Make a monster ract to being damaged?

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I’m halfway through making a moster whose gimmick is teleporting randomly and frequently. I would want for this same ability to have a higher chance to trigger after the monster has taken damage.

Problem is that Im not entirely sure about the proper wat to do that.

I was thinking to add a new monster exclusive effect “efffect_monster_was_hit” and then make void monster::apply_damage() add the effect everytime a monster is damaged. Maybe limit the aplication of said effect if the monster has a certain flag.

Then make the monattack check if the monster has said effect and up the chances to teleport based on it.

Is this a decent way of implementing this behavior?

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The effect doesn’t need to be monster exclusive - could be just “took_damage” (not “was_hit”, because not all damage comes from hits).
But yes, the idea for implementation from the code side sounds good.
Not so sure about the whole teleportation part, though.

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There is an on_hurt function in player class:

/** Handles effects that happen when the player is damaged and aware of the fact. */
void on_hurt( Creature *source, bool disturb = true );
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Thanks!

I’ll go forth with it then.