showdex-calc

Currently v1.2.5	Powering showdex · v1.2.5	Patches @smogon/calc · v0.10.0 → 60ee461

Showdex's fork of the @smogon/calc package, sometimes referred to as the "underlying damage calculator." This is the modified source of the aforementioned package that's patched in & bundled with official releases of Showdex.

If you're looking for Showdex's source code, this isn't it (try here instead!). You're looking at a supporting package that supplies all the damage calculations that Showdex displays to you. But if you're looking for a sign, here's a pointer: int* _{✧ﾟ･: *ヽ(◕ヮ◕ヽ)}

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Developer SparkNotes™

Sooo... what's different?

Mainly:

• Disabled web client.
  • Web client build scripts have been bypassed in the postinstall script.
  • For our purposes, we're only interested in the ＭＥＡＴ inside the calc directory ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
• yarn Classic in lieu of npm, similar to Showdex.

More specifically:

• Hacky Beat Up implementation requiring getBaseDamage()'s to be subbed for this fork's special modBaseDamage() wrapper instead.
  • Since this requires knowledge about all party Pokémon, Showdex passes a special ShowdexCalcMods object to modBaseDamage(), which is a generic wrapper (to support more mods in the future, as needed) that basically only contains a strikes[] array for Beat Up & hitBasePowers[] for overriding the BPs of each hit for multi-hitting moves such as Triple Axel.
  • Every single mechanics file from gen12.ts to gen789.ts has this modification.
• Disabled auto-BP calculations for some moves like Triple Kick (but not all!) so that what you see (in the Calcdex — especially when editing moves) is what you calc... sorta:
  • As of Showdex v1.2.5, many of the previously disabled moves, such as Acrobatics (but not Triple Kick — still disabled!), have been re-enabled in some of the mechanics files.
  • Showdex will display an "AUTO" label in these instances where the mechanics files will be calculating dynamic move properties, i.e., category &/or BP, for moves such as Tera Blast.
• Disabled auto-boosting of some abilities like Intrepid Sword, especially since Showdown also reports those boosts in the battle!
• Persistent final move BPs in matchup descriptions to assist with debugging calculations from Showdex.
• Extra exported types in src/index.ts that I frequently use like GameType & GenerationNum, conveniently importable from '@smogon/calc' directly.

Many of these modifications were made to account for real-time battle conditions that don't apply to the original web-based version. Hence, I'm not intending on pushing any of them to the master smogon/damage-calc repo (also would seriously break the good 'ol Damage Calculator we know & love!).

Requirements

• node LTS Hydrogen v18
• yarn Classic v1.22.0+
• bash (Windows WSL, macOS, or Linux)

①  Installation

Caution

Without any additional package configuration (that I'm too lazy to do rn), attempting to install this from a package manager (e.g., yarn add doshidak/showdex-calc) will fail! You must install this custom fork into your local copy of Showdex using the cumbersome method detailed below. Sorry :c

Important

I'm assuming you've already cloned doshidak/showdex.git (i.e., Showdex's source code), which exists under showdex in your favorite directory.

1. cd into your favorite directory.
2. git clone git@github.com:doshidak/showdex-calc.git
3. cd showdex-calc
4. yarn
5. cd ../showdex
6. rm -r node_modules/@smogon/calc/dist node_modules/@smogon/calc/src
7. cp -r ../showdex-calc/calc/dist ../showdex-calc/calc/src node_modules/@smogon/calc
8. yarn patch-package @smogon/calc
9. yarn
10. yarn dev:re
11. ???
12. Profit!

Tip

Creating the Patchfile in step 8 is completely optional if you just want to quickly test some changes.

Note

Technically, copying the showdex-calc/calc/dist/src directory into node_modules/@smogon/calc has no effect (uses the files in dist instead) & is completely optional, but I do it anyway so you can peep the source code. Fun fact: You can look through your local Showdex's node_modules/@smogon/calc/src right now to see the source code you see here!

Tip

Showdex's yarn dev[:chrome|:firefox]:re script is an alias of its yarn cache:purge && yarn dev[:chrome|:firefox] scripts (also yarn dev itself is an alias of yarn dev:chrome). Running yarn cache:purge is necessary if you've changed anything inside node_modules (including the @smogon/calc package!) after running yarn dev since the stale changes will still persist in (& be loaded from) node_modules/.cache/babel.

wait, you mean you do this every time for every Showdex release ???

• yessir
• all natty
  • no git
  • no ci
  • raw dawg
• basically took a year to set this up cause I'm lazy
  • probably would've taken at least two had someone not asked me for this LOL

Credits

big thank to:

• honk honk
• austin, tx
• kris kringle
• smog squad
• git clone

yee

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