Weapon damage based on distance from target

[MrGurtis]

I did some snooping and I couldn't find any topics that answered this question (that or i'm a terrible detective). I'm currently working on a mod and I was wondering if there was a way that could increase a boomerang's impact damage the further it has to travel to it's target.

[Makishim]

You can start a timer when the function OnThrown's called. When OnHit's called you get the timer value and does: damage + (timer * aditional damage).

[MrGurtis]

On 7/24/2018 at 5:39 AM, Makishim said:

You can start a timer when the function OnThrown's called. When OnHit's called you get the timer value and does: damage + (timer * aditional damage).

Any idea how I would write that in the context of this code:

local function OnThrown(inst, owner, target)
    if target ~= owner then
        owner.SoundEmitter:PlaySound("dontstarve/wilson/boomerang_throw")
    end
    inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("spin_loop", true)
end

local function OnHit(inst, owner, target)
    if owner == target or owner:HasTag("playerghost") then
if owner ~= nil and owner.components.inventory ~= nil and owner.components.inventory.isopen then
        if inst.components.equippable ~= nil and not owner.components.inventory:GetEquippedItem(inst.components.equippable.equipslot) then
            owner.components.inventory:Equip(inst)
        else
            owner.components.inventory:GiveItem(inst)
        end
        owner:PushEvent("catch")
    end
    else
        ReturnToOwner(inst, owner)
    end
    if target ~= nil and target:IsValid() then
        local impactfx = SpawnPrefab("impact")
        if impactfx ~= nil then
            local follower = impactfx.entity:AddFollower()
            follower:FollowSymbol(target.GUID, target.components.combat.hiteffectsymbol, 0, 0, 0)
            impactfx:FacePoint(inst.Transform:GetWorldPosition())
        end
    end
end

I did have a look at how DS RoG did timers in the SGmoose file as that has a disarm cooldown timer, but it didn't have anything on getting the values of the timer. The help is greatly appreciated.