Simple thing... anyone ever played dungeons & dragons? The game uses dice, some 20-sided, 4-sided, 6-sided, whatever.
Now let's say I want to make my game produce a random amount of monsters.
First, I want something to be able to generate a dice roll for me. For example, I want it to roll five 4-sided dice. It's not as easy as (Random(4)+1)*5, that'll flaw the probability. It has to be (Random(4)+1)+(Random(4)+1)+(Random(4)+1)+(Random(4)+1)+(Random(4)+1)
The problem with that is I sometimes need to do three 4-sided dice or sometimes twenty dice. So I can't use a fix code and I can't multiply it. I could loop some "add Random()" events together N times but for some reason that part's buggy.
Let's say the answer is 13. That means 13 monsters.
Now I want the computer to calculate 13 percentile rolls, for example, there's a 5% of that creature being a goblin, 6% of it being an orc, 21% being a slime, etc. The trick there is that it can't overlap (e.g. it being possible to be a goblin and an orc).
Finally... the thing is I'll be using dozens of these events, so they should be easy enough to edit and refer to and stuff, not big ugly code I have to copy and paste for every attack.
Yeah, most of you would probably say "do a Random+1 then fatloop u n00b", but there seems to be some problem during the fatlooping. There are easy ways, but most of those would either spiral out of control on a bug, are unable to handle more than one dice-rolling request at once, or are just big and ugly.
So anyone who has the skills and devotion to give me clean, functional, non-buggy code can have 5 dc points or a custom rating . BTW, might take me a while for me to notice, my last day of unlimited internet access, lol.
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Looping would be the only way to accomplish it. And as you pointed out, the MMF/TGF random number seeding gives very UNRandom results when combined with fast loop. In my random dungeon generator, I actually use this to the advantage to create patterns. However, your problem requires a custom random number seeder. Basically, in order to accomplish this, you need to use a random number generating extension. You can find some in the archives. This means you'll have to use other things to seed the #'s besides the date/time, since thats the same for an entire loop.
So yeah, if you use that you can use the fast looping to accomplish your dice rolls, like normal. I think the problems with the way MMF seeds its randoms- it probably uses the date/time in combination with the event #, which are both the same for loops. Which is of course silly.
Yeah, I used a RNG extension that came with one of the MMF2 bonus packs, MMF's randomness was way off.
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I've made dice roll with Fast Function object. I've just made recurrential function and made a trick with one number value to store both summed dice rolls and amount of rolls more to do. I'm to lazy to find out mathematical formula. :---(.
I've done two methods in two events groups. One of the events group's deactived - you can turn on one of them and turn off another and compare the differences. This example makes 15*4*100 = 6000 4-sided dice rolls and gives FPS like this:
- 38 with using Multiply
- 33 with using MOD
D1 = How Many Dice
D2 = The type of Dice ( 4,6,10,12,20-sided )
D3 = Any bonus modifier ( which could also be for a magic weapon, i.e. Dagger+2 )
* * *
TotDamage = 0
For X = 1 to D1
TotDamage = TotDamage + Int(D2*rnd(1)+1)
Next X
TotDamage = TotDamage + D3
* * *
That's the problem with me and Click though- things that are easy to do normally are not as easy for me to figure out how to do them using MMF or whatever, but I hope this helps you with your random dice roll generator somehow.
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+1 then fatloop u n00b", but there seems to be some problem during the fatlooping. There are easy ways, but most of those would either spiral out of control on a bug, are unable to handle more than one dice-rolling request at once, or are just big and ugly.
. BTW, might take me a while for me to notice, my last day of unlimited internet access, lol.
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