Adjuctable Slider Bars

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Mar 27 2009, 2:33 am
I want a slider to make it so that the more to the left you put it, the more likely your attacks will hit, the more to the right you put it, the stronger the attack.

How would I do this?
Mar 27 2009, 4:20 am
Depends how you want to go with it: you can either check the bar value every time you attack, or more preferably, set up a procedure (proc) which gets the value of the bar when the bar value is changed (there is a section in the options tab for the bar to do this).

The value can be obtained via winget().
Mar 27 2009, 6:24 am
After using winget() to get the value of the slider (most likely you only want to do this after it changes, and other times just keep track of its last known value), you'll have a value of 0 to 100 to work with. The real question then is how you interpret it.

Say a value of 50 means you have the normal chance to attack, and hit with normal strength. Maybe 100 could mean you hit with four times as much force, but your chance to hit is a lot less than what it was before.

Let's say that slider=100 means you have 25% of your regular hit chance; if so, it makes sense that slider=0 means you'd have only 25% of the chance not to hit.

if(slider >= 50)
  // ranges from 1 to 4 on a linear scale
  var/multiplier = (slider*3 - 100) / 50
  hitchance /= multiplier
  attack *= multiplier
else
  // ranges from 1 to 4 on a linear scale
  var/multiplier = (200 - slider*3) / 50
  hitchance = 1 - (1 - hitchance) / multiplier
  attack /= multiplier


This puts a lot of strategy into fighting, as it means if you have a really low hit chance on someone like say 10%, you can choose the minimum attack to raise that to a respectable 77.5%. If you have a high hit chance, you can sacrifice some of it to make a bigger hit.

Lummox JR
Mar 28 2009, 11:18 am
In response to Lummox JR
 
winget(usr,"ad bar","Err...?")


I'm stuck. =\
Mar 28 2009, 11:54 am
In response to Howey
I think you're looking for the "value" parameter :\
winget(src,"window.control","value")
Mar 28 2009, 12:03 pm
In response to Howey
Did you know there's a skin reference?
Can be located in Dream Maker in the Help menu.
Mar 28 2009, 12:12 pm
In response to Kaiochao
Cheers, I was just missing the value part. Also, Cheers Kaiochao. Never noticed that.