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Subj : help needed
To   : Dennis Collins
From : Leonard Erickson
Date : Tue Oct 10 2000 05:34 pm

 -=> Quoting Dennis Collins to All <=-

 DC> hi

 DC> I am working on a game currently and have come to a section that is
 DC> causing me a small amount of grief...... 
 DC> the routine has to return a boolean based on a percentage ie TRUE =
 DC> hit, FALSE = miss, and there are different percentages for the
 DC> different types of weapons used. 
 DC> example:
 DC> weapon 1 has 1% chance of hitting target
 DC> weapon 2 has 13% chance of hitting target
 DC> etc
 DC> weapon 10

 DC> as these percentages are configurable at the time of the game setup
 DC> they could be anything from 1% to 99% 
 DC> hoping someone can shed some light on an easy way to achieve this.

I'm not entirely clear what you want to routine to *do*. Yes, I
understand that you want it to return true or false. What I'm *not*
clear on is how it is supposed to *do* that. 

Making a wild guess, I'll assume that you want to call HIT, and have it
return true or false for the weapon being used.

type
  WeaponStat : record
   ...
   ToHit : real;
   ...
  end;

const
  sword : weapon = [.....];

function Hit(weap:weapon):boolean;
begin
  Hit := rnd > weap.ToHit;
end;


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