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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 6:11 am

Making a trigger that follows someone walking around.

This is the trigger i made
You follow (%w) (%w) to (*).
%1=name of person you are following
%2=direction
%3=room name

The problem comes when the player you are following has a long name and when the room name has the word "to" in the name example:

You follow Really Newbie Adam Burke to The stairway to Heaven.

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Spectrum:
To handle this concept:
You follow Adam to the Entrance to the Cave.

The key is to know who you are following.
Lets say @follow is "Adam"

Trigger:You follow @follow to (*).
Value:#SH I followed @follow to %1

Else you parse it out:
Trigger: You follow (*).
Value:
#IF (!%pos(" to ",{%1})>0) {#SH I just followed someone ({%1}) not to somewhere?} {
#VAR followedwho %copy({%1},1,%pos(" to ",{%1}) -1)
#VAR followedto %copy({%1},%pos(" to ",{%1})+4,%len({%1}))
}

Ton Diening

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 8:02 am

Im sorry made a mistake with the example.
Its:
You follow Really Newbie Adam Burke east to The stairway to Heaven.

When you start follow someone it will say something like "You begin to follow Adam." but it doesnt put in the title of the guy. so that's where @follow failed cuz i tried doing it too.

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Trigger: You follow (*).
Value:
#VAR followeddir %word(%copy({%1},1,%pos(" to ",{%1}) -1),%numwords(%copy({%1},1,%pos(" to ",{%1}) -1)))
#VAR followedwho %copy(%copy({%1},1,%pos(" to ",{%1}) -1),1,%pos(%concat(" ",@followeddir),%copy({%1},1,%pos(" to ",{%1}) -1))-1)
#VAR followedto %copy({%1},%pos(" to ",{%1})+4,%len({%1}))

You either do that everytime or use it once after you begin following someone to figure out the @followedwho
Ton Diening

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

The easy way to do this is:
#VAR follow {Really Newbie Adam Burke}
That's right, just make the @follow variable yourself, using your human brain to determine exactly what the name is, including all prefixes and suffixes. It's much easier than trying to write triggers to do it.

You could also make an alias if you want to simplify the process a little. I chose "fp" for "follow person", but use whatever's easy for you to remember.
#AL fp {#VAR follow {%-1}}

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