Changing BloodType and specific DamageFactor via ZScript

[D2JK]

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Class SomeMonster: Actor
{
	Default
	{
		BloodType "none";		DamageFactor "PlasmaDamage", 1;
	}

Above are two actor properties I'd like to change via ZScript after the monster has spawned. Is this possible?

In the wiki, I at least found int ApplyDamageFactor(Name damagetype, int damage) (source), but it didn't seem to modify the specified damage factor (perhaps I used it wrong; it has no documentation page).

I know something like damagefactor = 2; is possible, but it would affect all damage types, I think.

[Blue Shadow]

For BloodType, there's GetBloodType virtual function. As for typed damage factors, no, there isn't a way to change those.

[D2JK]

Hmm, doesn't the function you linked only get a BloodType, not set it?

Also, after reading its code I tried BloodType = "SomeBlood";, but this only resulted in an error: "Expression must be a modifiable value".

Actually... did you mean I should replace the virtual function code with my own, and the engine would then use that for this actor whenever spawning blood?

EDIT: Yes, that was it. Thank you, Blue Shadow.