Increasing hit points for enemies acording to characters hit points

#1 Not sure if your enemies are AI or not but you can change their maxDamage randomly during creation.


The players datablock is set to 100 by default

datablock PlayerData(DefaultPlayer: PlayerBody)
{
   maxDamage = 100;

{...}
}

So for the AI you could do something like this...

function AIPatrol::spawn(%name, %obj)
{
   // random AI maxdamage 
   // the result can be 101 to 200
   %val = getRandom(1,100);
   %newdmgval = %val + 100;

   // Create the AI player object
   %player = new AIPatrol() {
   dataBlock = PatrolPlayer;
   marker = %obj;
   path = %obj.pathname;
   botname = %name;
   isbot=true;

   maxDamage = %newdmgval;

{...}
}

#2 An even better way would be to create say three different datablocks.

datablock PlayerData(PatrolPlayer1: PlayerBody)
{
   maxDamage = 150;

   maxForwardSpeed = 10;
   maxBackwardSpeed = 8;
   maxSideSpeed = 10;
   shootingDelay = 100;
};

datablock PlayerData(PatrolPlayer2: PlayerBody)
{
   maxDamage = 200;

   maxForwardSpeed = 10;
   maxBackwardSpeed = 8;
   maxSideSpeed = 10;
   shootingDelay = 100;
};

datablock PlayerData(PatrolPlayer3: PlayerBody)
{
   maxDamage = 250;

   maxForwardSpeed = 10;
   maxBackwardSpeed = 8;
   maxSideSpeed = 10;
   shootingDelay = 100;
};

Then you can use a switch statement in the spawn function

%value = getRandom(1);
switch(%value)   
{   
  case 0: 
           // Create the AI player object
          %player = new AIPatrol() {
           dataBlock = PatrolPlayer1;
           marker = %obj;
           path = %obj.pathname;
           botname = %name;
           isbot=true;

          {...}   
  case 1: 
           // Create the AI player object
          %player = new AIPatrol() {
           dataBlock = PatrolPlayer2;
           marker = %obj;
           path = %obj.pathname;
           botname = %name;
           isbot=true;

          {...}   
  default: 
           // Create the AI player object
          %player = new AIPatrol() {
           dataBlock = PatrolPlayer3;
           marker = %obj;
           path = %obj.pathname;
           botname = %name;
           isbot=true;

          {...}   
}

#3 Hi thank you for the reply to my post. I am in my 3rd semester of computer programming and I have taken 3d modeling and this is my first semester in 3D Simulation and this was part of my assignment to post something that I was interested in learning. I think what I would like to understand that lets say I have a game like a character in a D&D game that is a first level character and I have a enemy character that I would like to have grow or decrease in hit point depending on my characters hit point or experience level do you know what would be the best way to do that?

#4

Quote:Not sure if your enemies are AI or not but you can change their maxDamage randomly during creation.

I don't think that'll work - maxDamage is a datablock member, not an object member. Your AIPlayers will run around each with a different maxDamage member, but it won't matter since they will all be using the datablock value.

Quote:An even better way would be to create say three different datablocks.

That's the best thing you can do without modifying the source, as far as I know.

You could also simplify the spawn script a bit:

%data = "";
switch(%value)
{
   case 0:
      %data = Datablock1;
   case 1:
      %data = Datablock2;
   case 2:
      %data = DataBlock3;
}

%player = new AIPlayer() {
   dataBlock = %data;
   //etc.
};

#5 I'll just try this one and let's see if it will work. Thanks for this.



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