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Newbie Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Poland

How do I execute a script? How to make a script that when somebody tells me "fireshield" then my character casts a fireshield on him, waits 5 seconda and then folls into a meditation to regenerate mana...

SOMEBODY tells you "fireshield"
cast fireshield SOMEBODY
~5
deep meditation

can enybody help me ?

Newbie Joined: 07 Aug 2002 Posts: 9 Location: Australia

I am no guru ,but I think your after a trigger.I do it something like this.
#TRIGGER {%w tells you fireshield} {cast fireshield %1;#ALARM +5 {deep meditation}}

Hope it helps

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

Minor correction. You need parentheses around items you want to address as %1-%99.
#TRIGGER {(%w) tells you fireshield} {cast fireshield %1;#ALARM +5 {deep meditation}}

Or, for editor entry:
Pattern: (%w) tells you fireshield
Value: cast fireshield %1;#ALARM +5 {deep meditation}

Newbie Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Poland

And how do i make it in a script, and how do i execute a script?
I want to make that when (%w) tells me fireshield then i cast it on him and when (%w) tells me iceshield then i cast an ice shield on him...i seen #IF thing in other scripts but i can't understand it becaus zuggsoft didn't make any tutorial for making scripts :/

Beginner Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 19 Location: USA

Just use the same script that Lightbulb wrote for you and replace the spell name with the spell you want it to trigger on and cast.

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

It's Theoden's script, I just corrected a critical typo.

A script is just a collection of triggers, aliases, variables, or other settings all of which contribute to achieving a single purpose (such as doing spellups on request). It may be a single setting. It might be several hundred. Depends on the purpose of the script.

From the sound of it, you want to make a simple spellup robot. The easiest way is what DMUS said. To paraphrase, make one trigger for each spell you want to cast. When you've made the triggers, you've made the script. All you do to execute the script is log on. It will execute itself whenever someone tells you the right word or phrase for a particular spell.

You will need to make sure the pattern is correct. Theoden left out the double-quotes and so did I. They are special characters to zMUD, so you'll have to put a ~ in front of them if you do need them.

Command Line
#TRIGGER {(%w) tells you ~"iceshield~"} {cast iceshield %1;#ALARM +5 {deep meditation}}

Editor
Pattern: (%w) tells you ~"iceshield~"
Value: cast iceshield %1;#ALARM +5 {deep meditation}

To understand how these work, see the HELP on #TRIGGER, Pattern Matching (there's a link from #TRIGGER), and #ALARM.

Newbie Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Poland

ok thanx

Newbie Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Poland

I have one more question...i put scripts in CLASSES? when i write something in there and click <save> it disapears...and if i wan't to use command #IF where i must write it ?

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

You don't have to use CLASSES. They can be useful but aren't required. Settings should be created individually, not as Class Scripts. For instance, if you want to make a trigger push the Triggers button, then the New button, or click the arrow-button next to New and select New Trigger. The Class Script tab is to allow easy review of all the settings in the Class.

#IF is usually used in the Value section of an alias, button, macro, or trigger.

Newbie Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Poland

#TRIGGER {(%w) tells you (%w)} {#IF (%2=fireshield) (cast fireshield %1)}
<--this isn't correct....how it supose to be? sorry for my english. im from poland

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

It's supposed to be like this.
#TR {(%w) tells you fireshield} {cast fireshield %1}

But, since you insist on using #IF even though it's much more inefficient, it should be like this.
#TR {(%w) tells you (%w)} {#IF (%2 = fireshield) {cast fireshield %1}}

It's much more inefficient because you'll be triggering on every tell instead of just the fireshield ones.

Newbie Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Poland

But thears an #IF command.....why it is triggered on every tell ?

Novice Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 43

{(%w) tells you (%w)}

This is the triggered portion of the #trigger.

This will match EVERY time anyone sends you a tell. Putting the first word into %2.

Joe tells you Boo you! --- %2 = "Boo"
Tom tells you Bite Me! --- %2 = "Bite"
etc.

And each time the trigger will run the action of the #trigger

{#IF (%2 = fireshield) {cast fireshield %1}}

Failing to past the #IF test, most times. But:

#TRIGGER {(%w) tells you ~"iceshield~"} ...

Will only match one specfic case. And you can always create several

#TRIGGER {(%w) tells you ~"iceshield~"} ...
#TRIGGER {(%w) tells you ~"fireshield~"} ...
Etc.

There are other ways to do this. Some that would combine mutilple triggers like the ones above, into one. But as you are learning it's easier to break each thing out, rather that try to make each trigger do as much as your can. KISS is the rule.

And makes figuring out why you did something a year from now a lot easier.