[EO] Intelligence/Level affecting Spell Damage

[MCADAMS]

It's annoying to make the same spell over and over again because the damage becomes trivial as you reach a higher level, so this simple tutorial will let you make your Intelligence stat and your character level effect your spells damage

Find in **modCombat**:
```
' set the vital
    Vital = Spell(spellnum).Vital
```
Under that add:
```
Vital = Vital * (Player(Index).Level / 2) + GetPlayerStat(Index, Stats.Intelligence) / 4
```
This will make it so that the overall spell damage is:
_Spell Damage x (Player level / 2) x (Intelligence Stat / 4)_

So;
If you're level 4, and a spell does 8 damage, and your Int. is 16, your spell will do **64** damage.
If you're level 8, and a spell does 8 damage, and your Int. is 28, your spell will do **224** damage.

Thus remedying the problem!
You can also change this code to better suit your needs or if you think its unbalanced.
Hope this helped you all. Have fun ;)

[Robin]

Simple, but should help people out.

Still not sure how I want spells to scale in Origins so this should certainly tide people over till I get to work on that.

Good to see people releasing work as well.

[MCADAMS]

@Robin:

> Simple, but should help people out.
>
> Still not sure how I want spells to scale in Origins so this should certainly tide people over till I get to work on that.
>
> Good to see people releasing work as well.

Thanks!
I'm glad I finally remotely understand this stuff. Feels good to finally contribute.

[Robin]

Quite.

```
GetPlayerStat(Index, Stats.Intelligence / 4)

```
Replace that with:

```
GetPlayerStat(Index, Stats.Intelligence) / 4

```

[MCADAMS]

@Robin:

> Quite.
>
> ```
> GetPlayerStat(Index, Stats.Intelligence / 4)
>
> ```
>
> Replace that with:
>
> ```
> GetPlayerStat(Index, Stats.Intelligence) / 4
>
> ```

But..but..but..you need to close the string.

[Robin]

That's not a string… you're dividing "Stats.Intelligence" by 4\. You want to divide the player's actual intelligence, not the number of the stat.

[MCADAMS]

@Robin:

> That's not a string… you're dividing "Stats.Intelligence" by 4\. You want to divide the player's actual intelligence, not the number of the stat.

Yeah I have no idea what a string is.

But all you did was take the closing parentheses off, which it needs. I get a compile error when taking it off.

EDIT: Sorry, didn't see you added one.

[Robin]

Why are you arguing with me? >_>

[MCADAMS]

@Robin:

> Why are you arguing with me? >_>

Sorry, I just misread what you said, see my edit above.

[OmegaRedd]

Thanks.

[ilsu333]

thx for the code dude…But dunno why i get RTE6 (overflow) when i start the server after using the code...What am i doing wrong?

[Octohunter]

Nice job, I spent about an hour looking for the piece of code in modCombat that allowed me to change spell damage :)

[chuchoide]

Nice code man, will use it later!
@Above use CTRL + F to find quickly lol.

[Octohunter]

Tried that, but didn't know what to look for :)
I ended up editing the damage display function instead of the actual damage.

[chuchoide]

Just copy ' set the vital
    Vital = Spell(spellnum).Vital and paste there.

[ilsu333]

Guys i get overflow if i use the code…May that be because i got 800 spell slots?

[Guest]

.. You have 800 spell slots? You mean you MAX_SPELLS=800?

[ilsu333]

@Sekaru:

> .. You have 800 spell slots? You mean you MAX_SPELLS=800?

yep

[mattt183]

ya, might want to lower that

[Guest]

Hah our spell system.Good work!

[Guest]

just wanted to say thanks for this, helps me out.  just learning the ropes around the system.

[Suppositoire]

Good work, thank you :D

[da_gad_pader]

this is nice , and what if i want the spell or skill will be based on strength??? for the warrior skills example ? how should i do that?

[Yenkai]

Instead of adding:

```
Vital = Vital * (Player(Index).Level / 2) + GetPlayerStat(Index, Stats.Intelligence) / 4
```
Add this:

```
Vital = Vital * (Player(Index).Level / 2) + GetPlayerStat(Index, Stats.Strength) / 4
```

[RyokuHasu]

VB will automaticly give you options when you start typing variables

just start with "stats." and it will give a list of options you can use from modTypes.