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What do you want to achieve?
Im trying to make a luck/rarity system
What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
with this system, when i ger the rarest option it just returns nil (I feel I understand why but I also dont)
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This is a module script and it was ai generated so my understanding of it isn’t the best but i mostly get it
local rarities = {"Common Card", "Red Card", "Black Card", "Gold Card"}
local probabilities = {0.50, 0.25, 0.10, 0.05}
TestPacket.RandomCard = function()
local r = math.random()
for i, p in ipairs(probabilities) do
if r >= p then
return rarities[i]
end
end
end
Please do not ask people to write entire scripts or design entire systems for you. If you can’t answer the three questions above, you should probably pick a different category.
The reason it may be returning nil is because if math.random() would return anything below 0.05 (like 0.04), it would not pass the r>=p condition for any of the values in the probabilities list, causing it to not return anything (therefore being nil). As a solution you can either change the probability values to have one that’s 0, or you can add a line of code after the ipairs loop which returns a set value, which will only be reached if the thread has not returned anything yet.
Example:
local rarities = {"Common Card", "Red Card", "Black Card", "Gold Card"}
local probabilities = {0.50, 0.25, 0.10, 0.05}
TestPacket.RandomCard = function()
local r = math.random()
for i, p in ipairs(probabilities) do
if r >= p then
return rarities[i]
end
end
return(rarities[1])
end
I like to use this simple system called roulette wheel selection. Here, see if this works for you:
local cards = {
{Item = "Common Card", Weight = 60},
{Item = "Red Card", Weight = 25},
{Item = "Black Card", Weight = 10},
{Item = "Gold Card", Weight = 5},
}
-- This table is used to store the cards and their weights.
-- Weight = Probability of the card being selected.
local function GetRandomCard()
local totalWeight = 0
-- Used to store the total weight (percentage) of all the cards.
for _, card in pairs(cards) do
totalWeight += card.Weight
end
local random = math.random(0, totalWeight)
-- Generates a random number between 0 and the total weight.
local currentWeight = 0
-- Used to store the current weight of the card being checked.
for _, card in pairs(cards) do
currentWeight += card.Weight
-- Adds the weight of the current card to the current weight.
if random <= currentWeight then
-- If the random number is less than or equal to the current weight, then the card is selected.
return card.Item
-- Returns the card.
end
end
end
local selectedCard = GetRandomCard()
Alright, it wasn’t working. I forgot this system works with 100 weight, not 1.