Modded character hits self, is there a way to avoid armor damage?

[Zhilo]

So, a long time ago I created a modded character, and i got help in these forums to make a script to enable her to hit herself sometimes every time she hit an enemy, the code being:

local function HitSelf(inst)
    local rng = math.random(1,10) -- 10%
    if rng == 1 then
        inst.components.combat:GetAttacked(inst, 5, nil) -- Hurt myself
        local rt = math.floor(math.random() * 3)
            if (rt == 0) then inst.components.talker:Say("Dangit!", 2.5, 0) end
            if (rt == 1) then inst.components.talker:Say("Ow! I hit myself!", 2.5, 0) end
            if (rt >= 2) then inst.components.talker:Say("I need a bandaid!", 2.5, 0) end
    
        
            end
end

Which works great fo rmy purposes, but upon playtesting, some issues turned up. This self damage counts towards armor degradation, which puts the character at too much of a minus on resources spent to fight compared to other characters, not to mention the animation of "being hit" that she triggers on her own interrupts her attempts to attack, which can make fighting mobile things like merms and clockwork knights incredibly difficult. 

I've been thinking on ways to sort out these issues, without outright removing the self-harm from the character since thats unique from the main cast and interesting.

First Idea i had is to make it so self-hits don't cost armor durability, is this possible to do? if not, perhaps I may have to look into giving her passive damage reduction but that feelslike a cop out.

 

Another thing I am unsure if is possible, is to accelerate the "hurt" animation. hopefully just for the self hits, but if not, in general as a character perk?

Don't want to remove it because the visual feedback is important, but as it is the character currently suffers too much from stunlock between the enemies and her own attacks.

 

I'm still trying to brainstorm ways to fix these issues withotu compromising the character identity as a high risk, high reward bruiser.

 

Edited December 13, 2020 by Zhilo

[DecDuck]

Couldn't you just use health:DoDelta to minus the damage that the current weapon does?

Edited December 13, 2020 by decduck3

[Zhilo]

Well I didn't want to lose the being hit animation of the hit self event, so i left it as it was. Some compensation I did was to give her a 75% natural absorption, and the inability to wear any armor at all. I will be testing this for balance, but she will probably need some means of enhacing her survival in the long term since she will be permanently on a little less than a log suit agaisnt bosses and such. Is it possible to add a multipler for all forms of healing received? that is, food, craftable salves and the like, and sleeping? I tried so look at Wortox's code since he heals less for food, but i couldn't find what I was looking for.

[penguin0616]

You can override your :DoDelta to multiply the argument it provides if it is positive.

Wortox's comes from his absorptions on his eater component.

[Zhilo]

I have to apologize, since I really am new to coding in its entirety, i can sort of understand the logic if i look at the scripts, but I don't know how to work the sintax. I hate to be so bothersome, but could I have a sample of how to check for the DoDelta and then override it? I am assuming this still happens in charactername.lua

[IronHunter]

I think the simplest way to do this is just forcefully change your state to the hit one, and health:DoDelta to simulate the raw direct damage.

You can simulate the getting hit but not actually getting hit. To the average player it'll look no different.

[penguin0616]

This is an example of the syntax, picture is from the game code.

Spoiler

I also recommend you check out the Lua manual, since it's generally the best place to learn stuff like the syntax. It's pretty detailed, which is nice.

https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html

Edited December 14, 2020 by penguin0616
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[Zhilo]

Alright, got it working!, this is what the code ended up looking like.

local function HitSelf(inst)
    local rng = math.random(1,10) -- 10%
    if rng == 1 then
        inst.sg:GoToState("hit")
        inst.components.health:DoDelta(-7) -- Hurt myself
        local rt = math.floor(math.random() * 3)
            if (rt == 0) then inst.components.talker:Say("Dangit!", 2.5, 0) end
            if (rt == 1) then inst.components.talker:Say("Ow! I hit myself!", 2.5, 0) end
            if (rt >= 2) then inst.components.talker:Say("I need a bandaid!", 2.5, 0) end
        end
end

Edited December 18, 2020 by Zhilo

[Thomas Die]

local hurtie_amount = inst.components.inventory:ApplyDamage(damage, attacker, weapon)

bing bong, this is just something i wanted to drop but it should for resistances and e.c

woops nvm