Collision box to remove monster health?

[hippokittie]

So I have been working for a few weeks on making and fixing up this code, and am at an impasse. I have the weapon equipping and swinging, but nothing is happening to the monsters. I have the code broken into 2 parts, 1 for the swinging and equip, and 1 (attached to a collision entity on the weapons blade) that when it collides with an enemy ai it is supposed to remove health from them. The second code I also plan on tweaking to include everyone who touches it (for traps) but have no clue. The code that isn't working is here.

import "Scripts/Objects/Player/FPSWeapon.lua"
Script.damage=10

function Script:Start()
self.enabled=true
end
function Script:Collision(entity, position, normal, speed)
if self.enabled then
 self.component:CallOutputs("Collision")
end
end

function Script:Fire()
local enemy = self:FindScriptedParent(Collision.entity,"Hurt")
if enemy.script.health>0 then
enemy.script:Hurt(self.damage,self.player)
end
 --Blood emitter
 e = self.emitter[2]:Instance()
 e = tolua.cast(e,"Emitter")
 e:Show()
 e:SetLoopMode(false,true)
 e:SetPosition(pickinfo.position+pickinfo.normal*0.1)
 e:SetVelocity(0,0,0)
end

 

I brought in collision code directly into it so it would know what it was looking for, and imported the script for fps weapon to get the damage system working. It is showing no errors but at the same time doesn't do anything. Any Ideas? I just want to get it working, so I can tweak it for each weapon and trap.

[Rick]

You are firing an output in Collision() but you aren't doing any damage.

 

Take a look at this script which gives you an OnEnter/OnLeave collision. http://leadwerks.wikidot.com/wiki:collision-enter-exit

 

In the OnEnter is where you would want to call some sort of :Hurt() function on the entity passed into the collision (if the entity passed in is some sort of actor).

[hippokittie]

Helpful, but confusing. So with this kinda code it should fire off everytime the blade makes contact?

import "Scripts/Objects/Player/FPSWeapon.lua"
Script.damage=10
Script.entered = false
Script.exited = false
Script.hadCollision = false
function Script:Start()
self.enabled=true
end
function Script:Fire()
local enemy = self:FindScriptedParent(Collision.entity,"Hurt")
if enemy.script.health>0 then
enemy.script:Hurt(self.damage,self.player)
end
	 --Blood emitter
	 e = self.emitter[2]:Instance()
	 e = tolua.cast(e,"Emitter")
	 e:Show()
	 e:SetLoopMode(false,true)
	 e:SetPosition(pickinfo.position+pickinfo.normal*0.1)
	 e:SetVelocity(0,0,0)
end
function Script:UpdatePhysics()
   if self.entered then
   Fire=true
   end
    if self.hadCollision == false then
	    if self.exited == false then
		    self.exited = true
		    self.component:CallOutputs("OnExit")
		    self.entered = false
	    end
    end
   end
   self.hadCollision = false
end
function Script:Collision(entity, position, normal, speed)
   self.hadCollision = true
   self.component:CallOutputs("OnCollide")
   if self.entered == false then
    self.component:CallOutputs("OnEnter")
    self.entered = true
    self.exited = false
   end
end

[Rick]

So if you have this attached to your weapon then whenever the weapon collides with some other physics the Script:Collision() function is called by the engine and passes in the entity it collided with (the first parameter). It calls the output OnEnter, but that's for the flowgraph which you probably don't have setup and really don't need it here, but it helps to point out OnCollide vs OnEnter. Under CallOutputs("OnEnter") you can get the entities script and see if it has a Hurt() function (if it's an "actor" which you have to implement or if you are already using the AI.lua script).

 

if entity.script.Hurt ~= nil then
  entity.script:Hurt(10)
end

[hippokittie]

So I plugged the script into the the editor, and still nothing. I don't know what I am doing wrong.............. The ai script I am using for the test is just the default ai script, altered the name and animation sequences, from leadwerks. I took the hurt function directly from the fpsweapon (that I called) and the ai has functions for hurt. The collision is set on a collision box on the blade as a prop, and I even tried making the box larger to see if that would work but it didn't... I am so confused