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Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 21

Hey guys, sorry I don't know much about triggers. Just wondering how I would color certain words in sentences.

For example, "You get 3827 gold coins from the corpse of a Guard"

How would I color the number in one color, gold in another, and the mob name in another color? Thanks in advance

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Use the #SUBSTITUTE command. This command lets you replace text matched by a trigger with some text that you specify:

#TRIGGER {You get (%d) gold coin({s|}) from (*)} {#SUB {You get %ansi(blue)%1 %ansi(high, yellow)gold%ansi(default) coin%2 from %ansi(high, red)%3%ansi(default)}}

Newbie Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 4 Location: discworld

In the mud I've been playing, I keep hearing about sound triggers. I can do colors, but how can I get zMUD to play a sound with the trigger?

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

If you mean playing sounds from your own computer, you can use #PLAY.

If they meant the MUD has a set of sounds that can be used with it, then that is MSP information. Check the zMUD support documention about it if that is what they meant.

Newbie Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 4 Location: discworld

No, It's not within the MUD, all external. I'll have a look into "#PLAY". See what I can find in the help files, and play with it.
Thanks

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

just had to ask though, because this is from the MSP documentation:

The purpose of the MUD Sound Protocol (MSP) is to allow different sounds/music to be played in certain situations. To achieve this, both server and client must support this protocol. The protocol itself is really simple. The server can send special sequences, called sound triggers, that result in sound being played at client side. No information, requests or anything is sent in the opposite direction. The protocol also includes support for downloading sound files from the server.

Now, of course I didn't mean 'internal' to the MUD. MSP just allows the MUD to send its own codes to play sounds that you've put on your computer, just as MXP code can be sent from a MUD to do other types of things.

Newbie Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 4 Location: discworld

I've neither heard any discussion of MSP, nor seen it anywhere in the MUD's info. So I'm going to assume it's not there and stick to #PLAY. The help file doesn't seem to be too helpful, though.

Is there a specific place I should store the sound file to be used?

Apprentice Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 106

I prefer to use #PCOL for highlighting like this.

#TRIGGER {You get (%d) (gold) coin{s|} from the corpse of a (*)} {
#PCOL blue %x1
#PCOL gold %x2
#PCOL red %x3
}

To me it just seems more readable using #PCOL.

Newbie Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 4 Location: discworld

Woohoo! finally got wired for sound. I had the files in the right place, just didn't have the syntax down correctly. The helpfile on #PLAY could use some work

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

it tends to assume that everyone has a lot of experience with windows file conventions. You are right. Maybe in CMUD.

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 21

Thanks guys, works great.