How to Make "Percentile Dice"

[S Ferguson]

Would anyone know how to implement the "percentile dice" in RMC. I need something like this for another percentile game. Any help would be much appeciated.

[JohnD]

They're already there... dice box in bottom left corner. Or just right click on the d10 and choose the %.

[S Ferguson]

No. For another ruleset, silly. I want to know the secret of percentile dice rolls without having to go through the radial in another game system. That would make me happy.

Apparantly I'm easy to please.

[Moon Wizard]

I believe that the dice in the lower left portion of the desktop are just icons, and when you drag the icon, it adds a "d100" and a "d10" dice to the drag cursor. When the dice land, you have to check for d100 in the die results, and collapse in a d10 for each one. There is a processPercentiles function in the 3.5E and 4E rulesets that does the last part.

However, the open-ended or exploding rolls are a different beast, and I am not familiar with the RMC or SW implementations.

Regards,
JPG

[S Ferguson]

Thanks, that's what I needed to know. The open-ended rolls just automatically "roll and add" if the score is above 96, or below 05.

Cheers
SF

[Dakadin]

Sorry I had to work most of last weekend so didn't see this until now. Please let me know if you have any questions about the open ended rolls and I will help you find them. I know they gave me a bit of a headache when I first started looking at them.

[S Ferguson]

I was actually wondering how you developed the simple percentile roll as depicted in the lower left hand corner of the screen. That would be a huge benefit to me if I can turn it into an extension for percentile games like BRP or CoC. How did you go about programming this?

Cheers,
SF

[Dakadin]

The previous developers created that. It definitely speeds up rolling dice in RM.

There is a panel name "Die" in the desktop\desktop_panels.xml file that uses the "RMDice" windowclass from the desktop\desktop_classes.xml file. The code for them is located in desktop\scripts\desktoppanel_d100.lua. You should be able to track down what you need from there unless you want to make them open ended.

[S Ferguson]

Thanks. I'll see what I can do. Then I'll probably come crawling back for answers .

[S Ferguson]

This is proving a little more difficult than it first appears. The base files for the percentile dice have "attachments" to so many different files, it would write over my rules if I implemented it straightforwardly. Any help in pairing down the files needed aside from the ones given, would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
SF