Hi, just have a quick question regarding damage resistance calculation, if I want to nullify damage resistance on the player, and I'm monitoring the player's damage via a script, can I do something like this? (dmg = prior frame health - current frame health, and dmg > 0)

player.damageav health (dmg / (getav (100 - DamageResist) / 100) - dmg)

Or is the damage resistance more complicated than this? (I know this won't take poison/fire damage into consideration properly)

Thanks!

That sounds good to me, but...

(dmg / (getav (100 - DamageResist) / 100) - dmg)

could be expressed as

Absorbed Damage = (dmg * 100/ player damage resistance) - dmg

Yeah, that's better

Actually, looking at the GECK wiki, I'm confused how DR is applied to weapon damage. It says here (http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/Weapon_Damage_Formula) that:

DamageAbsorbedByArmor = fArmorRatingBase * ArmorRatingValue * fArmorRatingMult * (ArmorRatingConditionBase * ArmorCondition * fArmorRatingConditionMult)

DamageAbsorbedByArmor is then subtracted from weapon damage. So is DR normally applied to weapon damage as a percentage, or is it subtracted from weapon damage as a set amount?

ie. If I'm wearing power armor, and someone is shooting at me with a worn BB gun, do I take a small amount of damage, or none at all?

EDIT- Just did a search in the forums and read the thread regarding DR and also the discussion on the GECK wiki. Still not clear. Does armor apply to melee weapons? It's not in the formula.

I could be wrong, and this may be an oversimplification, but I believe that the value stored in the player's DR value already takes this into account as that value changes as the armor degrades. And, yes, there is no threshold amount (though there should be) so you will take some percentage of damage no mater the weapon, even a crappy BB gun.

I've done a fair amount of testing, and the GECK wiki is wrong as far as I can tell. DR negates that percentage of damage. If you have 50 DR and get hit for 60 damage, you'll take 30 points of damage.

Oh my god. After having worked on an AP script for ages trying to mimic the weapon damage formula, I can just see the damage taken in between frames? Frustrating, but it might have made my life a lot easier. The only constructive input I have based on the theme is yes, player/mob DR already takes into account the whole formula and acts as a percentage reducer, but apart from that, thanks for the insight.

Thanks all. I did some tests earlier as well, and true to everyone's findings it's pretty much a strict percentage reduction of the damage.