[Solved] Damage detection system, that doesn't overflow on kill?

[Derse]

Does anyone know how I could accomplish the following: if unit happens to be killed, DDS detects damage that was needed/enough to kill the unit, but no more. I couldn't find a DDS that would detect the damage after it is done.

Like, if a damaging unit has 4000 dmg, and damaged unit has 3 hp left, it detects 3 instead of 4000.

Thanks, in advance.

 

[Marcos_M]

I don't think you could find one that does that. You could use a trigger positionated at the top of all your triggers with the only use of setting a variable like "TrueDamage", and you check an if like "If life of unit < dmg then set TrueDamage=life of unit"

 

[millzy]

Use the damage detection to check if the damage is enough to kill the unit

If damage is greater then current hp of unit
Set damage = current hp of unit

 

[Derse]

Thanks to you guys I eventually solved it using A unit is attacked event which reads the HP of attacked unit before the damage is done.

 

[nedio95]

Thanks to you guys I eventually solved it using A unit is attacked event which reads the HP of attacked unit before the damage is done.

This could be easily abused...

 

[Daffa]

Click Stop before animation finish and watch the glitch happens ^^

DDS are meant to capture the damage dealt to the unit, and in-game, the simple math would be the health difference. This is why DDS accounts 3 instead of 4000. You can utilize DDS' cheat death to do what you need to.

 

[Derse]

Click Stop before animation finish and watch the glitch happens ^^

I did try that quite some time it is possible indeed, but it isn't a problem for my map, because you can't gain any advantage from it, you can only hurt yourself with the abuse.