reduce damage relatively to players defence

[Klownzilla]

I am making an actionrpg similar to zelda (except that you can kill anyone hehe...it will be nonlinear) oh well my problem is that when damage is received..the life counter shall be reduced by the defence stat of the player...but if defence is 10...10 life points are reduced...i was thinking that*if you have more defence it should reduce less from the lifecounter and not increase the amount it reduces. Having defence set to -1 doesnt help because nothing is taken from the counter then of course....how to fix this. I dont want to have conditions like "collision with hitbox + defence =1" subtract 6 from counter...and "collision with hitbox + defence=2" subtract 4 from counter etc...is there some easy fix for this? Thanks :-)

[happygreenfrog]

Well, I don't remember whether it uses subtraction or division to do it, but my simple RPG example had a stat system, including attack and defense. Here's a link: http://community.clickteam.com/threads/87675-Simple-RPG-example

Let me know if that helps, k?

[Klownzilla]

I remember doing a turnbased RPG fighting system once working perfectly and I remember I had to do something like adding my defence and the enemys strength to a totaldamage counter and make sure that I didn't get HP back if my defence was higher than the enemys strength...something like that. Gonna check your example

[Del_Duio]

Can't you just have a check where if (Enemy damage - Player DEF) < 0 then Enemy damage = 0?

[Klownzilla]

Yeah something like that should work. Thanks

[ProdigyX]

You can also do something like:

Damage Dealt = Max(0, Enemy Damage - Player Def)