shipwrecked [SOLVED] How to get percentage of target's health & change weapon damage based on it?

[dezgasting]

Want to create a character who will execute the enemy under certain threshold of health. Basically, he deals 99999 damage to targets, who're under, let's say, 30% of max health. How do I do that, and is there a way to make him execute certain enemies only under certain thresholds (for example, he'll execute a Spider when the Spider/any other low-health mob (<200hp max) is under 50%; but will execute a Tiger Shark/any other boss only if she's under 10% et cetera.)

I have general ideas about it, but the most important part is how do I get the game to check for the current health of the enemy and see if it's under a 30% threshold with a certain weapon (that doesn't deal DoT if it's important)?

[Ultroman]

That's actually an easy one. The CalcDamage function of the combat component has everything you need for this; target, weapon and current multiplier.

local defaultDamageSettings = { executeThreshold = 0.30, executeDamage = 99999 }

local damageSettings = {
	spider = defaultDamageSettings,
	spider_warrior = { executeThreshold = 0.20, executeDamage = 99999 },
	bearger = { executeThreshold = 0.05, executeDamage = 9999 },
}

local oldCalcDamage = inst.components.combat.CalcDamage
inst.components.combat.CalcDamage = function(self, target, weapon, multiplier, ...)
	local result = oldCalcDamage(self, target, weapon, multiplier, ...)
	if result ~= 0 and weapon ~= nil and weapon.prefab == "someprefabname"
	and target ~= nil and target:IsValid() and target.components.health then
		local targetDamageSettings = damageSettings[target.prefab] or defaultDamageSettings
		if target.components.health:GetPercent() <= targetDamageSettings.executeThreshold then
			return targetDamageSettings.executeDamage
		else
			return result
		end
	else
		return result
	end
end

You can play around with that. You can do a bunch of different things with that as your base template. You can even put in specific damage numbers for specific weapons like this:

local defaultDamageSettings = { executeThreshold = 0.30, executeDamage = 5000, myWeaponExecuteDamage = 99999 }

local damageSettings = {
	spider = defaultDamageSettings,
	spider_warrior = { executeThreshold = 0.20, executeDamage = 99999, myWeaponExecuteDamage = 99999 },
	bearger = { executeThreshold = 0.05, executeDamage = 9999, myWeaponExecuteDamage = 99999 },
}

And then move the weapon-part of the if-statement inside the if-statement as its own check.

[dezgasting]

17 hours ago, Ultroman said:

That's actually an easy one. The CalcDamage function of the combat component has everything you need for this; target, weapon and current multiplier.

local defaultDamageSettings = { executeThreshold = 0.30, executeDamage = 99999 }

local damageSettings = {
	spider = defaultDamageSettings,
	spider_warrior = { executeThreshold = 0.20, executeDamage = 99999 },
	bearger = { executeThreshold = 0.05, executeDamage = 9999 },
}

local oldCalcDamage = inst.components.combat.CalcDamage
inst.components.combat.CalcDamage = function(self, target, weapon, multiplier, ...)
	local result = oldCalcDamage(self, target, weapon, multiplier, ...)
	if result ~= 0 and weapon ~= nil and weapon.prefab == "someprefabname"
	and target ~= nil and target:IsValid() and target.components.health then
		local targetDamageSettings = damageSettings[target.prefab] or defaultDamageSettings
		if target.components.health:GetPercent() <= targetDamageSettings.executeThreshold then
			return targetDamageSettings.executeDamage
		else
			return result
		end
	else
		return result
	end
end

You can play around with that. You can do a bunch of different things with that as your base template. You can even put in specific damage numbers for specific weapons like this:

local defaultDamageSettings = { executeThreshold = 0.30, executeDamage = 5000, myWeaponExecuteDamage = 99999 }

local damageSettings = {
	spider = defaultDamageSettings,
	spider_warrior = { executeThreshold = 0.20, executeDamage = 99999, myWeaponExecuteDamage = 99999 },
	bearger = { executeThreshold = 0.05, executeDamage = 9999, myWeaponExecuteDamage = 99999 },
}

And then move the weapon-part of the if-statement inside the if-statement as its own check.

Thank you so much! I knew it was something easy but I couldn't exactly figure out how to get the actual health of the enemy. 
You're my savior xd

[dezgasting]

Yo, uh... We're seeming to forget something cuz now it crashes with "attempt to index global 'inst' (a nil value)". 

 

On this part.

Quote

local oldCalcDamage = inst.components.combat.CalcDamage
inst.components.combat.CalcDamage = function(self, target, weapon, multiplier, ...)

 

[Ultroman]

Where did you put the code? Show me your character prefam lua file. Attach it to a reply here.

[dezgasting]

13 hours ago, Ultroman said:

Where did you put the code? Show me your character prefam lua file. Attach it to a reply here.

Ok, I played with it a bit and now it crashes with a different error: "variable 'inst' is not declared"

i feel ashamed for showing my code because i'm super inexperienced and i suck but oh well gotta learn it seems

 

there. i probably screwed up somewhere didn't i?

pyke.lua

[Ultroman]

The whole code snippet has to go inside your fn function.

Like this: pyke.lua

If it complains about the defaultDamageSettings or damageSettings missing, use this instead: pyke2.lua 

[dezgasting]

1 hour ago, Ultroman said:

The whole code snippet has to go inside your fn function.

Like this: pyke.lua

If it complains about the defaultDamageSettings or damageSettings missing, use this instead: pyke2.lua 

funny thing is, i tried to put it in but it still gave me the same error..

...or i WANTED to try it out, but I got distracted. anyways IT FINALLY DIDN'T CRASH WOOHOOOOOOOOOO ty again bro