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DaedalusX

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Posted: 6th Jun 2004 02:00

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im trying to make a foundation for a text based rpg: i am trying to make a enemies hit points to decrease when i press the spacebar. i have set equations for how much damage is made and i need the monsters hp to decline by the damage made. all that happens is the number is decreased once. any help will be appreciated

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ST=10
MDE=1
att= ST-MDE
`damage = the stregth (10) - monsters defence (1)
final=att*3
`enemy hp
monhp=150

do
`resets the spacekey when pressed, so happens once everytime u press it
if spacekey()=1 then hit=1
if spacekey()=0 and hit=1
result=monhp-final
action=1
hit=0
endif
`decreases enemy hp (monhp) by damage (supposed to) i want this to update so
`hp decreases everytime space is pressed and ends at 0
if action=1 then dec result, final : print result : action=0
if result < 0 then end
loop

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Lost in Thought

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Posted: 6th Jun 2004 05:58

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I don't know about DBC but that works here in DBP. DBC may not allow you to specify how much to dec. You could do

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if action=1 then result = result - final : print result : action=0

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DaedalusX

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Posted: 6th Jun 2004 14:33

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hasnt made any difference. thanx anyway, my program may just need tweaked for it to work *hopes* thanx

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Posted: 6th Jun 2004 19:59

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just one thing, make the if-then structures into if-endif structures, DB sometimes makes a mess of parsing if-then and gives the wrong result even though the code is right, it seems to like being led by the hand and told specificaly when the decision has ended, just something I noticed that has given me some greif before, now I make even one liners into if-endifs just to ensure code runs as expected EG

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if a=1 then print "Hello"

is safer as

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if a=1
    Print "Hello"
endif

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