Stat-Based Variables Excluding Equipment

[Drunken Paladin]

Hi folks, I'm kinda stumped on how to create a conditional that checks a character's stat without calculating their equipment. In particular, I don't want a weapon's attack value to contribute to the character's attack variable, so a more accurate "strength check" can be made without encouraging weapon-swapping.

I also don't want to have to unequip the character and force them to re-equip anything. Thanks!

Edit: After a couple of hours of banging my head against the wall, I figured out that you can at least run a script call to set your weapon's damage to a variable, then I just subtracted it from the total. All set now, I think.

 

[Poryg]

Another easy way is to check the hero's class. Or I have "2 copies of 1 hero" in the database, one empty to show the base stats.

 

[gstv87]

actor.paramBase(2) ?

 

[OnslaughtSupply]

@gstv87 I came here to post this. If its in your damage formula box its a.paramBase(2)

I had the same problem a little while ago and found this from Google http://www.rpgmakercentral.com/topic/36290-damage-formulas-101-mv-edition/ the different parameters are called using the number in the parentheses, in this case attack, is number 2.

 

[gstv87]

If its in your damage formula box its a.paramBase(2)

no, because "a" is the initiator of the action in battle, actor or enemy alike, and enemies don't have that function I think.
"actor" will always refer to *actors* themselves, from the database, which are the only ones you'd want to differenciate final attack from raw attack without weapons.
enemies don't have weapons, by default.

 

[OnslaughtSupply]

The answer I gave was for damage formula and the link provided has the calls for parameters and such, trust me it works just like a.atk * 2 - b.def works for both enemies and actors alike, but with an enemy you are always dealing with flat parameters because like you said, they don't have weapons.

 

[Drunken Paladin]

I was searching all over the place for something like actor.paramBase lmao

Thanks though. The good news is that I do want other gear to contribute to the check, just not weapon, so my solution still does what I need

 

[gstv87]

actor.param(n) would still bring you the whole stack.
paramBase() is called by param(), but you can still call it directly.