AOE attacks

[Lazzary]

Hello everybody, I need help with something new. I am thinking of implementing an AOE based attack on my character. Like an example would be Abigail, I want some kind of Abigail's attack everytime my character hits something. And it will deal full damage at the enemy I'm attacking and like 30% to all enemies that are around my character. I looked through Abigail's files, but I didn't really see anything helpful, and I think NPCs have different codes than playable characters.

So, can anybody help me?

Edited June 12, 2020 by Lazzary

[pickleplayer]

I think Abigail's AOE is more of a health drain than an actual "attack."

I think a better place to start would be to look into special attack abilities that characters have. Wigfrid's file (which is wathgrithr.lua for some reason) has a "heal on hit" mechanic would be a great starting point, since the "battleborn_onattack" function has pretty much all the data you'd need there already, minus spreading damage out to nearby enemies.

For splash damage, groundpounder.lua has some basics about damaging nearby entities in it. Something like this is a basic start

local x, y, z = inst.Transform:GetWorldPosition()
local ents = TheSim:FindEntities(x, y, z, 3, nil)

for i, v2 in ipairs(ents) do
   if v2 ~= self.inst and v2:IsValid() and  v2.components.health ~= nil and not v2.components.health:IsDead() and self.inst.components.combat:CanTarget(v2) then
      self.inst.components.combat:DoAttack(v2, nil, nil, nil, self.groundpounddamagemult)
   end
end

This was mostly just copied and pasted scraps from that file, so you'd have to replace any of those variables with whatever they would be in your case

Edited June 12, 2020 by pickleplayer

[Lazzary]

Okay, that makes sense. But before I actually made another post to help with my mod character, and the thing is I kind of found another variable that would steal health and hunger from enemies. Or better said, get the health and hunger based on the damage dealt to said enemies.

 

inst:ListenForEvent("onhitother", function(inst, data)
    if not inst.components.health:IsDead() then
        inst.components.hunger:DoDelta(data.damageresolved * 0.05) -- Hunger lifesteal, to give logic to her eating her enemies.
        inst.components.health:DoDelta(data.damageresolved * 0.03)
    end

 

It's this one right here. Can't I like do something with this? Like when I hit somebody, it'll activate more attacks, on people around me. I showed this off just because you mentioned something about Wigfrid's lifesteal, which I think is this piece of code right here.

And also. I looked a bit lower and I found this.

local function OnAttack(inst, player)
        inst.components.combat:SetAreaDamage(20, 1)
    end

Can this actually help me in anyway?

[pickleplayer]

On 6/13/2020 at 4:06 AM, Lazzary said:

local function OnAttack(inst, player)
        inst.components.combat:SetAreaDamage(20, 1)
    end

Can this actually help me in anyway?

Give it a try and see what happens! Don't be afraid to get messy with things that may or may not work. Trying things out and running them in-game to see what they do is the best way to learn how to mod. There's a good chance that what you have is a step in the right direction.