Lua Better way to prevent a monster from dying

[Evil Puncker]

I was thinking about doing a target dummy like in the old days, but was not able to figure out a nice way to do it, any ideas?

main points:

• it should have full hp, but once being attacked it should not die but stay with 1 HP
• it can still heal itself with it spells
• it should still display the full damage number even if it have only 1 HP

I have tried both onPrepareDeath and onHealthChange but no luck

TFS 1.3

 

[sharinn]

onPrepareDeath -> heal to full, its my 4 way xd

 

[Xikini]

it should still display the full damage number even if it have only 1 HP

onHealthChange if it's anything like onStatsChange from 0.3.7, only shows the final damage about to be applied to the creature, so if it only has 1 hp remaining, only 1 hp is the damage.. so you'd want to keep the creature at full life, instead of 1 hp.

I'd just leave it at full life, and heal it back the damage it took with an addevent with a 0 timer. lol

local function healMonster(creature, value)
    local monster = Monster(creature)
    if monster then
        monster:addHealth(value)
    end
    return true
end

function creatureevent.onHealthChange(creature, attacker, primaryDamage, primaryType, secondaryDamage, secondaryType, origin)
    if creature:isMonster() and attacker:isPlayer() then
        if creature:getName():lower() == "target dummy" then
            addEvent(healMonster, 0, creature:getId())
            return true
        end
    end
    return true
end

 

[imkingran]

I never used revscripts yet but you can adapt this to your revscripts style:

function onHealthChange(creature, attacker, primaryDamage, primaryType, secondaryDamage, secondaryType, origin)
    -- if it's healing then allow it
    if primaryType == COMBAT_HEALING then
        return primaryDamage, primaryType
    end

    -- if not attacker or attacker is not player then cancel
    if not attacker or not attacker:isPlayer() then
        return
    end

    local health = creature:getHealth()
    local incomingDamage = primaryDamage + secondaryDamage

    -- if health is > 1 and health - incomingDamage > 1 then return like normal
    if health > 1 and (health - incomingDamage > 1) then
        return primaryDamage, primaryType, secondaryDamage, secondaryType
    end

    -- otherswise we return our own message
    -- You can improve the script by editing the textcolor based off the type of attack (energy/fire/physical), right now it's just default red
    creature:addHealth(-health + 1)
    attacker:sendTextMessage(MESSAGE_EXPERIENCE, "You have dealt " .. incomingDamage .. " damage to the " .. creature:getName() .. ".", creature:getPosition(), incomingDamage, TEXTCOLOR_RED)
    return
end

 

[Evil Puncker]

thanks guys

 

[Xikini]

thanks guys

I clearly don't have any experience with 1.0+. xD
I'm 90% sure I'm gonna install tfs 1.3 and start learning the new engines, cuz honestly I just feel bad for giving crappy advice.

 

[Evil Puncker]

I clearly don't have any experience with 1.0+. xD
I'm 90% sure I'm gonna install tfs 1.3 and start learning the new engines, cuz honestly I just feel bad for giving crappy advice.

I was going to use @imkingran script but somehow it was too hacky xD then your script gave me an idea, so I ended up making the monster to have 100.000/1.000.000 hp, and made a heal spell that will set his hp back to 100k every now and then, so he will always have "black" hp and never dies and yes, download 1.3 its kinda funny to play with