[E2]Damage Functions Mk2: Complete Rehash

[Flieboy]

OK, you win, it's a shit set of functions, I just wish I knew something that E2 actually needs that I could get my teeth into..

[Divran]

*picture*

Oh cool I didn't know that

[Jimlad]

OK, you win, it's a shit set of functions, I just wish I knew something that E2 actually needs that I could get my teeth into..

It's not bad in isolation, but you have to consider wiremod as a whole when thinking about adding things to the svn. Personally, the way I got into wiremod was just bumping up against its limitations while building, so I'd suggest and add things I thought would be practical solutions to real problems. To be honest, I don't think there's very much you can't build with wiremod these days since most of the hard work has already been done. That's not a bad thing by any means, it means you have that much more freedom to build. Personally I see adding features as a necessary step towards making better contraptions; wiremod development being a process rather than a goal by itself.

[Flieboy]

Very true, I just wish I contributed more to the mod itself, as it has done so much for me, clearly this was a miss for wiremod as a whole but I will see if I can find something useful to do.

[Bull]

Exclusive holograms.

Ready? Set. Go!

[Flieboy]

I'll do it! perhaps I will stick in my holoAnimate as well, though that's more a holoModelAny type function, but I will do exclusive holograms now!

[GilgaCat]

Ok, i know this is a year old thread but may we add two of those E2 functions? I mean those that get the attacker and damage of an entity. Yeah, i know the damage detector but for coders like me its more comfortable to use functions.

Let's me see what i mean:

[ cl_dmginfo.lua ]

E2Helper.Descriptions["getAttacker"] = "Get the attacker of the entity."
E2Helper.Descriptions["getDamage"] = "Get the damage of the entity."

[ dmginfo.lua ]

/*
	name: DamageInfo
	author: GilgaCat
*/

E2Lib.RegisterExtension("dmginfo", true)

DmgInfoTbl = {}

function GetDmgInfo(ent, inflictor, attacker, amount, dmginfo)
	local index = ent:EntIndex()
	if(not index) then return nil end

	local dmginfotbl = {}
	dmginfotbl.entity = ent
	dmginfotbl.attacker = attacker
	dmginfotbl.inflictor = inflictor
	dmginfotbl.damage = amount
	dmginfotbl.dmginfo = dmginfo

	DmgInfoTbl[index] = dmginfotbl

	timer.Simple( 0.01, ResetDmgInfo, index)
end

hook.Add( "EntityTakeDamage", "GetDmgInfo", GetDmgInfo)

function ResetDmgInfo(index)
	if(not index or not DmgInfoTbl[index]) then return nil end
	DmgInfoTbl[index] = {}
end

e2function entity entity:getAttacker()
	if (not validEntity(this)) then return nil end
	local index = this:EntIndex()

	local table = DmgInfoTbl[index]
	if(not table) then return nil end

	return table.attacker
end

e2function number entity:getDamage()
	if (not validEntity(this)) then return 0 end
	local index = this:EntIndex()

	local table = DmgInfoTbl[index]
	if(not table or not table.damage) then return 0 end
	return table.damage
end

Simple, it is? I have tested it and it works perfectly!
I wish to see that in Wire Svn or UWSVN.

What are your opions?

PS: If you wanna add/remove some code then post it.

[uke94]

Simple, it is? I have tested it and it works perfectly!
I wish to see that in Wire Svn or UWSVN.

yes should be in wiremod its very useful to have the e2 without linking it to a damage detector
it would be great to have everything from wiremod in e2

if i give e2s away i dont want to explain everyone that he have to link this to this and then the first thing to a third and so on
just spawn the chip and let it work

as divran said

Say you want to have a battle with regular Wire or GMod turrets, and not PewPew or GCombat, and you want to use metal props and not wooden ones. Naturally, you'd want the driver to die if the tank he's sitting in gets shot. With the damage detector entity you'd have to spawn dozens of them, linked to each prop in the tank and then wire the "deal damage" input of the adv pod controller to an add chip adding them all together. Or you use E2 to automatically find all constrained props and check if any of them get hit.

Just one example.

and to not have long tutorials for e2 like this: