Idea for script help

[Failed_Hero]

I was looking at the defense mechanism attribute, and I wondering how difficult it would be to add temp invulnerability or fast healing as a reaction to pain? 

[TaskMasterX]

In FFX 3.2 there were two new Functions added to Defence Mechanism: resistanceThroughPain which adds Invulnerable points to the character when damaged, and strengthandResistanceThroughPain which adds Strength and Invulnerable Points.

In FFX 3.2.1, I added adrenalineSurge which increases resistance to panic and stun, provides healing at a rate proportional to the amount of damage received, and increases Strength +1 each time the character is damaged to a max. +2. All effects are canceled if the character is mental blanked or no more enemies are in visual range.

[Epimethee]

Both would be fairly easy to do. Temporary Invulnerability would then probably require a couple lines of code, as we could call the existing code. Fast Healing would be a little bit trickier; for example, we could make it a removable attribute, but we'd need to make the amount the HP healed (max 100) persistent. The only real issue is that Fast Healing is intrinsically a Defence Mechanism in itself, so buying the attribute normally would do the same job, wouldn't it?

Some non-tested code (and I'm rusty!) for Temporary Invulnerability:
Open ffx.py in Notepad (back up first), between the code under the "def OnEvasiveTeleport(event):" and the start of the Coordinator section, add the following:

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#get a chance to gain Temporary Invulnerability (cf. attribute) 
def tempInvulnerabilityChance(char,param,intensity):
    if not FFX_ObjectHasAttr(char, 'ffqtempinvuln-on'):
        FFX_ObjectSetAttr(char, 'ffqtempinvuln-on', 0)
        Object_SetAttr(char, 'ffqtempinvuln-irradiated', 0)
        Object_SetAttr(char, 'ffqtempinvuln-acidburnt', 0)
        Object_SetAttr(char, 'ffqtempinvuln-nullified', 0)
    if randint(1,15) > intensity: #15 probably needs to be tweaked.
OnFFqTempInvulnOn(char,char)


In ffxdefault.py, under the FFX_DEATHRESPONSES section, just before the last line (the lone "]") insert the line

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["tempInvulnerabilityChance"],


The random chance based on the amount of damage compensates for the fact that Temporary Invulnerability is quite powerful for a Defence Mechanism. For those wanting 100% chance, Taskmaster's new resistanceThroughPain fits the bill perfectly.

[Failed_Hero]

For "rusty" skills you did a great job.  It works.  The only issue is Minute Man's shield activates as the shield FX and I would like to have a no effect. Any idea how to do that thanks man. Epimethee

[Epimethee]

Woohoohoo! The stars aligned right it seems. As for the FX, maybe you could open ffxcusto.py and, under FFQ_TEMPINVULNERABILITY_CUSTOM, add your Defence Mechanism character with an empty effect, e.g.:

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FFQ_TEMPINVULNERABILITY_CUSTOM=[
["default","area","effect_ffq_tempinvuln","power... waning... need to rest..."],
["types","AAnimation","EFX","ASpeech"],
["mentor","hover_area","effect_ffq_tempinvuln_ment","moons of... must concentrate... c-can't..."],
["failed_hero_character","area","","only a f-flesh... wound..."],
]