Random drop chance

[epsilonion]

So, I have been thinking about a random drop chance when you kill an enemy.
This is what I have come up with so far.

Let me know what you think... not tried it yet..

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item                           = {}        -- make a table to hold the meshfiles
dropchance                     = 15;       -- drop chance is 15
dropnumber                     = 0;        -- Initialize rest of the variables
itemtospawn                    = 0;
x                              = 0;
y                              = 0;
z                              = 0;
               
 -- ** drop on enemy death, this is to go inside the KO function of your AI script **
   item[0] = "ammo.mesh";                                                       
   item[1] = "firstaid02.mesh";                                                 
   x,y,z = entity.getPosition( obj );                                           
   dropnumber = math.random(1,100)                                       
   
             if dropnumber < dropchance then                                         
                     itemtospawn = math.random(0,1)                                 
                     entity.spawn(item[itemtospawn],x,y,z,0.01,0.01,0.01);   
             end                                                                         
               
   entity.delete( obj );     

The last one entity.delete is to delete the dead enemy from the scene so you can see the drop better.

[Shando]

Hey buddy,

looks ok to me

One thing I would mention is that the Lua "random" function isn't great

To improve it slightly, you can insert the following in the onInit function (os.time only gets updated once a second, so you can't reseed every frame!):

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math.randomseed ( os.time ( ) );

and then 'pop' a few random numbers before using your first one.

HTH

Shando

[SolarPortal]

nice to see you scripting now liam It shows you must be moving on to the next level with skyline now

As shando mentioned, the random can be improved very easily