Tracking when a player does damage

[RobbyPants]

Is it possible to track when a player deals damage (either via hit scan weapon or projectile) in ACS? I wanted to make a script that would activate after the player successfully damages a monster.

Bonus points if it tracks when he damages a monster and not himself!

[Lollipop]

Im not sure, but try and make a new puff for your weapons, which got their own damagetype, after that you make a new pain state in the monsters, that activates what you want.
Im not sure about the bonus thing, go get a pro for that one

[Ivan]

Pain.Damagetypenamehere is the answer.

[RobbyPants]

Pain.Damagetypenamehere is the answer.

(Sorry about the delayed reply)

So, the idea would be to give the player some unique damage types (both with melee attacks and their bullet puffs), and call the ACS in each monster's pain.type and death.type states? It's clunky, but it could work. I do have a question about explosions: how do I control these? I know I can give a rocket a custom damage type, but is there a way to tie it to explosions?

[Ivan]

Pain.Damagetypenamehere is the answer.

(Sorry about the delayed reply)

So, the idea would be to give the player some unique damage types (both with melee attacks and their bullet puffs), and call the ACS in each monster's pain.type and death.type states? It's clunky, but it could work. I do have a question about explosions: how do I control these? I know I can give a rocket a custom damage type, but is there a way to tie it to explosions?

The damagetype usually applies both to the direct damage of a projectile and the explosion spawned by it after. Pretty easy to use actually.

[Bloax]

Though if you really want to separate the two, just have the explosive thingy spawn a dummy actor that performs the actual explosion - with its own, separate damagetype.