take damage:

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

[hlstriker]

Yeah, that's the error I was getting too.

I thought maybe I needed to set it as a float but 0.0 didn't work either.

EDIT:
Does damageinfo contain the amount of damage that was taken?

If so you could just add that much health back?

[A1win]

The problem seems to be that the player actually takes the damage after the event, which is why we need to modify the damage. There must be a way, but it's not easy to know without documented function reference

function player_ondamage( player, damageinfo )
	player:AddHealth( damageinfo:GetDamage() )
end

With that I stay constantly at ~17 health when taking damage. Also it doesn't add armor back, and I have no idea how to detect how much armor was lost.

edit: could someone tell me how to create a variable of type "custom [float]"?

edit: Alright. If I do "SetDamage(0.0)" that "0.0" is actually considered as a "number" type variable which have precision of two decimals, but the precision of the damage is 12 decimals. How can I create a float that has precision of 12 decimals?

[diablo`-]

woot adam? started mapping FF_quadrocket_adam? ?

[Circuitous]

Do me a favor and try player:SetDamage( 0 ).

[hlstriker]

Trying that returns this error:

[SCRIPT] Error calling player_ondamage ([string "maps/ff_conc_esad.lua"]:34: attempt to call method 'SetDamage' (a nil value)) ent: NULL

[Steven_m64]

i dont have anyone to test with or bots but from looking at the soldier arena include this looks like it would work.

function player_ondamage( player, damageinfo )
	damageinfo:SetDamage( 0.0 );
end

this is a wild guess from what i have seen so far, if i could take a look at FF's codebase i could find out what to do with a lot more ease.

[hlstriker]

I have already tried that and it doesn't work.

[A1win]

I think you need to do:
damageinfo:SetDamage( insert a float with 12 decimal precision here )

or:
damageinfo.SetDamage( insert a float with 12 decimal precision here )

No idea what's the difference between : and . but when I use the first one, it returns an error even with damageinfo:SetDamage() saying I'm trying to give a number as a parameter even though there are no parameters at all. The second one gives error that I need to use "custom [float]" instead of a "number" if I try to give it a number as a parameter. But I have no idea how to convert a number into a 12 decimal float. LUA's "number" is already a float, but only with 2 decimal precision (0.00 for example). The SetDamage() function wants something like 0.000000000000, but it's converted into a number (0) if you type in just that.

[stino]

. is an object function, : is a class function, but i have no idea what vars are classes or objects

[zero]

Both of these are the same:

obj.func( obj, argument )
obj:func( argument )

: is syntactic sugar that makes free functions work like member functions.

[Ihmhi]

You know, it said something in there about a "nil value". Maybe it just can not be represented by 0?

Even "buddha", the invicibility cheat, only keeps your health from going below 1. (And while you are at 1, you do not get affected by push from any weapons.)

I would just go with the health increaser dealie, but do a lot more than 400 health. A headshot does like... a thousand damage? Go with 5,000 or something. d: