I've been doing an overhaul of one of my companions leveling scripts, and I noticed that all of the values are called as shorts in the script (it's modified from Grumpy's Companion 1.1). Now, some of the calculations involve multiplication, so the results are going to have decimals. So, what happens to the short variable? Does it truncate the number to the nearest whole number, or does it skip the decimal place (like a long does) and turn it into a huge number?

well if it works anything like accuracy in chemestry, calculations would go under the more complete 'long' definition and the final output would be constrained by the short. Can't give a better answer though.

Another question I have is whether or not skills and attributes will even take a float variable. I know in MWSE, xGetBasWil for example, returns the base willpower of the npc, and it's called as a float. If you call it as a long, it returns an extremely huge number and messes up the script (it compiles fine, but you don't get exactly what you're expecting if you're running the script). It seems that in regular MW scripting, all these stats are handled as shorts however.

This script is not an MWSE script, I'm just comparing because I'm curious.

I know for certain that it rounds when converting from a float to a short using `set x to y`. I am not sure how it rounds it although I think it is the nearest integer. Don't take that as fact though.

long lfloat f;...set l to f ;rounds 

Regarding what happens when using functions, I don't know. I seem to remember that you got very strange results with using either setPos or position with short arguments. I am not sure why it occurred and it could have been that the value I was trying to represent was too large to fit into a short (quite possible).


It may be because MWSE treats the long as a float. C and C++ allow you to treat one type as another type. It is possible to treat a block of memory holding a long as a float and due to the format differences you will end up with strange number.

Thanks for the info! It would be handy to know if it rounds or just truncates the number at the decimal for my calculations, but the different is probably negligible. It does mean the companion won't see any skill raises until the player is at least level 12, but that's ok. A lower level player would have less to teach the companion.

The actual calculation is ( companionskill + ( playerlevel * 0.6 ) or an equally small percentage. This means the companion's skills only get raised a few points at most per player level, because otherwise the companion's skills would increase exponentially as the player gains levels.

I'm not sure if that is only part of the equation, but how about this.

companion skill gain = ₁[(player skill - companion skill) * 0.6] + ₂[player level * 0.6], where companion skill gain is equal or greater than 0, and companion skill gains are added at player level-up.

1 - this would simulate the player teaching the companion
2 - this would simulate the companion naturally gaining experience

Or those could be broken up into natural leveling and a defined teaching session given by the player.

Actually, it's already separated into defined teaching systems vs. "natural" leveling due to gaining experience with the player. The teaching system mods the skill by a few points manually, which is why the new skill level needs to be checked for every time the leveling script runs. The leveling script only handles the natural skill increases, which is why I want the gains to be somewhat miniscule, because there's other mechanics to help the companion gain skills as well.

I've also capped the skill increases at 100. If they go over, they're set back down to 100 again. It would take a long time to get the companion's skills up to 100 though.

Nice, I'm looking forward to trying it.

MW doesn't round, it truncates. At least it does normally, for e.g. set shortvar to 3.9 you get 3. I haven't tried with stats/skills specifically though.

Good to know. I'll have to test my leveling script thoroughly, but I think it's going to work just fine.

Yeah, for levelling it should be fine (the game discards the float part for the player on reloads anyway I believe, so no big deal for companions either). Just, y'know, being pedantic and all