Syntactic thing

[Paragon]

I could probably work this out with trial and error, but thought maybe someone would already know.

Setting up my Thin Men, they have an ability that adds to their Toughness, but does so by giving them a bonus equal to half their Agility die. I'm guessing this is an eval script on the ability, but I couldn't quite figure out how it'd be constructed.

[zarlor]

I'd take a look at the derived trait for Toughness itself (trTough), since it is calculated by taking 1/2 Vigor. That should give you some idea of a way to use half of something to use as a modifier to add to something else. I always like to work from something that already does something similar to what I want to try and figure out how to do it. (oh, and sorry I don't know how to code it off the top of my head, thus the hint on what I where I would start to try and figure out how to code it.)

[Paragon]

Hey, its more than I had. And I know what you mean; I was all set to ask how you set up Knowledge skills on creatures when I found an example on the lich and didn't need to.

[Paragon]

Okay, I came up with something for this, but its not working. I suspect the problem is that I'm not correctly identifying what the program is storing the variable as here; I'd assumed it was the word "bonus" in the script, but since this isn't working I'm thinking I'm wrong). Just in case the problem is in the timing or other elements, I'll try to include them all:

Phase: Final
Priority: 4000

var bonus as number
      bonus = #trait[attrAgi]
      if (bonus >= 6) then
      bonus = 6 + round(hero.child[attrAgi].field[trtRoll].value / 2,0,-1)
        endif
      perform #traitadjust[trTough,+,bonus,"Half Agility"]

Timing: Before Calc trtFinal

So, any ideas here? I could, of course, be completely missing the boat since I kind of kitbashed some of the code from the Toughness calculation itself and the Tough As Nails edge together to get this. The test didn't have any objections, but as it is, it doesn't actually seem to do anything.

[jbearwillis]

I could be wrong, but you might play around with the Phase and Priority. If you haven't already.

[Paragon]

I'll give it a try; I did a bit of fiddling with the Timing, but didn't try anything with those two.

[SeeleyOne]

Try Final 5000, without any of the "Before Calc trtFinal".

[Paragon]

Originally Posted by SeeleyOne

Try Final 5000, without any of the "Before Calc trtFinal".

Could you expand on this a bit? I thought you had to have something in the Timing box.

[SeeleyOne]

You only have to have something in the timing box if it matters. Most of them that I have seen were in Initialization, Pre-Traits, and Traits. And even then the "before this" or "after that" are not always used.

In the Final stage it is messing with it after the fact. It would not be used to calculate other things (which Toughness isn't anyway), so timing is not an issue.

[Paragon]

I'm guessing the problem is it isn't actually doing anything with "bonus" in my original code, so when it gets to that part it doesn't add anything, even though it didn't object to the syntax. I'm just not sure what the problem is.