On 2 October 2011 14:21, Ralph Versteegen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 October 2011 10:16, James Paige <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > You can see why I get wary about new commands sometimes :) >>> >>> For similar reasons, I'm iffy about the damage-equation commands. I'd >>> like to completely overhaul the attack damage calculation and its >>> presentation in the editor. Just thinking about it makes me want to >>> start immediately. Firstly, extra damage. Maybe this should be changed >>> (in the attack editor) to a (floating point?) multiplier, so "Extra >>> damage: 10%" becomes "Damage multiplier: 110%". I've always found the >>> presentation of the "100 damage" and "100% of Max/Current" options >>> weird. >> >> I agree. That would be better presentation. >> >>> Also, we wanted to generalise blunt/normal/sharp damage by letting you >>> choose the multiplier on both the attack and defense stats (and let >>> you add together multiple attack stats, each with its own >>> multiplier?). In fact, this is something I wanted to do pretty soon; >>> I've been meaning to do it for months. So I'm not keen on adding "read >>> attack damage equation" if it'll be obsolete and useless by the next >>> release, how about "read attack damage stat multiplier [as int?]" and >>> "read attack defense stat multiplier [as int?]". If we wanted multiple >>> damage/defense stats which are summed, I guess we can tack on an >>> argument for the nth term in the equation later. >> >> That sounds like a good plan to me. >> >>> I'd like the menu to look like: >>> >>> >>> Example 1: >>> >>> ==Damage Equation== >>> Attack damages target stat [Other options include curing and setting the >>> stat] >>> Target Stat: Defender HP [Other options include global variables and >>> stun/poison/regen registers, and elemental resists] >>> Base ATK Stat: Attacker Atk >>> ...multiplier: 100% >>> Base DEF Stat: Defender Def >>> ...multiplier: 50% >>> Total multipler: 110% >>> >>> (The bottom of the screen previews the equation:) >>> Damage = 110% * (Attacker Atk - 50% * Defender Def) >>> If Damage < 1 Then Damage = 1 >>> Target HP -= Damage >>> >>> Example 2: >>> >>> ==Damage Equation== >>> Attack sets target stat >>> Target Stat: Defender HP >>> Base ATK Stat: Defender Max HP >>> ...multiplier: 1% >>> Base DEF Stat: None >>> Total multipler: 100% >>> >>> Target HP = 1% * Target Max HP >>> >>> >>> Hey James, can editedit do this? :) I'm guessing no; I'll whip up a >>> prototype. >> >> I would certainly like for edit edit to be able to do that. >> >> --- >> James Paige > > I'm sure it could (should) be able to do the damage options > themselves, but it would be asking far to much for to handle previews > like that as well. We need to be able to include custom preview code > inside an editedit menu (maybe it would be cleaner to do this with a > callback so that the edit-edit-runner still handles the > input-update-draw loop). >
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