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Newbie Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 8

Hey everyone. I have just began to play around with zMUD, and I am falling in love with it. I am running into a jam right now, however.

When something engages me I get an emit that looks like something like this:
An enormous illusionary grublin engages Aeri.

The critter in question will always have two words before its attacking word. Like a small muscular grublin. The problem I am running into is trying to capture the grublin into an alias so I can use triggers for attacking. Here is what I did to try to capture it. I know it is probably horribly wrong, but I'm trying!

Trigger: %s{engages}%s{@VMychar}
Value:
critter_name {%1}
attack @VCritter
do_set_tick

critter_name will store the name in @VCritter, and do_set_tick is my way of waiting for the RT to be over.

Any help would be great. Thanks!

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:01 pm

Not sure what you mean by attacking word, but if you mean that you can attack it with the word illusionary or muscular, then try this:

Trigger: %w %w (%w) %* {@VMychar}
Value:
critter_name {%1}
attack @VCritter
do_set_tick

I think this would work. I only assume that it's on illusionary or muscular since you said 2 words before.
illusionary and muscular are the 3rd words.

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:09 pm

Trigger: (%w) engages Aeri.$
Value:
#var VCritter {%1}
attack @VCritter
do_set_tick

There are a few things to note about this. I've assumed there is only one space between the words hence no use of %s to match on multiple white space. There is no point in passing the critter name to an alias to set the variable for it unless the alias does a few other things besides just setting the variable so I've set it directly in the trigger actions. I have hard coded your character name into the trigger and assumed that the pattern has a carriage return after your character name, hence the $ anchor. If you want to put in the character name in such a way that it can be used for another of your characters then you can use the built in function %char unless of course you have already developed a lot of other aliases that already use your VMychar variable.

Trigger: (%w) engages %char.$ --- Using the built in %char variable with an end of line anchor
Trigger: (%w) engages %char --- Using the built in %char variable without an anchor
Trigger: (%w) engages @VMychar.$ --- Using your already created variable for your character and an end of line anchor
Trigger: (%w) engages @VMychar --- Using your already created variable for your character without an anchor

With the patterns for the ones without the end of line anchor I've also not included the fullstop as there won't be much of a speed increase with it, there should be a speed increase with the anchor as it knows to only check from the end of the line and in that case the fullstop is needed.

Newbie Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 8

Awesome.. I get what you are saying about the %s. Was a lame mistake. One more question. I get it to capture "grublin" but how would I go about capturing all three words of the critter?

Thanks guys! That was some great advice that will help me improve all my scripts.

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:21 pm

so, ya want to capture "enormous illusionary grublin", but attack on "grublin"?

I'm sure there's a better way, damned if I can think of one except for this:
Make 2 triggers.

1) Taz'
Trigger: (%w) engages Aeri.$

2) and This
Trigger: {An|A} (%*) engages Aeri.$

The 2nd one should be the capture.

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

Don't use %*, ever. It's bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Just use * instead.

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

I would use something like #TRIGGER {(*) engages Aeri.$} {#VAR VCritter=%word("%1",%numwords("%1"));Rest of Code here}

This will take the whole string and return the last word.

I.E "The Damn Critter" will store Critter in VCritter and "A Silly Grublin" would become "grublin"

Zmud has a lot of powerful %functions to manipulate strings and variables.

Newbie Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 8

This is great guys! The script works fine, and I was able to incorporate the hunting script in with ease. Thanks!

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:14 pm

Larkin, Don't use (%*) but use (*)? Mind if I ask the difference? I've used (%*) in a few of my scripts and have yet to run into a problem.

nexela, *drool* Question did you mean to use #var or #func? never been able to figure out when to use which for what. Even after all that you and I went thru with that roster script of mine with the #func's.

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

Just like its printed its a variable. Making it into a function is only worth it if you are using it in a lot of places in your script, Take a look at my Finished script about removing post/pretitles for a function example http://forums.zuggsoft.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=24184&highlight=legendmud

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

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

Thank you, Matt, for explaining more elegantly the point I was trying to make and saving me the time of looking it up. :)

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:00 pm

:runs off to remove the (%*)'s and replace them with (*)'s