How to make SWEP that kills striders instantly?

[xgdg]

Hello. I made a bullet shooting SWEP, but it doesn't kill striders. How to make it killing striders instantly? I made something with dmginfo and it kills striders with 5 shots, but i want to make it killing with ONE shot. Can anyone help? I hope someone understood what i want.

[thegrb93]

Try Kill(), or SetHealth(0), or Fire("sethealth","0",0), or if those don't work, maybe set the damage type of your damage to explosive.

[xgdg]

But i want to do this with dmginfo, if you are experienced at LUA you should know what is this. I made damage type "DMG_BLAST" (Explosion damage type) and it affects at striders, but i need five shots to kill it. I made SetDamage to 5, but it still doesn't work, strider dies after five shots.

[Walrus Viking]

I wouldn't be saying what you should know if you are experienced in [b]Lua[/b] if you don't seem to know what you're doing yourself.

Obviously 5 damage isn't enough. Raise the damage.

[xgdg]

I made 5000 damage and shit happens.

[Walrus Viking]

No one can help you if you don't show the script you're using to do this. If you set the damage to 5000 then you should be getting the desired effect.

[xgdg]

Alright, i will show it later. Now i can't.

[xgdg]

bullet2.Callback = function(attacker, trace, dmginfo)
local g = math.random( 1, 2 )
if ( g == 1 ) then
dmginfo:SetDamageType(DMG_AIRBOAT)
elseif ( g == 2 ) then
dmginfo:SetDamageType(DMG_BLAST)
dmginfo:SetDamage( 1 )
else
end
end

Code of damage

[nikorev]

Why don't you detect the entity the bullet/weapon hits, and if it is a strider, then kill it.

[r0uge]

I don't see this supposed 5000 damage anywhere. Also, please use

 tags for Lua code.

[xgdg]

[QUOTE=nikorev;47458371]Why don't you detect the entity the bullet/weapon hits, and if it is a strider, then kill it.[/QUOTE]

Can you show me code if you can? Please.

[editline]5th April 2015[/editline]

[QUOTE=r0uge;47458373]I don't see this supposed 5000 damage anywhere. Also, please use

 tags for Lua code.[/QUOTE]
 
Alright, i will show it with code next time.

[editline]5th April 2015[/editline]

And note that the weapon destroys Hunter-Chopper with ONLY one shot, with RPG chopper needs to be hit over 50 times, but it doesn't destroy gunships and striders wih one shot.

[nikorev]

[QUOTE=xgdg;47461278]Can you show me code if you can? Please.

[editline]5th April 2015[/editline]

Alright, i will show it with code next time.

[editline]5th April 2015[/editline]

And note that the weapon destroys Hunter-Chopper with ONLY one shot, with RPG chopper needs to be hit over 50 times, but it doesn't destroy gunships and striders wih one shot.[/QUOTE]

I can't give you the code since I do not have the rights to do so. But I can give you the basics.

GetEyeTrace is huge part of this code. Detect the entity it hits on Primary Fire. Then you need to do an if statement.

[zamboni]

local dmg = DamageInfo()

dmg:SetDamage(1000)
dmg:SetDamageType(DMG_BLAST)
dmg:SetAttacker(self.Owner)

entity:TakeDamageInfo(dmg)

Might work. I should hope you know what to do with this.

EDIT:
ahaha no don't do this I just did and it crashed me.

[Maurdekye]

I don't think you can directly use Dmginfo to specifically cause striders to die in a single hit. It's much better listen for when an entity takes damage, test if it's a strider and if the gun used is your custom swep, and then kill the strider if so.

[zamboni]

Perform a trace, set the hit entity's health to 1 if it's a strider, then use util.BlastDamage.
Striders do not react to DmgInfo as far as I can tell.

[Maurdekye]

Here, use this code;

[lua]
hook.Add("EntityTakeDamage", "kill_striders", function(hit, dmginfo)
if hit:GetClass() == "npc_strider" and dmginfo:GetInflictor():GetClass() == "custom_swep_name" then
hit:SetHealth(0)
end
end )
[/lua]

Replace "custom_swep_name" with the classname of whatever swep you're coding.

[thegrb93]

Just found that SetHealth(0) and SetHealth(-1) and Fire("sethealth","0",0) don't work.

Also you have to apply the dmginfo 5 times regardless of damage number and the damage position has to be near the strider. If you don't specify a position you crash.

You have to do Strider:Fire("sethealth","-1",0)
Makes the strider die epicly.

[xgdg]

Thank you all for the code, i will test it.

[editline]6th April 2015[/editline]

[QUOTE=Maurdekye;47466448]Here, use this code;

[lua]
hook.Add("EntityTakeDamage", "kill_striders", function(hit, dmginfo)
if hit:GetClass() == "npc_strider" and dmginfo:GetInflictor():GetClass() == "custom_swep_name" then
hit:SetHealth(0)
end
end )
[/lua]

Replace "custom_swep_name" with the classname of whatever swep you're coding.[/QUOTE]

[ERROR] addons/beam gun/lua/weapons/weapon_beamthrower/shared.lua:227: ')' expected (to close '(' at line 221) near 'local'
1. unknown - addons/beam gun/lua/weapons/weapon_beamthrower/shared.lua:0
Yay, as always, beautiful ERROR! :D

[[CLRP]extra]

[QUOTE=xgdg;47466901]Thank you all for the code, i will test it.

[editline]6th April 2015[/editline]

[ERROR] addons/beam gun/lua/weapons/weapon_beamthrower/shared.lua:227: ')' expected (to close '(' at line 221) near 'local'
1. unknown - addons/beam gun/lua/weapons/weapon_beamthrower/shared.lua:0
Yay, as always, beautiful ERROR! :D[/QUOTE]

Fuck me, thats got nothing to do with the above code. You forgot to insert a bracket somewhere near local in your own code, the one above is fine.

[xgdg]

But i hasn't receive this error before...

[Maurdekye]

Remove the code and tell us whether or not you still receive the error. And if you do, please highlight the line that it occurs on.

[editline]6th April 2015[/editline]

Here's some new code in accordance with thegrb93's findings;

[lua]
hook.Add("EntityTakeDamage", "kill_striders", function(hit, dmginfo)
if hit:GetClass() == "npc_strider" and dmginfo:GetInflictor():GetClass() == "weapon_beamthrower" then
hit:Fire("sethealth", "-1", "0")
end
end )
[/lua]

[HarryTheNarwhal]

[QUOTE=xgdg;47468503]But i hasn't receive this error before...[/QUOTE]

Well we can't test your code because you haven't posted the whole thing. If It worked on his normal gun then something in the code above is incorrect.

[xgdg]

I can give attack function.

[r0uge]

Just close your bloody bracket yourself...

[AIX-Who]

[QUOTE=r0uge;47469417]Just close your bloody bracket yourself...[/QUOTE]

I think you're over estimating this guy's knowledge...

Please just post the full SWEP code, no one is going to steal it from you. We really cant help you without it

[Maurdekye]

[QUOTE=AIX-Who;47469851]I think you're over estimating this guy's knowledge...

Please just post the full SWEP code, no one is going to steal it from you. We really cant help you without it[/QUOTE]

Looking at his existing knowledge, I don't think anybody would want to steal it from him anyway.

[AIX-Who]

[QUOTE=Maurdekye;47470248]Looking at your existing knowledge, I don't think anybody would want to steal it from you anyway.[/QUOTE]

Wait what?

I know i'm no professional at scripting however i do know enough to make simple gamemodes etc, If you were talking about the original poster then yeah, sure.

[Maurdekye]

I was talking about xgdg, sorry for any ambiguity.

[[CLRP]extra]

How this thread continues when the answers been given many times, I don't know.