Methods for rounding and random number

[lx_theo]

[Answered] Methods for rounding and random number

I want to do stuff that involve these two thing, or rounding numbers to the nearest whole number as well as picking a random number from a range of numbers. But I don't really know how to do these in the code used for the system. Any help in how to do these? Thanks to anyone who helps.

 

[Maruno]

Assuming you've got a float (which are uncommon in Essentials since most calculations of interest are automatically rounded down to an integer after every calculation), then you can use num.round.

5+rand(10) will give you a random integer between 5 and 14 inclusive (rand generates a random integer between 0 and 1 less than the number, inclusive).

If you have a selection of numbers in an array, such as array=[1,3,5,7,9], then use array[rand(array.length)] to pick a random number from it.

A quick Google search would have told you all this.

 

[lx_theo]

I find myself being almost completely incompetent at google when it comes to programming related subjects, so thank you.

 

[Luka S.J.]

You don't really need Google for things like that. People forget that RMXP is actually quite neat, and comes with some nice documentation. If you press F1 while in the script editor, just search for things like "random number" or "rounding", and you can simply find what you are looking for. All of the built-in functions can be found there, and usually, there are good explanations on what they do and how to use them.