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Newbie Joined: 05 Dec 2001 Posts: 4

I want to make hp gauge, how do you go about getting a forumla

Wanderer Joined: 27 Jun 2001 Posts: 82

If you have a registered version of ZMud, there is a plugin available for download from the Zuggsoft site that automatically makes gauges for you. All you have to do is capture the HP values into variables. It's really straightforward.

GURU Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 556 Location: USA

First thing you need is a prompt trigger to capture your data. Let's pretend your prompt looks like this:

HP:456/890 MA:393/491 MV:12/930>

The trigger would look like this:




#TR {HP:(%d)/(%d) MA:(%d)/(%d) MV:(%d)/(%d)~>} {


   #VAR hp %1


   #VAR maxhp %2


   #VAR mana %3


   #VAR maxmana %4


   #VAR moves %5


   #VAR maxmoves %6


   } "" "prompt"

Be sure to put the word "prompt" at he end of the trigger or check the "Trigger on Prompt" box in the trigger's settings editor.

Next, you'll need to build your gauges. Since I'm a lazy lazy man, I'm taking this one from the help files:




#GAUGE hpgauge "hp" @hp @maxhp (@maxhp/10) "" "blue" "red"

You can do gauges for mana and moves as well if you like.

Troubadour

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Note that if you want to make additional gauges for mana and moves it's easiest to do so in the editor (they come under Buttons). If you just reuse the #GAUGE commmand with different variables all the gauges will be placed at the same location so only one will be visible, but from the editor you can choose "autoposition" and they will be placed side-by-side instead.

LightBulb

Newbie Joined: 05 Dec 2001 Posts: 4

ok what does %d mean

zmud has incomplete list of builtin

it appears the are a place holder for %1 % etc

GURU Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 556 Location: USA

%d is a pattern used to match any number of digits (0-9). There are lots of wild cards which can be used to narrowly define the trigger pattern. It is preferable to use the wild cards in the pattern rather than %1, %2, %3, etc. (Values captured are still represented by %1, %2, %3 in the action portion of the trigger.)

Troubadour