Any takers for my Final Fantasy XIII (small routine)

Wasn't sure where to post this but hey, we want to compile it for AOS4.x

Been playing through FFXIII on the 360 for quite a while now and it's dawned on me that a program for calculating weapon upgrades would be handy...

Here is the criteria of the program

You start off with a base amount which also is the exp needed to get to level 1...

say 800

once you hit level 1 the exp to get to level 2 is level 1 + a random amount

The random amount could be 180 for example... so you need 800 + 180 to get to level 2... 980...

and the process continues to compound... to get to level 3 it would be 980 + 180... etc etc etc....

Lets call each level a rank... upto rank 99 would be enough...

The program would prompt us for a base amount then a random amount and then a rank... and add it all together...

So logic would follow like this

800
180
12 <-- 12 levels or ranks in this calculation...

The final figure would be (let me get the calculator lol)

800
980
1160
1340
1520
1700
1880
2060
2240
2420
2600
2780

equals = 21480

And that's all I'd want the program to do... cough that figure up... for those that do play FFXIII and are wondering about upgrading when a item comes in at level 9 for example... no worries, you simply use the next level as the base level and remove 10 levels from your rank input...

Anyway, does anyone understand ok? so is anyone up to the task? If you feel generous you could release the code so I might be able to tweak it later.

Thanks for any considerations...

ps... just for final notes... I don't think you'll need more than 99 ranks... most I've seen so far is 91... and I wouldn't think we'd need over 9,999,999. final output... possibly even 999,999 but I don't want to take the chance lol

@Slayer

@Slayer

A basic code would look like this :

Input "Base :",Base
Input "Random Amount :", Amount
Input "Rank :", Rank

Rem take off Amount as its added in the loop

Base = base - Amount

for i = 1 to Rank

Newbase = Base + Amount
TotalExp = TotalExp + Newbase
Base = Newbase
Print TotalExp

next i

I dont have an OS4 machine, so it was hard to find a programming language that would work.
Windows sdlBasic Version 20051016, Jul 12 2007 23:44:09, based upon SciTE Version 1.64, December 1998-June 2005.

Here is a quick SDL Basic Program I made :

Base = 0
Newbase =0
TotalExp = 0

fPrintS("Please Enter Base exp :")
BaseInput$ = zoneInputS( 23, 0, 10, "" )

fPrintS("Please Enter Random Amount :")
RAmountInput$ = zoneInputS( 28, 1, 10, "" )

fPrintS("Please Enter Rank:")
RankInput$ = zoneInputS( 18, 2, 10, " " )

Base = val(BaseInput$)
Rank = val(RankInput$)
Amount = val(RAmountInput$)

cls
' take off Amount as its added in the loop
Base = Base - Amount

for i = 1 to Rank

Newbase = Base + Amount
TotalExp = TotalExp + Newbase

' Show each Rank info
PrintS("Rank: " &i & " TotalExp " &TotalExp)

Base = Newbase

next
' Output the Final Rank and Experience Required
printS( "Rank " &Rank )
printS( "Total Experience Required:" &TotalExp )

wait(500)
waitKey


I hope this is useful to you.
have fun

@ZeroG

Thats great but I think I'd need to edit the c code then recompile it then execute it for the answer?

I was thinking more of the program prompts you for a base rate then prompts you for a random value then prompts you for a rank...

THEN it calculates this and spits out the total exp value

The 800 120 and 12 were off the top of my head to illustrate the logic

I do like the look of the code though!

Thanks!

@angelheart

I must say that that looks very complete trouble is I'm not sure I can compile SDL language?

I thought of another way to calculate it too... since it increases the same amount each time... you could do this...

12 x 800 = 9600

then... to get from level 2 to level 12 it would be

1 + 2 +3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 =

66 x 180 = 11880

9600 + 11880 = 21480

Maybe this example would be easier to code?

Thanks for any interest

@Slayer

yes thats another way. But you still need a loop

eg

Rank = 12

For level = 1 to Rank-1
Total = Total + level
Next

print Total*180 + Rank*800

I thought you could try running the code using SDL Basic for OS4.

http://os4depot.net/share/development/language/sdlbasic.lha

If that dont work I can quickly make an Amos version - I dont know if you want a classic/OS3 program.

I only have Windows / AmigaOS 3 here.

edit: the c code
edit 2 few changes from abalaban - thanks :)

#include <stdio.h>

void main()
{
int base, amount, rank, total=0;

printf("Input base : ");
scanf("%d", &base);
printf("\nInput Random amount: ");
scanf("%d", &amount);
printf("\nInput rank: ");
scanf("%d", &rank);

total = (rank * (rank+1))/2;

printf("\nExperience is :%d\n", total*amount + rank*base);
}

@angelheart



And please don't forget to initialize total to 0 prior to do that. Also you can replace this whole loop by the following :

@abalaban

done - thanks

@Slayer:

GUI'fied ZeroG code and made this toy.

http://www.terra.es/personal8/ami603/FFCalc.lha

Feel free to modify, publish, or whatever.

@Ami603

I'm impressed by the effort I will certainly check it out when I get home from work!

Thanks very much!

@angelheart

I will look at your work Angelheart, thank you for all your hard work and consideration!

@Ami603

That is Perfect Ami603!

But small problem...

800 Base
Random 180
12 level or rank...

should equal 21480 like in my above post... in yours it's 20680

please check the code?

sorry but it looks awesome! heh

edit:

oh I see what's happened... you just haven't added in the base amount (lvl 1 800 amount... the calculator adds lvl2 to lvl12 though)... I can live with that...

THANKS!!!!!

The picture etc is just the crowning cosmetics

@Slayer

Thanks, i'm glad you liked it, in fact it only took two minutes with Emperor and copying the function ZeroG posted here to make it work.

The source code is available and easily fixed, just look at usercode.c

a simple "make" on a shell with the current SDK will be enough to compile it again.

Just one favour, could you upload it to OS4Depot? i lack the time right now.

@Ami603

I'll see what I can do when I get home later today, again thanks for your time!

and ZeroG for sharing his knowledge!

@Slayer

It's quite simple to use a structure for this and, more from this, we can remove virtually the 800 base amount

Sample using C:



I hope it'll help ;)

I've made this code in 10 minutes directly on the web browser so, some errors can exist ...

EDIT : Ami603 : Nice piece of code :p
Useful to show how to initialize/clean some OS4 components :)

Kindest Regards,
AmiDARK.

@freddix

I think I understand what you mean but the base amount of 800 was just an example...

regardless of how you code it you still need a starting figure whether that is 800 and called base amount or 1220 and called the total exp need to go from level 0 to level 1 or whatnot whoknows etc etc

The base amount could be 0 for example and the random amount is 5 to go to level 6 you'd need 75 exp...

lvl1 0exp
lvl2 5exp
lvl3 10exp
lvl4 15exp
lvl5 20exp
lvl6 25exp

The base amount in regards to this game is basically the exp you need to raise from 0 level to level 1... I think perhaps I should have explained it that way in my opening post

Thanks for your interest

I can't code, I can only compile :-p so your structure is probably no good to me

@Slayer
In my sample the base amount can be changed. But if you need it in your program for tests (level 0 or >), it can be easily included in the system :

This is just a "sample of use". It is probably not suited for your exacts needs ;)