Way to make yourself lose a fractional amount of life?

[fallenangle]

I've been trying to code Doomsday, and I can get it to do everything I want except make me lose half my life total when I cast it. I've tried using Blood Tribute and Pox as models to code this effect, but so far I've been unsuccessful. Can anyone show me what the code would look like for an RTA to make the caster of a spell lose half his or her life? Thanks in advance for all of your help and advice.

[NeoAnderson]

I've been trying to code Doomsday, and I can get it to do everything I want except make me lose half my life total when I cast it. I've tried using Blood Tribute and Pox as models to code this effect, but so far I've been unsuccessful. Can anyone show me what the code would look like for an RTA to make the caster of a spell lose half his or her life? Thanks in advance for all of your help and advice.

Try with something like this: UNTESTED

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 local value = math.ceil(EffectController():GetLifeTotal / 2)
 EffectController():LoseLife(value)

[thefiremind]

Try with something like this: UNTESTED

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local value = math.ceil(EffectController():GetLifeTotal() / 2)
EffectController():LoseLife(value)

Yes, that should work, except for the missing parentheses after GetLifeTotal (I added them in the quoted message ).

This is an alternative that doesn't use Lua's math library, in case someone is interested:

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local life = EffectController():GetLifeTotal()
local value = life / 2 + life % 2
EffectController():LoseLife(value)

Rounding up is made by adding the remainder of the division (if the life total is odd, then the remainder will be 1, otherwise it will be 0).

[NeoAnderson]

Try with something like this: UNTESTED

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local value = math.ceil(EffectController():GetLifeTotal() / 2)
EffectController():LoseLife(value)

Yes, that should work, except for the missing parentheses after GetLifeTotal (I added them in the quoted message ).

Ahahhaa sorry probably i was too tired when i posted the answer!!!!