Zugg Software :: View topic - Ok for those that have an extra bit of Time, want help creating a equipment DB

Apprentice Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 114

Ok using the spell or scroll to cast identify on item you get examples like this

You recite a scroll of insight which turns to dust in your hands.
a wicked waraxe covered in runes weighs 15 pounds and is worth roughly 81 platinum, and 9 gold.
The following abilities are granted when using this item:
HASTE REGENERATION
The item is magical, protection against being slept, protection against being charmed, able to float on water, throwable, and automatically returning.
This item appears to be imbued with some magic beyond your comprehension!
You feel as if there is something more to a wicked waraxe covered in runes that you can't quite reveal!
You magically sense that the damage dice for this weapon are '4D5'
This item also affects your:
HITROLL by +3
DAMROLL by +6

For axe it should populate something like this
#say Item: a wicked waraxe covered in runes Dice:4d5 Affects: Hitroll by+3 Damroll by+6 Proc:Yes Grants:HASTE REGENERATION Effects: Magical !Charm !Sleep Float Throw Return

You recite a scroll of insight which turns to dust in your hands.
a spiked dragonskin bracelet weighs 1 pounds and is worth roughly 19 platinum.
The following abilities are granted when using this item:
FARSEE
The item is magical and able to float on water.
This item also affects your:
HITROLL by +2
DAMROLL by +3

For Bracelet should populate something like this.

#say a spiked dragonskin bracelet: Hit:te2 Dam:+3 Grants:Farsee

Then it should store that info into DB so when i get a previously Identified item from some container it #says the stats agian

You get a spiked dragonskin bracelet from an adventurers backpack.
#say Item: a spiked dragonskin bracelet Affects: Hitroll by +2 Damroll by+3 Grants:Farsee

Not sure what additional info you may need to help with this. I'm not even sure where to get started. This is for those with the time to help.

Apprentice Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 114

Here is another example from the spell identify being cast

You complete your spell...
a dwarven earring weighs 1 pounds and is worth roughly 19 platinum, 3 gold, 9 silver, and 2 copper.
The item is magical.
This item also affects your:
HITPOINTS by +14
SV_SPELL by -2

#say Item:a dwarven earring Affects:Hitpoints by +14 Sv_Spell by -2

Apprentice Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 114

Ok i've been trying to follow through some other peoples work, but i'm not sure how to capture the line after what starts the trigger

I want to Trigger off of
#Trigger {You complete your spell...}
then it should capture the next line name for example
it needs to capture
a dwarven earring for &{item.name}

then i need another trigger for
#Trigger {This item also affects your:}
capturing HITPOINTS by +14 and Sv_Spell by -2 &{item.Affects}

or i could also do multiple seperate triggers for each affect, but would like to make it one line if i can. Then after my DB captures all info it needs to #say it so i can see it as i posted above.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Does the mud send anything specific AFTER the complete description? If so, that would be helpful

I would suggest starting with a multistate trigger. The first state would trigger on "You complete your spell...", and does nothing. The second state would trigger on the "weighs" line. For the rest of it, you may have to turn a separate trigger on and off.

To be more specific, we'd have to know exactly what information you want to capture. For instance, do you want to capture the weight and value?

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:03 am

You might want to read this. The sections Loop Lines and Resetting Triggers might give you some ideas that tie in with Rehab's suggestion.

Apprentice Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 114

Everything the mud sends is in my first 2 posts from the finishing of reciting scroll or casting spell to end of the item. I want to capture name, granted abilities, granted affects, dice, and whether the item is magical, prot from sleep, prot from charm, floats, throwable, returning, also need to detect if item has a proc (which is the imbued with magic beyond comprehension line) I underlined the stuff that should be captured. Most of the stuff is from a previous line.

You recite a scroll of insight which turns to dust in your hands.
a wicked waraxe covered in runes weighs 15 pounds and is worth roughly 81 platinum, and 9 gold.
The following abilities are granted when using this item:
HASTE REGENERATION
The item is magical, protection against being slept, protection against being charmed, able to float on water, throwable, and automatically returning.
This item appears to be imbued with some magic beyond your comprehension!
You feel as if there is something more to a wicked waraxe covered in runes that you can't quite reveal!
You magically sense that the damage dice for this weapon are '4D5'
This item also affects your:
HITROLL by +3
DAMROLL by +6

Apprentice Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 114

i can trigger of each item for the affects stuff, but was wondering if i could do it quicker. I was looking at the looping thing, i'll mess with it some more see if i can get it to do what i want.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 6:10 am

I don't know of a way (which doesn't mean that there isn't one) but that is why triggers exist, to do the kind of stuff you are hoping to do.
Different MUDs generate different IDENTIFY output, but they are basically the same at the core. You just have to capture the information and massage it the way you want for your purposes. The way your MUD displays the data is a lot easier to capture and process than some other where the information is more fancifully displayed making designing triggers a lot trickier. One other thing you could do since the output from the spell is rather verbose and contains waste text, is to send your data to a string list and then at your leisure process the string list using %regex() or match().
Then you could do something like:

Apprentice Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 114

Yeah i think this might be beyond my basic abilities to code. Someone wanted it, and i thought about making it for myself in the passed, so figured i'd try agian, but yeah...