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Beginner Joined: 31 Jul 2002 Posts: 19 Location: USA

Hello and good morning!

there are 2 things I would like to do and I need some help on the code.

First.
I have a couple of triggers set to go off when I level. And I have a variable called mylevel which holds my current level. I would like this to increment automaticly. Currently its set to #add @mylevel @levelup where levelup is = 1, but that doesn't work. How does it need to be set up?

Second.
I'd like to set up a timer or clock. It would start on a trigger, and on a different trigger it would end and display the elsaped time. Also, can you have more then one clock going? one for level, another for quest, and one for campaign, for example?

I hope these are simple to do.

thanks in advance,

Dana

Apprentice Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 186 Location: USA

The first part I can answer pretty easily. Instead of #ADD with #MATH command.

The #MATH command will do any math calculations, on numbers, variables, etc, and store it in a variable. The wording of it is:
#MATH variable equation

So in your case it would be:

#MATH mylevel @mylevel+1

That will add one to the variable MyLevel and store it as mylevel. I noticed that you have @LevelUp. If you would like to use that instead make it

#Math mylevel @mylevel+@levelup

This will add the variable levelup to mylevel and store it as mylevel.

Hope this helps. There might also be other ways to add and such but personally I always use #MATH for any calculations

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

First. The correct syntax for #ADD is #ADD varname amount. You have #ADD @varname amount.
#ADD mylevel @levelup
Also, you could just use 1 instead of @levelup.
#MATH, as per Rob, will work but isn't necessary.

Second. Timers are easy, you just make zMUD do what you would do -- look at the clock to see what time you started, then look at the clock again to see what time you finished and figure out the difference. Counters can be done by using an #ALARM to check the time without changing the start time.
#TR {a trigger} {#VAR clock1 %secs}
#TR {a different trigger} {#MATH timer1 ((%secs - @clock1)/1000);#IF (@timer1 < 0) {#ADD timer1 86400}}
#ALA *5 {#MATH timer2 ((%secs - @clock1)/1000);#IF (@timer2 < 0) {#ADD timer2 86400};#SAY Elapsed time: @timer2}