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Hey guys, ive been trying to work with percentages in scripting and it is not working for me.

Sample Code:

IF %FACTOR = 1 THEN
%HEALTH := %HEALTH - (%HEALTH*.5)

The above will not work. I want it that if a factor turns up "1" then half of your life is lost. In the debugger, it says that it cannot define the '.' the dot, or the decimal in this case.

i have tried:

IF %FACTOR = 1 THEN
%HEALTH := %HEALTH - (%HEALTH * (50/100))

but this does not work either. HAve you guys run into this problem, and do you know a fix?

yes, well that works for the 50% but that is only a snippet of the code, i have more percentages that range from 3% to 95%

alex is a genius, here is what we can do to substitue for decimals:

%HEALTH := %HEALTH * 50 (percentage)
%HEALTH := %HEALTH / 100

variables are integers tho, so im unsure if you did:

9/10 * 100

although the end result is an integer, it begins as a decimal...

Hmm...that's a good idea but- oh, hell, i'll quit pretending that I know what you're talking about. You lost me at scripting. lol. (as you can see I still doin't have a clue about scripting)

riley

lol no worries, even i didnt remember that variables were integers only, alex told me they were, so we switched to something that did not deal with decimal numbers.

I would like to add for the record that when some operation done by scripting results in a decimal number, the system rounds DOWN. yes,  i said down, not up.

((50 * 95) / 100) is basically getting 95% from 50, which really is 47.5 but the cys scripting engine returns the value as 47.