It would be great to have a <b>getHit</b> command to retrieve the damage of specific selections, in order to work in tandem with selection names returned in the <b>HandleDamage</b> event handler.
getHitPointDamage is NOT appropriate for that, as it only works with config hitpoints and not raw selection names.
This command has been requested for many years, but has never been implemented so far.
It could be relatively easy copy paste job from VBS2 http://resources.bisimulations.com/w/index.php?title=getHit
Indeed, such command would be extremely useful. At the moment you have to parse entire vehicle config for hitpoints as well as hitpoints of all parent classes but it still doesn't tell you the full picture as for instance human vehicles have special cases like:
HitLegs changes\returns damage for "leg_l"
HitHands changes\returns damage for "hand_l"
even though config has "legs" for "HitLegs" and "hands" for "HitHands"
This command is absolutely needed to work with HandleDamage EH.
EDIT : I see some people making their own "gethit" implementation using set/getVariable on the unit.
But we still need the command !
can the getHitPointDamage command be simply modified to read selections instead of hitpoints if modifying VBS source is a problem?
The get/setVariable method for storing selection damage isn't even viable, since the values become incorrect if someone repairs the vehicle using a toolkit, or if setDamage is called on the vehicle, not to mention you have to "setVariable true" them in case the locality of the vehicle changes.
It works good. Thanks.
It if can help, here is how to ignore damage on a specific condition.
When selection is empty, we need to use the command "damage.
_unit addEventHandler ["HandleDamage",
{
private ["_unit", "_selection", "_damage", "_source"];
_unit = _this select 0;
_selection = _this select 1;
_damage = _this select 2;
_source = _this select 3;
if (<CONDITION WHEN NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT DAMAGE>) then
{
if (_selection == "") then
{
damage _unit // No selection, return previous damage value
}
else
{
_unit getHit _selection // Return previous getHit value
};}; // No "else", returning no value will let other event handlers handle the damage
}];
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