Detailed Help File For Script Defaults VX Ace

[Ephestion]

I require something that can explain the engine defaults and scripts in a precise manner.


Most damage values are very low and intended to be between 1d4 and 1d20 or multiples of them. ie 2d20 or 2d4


I have a Damage formula that seems to work well but not quite what I want and I now need to go a level deeper and find out how exactly the engine uses and calculates. atk, mdf and other stats and their impact on each other.


For instance is ATK the sum of all possible physical damage the player can do ie his Base Damage as shown in the Class field and his/her Weapon Damage? Or is it some arbitrary number?


So is there something to explain the default stats, and parameters in detail?


I noticed for another example that there is a value called HIT. I presume it has to do with Hit Rolls and indicates a % chance of strikeing, but I would like to know how it is affected by the default engine precisely ie the formulas that use these stats and parameters within the scripts.

 

[Andar]

All values are completely independent of each other and calculated based on everything of the same value that combines for the actor, but nothing else.


For example ATK is an actor value that is changed with everything ATK that you add to the actor (equipment, features, bonuses) - but you are the one who adds to ATK and it has absolutely no function by itself. No other value will have any effect on ATK, only if you add something to ATK yourself that will change. And the base number is determined on the class tab in correlation to the level and nothing else.


Same goes for the damage formula - the engine has no damage formulae, they are all decided by what you place as formula into the skills.


And HIT% is exactly that - the percentage of a hit chance when using a skill (unless the skill is set to certain hit). It is only changed if you as the developer change it - no other value has any effect on it, there are no formulae that change it.

 

[Shaz]

I've moved this thread to VX Ace Support (this is not the kind of tech question that belongs in Tech Support). Please be sure to post your threads in the correct forum next time. Thank you.