How to increase strength of summons

[bizao030188]

Hi all!
I am trying to increase the strength of monsters that players summon on TFS 1.2. I want they stronger than normal spawned monsters (more attack damage and defense).
I know it is possible to create new xml for these monsters but I wanna do directly on the script.

To summon monsters I am using:

local monster = Game.createMonster(name, player:getPosition())
if monster ~= nil then
    monster:setMaster(player)
end

I was thinking on something like this:

local condition = createConditionObject(CONDITION_ATTRIBUTES)
condition:setParameter(CONDITION_PARAM_TICKS, -1)
condition:setParameter(CONDITION_PARAM_SKILL_MELEE, -100)
condition:setParameter(CONDITION_PARAM_SKILL_SHIELD, -100)
doAddCondition(monster, condition)

The problem is that these skills does not work for monsters.
So I started to search on sources what I can change but did not find anything.

I appreciate any kind of help.

 

[pasiak12]

What about increase/decrease dmg in onChangeHealth func? (If monster and summon and master is player~)
Can be done both through lua or cpp edit

 

[bizao030188]

What about increase/decrease dmg in onChangeHealth func? (If monster and summon and master is player~)
Can be done both through lua or cpp edit

Thanks! Now I can control the damage dealt to summons, but can not control the damage dealt by summons since I did not figure out how to register events on spawn. I saw in a different post that it is possible to register the event directly on monster xml but I tried to insert <event name="MonsterHealthChange"/> and did not work. Any idea?

Got it! It needs to be inside <script> command

<script>
        <event name="eventname"/>
</script>

Thank you very much!

 

[pasiak12]

I can control the damage dealt to summons, but can not control the damage dealt by summons since

It should be able to done the same way

Increase summon def:
If target is summon then lower the dmg

Increase summon atk:
If attacker is summon, increase the dmg

 

[bizao030188]

Yes, the problem was that I didn’t know how to register the event for monsters on spawn (that are not summons), but now I figured that out. Thank you again!

 

[Kaspar]

A simpler (and worse) method would be to create new monster files with same name and individually increase the damage output.

 

[bizao030188]

A simpler (and worse) method would be to create new monster files with same name and individually increase the damage output.

You are right. This should also work, but it’s a lot of work if in the future you want to balance the monsters since you will have to do everything twice.