Zugg Software :: View topic - Stopping Math fnctns frm rounding to whole numbers

Beginner Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 15 Location: USA

I am currently writing a script that evaluates many of my fighting situations, and then displays to me the average damage I do from certain attacks, and average number of attacks I land from certain skills. However, I cannot find a way to get the math functions to return anything but whole numbers, rounded down.

This isn't an issue for most of the things the script is tracking, but one (backstab) can only hit 1-6 times, so the average number of "hits" rounded down is becomes very inaccurate. My aliases looks like this: (Note I will display the whole alias, however the math in this particular alias is only 1 line, near the top)

#ALIAS {meleedamdis} {
#CLASS {FightEvaluator|MeleeDamageCount}
#math damageaverage {(@totaldamage) / (@totalhits)}
#CLASS 0
#say %ansi( high, white)Since: @damcounttime
#say %ansi( high, yellow)@totalhits Hits Landed
#say %ansi( high, yellow)@totaldamage Damage Done
#say %ansi( high, red)@damageaverage average per hit.
#if {%0} {%0 I have landed @totalhits attacks for a total of @totaldamage damage. My average attack hits for @damageaverage~. Melee Damage Counter last reset: @damcounttime~.}
}

I have tried %eval and %norm as well, with the same results (though %norm displayed the result as (X).0 instead of simply (X), but in the trial run the value should have been (X).31 so it was still rounding.

As always, any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.

Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 8:46 pm

Try using %float in your calculation.

i.e. %float(@totaldamage)/@numhits

-G-

Edited to include example.

Beginner Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 15 Location: USA

Thanks for the advice.. unfortunately, %float returns the same thing -- (X).0, a whole number rounded off and then adding a .0, even though it should be like (X).455

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

#VAR damageaverage {%eval( @totaldamage/@totalhits).%eval( (( @totaldamage@totalhits) * 100)/@totalhits)}

This is a string, not a number, and should not be used in other calculations.