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Newbie Joined: 21 Nov 2002 Posts: 3 Location: USA

I am having difficulty (since I only know minimal basics) trying to create a "trigger" as a cleric. I want something relatively simple to display a text message to group or form when my cleric character has his mana level drop below a certain level (eg., at 50% "Mana level dropping...") and a second one for mana level at like 10% "Mana level at CRITICAL stage... Any help would be greatly appreciated... racking my last brain cell trying to get this right. Thanks....

Wolfshadow

Apprentice Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 164

There are about a billion ways to do this. The thing you'll want to read about is the basic trigger syntax and a few of the commands listed below. Here's the basic description way I would write it:

Put your current and max mana in your prompt. It differs depending on your mud, but you basically want it to look something like <12/45mana> where 12 is your current and 45 is your max. If you don't use this EXACT prompt, you'll need to modify the pattern below.

Trigger on your prompt, capturing the current and max mana values
In your trigger, do something like:

#TRIGGER {<(%d)/(%d)mana>} {#IF (%eval( %1<=%2/10)) {#ECHO "Mana level at CRITICAL stage"} { #IF (%eval( %1<=%2/2)) {#ECHO "Mana level dropping"}}}

However, this one will fire EVERY time you see your prompt.

If you really want it to fire only the FIRST time your mana drops below a certain level, you'll need to get more complicated. You could have two triggers that both trigger on the same thing but that enable/disable each other. Or you could do this with a variable that tracks the state of your mana alert. Basically, I'd recommend you try to understand the trigger above and read some of the docs on triggers. If you still can't figure it out, throw another post on this thread.