Damage dice and templates

[frumple]

I am working on a template that has a special that does the same damage as a natural attack granted by the template. I want it to display in its livename "Special (damage)." I figured this would be easy enough by getting the tagname of the wMain tag on the attack.

However there is an issue if the template is placed on a base creature that is not of Medium size. Namely the damage auto adjusts for the creature's size, but the wMain tag is still the original.

For example, the template has a wClaw attack with the tag wMain.1d6_5. I apply this to a small creature and the claw attack correctly displays as 1d4, but the tag on wClaw is still 1d6_5, so if I use tagnames to get the damage I still get 1d6. (The same issue happens if I have an attack with DamageUp or DamageDown tags). How can I get the correct damage text that I can put in the display of my special?

 

[Aaron]

Call the tFinalDamF procedure, using the wDamage field's value. Something like this:

        var v_noattr as number
        var v_value as number
        var v_style as number
        var v_text as string
        v_noattr = 1
        v_value = hero.childfound[wXXXX].field[wDamage].value
        v_style = hero.childfound[wXXXX].field[wCurrEquip].value
        call tFinalDamF
        field[livename].text = v_text

 

[frumple]

Awesome! Thanks Aaron!!!

 

[frumple]

Ummm... when I try to run this code I get the error

"calls a non-existent procedure for the active script context"

Is there a specific phase/timing I need to run this procedure before/after?

 

[frumple]

Found the issue. Looks like the procedure is tFinalDam not tFinalDamF. However the procedure looks for the wFixDamage field in my special race ability (which of course doesn't exist).

 

[Aaron]

Darn, sorry. Looks like there isn't an easy solution for this then. It seems you'll have to make an extensive eval script similar to the ones contained in the procedure.

 

[frumple]

I think I got a solution. I use the 0th entry from the wDamNoATbl array for the weapon and then recalculate the STR bonus as appropriate.

Just to make sure I am using the right one, what is the significance of each entry in that table and wDamageTbl?