taking away dinos structure damage ability

[WETBATMAN]

I'm running Annunaki on my server (its a mod which adds tameable dragons and stuff) but there is a big issue, most of the stuff from that mod has the ability to break metal AND tek

I want to make something like this plugin https://arkserverapi.com/threads/anti-cannon-raid.559/
but for dinos, how would I go about doing that? I'm sorry for just asking like this but i don't even know where to start when it comes to plugin development

 

[Michidu]

It's similar but you need a different hook, APrimalDinoCharacter::TakeDamage.

 

[WETBATMAN]

so this would in theory work?
also which add-ons do I need for visual studio to compile plugins like this?
thanks in advance and sorry for the stupid questions here

#include <iostream>
#include <API/ARK/Ark.h>

#pragma comment(lib, "ArkApi.lib")

DECLARE_HOOK(APrimalDinoCharacter_TakeDamage, float, APrimalDinoCharacter*, float, FDamageEvent*, AController*, AActor*);

float Hook_APrimalDinoCharacter_TakeDamage(APrimalDinoCharacter* _this, float Damage, FDamageEvent* DamageEvent,
                                       AController* EventInstigator, AActor* DamageCauser)
{
    if (DamageCauser)
    {
        FString descr;
        DamageCauser->GetHumanReadableName(&descr);

        if (descr.StartsWith("Cannon"))
        {
            return 0;
        }
        if (descr.StartsWith("Dragon"))
        {
            return 0;
        }
        if (descr.StartsWith("Broodmother"))
        {
            return 0;
        }
        if (descr.StartsWith("Megapithecus"))
        {
            return 0;
        }
    }

    return APrimalDinoCharacter_TakeDamage_original(_this, Damage, DamageEvent, EventInstigator, DamageCauser);
}

void Load()
{
    Log::Get().Init("NoDragons");

    ArkApi::GetHooks().SetHook("APrimalDinoCharacter.TakeDamage", &Hook_APrimalDinoCharacter_TakeDamage,
                               &APrimalDinoCharacter_TakeDamage_original);
}

BOOL APIENTRY DllMain(HMODULE hModule, DWORD ul_reason_for_call, LPVOID lpReserved)
{
    switch (ul_reason_for_call)
    {
    case DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH:
        Load();
        break;
    case DLL_PROCESS_DETACH:
        break;
    }
    return TRUE;
}

 

[Michidu]

You don't need any addons actually.

Yeah, it looks close. But i think i have misunderstood you, if you want to take away the ability from dinos to deal damage, you need to hook both functions + the one for players.

 

[WETBATMAN]

so structure dmg, dino dmg and player damage

also what is the hook for player damage and how do i go about adding 3 hooks into the file

sorry for the dumb question you probably answered shit like this 100000 times but i would love to have something like this on my server

 

[WETBATMAN]

also i want to take away the ability from a certain dino to do structure damage not damage in general

cause this mod adds dragons that can break stone and metal and they have insane dps

 

[Michidu]

Actually, you only need those two: APrimalCharacter.TakeDamage and APrimalStructure.TakeDamage. The first one works for players and dinos.

 

[WETBATMAN]

so i need to comma separate all the places where i have one hook and add another?

 

[WETBATMAN]

Actually, you only need those two: APrimalCharacter.TakeDamage and APrimalStructure.TakeDamage. The first one works for players and dinos.

i know that i'm getting annoying as fuck but i installed visual studio with the visual c++ pack, i have it set to release and x64 but building a premade template gives me errors what else do i need to build ark api plugins ?
very new to this so, please dumb it down for me

 

[Michidu]

You just need to declare two hooks.
What exactly problems you have? There were screenshots somewhere showing how you need to configure a project.

 

[WETBATMAN]

could you post a link to those because I've been searching but i could not find anything like that

i'm getting compilation errors when trying to compile NoCannons from the source so i know there is something wrong with my setup

 

[Michidu]

Some are here https://arkserverapi.com/threads/struct-type-redefinition.249/. Make sure you selected 'Release x64' version.
What errors are you getting anyway?

 

[WETBATMAN]

i configured my visual studio to a guide on here by OwnProx

here is the compilation errors i'm getting

1>------ Build started: Project: NoAnnunaki, Configuration: Release x64 ------
1>stdafx.cpp
1>dllmain.cpp
1>NoAnnunaki.cpp
1>c:\users\avtoj\source\repos\noannunaki\noannunaki\noannunaki.cpp(46): fatal error C1010: unexpected end of file while looking for precompiled header. Did you forget to add '#include "stdafx.h"' to your source?
1>Done building project "NoAnnunaki.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

also typing ArkApi:: in the IDE does not show any references to any functions
do you have discord or something of that sort so communication is easier?

 

[Michidu]

Yes, you can add me Michidu#4228.
About the error, you need to disable precompiled headers.