How do you make the saber do damage

[Lord Markaine]

I'm working on finishing moves, probably in a nasty way.

I'll be setting up most of the stuff in "g.cmds.c?" forgot the spelling... Just like the old emotes coding.

 

I'll have checks for player health <= 2 but not 0.

if the other player's health is 2 or less and their saber gets knocked away, dropped, or whatever, they'll go into the propper animation.

 

That animation will be one of the death animations thats looks kinda like Dooku kneeling in front of Anakin in Ep3. I'm going to cut some frames out of it so they don't fall.

 

Now, my problem... I'm going to setup an emote/newbutton to deal the final blow. I can do that easily, but I need the saber to do damage only if it touches the victim. You know, that saber Idle damage isn't going to cut it... My first pun...

 

If I get that working, then I'll look into decapitations and such.

[razorace]

Ok, all the saber damage is calculated in SaberCheckDamage (near the top of the function). What you're going to have to do is add a special case where the saber only does that special damage when the other player is in that animation. The normal code does something similar to this with the saber-attacking-someone-on-the-ground animations.

[Lord Markaine]

OK, having problems with health checks. I don't know where to start.

 

What I'm doing is trying to make someone do a certain animation when their health falls below 5.

 

I don't know if its posible to make the game constantly check for this though.

 

for example,

 

if (self->health <= 5)

{

self->client->ps.forceHandExtend = HANDEXTEND_DEFEATED;

}

 

Is there more to it than just this, or could I just put it somewhere?

[razorace]

uh, I'm not sure. I've never tried to do something like that before. I'd give your method a shot.

 

Maybe also try adding it to somewhere in clientthink_real.

[Lord Markaine]

Yeah, you were right Razor. I added some code to clientthink_real about:

 

"I'll have checks for player health <= 2 but not 0.

if the other player's health is 2 or less and their saber gets knocked away, dropped, or whatever, they'll go into the propper animation."

 

It works, but as for the checks to get my saber to do my newmove = LS_FATALITY stuff, it didn't work. I used stabdown and the saber pull swing code as an example. no luck. So I just replaced the forward kick with it to see if the animation work. And It did, so I'll get back to the push/pull for a while.

 

Thanks, I had no idea where to start.

Hmm, clientthink_real...

If that staggering animation comes out,(unless it already is) and your fatigue code...

[razorace]

The fatigue code and all the other OJP code is availible from the OJP CVS Repository. There's a tutorial on how to access it on the OJP forums.

 

As for your problem, I imagine it needs to be handled in the BG code just like all the other moves.