Making a formula

[greggiles]

I'm not sure how to write it out, but basically trying to make the 'zoom' value get higher as the player.y gets closer to the NPC's this.y

Here is what I got, and if I were to do full script with all values, it would be very very very very long. So looking for a more efficient way

PHP Code:

function onTimeOut() {
 setTimer(0.05);

 if (this.y in |player.y-5, player.y|)
 { 
  this.zoom = 5;
  }
 if (this.y in |player.y-8, player.y-5|)
 { 
  this.zoom = 4.5;
  }  
 if (this.y in |player.y-11, player.y-8|)
 { 
  this.zoom = 4;
  }  
 if (this.y in |player.y-14, player.y-11|)
 { 
  this.zoom = 3.5;
  } 
 if (this.y in |player.y-17, player.y-14|)
 { 
  this.zoom = 1;
  }
 if (this.y in |player.y-20, player.y-100|)
 { 
  this.zoom = 0;
  }   
 } 


note: this is for the player being below the NPC