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FPSC Classic Product Chat / weapon damage and health? How is that handled by the engine?

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mnemonic
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Posted: 27th Jan 2012 14:07
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I'm playing around a little right now in FPSCX10. And a question arose in my mind.

Here's what I've done:

I have a weapon where I assigned the 'damage' property to 50 and an enemy where 'health' is set to 100.
Mathematicly I thought that it would require 2 bullets to kill the enemy. But I have to shoot him three times to kill him.
I have mixtured a little with the values, but nomatter what I do, the enemy takes one extra bullet before he dies. How come?

The reason I ask this is because I need to calculate the exact amount of bullets it takes to kill all enemies in a level.
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Errant AI
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Posted: 27th Jan 2012 14:30
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I don't know the exact math for it but I'm think that damage diminishes over distance. If you turn on entity info and check the hitpoint value, you should be able to figure it out.

If a coder happens by this thread, they should be able to check the source.
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maho76
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Posted: 27th Jan 2012 14:41 Edited at: 27th Jan 2012 14:45
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depends also on what weapon type you use. if you use a shotgun the damage is spread over an angle depending on distance to the enemy.
every weapon has some sort of accuracy-value. setting this to 0 means most effective damage per bullet when hit (as far as i understand and remember).

look into the gunspec of the weapons you wanna check.


Quote: "Complete syntax script list by ched80:
4.1.1.1 (ALT)ACCURACY=X
Description: This defines the accuracy of the gun‟s bullets.
Range: X = 0 and above with zero being the most accurate.
Example: accuracy = 50
altaccuracy = 10"


hope it helps.

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mnemonic
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Posted: 27th Jan 2012 17:21
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Maybe it's distance dependant as well.

Even when I changed the accurancy of my weapon (a pistol) to 0, it still took three hits for the enemy to die. (this was when I shot him at close range)

At a distanced range it took four shots for him to die. (I think all bullets hit him, but I cannot be 100% sure that every bullet hit the target, I could have missed a shot)

Verywell! I could include that 'extra' bullet in my calculation. But It would be fun to know the excakt reason for this and how it is handled.

But I thank you guys. Yoyr replies halped me. Thanks!
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Posted: 27th Jan 2012 17:58 Edited at: 27th Jan 2012 17:58
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Hi,

All bullet damage, player and character is calculated like this

damage=weapon strength-a random number based on the damage/5

so if the weapon caused 100 damage by default, there would be a chance that this could be reduced by a maximum of 20

These are adjusted in V119 by the player/enity damage multiplier afterwards.

I hope that helps.

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SC

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generally the reason is due to characters not being activated. shooting them sets them to active, that's when their health is able to count down. at least, this is so in my experience.

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Quote: "generally the reason is due to characters not being activated. shooting them sets them to active, that's when their health is able to count down. at least, this is so in my experience."


if this is the case then set them to always-active=yes, should solve your problem. tested it with 10-life-enemies and 5-dmg-shots this weekend and got exactly 2 shots per enemy.

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