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Newbie Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 1 Location: USA

This is my first time using Zmud, and im having trouble setting up a targetting variable. I'll probablly need step by step instructions sence I'm new at this, but any help you can give I would appreciate.

Beginner Joined: 10 Nov 2000 Posts: 24 Location: USA

pattern is the syntax from the mud
command is what you want to execute
simple as that
when you see people typing stuff like
#TR {(%w) is starving to death} {give food %1}
its just making a trigger through your zmud command line is all you can open the triggers menu and do it manually thats the easiest way to get started
variables are easy %d for numeric %w for alpha and %* for alphanumeric thats how you match patterns that change like names and what not only use () around the variables if you intend to use them in the command line otherwise people can exploit your triggers

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

Don't get in the habit of using %* and don't recommend it to others. It's a dangerous wildcard because it matches anything and everything, including special characters such as ; and #, and is easily abused to make your character do things you didn't intend. In almost all cases, * will work equally well and be much safer than %*. And actually, %x is the alphanumeric wildcard.

Setting up a targetting variable is quite easy. Just use the variable command.
#VAriable [variable] [value] [defaultval] [classname]
You only need the first two parameters, variable and value,
#VA {target} {orc}
You may type this directly into the command line, or it can be included as part of an alias (#ALIAS), trigger (#TRIGGER), or other command, which is where the wildcards come in. The variable is then referred to by using @ before its name. In this example, it would be @target.