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Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 9 Location: USA

I'm trying to write a trigger that updates variables to keep track of my per-fight and per-session xp gain in a MUD, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do so.

What works is the trigger that updates a variable fightOver that indicates if I am still in a fight or not. My plan is to have a trigger that catches any xp gain message and:

If fightOver is true, set it to false and set xpGainFight to 0
In any case, increment xpGainSession and xpGainFight by the amount of xp gained

I tried using an #if but determined the trigger was sending my statements to the MUD as commands, which is not what I wanted.

How do I pull off this simple feat?

Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 9 Location: USA

No one wants to help? :(

Apprentice Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 135

Can you post what you have so far and maybe some examples of your xp messages?

Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 9 Location: USA

Ok.

First I have a trigger that responds to:
Gohan gives you one gold coin for your sacrifice.

This indicates a fight is over and sets the variable fightOver to true.

Next I have a trigger that responds to:
Your experience increases by (%d).

This indicates some rise in experience and is assumed to be the beginning of a fight. Here is what I tried (formatted as Zmud did it:

Wanderer Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 99

#ACTION {Your experience increases by (%d)} {
#IF (@fightover=true) {
#var fightOver 0
#var expGainedSession 0
} {
#var expGained %eval(%int(@expGained) + %int(%1))
#var expGainedSession %eval(%int(@expGainedSession)+%int(%1))
}
}

Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 9 Location: USA

That still seems to have the same effect; the lines within and including the {}s are sent to the MUD as text.

However I do admit I am doing this through the trigger editor and not using the direct #ACTION command; where do I put those so I can give them a shot?

Apprentice Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 135

Copy and paste the entire script into the command line and press Enter.

It sounds like you're missing a bracket somewhere, but I don't see anything missing in your posted code. I copied your original scirpt in like this:

Wanderer Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 99

I thought I should add that when i copy and paste my posted code into the setting editor or use it from the command line, zmud continues to remove the @fightover variable and the entire script registers an error. I would suggest checking the code when you paste it.

Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 9 Location: USA

Pasting Pseudo's code worked great; I assume I had some kind of tough-to-find syntax error in my original code.

Thanks for the help guys!