Post: #1

Someone asked me if I could offer an elemental damage system (fire, cold, poison, energy, physical) that was complete for both weapon and spell based combat... so here it is:

Step 1: Do NOT enable the COMBAT_USE_RESISTANCE or COMBAT_SPECIALDAMAGE flags in the sphere.ini file.

Step 2: Make sure all monsters have appropriate "resistances" set in their @Create triggers. For example:


These numbers are percentages of resistance to each type of damage, and ideally they should add up to less than 100. If the total of these 4 settings is less than 100, the remainder is considered resistance to physical damage.

Step 3: To make a monster cause elemental damage when they hit someone, add these tags to their @Create trigger. For example:


Note, like the resistances, these are also percentages and should not exceed 100. Also, if they add up to less than 100, the remainder is considered physical.

Each monster (and player) needs to have the following event code:

Post: #2

nice, mine elemental combat engine is quite similar but I'm using @Hit instead @GetHit

also I'm using the real OSI damage type on spells (eg: magic arrow -> 100% fire damage, etc), if you want just copy/paste
PS: I'm parsing multiple types % at once using this order: physical,fire,cold,poison,energy

Post: #3

Why not use RES*/DAM* (Physical, Fire, Cold, Poison, Energy)?

Post: #4

RES* is already used, but DAM* on sphere works in a strange way

DAMAGE=20
DAMFIRE=10 <- instead count this as +10% of the 20 base damage (18 physical damage + 2 fire damage), sphere counts this as +10 aditional damage (20 physical damage + 10 fire damage)

that's why we need disable COMBAT_USE_RESISTANCE / COMBAT_SPECIALDAMAGE to use custom formulas :/

Post: #5

Is there anything wrong I wonder?
Those on weapons.






Wonder what is the problem?

Post: #6

These tags:


...are applied to the character, not the weapon... If you want the equiping of a weapon (or anything else for that matter) to raise or lower those numbers, you would use a TYPEDEF event on the weapon. Something like this:


Note, there is nothing in this code to check that your cumulative percent values are reasonable (less than 100.)

Post: #7

Have a small problem, the damage rates are almost identical.
dampoi,damenergy,damfire,damcold,damphysical, 100 but the damage range of the weapon very low.

Post: #8

It looks like it is working okay... perhaps what you are seeing is the "Sphere math" which rounds fractional numbers down to the nearest whole number.

Post: #9

Thanks