maptext for damage?

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Feb 19 2016, 3:29 pm
Im not fully sure what maptext does but i believe it was used for over a mobs head damage counting in games if so how do i do it?

Feb 19 2016, 3:31 pm
 
obj
    damageOverlay
        maptext_width   = 160
        maptext_y       = 64
        maptext_x       = -48
        alpha           = 255
        layer           = 99

mob
    proc
        mostrarDamage(var/mob/M, dano, tipo)
            var
                obj/damageOverlay/Damage = new(M.loc)

            switch(tipo)
                if("Damage")
                    Damage.maptext ="<b><center><font color = red> -[dano]"

                if("Miss")
                    Damage.maptext ="<b><center><font color = red> MISS"

                if("Critical")
                    Damage.maptext ="<b><center><font color = #9400D3> CRITICAL\n-[dano]"

                if("RestoreHp")
                    Damage.maptext ="<b><center><font color = green> [dano]"

                if("RestoreMp")
                    Damage.maptext ="<b><center><font color = blue> [dano]"


            sleep(3)
            animate(Damage, pixel_y = rand(10, 30), alpha = 0, time = 5)
            sleep(5)
            Damage.loc = null


I worked on it yesterday haha.

Hope it helps you!
Feb 19 2016, 3:43 pm
Maptext shows text on the map, hence the name. You can do a bit of CSS styling to it by editing your map control's "Style" section, or using inline tags.

obj
    some_object
        maptext = "This is Maptext"
        maptext_width = 96
        maptext_height = 32
        maptext_x = 8
        mptext_y = -8


In the case you want to use it for showing damage, you would simply use objects or images (because images can use maptext too) to hold the maptext, combined with pixel_x/y offsets, alpha animation, and so on. If you don't know about animate(), get familiar with it a bit.

It is simple to do, so I'll let you give it a try before I write anything else.
Feb 19 2016, 3:57 pm
it works great but only problem i have is it seems to spam the damage even though projectiles only hit 1 time and afterwords it doesnt always dissapear
Feb 19 2016, 4:02 pm
It should work like this :



Show us your code and we can help you.