Griffin

Let's say a human enemy combatant has multiple damage zones for Head, Left Arm, Right Arm, Body, and Legs. When the enemy uses an ability, let's say a sword attack with his right arm. Is there a way to make the ability only cancelable when you target the enemy's right arm?

gamingislove

Hm, I don't think that's currently possible. Will look into it, e.g. through a new node to cancel ability casts.

Griffin

Thanks! This would be extremely beneficial to one of the ideas I have!

gamingislove

Will be in the next update.

Griffin

Really?! This is amazing! Thanks a billion!

Griffin

Btw, is there a way to make individual damage zones part of the target menu and name them individually in turn-based combat? It's a pretty important feature since the idea I have is meant for active-time combat.

gamingislove

No, that's currently not possible.

Griffin

Argh. This is saddening. Will something like that ever be in the pipeline for the framework?

gamingislove

It's on my todo list - hadn't yet thought of a good way to do this, using damage zones seems like a good idea :)

Griffin

That's comforting to know. I have this really totally awesome idea. I await the release!

Griffin

Since I'm dealing with Damage Dealers and Damage Zones, I have hit an issue. I can't use the Calculate step, in which I have no option for additional "Next" steps. I don't have to worry about the "Miss" or "Critical", since Damage Animation Types can handle those, but I am concerned about the "Block". I wanted to call an animation for when the target is hit when a Block Chance occurs, something like a shield recoil. As far as I know, there is no Animation Type for that, so I'm unsure of a workaround.

Another issue with this; without the Calculate step, I can't override the target's damage animation. I had plans to play a Combatant Animation through a game event on a damage zone (attacking the Left Arm's damage zone would play an damage animation reflecting the left arm being hit). I could do this, but then, wouldn't both the default damage animation and the Combatant Animation event play simultaneously?

gamingislove

You can use battle events to animate damage dealers as well. There are Animate settings in the damage dealer settings for abilities/items. When using battle events, you need to use a Calculate step in the damage dealer's events in order to do the calculations.
In the event, you can use the optional Block slot of the Calculate node and play a block animation there, as well as do the other stuff, e.g. shoving back.

Griffin

Griffin said: Btw, is there a way to make individual damage zones part of the target menu and name them individually in turn-based combat? It's a pretty important feature since the idea I have is meant for active-time combat.

Long time no see! Is there an ETA for this? I imagine it's taking sometime due to the grid battle implementation. Just wanted to make sure if this was in the pipeline.

gamingislove

Well, it's on the list, along with a lot of other things - no ETA on this :)

Griffin

Heya, Gil! Is this still in the pipeline? Sorry for the harassment!

Griffin said: Btw, is there a way to make individual damage zones part of the target menu and name them individually in turn-based combat? It's a pretty important feature since the idea I have is meant for active-time combat.

gamingislove

Well, yes, it's still on the list with no ETA :D