data file parsing - Armor Type Damage Tables

By transitive on May 3, 2009 3:07:58 PM from

i was browsing through the LUA files and found something I think might be particularly useful to know. here it is, exactly as it appears in the data files. there appears to be 2 definitions, one of which is currently active (the one appearing first), and the second of which appears to be disabled (its commented out). draw your own conclusions.

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#****************************************************************************

#**

#** File : /lua/common/ArmorTypes.lua

#****************************************************************************

# Armor Type Definitions

ArmorTypes = {

Unarmored = {

Normal = 1.0,

Hero = 1.0,

SpellFire = 1.0,

Spell = 1.0,

Light = 1.0,

Arrow = 1.0,

Artillery = 1.0,

Normal = {

Normal = 1.0,

Hero = 1.0,

SpellFire = 1.0,

Spell = 1.0,

Light = 1.0,

Arrow = 1.0,

Artillery = 1.0,

Heavy = {

Normal = 1.0,

Hero = 1.0,

SpellFire = 1.0,

Spell = 1.0,

Light = 1.0,

Arrow = 1.0,

Artillery = 1.0,

Structure = {

Normal = 1.0,

Hero = 1.0,

SpellFire = 1.0,

Spell = 1.0,

Light = 1.0,

Arrow = 1.0,

Artillery = 2.0,

Demigod = {

Normal = 1.0,

Hero = 1.0,

SpellFire = 1.0,

Spell = 1.0,

Light = 1.0,

Arrow = 1.0,

Artillery = 1.0,

}

#ArmorTypes = {

# Unarmored = {

# Normal = 1.0,

# Hero = 1.0,

# SpellFire = 1.0,

# Spell = 1.0,

# Light = 1.0,

# Arrow = 1.25,

# Artillery = 1.0,

# },

# Normal = {

# Normal = 1.25,

# Hero = 1.0,

# SpellFire = 1.0,

# Spell = 1.0,

# Light = 1.0,

# Arrow = 1.0,

# Artillery = 1.0,

# },

# Heavy = {

# Normal = 1.0,

# Hero = 1.0,

# SpellFire = 1.0,

# Spell = 1.0,

# Light = 2.0,

# Arrow = 0.5,

# Artillery = 2.0,

# },

# Structure = {

# Normal = 0.75,

# Hero = 1.0,

# SpellFire = 1.5,

# Spell = 1.5,

# Light = 1.0,

# Arrow = 1.0,

# Artillery = 2.0,

# },

# Demigod = {

# Normal = 1.0,

# Hero = 1.0,

# SpellFire = 1.0,

# Spell = 1.0,

# Light = 1.0,

# Arrow = 0.5,

# Artillery = 1.0,

# },

+66 Karma | 2 Replies

So spells do more damage to buildings then via normal attacks. HMMMMM

at the moment i don't think they do. notice that in the first definition, the one that's not commented out, the Structure category has a SpellFire = 1.0 value. it seems that only Artillery does extra damage to buildings in the first definition.

what this looks like to me is that GPG had been expirimenting with a much more detailed and differentiated armor type system but they disabled it for the release build in favor of a much more straight forward one.

in the active definition almost everything is set to 1.0. the only thing that's not is that Structures take double damage from Artillery. i think that Trebuchets and Catapultasaurii count as Artillery, not sure about other stuff.

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data file parsing - Armor Type Damage Tables