Is there a structure that is used when dragging damage from the chat window?

[TheoGeek]

So I'm thinking about my Improved Critical extension and am trying to possibly streamline some of the code. Currently, to handle dragging damage to a crit immune target correctly, I put a bunch of stuff in the description so that when it is dragged, I can parse the new tags and come up with the proper damage to apply. It works, but I was wondering if there is some built in mechanism I'm missing that I could use instead.

For example, if I rolled an untargeted crit with a greatsword, and used the default settings, the rolled damage (2d6+2d6+5) might be (3+2)+(4+5)+5 = 19, but the actual damage after my extension would be: (6+6) + (4+5) + 5 = 26.

Now, if I drag that "26" to a normal target, I want it to do 26 damage, which it does.

But, if I drag it to a crit immune target, I want it to do 19 damage (which it also does now.)

But to facilitate this, I keep track of everything I need in the sDesc and it works, but it is also displayed in the chat window in a format that I might do differently if I could track the dragged damage another way, like maybe keep track in a stack or something. But I don't know how the dragged item is retrieved.

Any clues?

Thanks!

[Moon Wizard]

You don't mention the ruleset; but in some of them, you can just specify an effect as "IMMUNE: critical" for the combatant to be immune to critical damage.

To answer your other comments, there is nothing inherent to the drag data; it's all encoded in the text since it needs to be handled as either drag or double-click roll.

Regards,
JPG

[TheoGeek]

Thanks for the confirmation Moon!

So, another stupid question. I'm trying something new and I'm adding a table to the rRoll structure (rRoll.clausemodifiers) in my wrapper of the modDamage function to keep track of things during the damage calculation. When I dump the rRoll to the console after my wrapper calls the ruleset's modDamage, it looks right...rRoll.clausemodifiers is added and populated as I'd like (rRoll.clausemodifier[1].bDoubleDamage=false, rRoll.clausemodifier[1].bMaxDamage=true), etc.

However, by the time the onDamageRoll function is called, the table I have added to the rRoll structure has changed to a string and is now empty (rRoll.clausemodifier='' - it's not even a table anymore).

Am I doing something wrong or is this expected? Do I need to convert it to a string and then convert it back to a table to preserve the values?

Thanks!

[Moon Wizard]

The rRoll structure data only gets passed one level deep, since that is how the dice roll internal structures work. So, any nested tables will not get passed.

Regards,
JPG

[TheoGeek]

Gotcha. I'll just store it as a string then. :)