State Count in Damage Formula Topic

if i had an allowance, i would give it to rmn

1743

02/20/2016 05:54 PM

I am having an issue with a battle damage formula that involves counting the amount of a states the target has that are also found in a pre-defined array.

  
def determine_states(y)
    $good_states = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
    if y == 0 # look for good states
    for $good_states.each in self.states
      statecount += 1
    end
    elsif y == 1 # look for bad states
    
    elsif y == 2 # look for all states
    end
  end

I am not formally trained in programming, so I really am just making guesses from what I've experienced over the years of using VX/VXA. This formula does not determine the damage, statecount is just appended to the actual damage formula for its effect.

Pretty much, I'm trying to increase statecount by 1 for each state in the good states array that the target has been affected by in that use. How would I (better) go about this? Thank you!

GreatRedSpirit

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6514

02/20/2016 06:21 PM

states & $good_states

should give the intersection of the two arrays, see the array documentation and just ctrl+f intersection to see the intersect operator example. Once you have the intersection you can just get its length to get the # of elements in the intersection.

Adon237

if i had an allowance, i would give it to rmn

1743

02/20/2016 06:58 PM

Thank you very much GRS! I got it all to work using the information you linked me to.

STATE COUNT IN DAMAGE FORMULA

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