Programming an online damage calculator

[Isa]

There has been a request for an online damage calculator for RBY. It'd help out for the PO Wiki and not just us, because of its ability to handle the output and use it for damage calculations on there.

There's already a neat one for the later generations here, but it doesn't support RBY yet. It's coded in Javascript and the developer will probably be willing to assist whoever wants to help him add RBY, but if you want to do your work standalone, I think he might be of use as well.

If you are willing to help out, please state so here.

[hipmonlee]

www.math.miami.edu/~jam/azure/compendium/battdam.htm

[Isa]

Thanks, but ideally, you wouldn't need to supply the stats yourself. I'm imagining something that resembles what I linked in my first post, with drop-down menus for getting the Pokémon, with stats automatically provided, and also with a more user-friendly output.
The guideline is that it should be easy for a newcomer to RBY to use it without having knowledge of individual stats of different Pokes - not everyone knows Alakazam's stats without having to look them up beforehand, and this would, ideally, avoid that.

Think of it as a preparation for the flood of new users we'll get once PO does release RBY.

[WaterWizard]

yeah we'll want one for RBY and RBYPlus!

[GGFan]

Azures' has stood the test of time, though it's a bit cumbersome having to type in stats for every single calculation. Something like this has been long overdue.

[kalashnikov]

Dec 21, 2011 9:15:09 GMT -8 Isa said:

It's coded in Javascript and the developer will probably be willing to assist whoever wants to help him add RBY, but if you want to do your work standalone, I think he might be of use as well.

Not exactly in Javascript, actual calculations are done by PHP (I plan to rewrite it with Python though) cgi script.
Right now it's coded pretty ugly, but yeah, if anyone is willing to help with RBY, I totally can cooperate. But i never actually played RBY so I'm not familiar with its traits and right now I barely have any free time.

[Isa]

Oh hey, thanks for joining!
I am not a programmer but I could help you out with the formulas and stats at least. You'd have to write the actual code yourself however =p

I blame Ete who led me to believe it was Javascript. =p

[t3h Icy]

Make sure to use the correct formula too, lol.

[David the Chansey]

I've made an excel document which can calculate anything. You simply choose the pokemon, their levels, IV's and EV's in each stat (if you can be bothered to change them from their default max), whether or not crits, light screen and reflect are in effect or not, stat changes for both pokemon for attack, defense and special, and my calculator is so good it even skips stat changes and screens for critical hits.

It also knows when to use attack/defense or special. It knows if the pokemon has STAB with the given move. It also knows the combined type effectiveness.

It's not as efficient as it possibly could be, but it works, and so far it gives the same answers as as here: www.math.miami.edu/~jam/azure/compendium/battdam.htm.

It is worth noting that their calculator gives slightly different results to Netbattle's, probably due to when rounding down takes place. My calculator rounds down in accordance with their formula, and gives the same results as their's, and they claim that the formula came from the game code. Whether or not this is the correct formula for cart, it isn't quite the correct formula for NBS. I've only fount data to be at most 1 off NBS's calculator, however.

If anyone's interested, this could suffice until someone makes a programme for it. I am certainly not a programmer so I can't make that myself I'm afraid. It is not fancily decorated or anything, but you can follow what is going on through the calculations.