Zugg Software :: View topic - Achaea limb counter..help with a trigger..?

Wanderer Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 61 Location: Norway

I want to make a system which will keep track of how many times I need to hit a limb before it breaks.
I have a variable for each possible limb (Head, torso, right arm, left arm, right leg, left leg)

This is what it says when I hit Musicia's left arm:

You viciously jab an ornate steel rapier into Musicia's left arm.

Then I can do:

#TRIGGER {You viciously jab an ornate steel rapier into @target's left arm.} {#VAR leftarm 1}

Right?

But in that case I would need to make one trigger for each different part of the body, which would in fact slow down the system quite a lot I think, especially when it sometimes give another message than mentioned above.

Any ideas how I could make this easier? Without having to make 6 triggers for that message, then 6 triggers for the other message too..

This is the other message that can come though:

Lightning-quick, you jab Musicia's left arm with an ornate steel rapier.

Any help, please?

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

You will need to use the stringlist pattern. {Item1|item2|itemN}. You will need to enable the Use Wildcards in Stringlists option in Preferences.

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Use wildcards to start then refine it down this will allow you to collect info on the stringlist patterns.

ie start with the open trigger. You could populate this by grep'ing in logs as well:
#TRIGGER {You (*) {an|a} (*) into (%w){'s|'} (*).} {
#VAR DamMsg {%1}
#VAR WeaponMsg {%2}
#VAR TargetMsg {%3}
#VAR TargetLimbMsg %replace({%4}," ","")
}

Then when you have good built up lists do something like:
#TRIGGER {You {@DamMsg} {an|a} @WieldedWeapon into @Target{'s|'} ({@TargetLimbMsg}).} {#ADD @target.%1 1}