Damage System Considerations

AlexHinta

Hi,

I'm currently considering my damage system.

I would like to either have
a) a system where each weapon has a minimum and maximum damage and the actual damage applied is a random value selected between those two values
b) a D&D based system where you define dice sizes and numbers plus optional flat modifiers for each weapon

My first idea was to set up status values (MinDamage and MaxDamage for option "a)"; DiceNumber, DieSize, DamageModifier for option "b)"), and then add custom status bonuses for each weapon when equipped. I would then use these status values in relevant formula calcs.

I was wondering if this is a meaningful approach, or if there is an approach that would be more sensible / efficient?

Could you also help me understand how I can display these values individually in my ORK HUD Status Text Content components? Played a bit around and I can print the values through <bonuses> (using the approach above), but I would like to get the individual numbers to put them together in a string such as "Damage: 1 - 5" or "Damage 1d4 + 1" or some such.

Thanks!

gamingislove

You can either use status values (for which the equipment and other things can give bonuses) or equipment variables for this. I'd say using status values is the better, cleaner way to handle it.

The <bonuses> text is displayed according to your setup in UI > Text Display Settings > Bonus Display, but I'm not sure if a setup like you want is possible, since this is handled stat by stat.

AlexHinta

Thanks! - Played a bit more with status values and built up around them and did some more monkey-try-monkey-fail with the API. Stumbled across the StatusPreviewInformation-class that solved it for me:

you can get the combatant preview info through: StatusPreviewInformation previewInfo = new StatusPreviewInformation(combatant);
if you know your equipment, you can get its bonus preview through: equipment.level[i].bonus.GetBonus(ref previewInfo);
afterwards you can get the bonuses that equipment gives to certain statuses simply by e.g.: string damageDice = GetStatusValueByName(previewInfo, "Damage Dice"); [assuming you have a "Damage Dice" status value, where GetStatusValueByName() simply goes through the different status values finding the right one]
those values can then be combined in strings that I am showing in the Tooltip in a custom TextMeshPro-object (2d3 + 1, etc.)

Not sure that's the most elegant approach, but it works so far :)