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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:36 pm

Greetings. I've only been playing Imperian for about a month now and using ZMud for about half that. Currently, I have the idea in my head of creating a full system for Saboteur combat. My only problem is:
1. I don't know where to start scripting.
2. I know barely anything about scripting for ZMud.
I have a few scripts people from Imperian gave me as basis to look at and develop my own. But figured I'd ask personally where to start.

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

I`d suggest starting reading through the articles here:
http://www.zuggsoft.com/page.php?file=library/index.htm

And then testing them with your mud to see a real life example work.

Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 188 Location: USA

1. Your first bet is to start doing simple things on your own. Simple triggers, with combinations of creating aliases, alarms, etc.
--- When you run into a problem or try to figure out a problem, look up references here, for instance...
You want to eat every 5 seconds, look up a script here on the forum. Look at the "completed" scripts available. Then based on the completed scripts, try to understand what is happening. From there, if you don't know some of the commands being used, then you look it up. Use the search on top of this forum for instance #alarm.

It's almost like reverse engineering. What you get out of doing this "work" is you start to expose yourself in the different "commands" that Zmud has to offer. In combination to your mud's texts, scripts from other muds, you can somewhat construct your own or modify it here and there.

It's a tedius task but that's part of learning. Hope this helps.

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:50 am

Thank you both, I will do doing that now and seeing how it works out. Got alot of help from here plus the ZMud Forums. So I'll be posting my probs on both to get better answers. Merely wanted to ask as well. What is an array list and what is the best approach to take towards making one?