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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:10 am

i need some help here...

i want to create some kind of warning system for my spells.
when i cast a spell on a random person or myself or anyone i want to be able to check how long time the spell have until it ends and i want some kind of warning like 5 min. before it ends.

You cast armor on Yah.

armor last 15 min.

so 5 min. before the spells ends i like a line like mayby:
"your armor spell on Yah is ending in 5 min."

or if i type mayby checkspells Yah(<-- this name could be anyone i casted a spell on):
"your armor spell on Yah ends in 7 min."

can anyone help here?
using 6.62

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

The first can be done with a simple alarm.
#TR {You cast armor on (%w)} {#ALA armor%1 +600 {#SAY Your armor spell on %1 is ending in 5 minutes}}

The second would probably require using many variables to track either the start or end time of every spell. One record-variable per person, with spellnames as keys and endtimes as values would probably be best.
#TR {You cast armor on (%w)} {#ADDK Spells%1 {armor} %eval(%ctime + 900)}
#AL checkspells {#IF %defined(Spells%1) {#LOOPDB @Spells%1 {#SAY Your %key spell on Yah ends in %eval((%val - %ctime)/60) minutes}} {#SAY Who?}}

This is only a rough script intended to get you started. It doesn't reset the time and will quite happily inform you that your armor spell on Yah ends in -30 minutes -- that is, half-an-hour ago. I'm sure you can figure out for yourself how best to handle that.

Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 12:39 pm

heh thanks alot got me started.

now i just need to figure a way to close/delete them when time is 0

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 11:43 am

on the mud i play we got a system that fire a line off every 3 sec. it shows hp/sp/ep/hunger.
the line looks like this:

RDMP #### hp/hpmax sp/spmax ep/epmax hunger

im think (puuh it takes alot of power to do that) is it posible to check the database varible and time left to see if it is =< 0 and if it is delete that spell from the varible?

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

Yes, that's possible, but you'd have to keep track of all the variables created by the script. It's probably easier to do it when you check a variable.
#AL checkspells {#IF %defined(Spells%1) {#LOOPDB @Spells%1 {#IF (%ctime > %val) {#SAY Your %key spell on %1 ends in %eval((%val - %ctime)/60) minutes} {#DELK Spells%1 {%key}}} {#SAY Who?}}