How can I add a damage aura to my custom survivor?

[Goregonzola]

Happy New Year everyone!

As the title says, is there any way to add a damage aura to my custom survivor, so nearby mobs take some damage? It would be the best if it wouldn't affect other players, just mobs.

Thanks in advance!

Have a great day!

[penguin0616]

You'd probably want to do a periodic loop where you find all the entities with a health (probably combat too) tag, and damage them. 

Very rough example:

player:DoPeriodicTask(time, function()
    local victims = TheSim:FindEntities(...) 
    for i,v in pairs(victims) do
      -- you can either attack by doing it through Health:DoDelta or Combat:GetAttacked. Health is the simplest way since it ignores game mechanics, Combat:GetAttacked accounts for game mechanics (armor, aggro, etc)
      end
end)

You can find examples of TheSim:FindEntities in the game files.