Hit detection of the shoot command with item_projectile

[Goma_Terzu]

Hey mcmonkey,

it seems like the hit detection of "item_projectile" is somehow messed up. I am using the latest 1.11 dev builds.

the command is:

- shoot ITEM_PROJECTILE[item=magma_cream] origin:<player.location.add[0,1.1,0]> speed:3 script:P30Damage spread:0

the P30Damage script just says

P30Damage:
type: task
script:
- announce "<def[hit_entities]>"
- hurt 5 <def[hit_entities].get[1]>

Most of the time it announces just an empty list even if I clearly hit the mob. This was working fine.

[mcmonkey]

Try an entity damaged event, see if you can detect the impact of the projectile into its target that way?
That should help clarify which part is going wrong

[Goma_Terzu]

You mean using the hurt argument with a cause and the check the event like "on npc damaged by cause"?

Using the hurt command directly with an "/ex hurt <npc[1111]> 5" works 100% btw

[mcmonkey]

No. Listen for the entity being damaged by the projectile in a damaged event. No commands needed, outside 'announce' in the event.

[Goma_Terzu]

I made

On sheep damaged:
- narrate targets:<player[Goma_terzu]> "<context.entity.name> <context.damager.name> <context.damage> <context.cause>"

Then shot the sheep with my weapons. Most of the time I did not get any narrate, only the few times the sheep got visibly damaged I got a narrate

I also made a small change to the P30Damage script from above. I also narrated the <def[location].simple> tag that comes with the shoot command and it's script argument. It always gave a reasonable location! So the bullet sometimes just went right through the sheep and hit the ground behind it.

[mcmonkey]

If the weapon did not visibly hurt the sheep, there's no way for the shoot command to know it hit the entity :/ there's no "projectile touches entity but doesn't hurt it" event, only a damage event, and a block hit event.

[Goma_Terzu]

For someone who might find this thread. Issue was fixxed.