Health and Damage
Overview
Character health and damage are handler by 2 elements in NeoFPS: A health manager and a number of damage handlers. Damage handlers react to damage from weapons and other scripts, modify that damage, and then pass it on to the health manager
Incoming damage can have a source attached, which can be used to work out the position or direction damage came from as well as the type of damage.
Health Pickups
Characters can regain health by collecting health pickups. These have a number of options for how they heal, and can be applied to either interactive objects, or trigger based pickups.
Damage Filters
Damage in NeoFPS can be filtered by team and by type. This allows for gameplay mechanics such as ignoring friendly fire, or blocking damage from explosions but not bullets.
The damage filter can be used for up to 8 teams and 8 damage types.
Damage handlers have an incoming damage filter, while damage sources have an outgoing damage filter. In code a collision can be checked via the following code:
if (inDamageFilter.CollidesWith (sourceDamageFilter, friendlyFire))
{
// React to damage here
}
The friendly fire parameter is a bool. If this is true then the team section of either filter will be ignored. If not then the team has to be valid as well as the damage type.
Damage Source
The damage source allows for feedback on the location of the source and, when combined with damage filters, effects such as returning damage to melee attackers.
The damage source specifies outgoing damage filter and the character controller if relevant.