damage formula while ignoring equipped weapon

[Niggles]

Good day all, i need help with this before i pull all my hair out. im designing a project where all party members are equipped with a mana consuming weapon, AND a secondary weapon (NOT dual wield) that does not consume mana.
so for example:
Main weapon = long bow
Secondary weapon = Knife

i have added the knife as another equipment type to make various knives (with various parameters) equippable
the premise is that if the party member uses skill #1 (attack), then it uses the attack stat of the knife.
To make this simpler (and my main goal) i would like to remove the attack stat of the main weapon so that the only parameters left are the knife stat + character stat.

As added information; I DO NOT have any 3rd party plugins AT ALL, only plugin that is active is Community_Basic

ive tried various damage formulas found on this forum before posting this, however they all return a damage of 0. examples of formulas below:

a.atk - a.equips()[0].atk <------- some people claim this works but not for me, return damage of 0
a.atk - a.weapons[0] <------- return damage of 0
a.atk - a.weapons[0].atk <------ return damage of 0
a.atk - a.weapons[0].params[2] <------ i think this is a rpgvx formula because it does not work with mv
a.paramBase(2) <----- this removes the main weapon which is great, but also removes the secondary weapon and only uses the characters base parameters.

any and all help will be welcomed and greatly appreciated.

 

[Ossra]

@Niggles Hmm, try the following :

// Attack Parameter of Actor's Weapon
a.equips()[0].params[2]

 

[Niggles]

@Ossra THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!! formula works perfectly.
using this parameter directly shows that it works, ill be adding multipliers and resistances as i go further.

 

[Silva]

The reason ".atk" doesn't work on your equipment is because it isn't ever defined in MV's code. It's only defined for battlers (ie. actors and enemies), so it won't work on anything else.

Another fyi for you

a.weapons[0].params[2]

Will work if you modify it slightly to become

a.weapons()[0].params[2]

Hopefully that's of some use to you in the future.