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Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 120

Okie I haven't figured how to do this at all... Clueless...

There is a maze in my mud which is called The Void. There are markers in the maze which we can look for which shows the right direction. The markers are usually a pile of coins. So I 'Look North|South|East|West|Up|Down'

The exits are random too.

1) How do I capture the Exits available in the room?
2) How do I 'Look' through the available Exits?
3) How do I move in the Direction once 'A pile of gold coins' is found?

Thanks.

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The Void
[Exits: east south west up down]
You are suspended in cool electric space above a translucent plain. You feel synesthesia invading your nerves and reshuffling your senses. The sky is the same obsidian color as the ground and you can't find a horizon.

<987/987hp 630/630mn 574/574mv 912exp> Look up

The Void
[Exits: north east west up down]
You are suspended in cool electric space above a translucent plain. You feel synesthesia invading your nerves and reshuffling your senses. The sky is the same obsidian color as the ground and you can't find a horizon.
A pile of gold coins.

Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 120

How can we capture the exits available in a room?

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

With a trigger.

#trigger {~[Exits: (*)~]} {#variable RoomExits %replace("%1"," ","|")}

Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 120

hmm,

how to make it 'Look' through the exits available?

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Depends on how you want to do it. I'd suggest not using a loop at all, since there'd be no way to really stop the loop at the correct time if you found a way to go. Therefore, in the above trigger, I'd use the %item() function to send the first direction.

I'd then make a second #trigger to match what was displayed by the LOOK command (if the only directions to move are NSEW types instead of non-standard types, you can limit this pattern to "look %t"). This would be a multistate trigger that started out matching the look command, with subsequent states matching the output generated. The #condition for "a pile of gold coins" would set a #variable to 1. The prompt condition would then use an #if command to check this variable. If true, then the direction captured in the zero-state would be sent to the mud and for neatness's sake the RoomExits variable would be set to "". If false, then a #DELNITEM command is needed to flush out the direction you already moved from RoomExits before using another %item() to look in another direction.