I need help with working with a spefifc varible operation

[LaDestitute]

I'm working on a skill that's adds a 1% for every 24th of the target's maxhp knocked off, and so the percentage for something to happen. How do I do the part where it divides the value (that's what I think I'm supposed to do), and the conditonal branch to check for every 24th knocked off?

 

[Phoenixia]

You can do this with scripting fairly easily, you should be able to this with variables in the event command aswell by using an extra variable to keep track of hp, then checking when the hp changed from the variable, then adding the 1%.

Rather than go into details, let me make sure I understand what you're trying to do first:
You have a variable that has a value 1 to 100 representing a probability.
Everytime an actor takes 1/24 of their max hp, this variable increases by 1.
Every so often, there is a chance equal to variable% something happens.

Questions
Does the losing 1/24 maxhp raises 1% happen for every actor, or just some of them?
If you lose 1/16 does the % go up 2 points, or just 1?

 

[LaDestitute]

Actually, it's intended for monsters, a capturing system, the percentage goes into rate of success, semiliar to how FFTA did it.

And second question, no.

 

[Phoenixia]

This should be fairly simple to do via scripting.

Go into the script editor and goto the Game_Enemy class.
At the top you'll see a bunch of attr_reader/attr_accessor's
At the bottom of this part, add attr_accessor :catch_offset.
Now, go into the initialize method and add in @catch_offset = 0.

Go to the Game_Battler3 tab.
Go to the attack_effect method and near the bottom you should see the block

if hit_result == true

   # State Removed by Shock

   remove_states_shock

   # Substract damage from HP

   self.hp -= self.damage

 

Dirctly above the self.hp -=self.damage line
add in

self.catch_offset += 1 if self.is_a?(Game_Enemy) and self.damage > self.maxhp/24

Go to the skill_effect method and towards the bottom you should see

# Substract damage from HP

last_hp = self.hp

self.hp -= self.damage

effective |= self.hp != last_hp

# State change

@state_changed = false

Right above this, add in

self.catch_offset += 1 if  self.is_a?(Game_Enemy) and self.damage > self.maxhp/24

Now, go into the item_effect method and directly beneath

self.damage = -recover_hp

add

self.catch_offset += 1 if  self.is_a?(Game_Enemy) and self.damage > self.maxhp/24

If you are using this as a variable in the sense of the event editor, then this is how you get it.
Suppose you are using a variable with id 20 for the monster with id 3.
Call a script an use

for i in $game_troop.enemies

$game_variables[20] += i.catch_offset if i.enemy_id == 3

end

As an alternative to my method above, you could do all of this by checking hp changes in Scene_Battle.

If a monster gets healed does it effect this at all?
A much simpler method would be to just use what percent the monsters hp are of their max, rather than the every time it lose 1/24th bit; just a suggestion

Finally, if you have any questions, please ask