Help Needed: Unique prefab scripting

[Eremus007]

I want to make a sword that will harm the player instead of the target if he/she chooses to attack an innocent creature (which I specified with PrefabPostinits in the modmain).

And when you attack anything that is not "innocent" then the basedamage of 75 will be put in place.

I have experimented a lot and this is what I currently have at the best of my abilities:

Like this in the Prefab file:

local function onattack(inst, owner, target)
    if owner.components.health and target:HasTag("innocent") then
        if math.random() < 1 then
        inst.components.weapon:SetDamage(0)
        owner.components.health:DoDelta(-50)
        else        
        inst.components.weapon:SetDamage(75)
        end
    end
end

 

The thing is that after you hit an innocent creature the value of the damage only sets in AFTER the creature is already been hit, and thus being killed which we don't want.

And when attacking a spider for example after having hit an innocent creature before, it doesn't even make a scratch.

So the value is stuck at Damage = 0 intil reset.

I want the values to change immediatly or even before I even hit the creature.

Can someone make this happen for me?

 

Many thanks in regards

-Eremus

 

[Aquaterion]

easiest way to do it is probably setting ur weapon's damage to 0 and

local function onattack(inst, owner, target)
    if owner.components.health and target:HasTag("innocent") then
        owner.components.health:DoDelta(-50)
    else
        target.components.combat:GetAttacked(owner, 75, inst)
    end
end 

 

[Eremus007]

8 minutes ago, Aquaterion said:

easiest way to do it is probably setting ur weapon's damage to 0 and

local function onattack(inst, owner, target)
    if owner.components.health and target:HasTag("innocent") then
        owner.components.health:DoDelta(-50)
    else
        target.components.combat:GetAttacked(owner, 75, inst)
    end
end 

 

Thank you so much! That worked like a charm