Server activation of client damage animation

[repetitivestrain]

We at Mineclonia are trying to augment the engine damage system with a floating point health gauge, which is already in quite decent shape, but with the caveat that damage that is not sufficient to modify the engine HP is registered without the corresponding scene tilt and tint animation on the client side. Is there a means of activating it that I might have overlooked, or are we really screwed till the engine developers introduce one?

[Mantar]

Can you not increase the max HP? Say you double it, the player has 40 HP internally, but you display it as 20 and double incoming damage. Now a hit that would do 1/2 a point damage before does a full point and should trip the damage effects. Scale up to whatever resolution works.
Bit of a pain to deal with altering player/mob/fall/node damage but that's what on_player_hpchange is for.

[repetitivestrain]

That introduces numerous special cases, and engine HP is limited to 65535 anyway, giving us very little breathing room. Not to mention that it doesn't agree with Minecraft's HP.

[Astrobe]

There's also a case for healing (e.g. green flash) and progressive damage color flash (.e.g. from yellow to red as the player's HP get dangerously low). The effect is hard coded, but as Mantar said, now with on_player_hpchange one can consider letting mods disable it and manage it themselves.

Another option is to supplement the default effect with something like what the "vignette" mods do (screen-wide texture that just darken the corners/borders of the screen), but last time I tried, it had an impact on FPS (not to mention that it is a heavy asset).

[repetitivestrain]

Unfortunately this is not an option for us, I think, as it would be still greater a departure from Minecraft.