Status Effect Power

[Shinzaku]

Hey all,

I've been noticing in a lot of the scripts for status effects, there are functions for getPower and getSubpower. I am confused as to where exactly it is pulling these values from in order to modify them.

Could anyone provide a hint? Thanks!

[whasf]

The database. I'm not in front of my machine right now so I can't tell you exactly which table, but you should be able to figure it out by looking at those functions in the core.

[Shinzaku]

I'm a little bad with code.
It looks like in the core when it calls setPower to set that value, it's gathering it from a LUA value. However I cannot find any tables of data in the LUA relating to status effect power.

Under the database, there seems to be no columns indicating power or subpower. @_@; I apologize for the ignorance.

Edit: I found that it saves status effects with their current power and subpower under char_effects. Still searching for the origin of the values.

[TeoTwawki]

Their origin is whatever a scritp told the effect to get "born" with. The whole point of that existing is so it can be differnet things. It it were always the same we'd just have a static number and never need to "get" it.

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someEntity:addStatusEffect(EffectHere, PowerHere, TickIntervalHere, DurationHere, SubPowerHere, TierHere);

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player:addStatusEffect(EFFECT_STR_BOOST, 12, 0, 60);

I didn't use subpower or tier for that str boost effect. They can be omitted when nto used. Tick however, had to be set. If I just said "12,60" and left out that zero it would error.

[Shinzaku]

Ah that makes sense.

I'm particularly curious about looking at modifying Dia values to make the def down a little stronger. Looks like the subpower parameter is setting a flag, whereas the tier is the power of the def down.

target:addStatusEffect(EFFECT_DIA,3+dotBonus,3,duration,FLAG_ERASABLE, 15);



Thanks guys! I'll start to figure out more effects and spells from here.

[TeoTwawki]

Now I'm wondering where FLAG_ERASABLE gets defined before those scripts use it, because I only see

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EFFECTFLAG_ERASABLE        = 0x0002

in status.lua and status_effect.h
..hmm...