Creating variables as a function of other variables?

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I’m having trouble with making variables as a function of other variables. When I try to do this:
‘’‘create health 100+(vigor10)’‘’
I get an error, and I also want to do more complex stuff like:
‘’‘create max_strength 100+(conden25)+(foundation50)+(core75)’‘’

How should I mix my formatting? I saw a similar question on the forum but it was a slightly different idea and I tried to copy its formatting and didn’t work. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Use *create to create your variables first, and then *set to change them to the value you want.

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If id do that in the startup file will that apply to the rest of the game? Like will one point in vigor automatically increase health by 10?

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I don’t fully understand what you’re trying to do, but I think you’re mixing up stuff.
Variable names are one thing, and variable values are another.

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Yeah I get that, I want the value of the health variable to increase by 10 every time a point is added to the value of the vigor variable and every time a point is subtracted from the vigor variable. For some reason the text didn’t copy but the function should be
*set health 100+(vigorx10)

where the x stands for times or multiplication

when I huse the star symbole it doesnt copy

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Is that like the max health the player can get depending on the vigor it has?

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yes!

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In startup.txt

*create health 100
*create vigor 10

Then whenever vigor can be increased

*set health (health + vigor)

Is this what you are after?

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Yeah! Is there a way to code it so that happens automatically when vigor is increased, or do I need to hard code it every time.

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I suppose that the formula should be something like this

*set health 100+(vigor*10)

You can set a separate file to do the math and call it with a goto every time the vigor changes.

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Ah, okay that makes sense, thank you!

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Yes. Create a scene called health and in it put

*set health (health + vigor)
*return

Then when ever you increase vigor you do this.

You drink the vigor potion.
*gosub_scene health
*goto next_scene

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That works great! Thank you!

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