Sanity penalty while fighting

[DieAnywhereElse]

Hi everyone, I'm new to modding and I'm making my first character here.

I'm almost done tweaking it's abilities and such, but I needed to add a penalty to balance it out. I wanted her to be afraid of fighting, so I want to know if it's possible to lose flat amounts of sanity (5/15/25 etc) for hitting or being hit by other creatures. And if not, how can I configure an aura similar to willow's that drains sanity when in combat instead? Thanks for your time!

[Ultroman]

It's really easy to do flat amounts when attacking or being attacked.

Put this in your character's master_postinit function, and change the -5 value to whatever you want.

inst:ListenForEvent("onattackother", function(inst, data)
	-- The data object you get contains different variables, like:
	-- target (entity), weapon (entity, if any), projectile (entity, if any), stimuli (I don't know)
	-- Change true to false, if you do not want the sanity badge to pulse and
	-- make a sound when you subtract the sanity.
	inst.components.sanity:DoDelta(-5, true)
end)

inst:ListenForEvent("attacked", function(inst, data)
	-- The data object you get contains different variables, like:
	-- attacker (entity), damage, weapon (entity), redirected (whether this was redirected damage)
	-- Change true to false, if you do not want the sanity badge to pulse and
	-- make a sound when you subtract the sanity.
	inst.components.sanity:DoDelta(-5, true)
end)

 

Otherwise, we can make a timed task, constantly removing small amounts of sanity. The task would then be started, or the gets the end-time refreshed, whenever you are attacked or get attacked.

[DieAnywhereElse]

On 8/9/2019 at 7:40 PM, Ultroman said:

It's really easy to do flat amounts when attacking or being attacked.

Put this in your character's master_postinit function, and change the -5 value to whatever you want.

inst:ListenForEvent("onattackother", function(inst, data)
	-- The data object you get contains different variables, like:
	-- target (entity), weapon (entity, if any), projectile (entity, if any), stimuli (I don't know)
	-- Change true to false, if you do not want the sanity badge to pulse and
	-- make a sound when you subtract the sanity.
	inst.components.sanity:DoDelta(-5, true)
end)

inst:ListenForEvent("attacked", function(inst, data)
	-- The data object you get contains different variables, like:
	-- attacker (entity), damage, weapon (entity), redirected (whether this was redirected damage)
	-- Change true to false, if you do not want the sanity badge to pulse and
	-- make a sound when you subtract the sanity.
	inst.components.sanity:DoDelta(-5, true)
end)

 

Otherwise, we can make a timed task, constantly removing small amounts of sanity. The task would then be started, or the gets the end-time refreshed, whenever you are attacked or get attacked.

Thank you, it worked perfectly <3