health drain

[ZombieMooose]

I have an idea for a mod, and I'm having trouble figuring it out. I want a slow, constant health drain on the player (multiplayer friendly) that takes about an hour to fully drain your health. Or possibly override the automatic health gain after taking damage. Or better yet both.

I looked at the mod called Stamina, and I can't figure it out. I'm such a newb.

Anyway any help would be great, I have an idea for a small mod based on this mechanic.

Thanks for any help you can give.

[Adil]

I believe you can even put negative regeneration in prototype definition.

[ZombieMooose]

I believe you can even put negative regeneration in prototype definition.

I found a lua/entityprototype called healing_per_tick that does it, but it requires you to take damage first. How do I set this up to start automatically at game start? maybe add an activation item that damages you for 1 health?

To be honest this seems easier than I thought lol

[prg]

You can cause damage to an entity with entity.damage().

[ZombieMooose]

You can cause damage to an entity with entity.damage().

so would I create some event that started whenever the players health was full and then cause a health drain?

how would I do that?

[ZombieMooose]

okay I found the on tick thing, which should work for what I'm doing - just set a number of ticks and such but as I said I'm new to coding so where would I go to find out how this looks?

[Adil]

okay I found the on tick thing, which should work for what I'm doing - just set a number of ticks and such but as I said I'm new to coding so where would I go to find out how this looks?

How what looks?
I would giuess my signatures and modding guides. Would be a nice place to start. Also Klonan does some simple mods which are great learning exmples.