I’ve never used fairmath. I’m working on a collaborative project now where the standard is to use it. “How hard can it be?” I thought. “I’ve been given the format.”
*set (variable_name) %+number
(or %-number)
And yet, my code refuses to go any further than that point. Here’s the bit of code, an option in a perfectly normal choice, before a goto to a valid label, such as might work a hundred other times (p.s., I have word wrap on for the screenshot, which is why some of the text looks indented):
In text, if you prefer (spacing is off): #Interrogate the waitress about the caller before leaving.
For whatever reason you’ve been summoned, it might be useful to know who called. “Did the person who called for me leave their name?” you asked.
"No, it was just some man," the waitress replies vaguely. "He sounded upset, and said to hurry and give you that message. He hung up before I could ask anything."
This information doesn't seem all that helpful, but you thank her before setting off for the listed address.
*set (genre_savvy) %+10
*goto murderhouse
Please, someone who can fairmath. What am I doing wrong?
I tried several times and i am totally incapable of doing it too . SO i understand your pain. The explanations are written in maths and i don’t speak maths. I would love someone explanation in plain English
Sure. It’s an opposed stat, if that matters, but I don’t see how startup would even know that. At first I typed it in as 0, then I thought that might be confusing the math (that it might be impossible to use a % function on 0) so I changed it to 50. Choicescript_stats is currently blank.
This is the one line in startup: *create genre_savvy 50
I’ll try that again. Maybe it needs the combination of not-zero and no parentheses?
I removed the parentheses, genre_savvy is 50, and it’s still broken. I guess I can yank that command for now to test the rest of the scene, but it’s a mystery.
SashiraTale line 53: Invalid expression at char 5, expected no more tokens, found: OPERATOR [%]
That’s the line where I’m attempting fairmath. It’s almost the first thing in the scene. All I do before that is create some temp variables and rename some permanent ones; neither has anything to do with that variable.
There’s a mystery keeping me from finishing a mystery. There’s irony somewhere in here…
Huh, I had a thought. I’m having to go through my code by hand because quicktest is mysteriously not working. The last time I had bizarre code malfunctions was also the last time my quicktest broke and I had to try to sort them out by hand - when I was trying to code Moonlight Circus for the contest. Maybe there’s some deeper technical difficulty that’s affecting both.
I’ll try re-downloading Choicescript, adding the text files back in to a clean copy, and see what happens.
I asked my boyfriend to take a look at my code, and the error was mysteriously gone. Same code, same computer. My best guess is that although I saved the new changes, they didn’t properly implement until he hit Restart (I was refreshing the page instead.) Quicktest is still mysteriously down, but one fewer bug is nice? Maybe no parentheses + not-zero for the variable did the trick.
