I am trying to create a useful and helpful combo generator for the stick page community to use but I haven't really coded in a long time and I need to refresh up a little but I will be in the process of making it I was wondering if anyone new any coding that would help me out...

Im a decent programmer, but what do you exactly need help with and in which language?

The logic behind it is very simple actually.

First, you want to create 3 tables, one with starting moves, one with general moves, and a last one with ending moves.
After that, you read the amount of moves the user wants in his combo and do that number minus one.

Then you want to pick a random move from the first table, use a for i = 1, userInput -1 and then randomly pick a move from the second table, and at last select a random move from the last table.

When you select a move from a table you want to instantly store it in the table, and at last just print the whole table on the screen.

I thought someone was already creating this?

i can't be fucked figuring the whole thing out right now and i have shit to do today, but here's some psuedocode (which won't work but will give you an idea of what to do)

//set your variables first

var startermoves:Array = new array;

var middlemoves:Array = new array;

var finishermoves:Array = new array;



var randNum:int = new integer;

var combo:String = "";



//shove in as many moves as you want here

startermoves = ["face punch", "spinning kick", "uppercut", "etc"]

middlemoves = ["low punch", "middle punch", "high punch", "punch flurry", "low kick," "axe kick", "etc]

finishermoves = ["flying kick", "face slam", "piledriver", "roundhouse kick", "special ability", etc]



//whenever you want the combo to be generated (ie. on a button click or frame event or whatever):

randNum = Math.round(Math.random() * startermoves.length);

combo += startermoves(randNum); //add the data for the randomly generated array position to the combo string



//this middle moves could be repeated several times to generate longer combos

randNum = Math.round(Math.random() * middlemoves.length);

combo += middlemoves(randNum);



randNum = Math.round(Math.random() * finishermoves.length);

combo += finishermoves(randNum);



//assuming "comboTxt" is a dynamic text field on stage

comboTxt.text = combo;

or some shit like that

sorry I completely forgot I made this thread but I have been trying to figure it out.. and What I need help with is the basic code that I would use and AS 2.0 is the language I know basic coding with AS 2.0 but i haven't really done anything majorly complex with it.. but more help would be greatly appreciate :D also thanks scarecrow!! :D