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Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2008 Posts: 2

Hi,

I thought that this would be the best place to ask, if its not please excuse the ignorance.

My question pertains to the cycling of spells in a macro. I currently play on a skill based mud so you gain adepts over time, I currently have three spells of the same level that I would like to rotate every time I gain an adept in the specific spell.

My thinking is that I need to define a variable that is changed through a trigger and then to use an if statement for the casting itself. The syntax on the mud itself are rather simple, casting: c 'spell name' and for skill improvement "You have become more adept in spell name"

My problem is as follows, I firstly have an idea where to start but thats not working and secondly I have no idea how to link the spell name from casting to the trigger.

In essence what I want to happen is that if I press my key it casts the same spell until I gain an adept at which point it moves to the next spell then repeat for the next spell and then when I gain an adept in the third spell got back to spell 1.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

We need some output from your MUD first and then we can start thinking. Right now I can only give general suggestions and burst out
different commands and I doubt it will help you much even more so as you don't have much idea about scripting under ZMud.

Prog

Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2008 Posts: 2

Well basically output from the mud is as follows:

c 'chill' p
Ok.
You chill a giant green parrot; remember to put flowers on his grave.
A giant green parrot is dead!
You gain 317 experience points.
You loot the corpse of its 20 coins.
Your blood freezes as you hear a giant green parrot's death cry.
You have become more adept at chill!

The two lines I'm specifically concerned with would be:

c 'chill' p to cast a spell at the target or just c 'chill' while in combat to target current mob; and
You have become more adept at chill! to trigger the rotation to the next spell.

I currently have 3 buttons set up to individually cast "chill", "sparks" and "shards". I want 1 button to cast one of the three spells switching each time I become more proficient in the spell I'm casting.

In my mind the script would be:
Define a variable
If the variable is x c 'chill' else if the variable is y c 'sparks' else c 'shards'
and then a trigger to pick up from the mud when an adept is gained in the spell that was cast and move to the next spell

As you said I unfortunately don't know enough abou zMud to do this my self, so help is really appreciated.

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:03 pm

This is pretty simplistic, and untested but I think it should work.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Actually you are all OVER complicating it.