get inflicted damage of attack before strike in WML

[lea]

is there any way to get (for example store in variable) amount of damage that will be actually inflicted when/if next strike connects?
apart from calculating it by starting with weapon's base damage and "manually" applying modificators from resistance, weapon specials and other sources one by one

same value as in damage_inflicted variable automatically set for attacker_hits and defender_hits events but before this damage is actually inflicted, for example in attack event.

[zookeeper]

No, doesn't seem possible.

[Sapient]

is there any way to get (for example store in variable) amount of damage that will be actually inflicted when/if next strike connects?

There is [harm_unit], which would allow you to factor in the unit type damage resistances and time-of-day alignment bonus. But that's not going to cover every possibility.

[lea]

There is [harm_unit], which would allow you to factor in the unit type damage resistances and time-of-day alignment bonus. But that's not going to cover every possibility.

that's how I tried to do it but it is impractical when there are too many possibilities to cover.

my goal is/was to make a "nonlethal" attack special (attack that cannot kill, somewhat like poison but with instant one-time effect). I tried to reset unit's HP to 1 whenever it fell below 1 but it prevents remaining strikes of current combat encounter from happening.

my current solution is to add a big number (much bigger than damage from single combat encounter can ever be, like 1000) to current hitpoints in attack event and subtract same number in attack end event (or set HP to 1 if remaining hitpoints are less than the number I used). I should "automatically" account for every possibility except effects that vary depending on HP.