Hit Help please?

[Gabbe]

I need help, how do you set a random level of how much HP a unit can take?

I want it to be like if a unit qattacks one unit he would have a random amount between 50-100 hp to take so that fights could be more random, because then it wouldn`t be like a unit is doomed or a unit is blessed to win...And also between 0-100 but taking 0 would be less likely than taking 100.

[jda]

Recently asked about:
https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=5446.0

I'll edit my post to make it clearer.

[Gabbe]

0 damage impossible? or what?

[jda]

Seems to be impossible, minimum 1 HP loss always. Still waiting for silnarm's confirmation on that.

[Gabbe]

thats ridicolous with a must 1 hp hit...

[ElimiNator]

I made it take -50 HP before and he healed 

[Gabbe]

lmao, maybe -0 hp do the trick?

[jda]

In case you missed it:

You mean if the attacked unit has 20 armor and the attacker deals 10 damage (assume multiplier = 1.0), that attack will take off 1 HP off the attacked unit?

Thanks for clearing that up, better make some adjustments now I think. Would it go to 1 damage if a multiplier of 0.0 was used though?

Yes, the check is made after all other calculations, it will always do one or more points of damage.

Does seem unreasonable though, I might change it to clamp at 0.

@ ElimiNator
Now that's weird! 
How exactly did you do that?

[Gabbe]

mhm, i want it to have a 50% chance of taking 50-100 hp and 25% for 0-49 and 15% for 100-200 and 10% for killing the unit instantly.

[Zoythrus]

having a super rare "critical hit" would make things more interesting...

[Gabbe]

yes

[Zoythrus]

there needs to be an effect that shows the happening of a critical hit (something cool, and very noticeable)

[Gabbe]

A special animation when it happens?

[Zoythrus]

maybe (that would be cool), but i mean a special particle effect. something big and flashy (like a bunch of glass shards spraying off of the attacked unit or tons of sparks)

[John.d.h]

I remember one of the GAE egg-heads talking about some day being able to make a "playlist" of animations for a skill, but I don't remember if there was any talk of assigning different damage values to each.  That would be cool, though.  For example, 75% of the time the unit could do "attack.g3d" for 50-100 damage, and 25% it could do "uber_pwn.g3d" for 1337 damage.

[Zoythrus]

although a new anim would be nice, but a particle effect would be best for right now (and just code it into the engine!)

[Gabbe]

Both would be nice, everyone agrees right? no coder has yet to make a post ...