Damage formula that returns healing? I need help.

[TKarver13]

Using RMMV, No Plugins, Vanilla AF.

So I'm trying to write a formula that returns healing to (a) after dealing damage to (b) , the healing is mathed based on the damage inflicted. (Essentially a life-steal, but.. not)

Something like this, correct me please:

Type: HP Damage

((a.atk + a.mat) - b.mdf) ; (gainHp((a.atk + a.mat) - b.mdf)/9)
For this Example: My atk is 24, Mat is 6, Target has 10 Mdef

So math SHOULD look like this
((24 + 6) - 10) ; (gainHp((24 + 6) - 10)/9)

Which returns
20 ; gainHp 2

For some reason it does 0 dmg? and it also doesnt heal.... what did I do wrong

 

[Capitán]

place your dmg value into a variable, then call it at the end of your skill. You also didn't specify a target to gain hp


dmg = (a.atk + a.mat) - b.mdf; a.gainHp(dmg / 9); dmg;


you also may want to round the healing value to fix some ugly number displays

 

[TKarver13]

place your dmg value into a variable, then call it at the end of your skill. You also didn't specify a target to gain hp


dmg = (a.atk + a.mat) - b.mdf; a.gainHp(dmg / 9); dmg;


you also may want to round the healing value to fix some ugly number displays

Thank You!
This worked!

dmg = (a.atk + a.mat) - b.mdf; a.gainHp(Math.ceil(dmg / 9)); dmg;

Returned 20 damage, 3 healing

aghh im so happy.
A side question, is there a way to define a variable using damage? Like var= (a.atk + a.mat) ?

 

[TKarver13]

Another Problem I'm having::
I'm using this script

var party = $gameParty.battleMembers().filter(function(member) { return member.isAlive() });
party.forEach(function(member) {
var action = new Game_Action(member, true)
action.setSkill(skillId)
return action.apply(member) })
BattleManager.refreshStatus();
party.forEach(function(member) { member.startDamagePopup() })
SceneManager._scene._logWindow.startAction(BattleManager.actor(), action, party)
SceneManager._scene._logWindow.clear()

its returning as ' action is not defined '
Yes I copy pasted from another site, I cheated, but I didn't see any need to change anything, as "var action =" looks like its being defined..
This is a dummy comment event meant to cast a skill on each party member, once its called. I'm also noticing a (skillId) that has no value, I can't find how to define that either

 

[AdeptusUK]

Replace skillid with the number of the skill you want to use in the database. Currently the script is looking for a skillid of 'skillid' which won't exist (unless you've not.posted the whole script)