UnitDamageTargetBJ() stopped working in a function?

04-09-2005, 11:53 PM

I originally made a trigger that does some stuff to damage a unit using the gui action 'Unit - Damage Target Unit' or whatever its called

so i figured now that the maps expanded its time to turn it into a function so i can keep things more organized and compartmentalize the functions for reuse and such
only problem is call UnitDamageTargetBJ() doesn't seem to be working anymore in the function (yes i sent it all the right parameters, and yes the function actually gets the the statement since i put a debug msg before and after it and they both run)
so now i'm at a loss, any ideas? maybe i forgot something really stupid and small?

04-10-2005, 12:02 AM	#2
Vexorian	posting the function wouldn't hurt

04-10-2005, 01:15 AM

Raptor--

Code:

//***************************************************************************
//Does physical damage to a unit, takes a damage, type of damage, and target
//unit.  Accounts for armor and resistance
//***************************************************************************
function causePhysicalDamage takes unit attacking, unit attacked, integer dam, string t returns nothing
    local real resistance
    local real realdam
    local integer armor
    local location p
    local unit u

    call DebugMsg( "RAN" )
    
    //Getting the resistance modifier
    if ( t == "unarmed" ) then
        set resistance = GetHandleReal( attacked, "var_fUnarmedDam" )
    elseif ( t == "pierce" ) then
        set resistance = GetHandleReal( attacked, "var_fPierceDam" )
    elseif ( t == "slash" ) then
        set resistance = GetHandleReal( attacked, "var_fSlashDam" )
    elseif ( t == "crush" ) then
        set resistance = GetHandleReal( attacked, "var_fCrushDam" )
    else
        //Default case (full damage)
        set resistance = 1.00
    endif

    call DebugMsg( "Resistance: " + R2S(resistance) )

    set armor = GetHandleInt( attacked, "var_nArmor" )
    call DebugMsg( "Armor: " + I2S(armor) )
    set realdam = ( (I2R(dam) * resistance) - I2R(armor) )
    call DebugMsg( "Damage: " + R2S(realdam) )
    
    set p = GetRectCenter(gg_rct_Temp_Area)
    call CreateNUnitsAtLoc( 1, 'hfoo', GetOwningPlayer(attacking), udg_XTEMP_point01, bj_UNIT_FACING )
    set u = GetLastCreatedUnit()
    //ARG START WORKING
    call UnitDamageTargetBJ( u, attacked, realdam, ATTACK_TYPE_CHAOS, DAMAGE_TYPE_NORMAL )
    //call SetUnitLifeBJ( attacked, ( GetUnitStateSwap(UNIT_STATE_LIFE, attacked) - realdam ) )
    call RemoveUnit( u )
    call RemoveLocation( p )
    
endfunction

also notable, it started working a few minutes into a game one time only after it wasn't working for a while for some random reason... and i don't see why this should happen since the function doesn't rely on any globals (at least not for the damaging part, the other parts were getting values fine the whole time)

04-10-2005, 10:23 PM	#4
Raptor--	so, um, noone has a clue? i can safely say this is driving me nuts, cause i just tested it again, didn't work for 10 minutes, then just started doing damage all of a sudden... though the entire function was working the entire time :S... it must be something small i'm overlooking or something, if only i could figure out when it started working

04-12-2005, 04:22 AM	#5
Raptor--	yup... wow, i overlooked something small... apparently i used a global point, and for some reason that global point wasn't working so the actual footman wasn't being created in the first place... :S lesson learned