How to express a variable as a percentage?

ryanindustries

I use Sugarcube.

Imagine a space game where you have an oxygen tank. And let's say, every passage, the $air variable goes down by 1, and $maxAir, the full-capacity of the oxygen tank, is set at 20.

But you can collect tools to upgrade $maxAir, meaning you can stay outside for longer periods of time before having to refill your oxygen tank. Let's say you can upgrade $maxAir to 50, 75 and then 100.

Is there a single bit of code you can do to code the $maxAir variable on a scale of 0-100, where 100% is $maxAir and the percentage displayed is whatever $air is relative to $maxAir? Or would I have to code each upgrade differently?

Like 10 $air with a $maxAir of 20 would display 50%, but 10 $air with a $maxAir of 50 would display as 20%

Any help is appreciated.

greyelf

I learnt maths when dinosaurs still roamed the earth and tablets were made of stone but I seem to remember that: percent = (value / maxValue) x 100

So try:

<<set $percent to (($air / $maxAir) * 100)>>

ryanindustries

greyelf wrote: »

I learnt maths when dinosaurs still roamed the earth and tablets were made of stone but I seem to remember that: percent = (value / maxValue) x 100

So try:

<<set $percent to (($air / $maxAir) * 100)>>

As usual, I was trying to gerrymander some overly complicated and far more inefficient method on my own when the answer was this simple all along.

Thank you.