Zugg Software :: View topic - Need an experts help to set up a small script

Newbie Joined: 19 Jan 2002 Posts: 6 Location: USA

OK! here we go
Seeing as how the posters on this site always come through for us newbies I am calling on you all for some help.

My mud has an area that you fight in to get items you use for multiing.

I want to make a script to do the following:

1. Automatically scan
2. Go after certain creatures since all of the ones in the area cannot be killed
3. When it scans I want it to go after the first killable creature then not trigger off any others
4. When it kills the creature it goes after I want it to start back up by scanning again,then repeating the process...
5. If no attackable creature is found I would like it to scan again till one is found
6. The key is to go after only one thing at a time so I am not trying to go in 8 different directions at once
The automapper is not useable seeing as how one the areas map changes each time you enter it

Now that you know what I would like it do let me give you some info you will prolly need:

This is what it looks like when I scan:(I am including every possible killable creature, and the different messages that relate to how far away they are from me)

Looking around you see:

ok the way it shows up is: a (Mob Name), (distance and direction)

Distances:
right here...in the same room I am in
nearby to the (direction)...1 room away in the direction
not far (direction)...2 rooms away in the direction
off in the distance(direction)...3 rooms away in the direction
EXAMPLES:
a skeleton warrior, nearby to the east.
a skeleton warrior, nearby to the west.
a skeleton warrior, nearby to the south.
a skeleton warrior, nearby to the north.
a moth giant, not far east.
a moth giant, not far west.
a moth giant, not far north.
a moth giant, not far south.
a small Tanzanian, right here
a giant beetle, nearby to the south.
a small Tanzanian, off in the distance north.

the directions only go north,south,east,west

MOB NAMES:(these are all the killable mobs)
skeleton warrior
moth giant
small Tanzanian
giant beetle

I appreciate all the help I get in advance

PS I hope you could write it out so I can just copy and paste it into the command line so it will set it all up
and if you could make it all go into a class folder named "PG Bot"

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Beginner Joined: 18 Oct 2000 Posts: 29 Location: Sweden

I will not give you a fish to eat today, instead I will teach you how to fish so you can eat every day.

1) and 5) You want to scan when you are in the start room, maybe creating an #alarm that waits a certain amount of time before rescanning will do the job? When moving out of the start room as in hunting a creature, it is easy to turn the alarm off.

3) When you find a killable creature you want to go after it. As soon as the first possible match is found, turn of this trigger so it will not match any other. Reading about #T+, #T- and classes in the help will teach you how to do this. I would create a class containing triggers for 2) killable creatures. There would not be alot of triggers, I guess only one per creature is required. In the help file, the topic 'patterns' give you more information.

4) Before the hunt begin, it would be a good idea to store the direction and how many rooms you walked, or even better, how to walk back from the room with creatures to the start room.

You made a 1-6 list of what to do. Using this list step by step actually makes it easy to create a script just like this one.
1 and 5 are the same.

Newbie Joined: 19 Jan 2002 Posts: 6 Location: USA

I know how to do trigs,and classes, and things of the nature I need to know to do the script...I just would like someone who knows exactly how to set it up so it all works the way I wanted

easier to have it done right the first time instead of me doing it myself and asking 15 times why this or that does not work

Newbie Joined: 19 Jan 2002 Posts: 6 Location: USA

Ok I went ahead(got off me lazy bum) and I set up the kill trigs I need and a bunch of other stuff
I made it so it scans, then goes after the first thing it sees that is killable
when it kills it I made it so it scans again now is where I run into a problem
if nothing is seen in the scan how do I make it move in a random direction(north,south,east,west) and then scan again?

GURU Joined: 24 Sep 2000 Posts: 1237 Location: USA

You could add a trigger to the class that checks the scan output that searches for a blank line (^$). If that's ever triggered, the %rand function could pick a directon command from a list. Naturally, that trigger should also turn off the class, execute the direction, and then the 'scan' command again.

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