DECORATE Variable: SpawnHealth

[amv2k9]

Pretty much what it says; the health the monster had at spawn, respecting any multipliers made by the current skill.

[Graf Zahl]

Can't be done as a variable. It'd have to be a function because that's what it is internally.

[NeuralStunner]

Out of curiosity, are [wiki=DECORATE_expressions]decorate expressions[/wiki] going to become functions, or will they be superceded by proper member access? In either case, SpawnHealth might as well be checkable by the sane means.

[Graf Zahl]

An expression is not a function so I have no idea what you imagine here.

As for SpawnHealth - there is no corresponding property. Internally it's a function that is calculating a value from a few different sources, so it will forever have to be a function.

[NeuralStunner]

An expression is not a function so I have no idea what you imagine here.

Something like self.health or target.z, basically. (I wouldn't argue with having to explicitly put "self", since it would be more clear/readable.)

[Graf Zahl]

With real scripting and object variables that is doable.

[randi]

Added.

[Major Cooke]

Wait, what about pointers? This will do much better if it could support pointers.

[randi]

Do we really need to keep adding that crap to every function that can operate on an actor and be forced to carry that baggage around forever, even when they're no longer needed?

[Major Cooke]

Through custominventory, I take it?

[Gez]

I'd much rather have something like target->spawnhealth() than spawnhealth(AAPTR_TARGET).

[Edward-san]

Yeah and then we should introduce null pointer checks because target may not exist...

[Major Cooke]

That won't be coming until we actually have a script to work with. Right now, feels like we're getting DECORATE polished off.

[amv2k9]

Thanks for adding this!