Problems with 5E ActionDamage.onDamage behavior

I am intercepting the call to ActionDamage.onDamage. One call with sword damage works. One call with fireball damage does not display the dice on the right end of the chat entry. Why?
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Here are the chat messages.
Sword first
s' onDamage: rMessage:' | {
s'diemodifier' = #7,
s'font' = s'systemfont',
s'dice' =
{ #1 = { s'type' = s'b12', s'result' = #12 }, #2 = { s'type' = s'b12', s'result' = #12 }, #3 = { s'type' = s'b12', s'result' = #7 }, #4 = { s'type' = s'b12', s'result' = #3 }, #5 = { s'type' = s'b12', s'result' = #6 }, #6 = { s'type' = s'b12', s'result' = #12 }, #7 = { s'type' = s'b12', s'result' = #6 }
},
s'type' = s'damage',
s'sender' = s'_GM PC',
s'text' = s'[DAMAGE (M)] Longsword [x1.5] [TYPE: slashing (65=65)]',
s'icon' = s'portrait_gm_token',
s'secret' = bFALSE }

then fireball
s' onDamage: rMessage:' | {
s'diemodifier' = #6, s'font' = s'systemfont',
s'dice' =
{ #1 = { s'type' = s'b9', s'result' = #7 }, #2 = { s'type' = s'b9', s'result' = #6 }, #3 = { s'type' = s'b9', s'result' = #7 }, #4 = { s'type' = s'b9', s'result' = #6 }, #5 = { s'type' = s'b9', s'result' = #9 }, #6 = { s'type' = s'b9', s'result' = #6 }, #7 = { s'type' = s'b9', s'result' = #1 }, #8 = { s'type' = s'b9', s'result' = #1 }
},
s'type' = s'damage',
s'sender' = s'_GM PC',
s'text' = s'[DAMAGE] Fireball (150) = [x1.5] [TYPE: fire (49=49)]',
s'icon' = s'portrait_gm_token',
s'secret' = bFALSE }

The difference in behavior appears to be in one of these two lines from onDamage():
-- Apply damage to the PC or CT entry referenced
local nTotal = ActionsManager.total(rRoll);
notifyApplyDamage(rSource, rTarget, rRoll.bTower, rMessage.text, nTotal);

I suspect I know the answer. Refdoc says: Each die result object is an array with a "type" and a "result" field. The "type" field is a string matching the die type defined in the XML ("d4", "d6", ...). I recommend that in the comm code you substitute the die_general_icon when the number of sides does not match a specific icon. I will try using "bF" for the die type. I don't think it is used in a calculation for the chat message, and "dF" does have a generic 6 sided die icon. That did not work. It would have to be changed in the comm package.

I'm assuming that "b9" is not a valid die asset type defined in the ruleset; so it will be ignored.

JPG

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Originally Posted by Moon Wizard

I'm assuming that "b9" is not a valid die asset type defined in the ruleset; so it will be ignored.

JPG

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I had a feeling that you might say that ;).

I wanted to thank you for the delightful experience this past two weeks of learning LUA (I had not coded since the 1990's in Symbolics Lisp and C++) and learning FGU (very cool despite lacking code comments and man pages).

Now that I understand things better I will refactor 5E DMGX. I won't use Celestian's 2E approach of scaling nmod and diesides.

I will intercept the ResultHandler for "damage" (ActionsDamage.onDamage()),

append "[x?]" to rRoll.dDesc,

temporarily wrap ActionsManager.total() to scale its returned value by the DMGX value

run the original ActionsDamage.onDamage().

unwrap ActionsManager.total()

return

This will avoid any issues with non-standard die sizes, avoid comingling the scaled mod with unscaled dice in the chat message and quantize more accurately by only scaling the total.