Zugg Software :: View topic - some tricky substitute triggers

Newbie Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 4 Location: Estonia

Hello.

The problem is that i would like to substitute the following words...
like "extremely hard" to "extremely hard 18+" and etc...

The problem is that i have not managed to separate the words:
"extremely hard" ... and "hard" - because the HARD trigger matches
also EXTREMELY HARD pattern (and VERY HARD pattern.. etc)

My triggers are:

NAME: extremely hard
VALUE: #sub extremely hard 18+

NAME: hard
VALUE: #sub hard 12-14

NAME: very hard
VALUE: #sub very hard 15-17

My substitution almost works... but now,
when someone is hit "extremely hard" the text is shown to me as "extremely hard 18+ 12-14"
i would like it to be like "extremely hard 18+" (and thats it - the word hard also gets other substitution trigger to work and i can't get rid of it)

The mud output is exactly like that...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
A gnarled old orc strongly hits your right arm and tickles it.
A gnarled old orc hits Player1's left foot extremely hard.
A gnarled old orc hits Player1's left foot hard and tickles it.
A gnarled old orc strongly hits Player1's right arm and tickles it.
You strongly slash a gnarled old orc's body and tickle it.
A gnarled old orc lightly hits Player1's body and tickles it.
Player1 strongly slashes a gnarled old orc's left arm and tickles it.
Player3 barely slashes a gnarled old orc's head and tickles it.
Player2 (b) smites a gnarled old orc's left arm extremely hard.
Player3 slashes a gnarled old orc's head extremely hard and tickles it.
Player2 (b) smites a gnarled old orc's head extremely hard and shatters it.
Player1 lightly slashes a gnarled old orc's left leg and tickles it.
Player3 slashes a gnarled old orc's body and tickles it.
Player3 slashes a gnarled old orc's left foot hard and tickles it.
Player2 (b) smites a gnarled old orc's right hand extremely hard.
Player3 slashes a gnarled old orc's right hand very hard.
Player2 (b) smites a gnarled old orc's head extremely hard and shatters it.
Player1 slashes a gnarled old orc's body very hard and shatters it.
You slash a gnarled old orc's body hard and shatter it.
Player2 (b) smites a gnarled old orc's right leg extremely hard and shatters it.
A gnarled old orc is mortally wounded and will die soon if not aided.
Player3 slashes a gnarled old orc's head extremely hard and shatters it.

You receive your share of experience.
Congratulations! This is the first time you've killed it!
Your blood freezes as you hear a gnarled old orc's death cry.
A gnarled old orc is dead! R.I.P.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I know that if i would write like a million triggers, every single one of them separately and correctly matched, the problem would be *almost* solved, but then again i would trigger on same output line very many triggers at once...

To get it work right i would be very much interested on some good triggerline, that would trigger only when needed and substitute only what is needed, and correctly :D

I hope i have managed to make myself clear about my problem...
Thanks in advance

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

The problem here is how to make the match precise enough. The best solution seems to be creating a record variable with all the phrases you want to match. This can be done easily in the settings editor, but I will make a few to start the pattern. Then you need to match a word prior to the start of the phrase so that the largest phrase is matched, this is a form of anchoring.

#CLASS CombatSub
#VAR DamPhrase {}
#TR {({arm|foot|body|head|leg}) ({@DamPhrase})({|and tickles it|and shatters it}).} {#SUB {%1 %2 %db(@DamPhrase,%2) %3.}{
#CLASS 0
#ADDKEY DamPhrase {hard} {12-14}
#ADDKEY DamPhrase {very hard} {15-17}
#ADDKEY DamPhrase {extremely hard} {18+}

I am sure you will discover more uses to the setup and may want to move the 'and ??? it' portion into the phrase list when you find they indicate a specific modifier to the number. Of course you will probably also find that the 'hits' versus 'strongly hits' also changes how much damage occured, but when you figure that out I am sure you will be able to handle scripting it.