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Newbie Joined: 03 Dec 2002 Posts: 2

How can i make random values?
for example:
if i want alias chat chat (rnd)
and rnd is &R,&Y,&G and &B

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

Try to rephrase this in something that can be understood. For instance:
"I want to type 'colorchat Hi, I'm using fancy colors when I talk', and have zMUD send 'chat &RHi, &YI'm &Gusing &Bfancy &Ycolors &Mwhen &MI &Ctalk' to the MUD instead."

For best results, use actual words you would type, not made-up things like "blah blah this" and "bleh bleh that". Include all possible color codes. State (or illustrate) whether you want one random color per chat, or a new color every word, or every character. It's not really difficult, you can probably just copy the example I gave.

LightBulb
Senior Member

Newbie Joined: 03 Dec 2002 Posts: 2

Its something like that
the mud color value is &
&R=Bold Red
&r=red
&G=Bold Green
&g=green
and etc...
I want to type chat 'Hi, how are u today?' and i want the mud to display '&RHi, &rhow &Gare &gu &Ctoday?'

how can i make it?

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

Someone else might be able to do this better, but here's an attempt to get you started. Anything that's heavy on special characters and substitution is going to be difficult.
#VAR {R|Y|G|B|r|g|C|y|b|c}
#AL chat {#SENDP say;#LOOP 1,%numparam() {#SENDP {~&%item(@colors, %rnd(1, %numitems(@colors)))%word(%i, %-1) }};#CR;#NOOP}

LightBulb
Senior Member

Beginner Joined: 03 Nov 2002 Posts: 27 Location: USA

This might be a brutish method, so maybe one of the others has a better idea, but I was working on something like this for myself (on a smaller scale):

#var colorcodes {&R|&G|&B|&g|&r|&b}
#alias chat {
#VAR tempchat "%-1"
#VAR tempchat %concat(%item(@ColorCodes,%random(1,%numitems(@ColorCodes))),@TempChat)
#var TempChat %replace( @TempChat, " ", " "%item( @ColorCodes, %random( 1, %numitem(@ColorCodes))))
~chat @Tempchat
}

In explanation, first I tag a random color onto the front. Then, I replace every space (" ") with another space and a color code (eg - " "&G). There might be a more elegant way, but this seems to do what you want.

~DemonLlama~