Damage Types are incorrect?

[serfma]

I started another thread yesterday but wanted to make a new one to show that damage types are either incorrect, or I'm incredibly stupid and missing something. It started with a leaderboards addon not working correctly (it had actually not been working for a week) and once I took a closer look, weapons weren't returning the correct damage types. I re-installed a fresh, clean, GMod server to test it out.

Here's the hook I use for getting damage type:

hook.Add("DoPlayerDeath", "Test", function(ply, killer, dmginfo)

killer:PrintMessage(3, dmginfo:GetDamageType())

end)

Which the damage types can be found here [url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Enums/DMG[/url]

But as you can see, I've tried with multiple weapons and the damage type returns this:

8194
[url]http://i.imgur.com/y3NYMWC.png[/url]
[url]http://i.imgur.com/UcgNpWx.png[/url]

4098
[url]http://i.imgur.com/e1EX6XS.png[/url]
[url]http://i.imgur.com/tAP0Xra.png[/url]

EDIT: Just came across this: [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1216219[/url] after googling. How come it changed from just DMG_BULLET (2) to adding DMG_ALWAYSGIB/DMG_NEVERGIB along with the damage type? It suddenly changed for no apparent reason.

[Rubat]

My guess is that one of your addons is causing it.

[serfma]

[QUOTE=Robotboy655;46048953]My guess is that one of your addons is causing it.[/QUOTE]

Nope. Fresh server, no addons, nothing changed except vars in server.cfg for not having to wait a minute for a round to start on TTT.

[Rubat]

Why does this matter anyway? You clearly shouldn't use == for damage type checks.

[serfma]

[QUOTE=Robotboy655;46049009]Why does this matter anyway? You clearly shouldn't use == for damage type checks.[/QUOTE]

Then what should be used?

Because one week it was working and printing DMG_BULLET, now it's adding DMG_ALWAYSGIB/DMG_NEVERGIB for no reason.

[Rubat]

I don't know why it does that, but this should be used: [url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/CTakeDamageInfo/IsDamageType[/url]

[serfma]

[QUOTE=Robotboy655;46049275]I don't know why it does that, but this should be used: [url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/CTakeDamageInfo/IsDamageType[/url][/QUOTE]

Does the job, thanks! Relatively new to lua so I'm learning. Made the thread because it was weird how it changed like that.

If I may ask, why IsDamageType() over GetDamageType()?

[Rubat]

GetDamageType returns a bitflag number representing all the damagetypes in one number
IsDamageType checks whether that bitflag contains given damage type or not.