Doom3 world

Your Imaginary Enemy · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 3:55 pm Post subject: locking g_armorprotection

I want to change the amount of damage that armor absorbs.

I have modified doom_main.script by adding the following line:

void doom_main() {
sys.print( "Entering doom_main()\n");

//
// Do any script setup here
//
sys.setcvar( "g_armorprotection", "0.65" );
sys.print( "Exiting doom_main()\n" );
}

This does a fine job of locking g_armorprotection on skill levels 0 and 1. Unfortunately, when I set the skill to 2 or 3 and load a new level the g_armorprotection drops to 0.2. I need to know how to lock g_armorprotection at 0.65 on all skill levels.

I also read somewhere that on skill 0 the player takes 0.8x damage, on skill 2 the player takes 1.8x damage, and on skill 3 the player takes 3.5x damage. Does anybody know how I can change these numbers for my mod?

By the way, the mod I am finishing up is called Infernal Death Orgy and I will submit it to d3files.com real soon!

rich_is_bored · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:16 pm Post subject:

This value is set when a player is spawned...

line 1543 player.cpp...

Your Imaginary Enemy · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:00 am Post subject:

I downloaded the sdk and opened src/game/player.cpp.

I changed the following line:

g_armorProtection.SetFloat( ( g_skill.GetInteger() < 2 ) ? 0.4f : 0.2f );
into
g_armorProtection.SetFloat( ( g_skill.GetInteger() < 2 ) ? 0.65f : 0.65f );
then I put my modified player.cpp file into C:\Doom 3\mymod\src\game folder. I was uncertain if this would work because C:\Doom 3\base does not contain a src folder. But I tried it anyway. This did not fix the problem. I looked around iddevnet.com/doom3 and think I found something interesting that might be related to what I am trying to do. The following is from The Code section.

COMPILING

The first thing you're going to need to do is make sure you can build and run the code. We developed it using Visual Studio.Net, it may or may not work in 6.0. Ideally all you have to do is double-click the solution file and hit build. It will create a gamex86.dll in the output folder. You're going to want to move this to your mod folder with either a batch file, a post build step, or just by changing the linker output directory.

Since I am making this mod mostly through trial and error and reading these forums, I don't know about programming. So I don't know how to do this compiling, solution file and gamex86.dll making.

I hope there is a simple solution to this because all I am after is a small but very important change.

Primal_Freeze · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:57 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately you WILL need to get a programmer to compile this for you. If i knew where my unedited src was, i would chuck it in, edit and give you the DLL, but alas, i do not. Email me in 12 hours and i'll see what i can do. U can find my addy at www.skumindustries.com
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