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Novice Joined: 19 Jun 2001 Posts: 30 Location: USA

I can't figure out how to set it up so that when I emote, I get a random emote from a list I designate. For example the smile emote. If I type smile, I want it to choose from a list of three smile emotes. Can someone help?

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 9:01 pm

Hi,

This works on my MUD where you would type smile like a fox to emote "smiles like a fox" smile shyly to emote "smiles shyly". You can of course change the relevant bits to suit your own tastes as these were only created as an example for you. (or the MUD smile command)

Alias Name:

smile

Value:

#VAR smlist {sweetly|menacingly|slyly}
~smile %item(@smlist,%random(1,3))

What it does is creates a list of 'ways I've decided I can smile' in the first line. Then in the second line sends 'smile' to the MUD followed by a random item from the list of 3. If you want to be flash you can change the '3' in that line to something that counts the number of elements in the list so that if you add more ways to smile in the future that's all you need to do.

Maybe someone has another or better way of doing this, but I hope this helps.

-G-

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 9:03 pm

Oh to add, if you wanted you could of course have the variable smlist created elsewhere, or in your login script and the alias will work fine without assigning the same values to it everytime you run it. If you do that though, you are better off changing the '3' to a %countlist(@smlist) (is that correct?) formula so if you change the list the alias will still work.

-G-

Novice Joined: 19 Jun 2001 Posts: 30 Location: USA

Ok, i'm an absolute dweeb on this type of stuff. So if I use what you wrote but I had a list of say 5 smiles, I would change the 3 to a 5 and add my smiles in the first line?

Novice Joined: 19 Jun 2001 Posts: 30 Location: USA

Actually, let me explain further. I have a few smiles aliased on my mud. Smile1, smile2, smile3, etc. I want to be able to just type 'smile' and have one of those aliased smiles come up. Is that better explained?

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 6:27 am

Then, you would do this:

#alias emote {#VAR smlist {smile1|smile2|smile3|smile4};%item(@smlist,%random(1,%numitems(@smlist)))}

If you have any more emotes you would like to choose from, just add to the @Smlist variable.

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

#AL smile {smile%random( 1, 5)}

Novice Joined: 19 Jun 2001 Posts: 30 Location: USA

You know? Things don't get any easier than this. Thank you LIGHTBULB. Not only does it work, it's simple.