Damage formula with variables help Topic

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12540

09/27/2015 12:53 PM

Hello! I am really bad with formulas and am having a little trouble.

Originally, I had an enemy skill that does physical damage to the target, and then stores the damage data as a variable and heals the enemy party that amount. I used:

v[48] = 7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def)

with variable 48 being the variable that determines how much the enemy party is healed in the follow-up skill. That worked just fine!

However, there is a status effect that makes you absorb physical damage. If the skill hits a character with that status effect, the hero will be healed, as they should, but then the follow-up enemy skill will still heal the enemy party. I wanted to reduce the enemy healing to 0 if the target has the physical-absorb state on.

So I tried:

if b.state == 11; 7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def) v[48] = 0; else; v[48] = 7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def); end;

Which just gives errors ^^;; I'm not all that surprised; all of my formula knowledge is just from aping other formulas. I have no idea how to correctly make one from scratch.

I know this is kinda complicated, (please ask if I haven't explained it well) but if anyone could help, I'd be extremely grateful! Thanks very much!

Marrend

Guardian of the Description Thread

21806

09/27/2015 01:12 PM

In this case, it helps me to take an expression like that apart into a more readable format. Which means...

if b.state == 11; 7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def) v[48] = 0; else; v[48] = 7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def); end;

...this would end up looking something like...

if b.state == 11
  7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def) v[48] = 0
else
  v[48] = 7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def)
end

...that? So, I'm kinda thinking that the effect you want is actually...

if b.state == 11
  v[48] = 0
else
  v[48] = 7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def)
end

...this, maybe? I'm assuming that the "b.state == 11" condition is the thing that's checking to see if the "physical absorb" state is applied.

Note: The formula for this would end up looking like...

if b.state == 11; v[48] = 0; else; v[48] = 7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def); end

...this, I think? Sorry, I'm not 100% at the moment.

unity

You're magical to me.

12540

09/27/2015 01:19 PM

But I still want the skill to deal the 7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def) damage, regardless of what the variable ends up being. Will it still do that?

karins_soulkeeper

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3090

09/27/2015 01:32 PM

@marrend> It's b.state?(11)

@unity> You could put the 7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def) part outside the if-else bloc to make sure.

like so:

if b.state?(11)
  v[48] = 0
else
  v[48] = 7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def)
end
7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def)

or a shorter one:

v[48] = b.state?(11) ? 0 : 7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def); 7 * a.atk ** 2 / (a.atk + b.def)

unity

You're magical to me.

12540

09/27/2015 01:37 PM

Ooooh, thanks! I'll give that a try ^_^

EDIT: It works perfectly! Thanks, KS! :DDDDDD

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