A Character Creation Model from my RPG

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A Character Creation Model from my RPG

August 04, 2017, 02:00:27 pm

I've been developing a Character Creation Model (attached). The code does function properly. It is just the this.CharClass seems a little too if heavy. The attached code only has 4 Character Classes defined in it (early version). Overall there are 15 different classes. 7 different types of spellcasters alone. If i were to add all 15 classes the way it is now that would be a huge chunk of if statements. Might anybody have some suggestions on a way to simplify this without having to use so many if statements?

Re: A Character Creation Model from my RPG

Reply #1 – August 04, 2017, 02:18:47 pm

There are several ways you could rejig this.

The simplest way I can think of would be to make a global object to hold all of your class base values:

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var class_bases = {};
class_bases.Fighter = {Str:20, Dex:20, Con:18, Int:15, Wis:15, Chrm:16};
class_bases.Thief = {Str:16, Dex:20, Con:18, Int:18, Wis:16, Chrm:20};
class_bases.WhiteMage = {Str:20, Dex:20, Con:18, Int:15, Wis:15, Chrm:16};
class_bases.BlackMage = {Str:15, Dex:13, Con:18, Int:20, Wis:20, Chrm:14};

Then you could reference into it as follows:

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//in the place of all of the if/else statements:
this.Str = InitVal(class_bases[this.CharClass].Str);
this.Dex = InitVal(class_bases[this.CharClass].Dex);
this.Con = InitVal(class_bases[this.CharClass].Con);
this.Int = InitVal(class_bases[this.CharClass].Int);
this.Wis = InitVal(class_bases[this.CharClass].Wis);
this.Chrm = InitVal(class_bases[this.CharClass].Chrm);

Re: A Character Creation Model from my RPG

Reply #2 – August 04, 2017, 04:18:19 pm

Thank you, that was a tremendous help and emilinated the need for all those if statements.