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Beginner Joined: 26 Feb 2009 Posts: 27

In my MUD, I have weapons that disintegrate (sometimes right in the middle of combat). To compound the problem, I have a number of weapons that disintegrate, and various sizes they can be. In general I can count on size giant, but that still leaves the variety. Up 'till now I've mitigated this by using a number of variables and triggers.

triggers
"disintegrates"
variable "geoquip" to no

Every now and then (prompt or so) I have six triggers that checks geoweapon for the type of weapon, and geoquip for yes or no, if no, the appropriate trigger fires and sequences a re-equip sequence to keep a weapon in my hand.

Aliases
You wield X (for all six weapons, wielding that weapon sets the variable geoweapon to the type wielded)

My question, is there a way I can make a trigger that checks for all types, and applies the appropriate alias to re-equip myself?

IE: What's the proper way to do-

#IF (@geoquip = no) {xequip/yequip/aequip/bequip/etc}

X, Y, A, and B being the varying types of weapons I can conjure.

Also, how can I reduce the "You wield X" into one trigger that sets the variable?

Instead of
Pattern: "You wield a cobra lash"
Trigger: #var geoweapon cobra
Can I
Pattern: "You wield (*)"
Trigger: #if (%1 = "a cobra lash"/"the impact spear"/"etc"/"etc") {#var geoweapon "cobra"/"impact"/"etc"/"etc"}
and make the appropriate value appear in the variable based off of the position of the variable in the "If true" statement?

I'm a noob at coding, I hope what I explained here can lead to a solution

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:41 pm

What exact syntax fires the first part? Sounds like you could do with an %ismember function.

For the second part, you can use %iskey.

#TRIGGER {You wield (*)} {#IF %iskey(@Weapontypes, %1) {#VAR geoweapon %db(@Weapontypes, %1)}}

You'd have to set up the @Weapontypes variable, though, and you can do so like this:

#ADDKEY Weapontypes "a cobra lash" "cobra"
#ADDKEY Weapontypes "an impact spear" "impact"

and so forth.

Hope that helps a bit.

Charneus

Beginner Joined: 26 Feb 2009 Posts: 27

Interesting, I'll have to explore the %iskey and #addkey functions more, thanks. To answer your question I use "(*) has turned to dust." to begin the sequence, since that's the line of my weapons disintegrating.

I'll have to explore the iskey and ismember functions in order to understand what you mean, I appreciate the push in the right direction. I'll let you know if I run into any more hangups.

Beginner Joined: 26 Feb 2009 Posts: 27

Okay so my understanding so far is that iskey checks the things within the ()'s to see if %1 matches a line in "Weapontypes," if it does, it changes geoweapon to %1?

Beginner Joined: 26 Feb 2009 Posts: 27

Okay, I figured out everything for the trigger that defines what geomancer weapon I'm holding, thanks alot! I'll try and use the same command for figuring out which alias I have to use to re-equip myself.

How do I set a true statement up to choose randomly from a series of commands? IE:

Trigger: Blah walks in.

You say 'Hello!'/You say 'Greetings!'/You say 'Ahoy there'
and so on

And one more request.

I'd like multiple true statements, but in an ascending order without multiple #IF arguements, my current set up is:

#IF ((@forceglobe = Unshielded) and (@ctype = muser)) {cast globe}
#IF ((@Mana > @stol) and (@HP > 50) and (@spellmode = on) and (@ctype = muser)) {c @ospell} {@downing}

It casts a shield spell if I'm unshielded, then checks my mana, HP, and a spellmode variable to tell if I cast a spell, or a knock down ability. My question here is, do I have to have two if statements (leading to both commands) or can I combine them into one, so that I either cast globe, OR try to spell or knock down?

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:18 am

%item, %numitems and %random should do what you need. Consider the following

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

For the last question, you could use nested #if statements, or you could use a #switch command:

Beginner Joined: 26 Feb 2009 Posts: 27

Thanks Rahab, I'll look into the #switch command