RMMZ Creating a Method to use in Skill Damage Formula

[nathanlink169]

Hello all!

I'm looking to make some "easy of access" methods for the Skill Damage Formula. The damage formula I'm planning on using are based a lot of D&D, so there are a lot of "dice rolls" rather than calculating a direct number and just varying it by a certain percentage.

Rather than writing out Math.round(rand() * 6) for a d6 every time (I know that's probably wrong, just pseudocode), it would be easier if I could just write out d6() to get a random number between 1-6. Anyone know how I could do that.

I should clarify, it's not the contents of the function I need help with (i.e. I know how to get a random number), it's actually being able to access the method from the Skill Damage Formula section.

 

[Tsukihime]

If you want to be able to use the user/target information conveniently, define it inside Game_Battler so you can say

a.yourMethod
b.yourMethod

If you just need to be able to reference it as a global function, you can just define it in global space

function d(num) {
   return Math.round(rand() * num)
}

And then you can just use it in your formula.

d(4) - b.def

It's just a JS eval after all.

 

[nathanlink169]

If you just need to be able to reference it as a global function, you can just define it in global space

function d(num) {
   return Math.round(rand() * num)
}

And then you can just use it in your formula.

d(4) - b.def

It's just a JS eval after all.

That was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you kindly