Need some help :)

[TemplarAsh]

Hi all,

 

Currently I have been learning with the Darkness Awaits barbarian player and goblin AI monsters. I have tweaked the Lua files a bit and am happy it works, but I do not know how to tell the goblins that the barbarian has died and to stop attacking him. I tried changing the teamid of the barbarian to 2 after he dies, but that did not work.

 

Is there a way to pass the players health variable to the GoblinAI script to tell him once it is 0 to go idle?

 

Also, now that he can die is there a way to make him respawn? lol

 

Thanks for the help!

 

~Ash

[ZioRed]

I'm not a Lua developer (I use C++ only, in LE) but I see you have the property "script" for each entity and in GoblinAI I see that self.target is assigned from the target entity.script, so I think you should be able to access the player health in your GoblinAI using self.target.health

 

@MilitaryG: I see you used/use also the "unnameable", so if you like component system and are using C++ then I could have something that you may find interesting, that is my craft-made complete component system built with the "unnameable" usage pattern (including AddComponent<>, GetComponent<>, GetComponents<>, Awake/Update/LateUpdate/OnGUI/Destroy).

[cassius]

I don;t know lua but in c++ I always set a flag to say each character is alive at start of game." my_character alive = true" Then when they die the value becomes false. The enemy routines will only run if alive = true.

[TemplarAsh]

Hi guys,

 

Yes I saw both of these lines of code but was uncertain on how they actually worked. I will try both options and report back.

 

Thank you for helping me.

 

~Ash

[TemplarAsh]

Hi All,

 

Well after messing around with this for quite some time, I still cannot figure this out so any new suggestions are welcomed I will keep trying...

[TemplarAsh]

Success, I figured it out. I am not certain if this is the best way to do this but it works...

 

In the barbarian.lua

 

myVal = 100 --defined at top to keep it from being nil

 

module("a", package.seeall)

 

function GetSomeValue()

return myVal

end

 

if self.health>0 then

self.health = self.health - damage

myVal = self.health

 

Inside the Goblin.lua...

 

require "a"

if (a.GetSomeValue()) <= 0 then return end

 

which skips the attack chunk

 

***Edit: This worked better

 

require "a"

if (a.GetSomeValue()) <= 0 then self.currentState=self.state.idle end

 

~Ash