Plugin Concept: Critical Hit Modifier?

Sizer

I’m no programmer, so i just wanted to know if this was possible within the limitations of flhook. Would there be a way to assign certain weapons a modifier so that whenever they hit a target, hook would roll for a small percentage chance that the hit would do massively more damage than usual? This would simulate those one in a thousand hits on critical systems, like reactors and the like. Any thoughts?

Vesko

Yep, this would be a pretty cool plugin. I’m guessing this could be possible within FLHook, but I’m not a programmer either.

Vital

Try to play with fuses.

OutCast

Don’t know what fuses have to do with this, but it’s possible with flhook.
There’re hooks for damage dealing. They quite a pain to understand, though %)
And you better keep performance in mind when inserting code there.

adoxa

It’s not an FLHook plugin, but here it is. It adds “critical_hit = <percent>, <multiplier>” to [Explosion] sections (and so it won’t work with guns). It only works with hull hits, not shield. See criticalhit.cpp for installation.</multiplier></percent>

StarTrader

Nice one again.

Vesko

Is there ANYTHING Adoxa hasn’t already done?

Vital

OutCast wrote:
Don’t know what fuses have to do with this

[shiparch]
……
fuse = some_fuse, 0, 9000
…

[fuse]
name = some_fuse
lifetime = 0
……

[ignite_fuse]
at_t = 0.000000, 100.000000
fuse = damage_fuse
……

[fuse]
name = damage_fuse
lifetime = 0

[damage_root]
at_t = 0.000000
damage_type = absolute(or relative)
hitpoints = 3000
……

So we have 1% possibility that every hit after 9000 hitpoints will deliver extra damage. Dunno weather it works though…

Alternatively you can create a fuse for every hitpoint left(over 9000(the scouter says it’s over 9000!!!) fuses).

tai

@Vesko: World Piece, but I think he’s working on it

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ye it is pos just like the repair gun but insted of repairing make
it take hull but add a random amount to it

Xarian_Prime

Here’s a crazy one… not sure if the engine is capable though…

A “bullet time” like death animation for the recipient of set critical hit?
to play on client death clientside for MP obviosly

& adding such a thing as a fuse would mean every death in the attached ship… Im just looking for a specific event here… so a .dll would be better.

Just my brain working overtime AdoXa… lol throwing stuff out there…

GeoCalibur

The Crit Module is great, but in case guns do have explosive munitions, will it work regardless?

This gives me an idea for a special plugin that can be associated with criticalhit.dll. I’ll post the idea in a separate thread.

UPDATE: For now, when using criticalhit.dll, add the parameters for the following in weapon_equip.ini:

; For Missile Explosions, add this clause
[Explosion]
critical_hit = 10, 1.5

; For Mines, add this clause
[Explosion]
critical_hit = 15, 1.5

; For Torpedoes, add this clause
[Explosion]
critical_hit = 25, 1.5

You may tweak these values individually, afterwards. To improve ratio for higher end armaments, and/or tone down ratio for lower-class launchers. Either way, Corsairs are about to get dunked on!