Beside using Calculate steps in battle events, you can also deal damage upon physical contact using Damage Dealers and Damage Zones – we’re going to use them in Real Time Battles.

This tutorial focuses on setting up attacks (for real time battles) with weapons for our little game – if you want to learn more about damage dealers/zones and doing damage in general, you can read this how-to.

Adding Damage Zones

A damage zone is a simple component that allows receiving damage from damage dealers. Damage zones are added to the prefabs of our combatants – you can add multiple damage zones to create vulnerable areas on your combatants.

We’ll use the ORK Scene Wizard to add the damage zones to all our combatant prefabs. First, select all prefabs (Blue Pants, Brown Pants, Evil Caster, Evil Pants, Evil Supporter) found in Assets/Tutorial Resources/Prefabs/Combatants/. Now, use the scene wizard to add the Damage Zone component to all prefabs: Add Component > Damage Zone

This will add a Rigidbody component and the Damage Zone component (with damage factor 1) to all prefabs.

Adding Damage Dealers

A damage dealer is a more complex component that deals damage to combatants with damage zones attached. Damage dealers need to be set up for certain actions and activated by them to actually do damage.

Again, we’ll use the scene wizard to add damage dealers to prefabs – but this time it’s the weapon prefabs. Select all prefabs (FireSwordPrefab, LongSwordPrefab, ShortSwordPrefab) in Assets/Tutorial Resources/Prefabs/Weapons/. Now, use the scene wizard to add the Damage Dealer components to all prefabs: Add Component > Damage Dealer

Like with the damage zones, this will add a Rigidbody component and the Damage Dealer component to all prefabs. The weapon prefabs should already have a BoxCollider (using Is Trigger) attached. Now we need change the following settings on all three prefabs.

Collision Settings

Damage Settings

We’ll use the Auto Activation in combination with Tags to activate our weapon’s damage dealers in battle.

Activation Tags

Click on Add Tag to add an activation tag. The damage dealer can be activated by specifying this tag.

Our weapons are now set up to be automatically activated in real time battles when using the weapon tag and will deal single damage to one target.

Remember to repeat these settings on all three weapon prefabs.

A new battle event

Since we’re using the damage dealers to do damage in real time battles, we need a new battle event that isn’t using the Calculate step.

Open the ORK Framework editor and navigate to Events. Click on New Battle Event to create a new battle event.

Event Settings

Combatant Animation

Add > Animation + Audio > Animation > Combatant Animation

We’ll play the attack animation and wait for half of the it’s duration.

When using damage dealers, make sure to have some time pass during your event, as the damage dealer needs to be active in order to be able to actually connect to a damage zone. If there’s no wait time in the event, the damage dealer will be activated and deactivated within the same frame, not doing any damage.

That’s it for the event – click on Save Event and save it as attackNoCalculation in Assets/Events/Battle/.

Changing the attack abilities

Now, all we need to do is add some things to our attack abilities (Attack, Mug Attack) to use our new battle event in real time battles, and to activate the right damage dealers. Navigate to Status > Abilities and change the following settings for Attack and Mug Attack.

Animation Settings

We already have three battle events added to the abilities. Change the following setting on all three battle events.

This means a real time battle wont use those events. Now, click on Add Animation to add a new battle event.

Damage Dealer Settings

These settings determine which damage dealers will be auto activated by the ability.

Click on Add Tag to add an activation tag.

We can add a sound and a prefab to the damage dealers – they will be used on the combatant that was hit by the damage dealer.

First, we’ll set up the sound – we’ll use similar settings to the attack battle event we created in a previous tutorial.

Now, we’ll set up the prefab – again, similar to the prefab used in the previous attack battle event.

That’s it – click on Save Settings.

And that’s it for now – the next lesson will cover control maps.