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Beginner Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 10

Well, I believe I've managed to figure out how to make a simple targetting thing by using alias, but how can I have that aliased target appear in the define status bar to display what I have targeted?

My alias is set to be x equalling target=%1

Just need that to be shown in the define status bar

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

#STATUS {Target: @target} {} {TargetDisplay}

You only have to define it once and it will automatically update after that.

Beginner Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 10

thank you for that and it helped a lot.

Now my second problem is per se:

There's a card that I want to fling, but it requires you to charge it up, and once charged it can be used. BUT there are other types of cards as well, and the message is the same for any card you use once it is charged up before flinging. Like:

Priestess card set up:
outd pirestess
charge priestess
Charged up messages for ANY card=
Rubbing your fingers briskly on the Tarot card, you quickly impart to it the
necessary energy to use it.

The card begins to glow with a mystic energy.

Then you can fling whatever card you wish to fling that you charged up. Must a trigger be setup somehow?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

It would depend on the command you have to send. If "fling card" will work then you don't need anything special. If you can have 5 different cards charged, and don't have to fling them immediately; then I would expect you would need some other entire mechanism to determine the fling command you wanted at that time.

I could probably think of a few more cases, but the point is the same. What are the limitations of the mud? What exact commands will work?

Beginner Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 10

The commands are

outd (card name)
charge (cardname)

The card begins to glow with a mystic energy. <-- The message letting you know the card is ready to be flung.

Fling (card) at ground/Target

Certain cards have to be flung at the ground, but the others are at a target. Like Priestess/aeon/hangedman/emperor are flung at a target.
Chariot/Despair are a few that are flung at the ground.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

I guess I'm a little confused as to what exactly you'd like to trigger? Do you want to trigger the whole action from outd to fling, or do you want to manually issue outd and have it autofling that card once its charged?

If the latter this will do it:

Beginner Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 10

That code actually works, but I guess I left out the targetting thing. mine is set up so that x = target in which target=%1 .

Here's the copy/paste of what happened when I flung the priestess card at myself as the target

H:988 M:892 Ess:100% [eb]outd priestess

You shuffle 1 card with the image of the High Priestess out of your deck.
H:988 M:892 Ess:100% [eb]charge priestess

Rubbing your fingers briskly on the Tarot card, you quickly impart to it the
necessary energy to use it.
H:988 M:892 Ess:100% [eb]
The card begins to glow with a mystic energy.
H:988 M:892 Ess:100% [eb]fling priestess at me

Raising the High Priestess tarot over your head, parallel to the ground, you
release it. It instantly expands and moves downward, healing you as your body
passes through it.

This one is for cards that are flung at the ground. I'm using chariot as an example.

You shuffle 1 card with the image of the Chariot out of your deck.
H:988 M:361 Ess:100% [eb]charge chariot

Rubbing your fingers briskly on the Tarot card, you quickly impart to it the
necessary energy to use it.
H:988 M:361 Ess:100% [eb]
The card begins to glow with a mystic energy.
H:988 M:361 Ess:100% [eb]fling chariot at ground

You throw the Chariot tarot at the ground and immediately a flame-charred
chariot appears. Moments later, four demonic goats, black with red eyes, rise up
from the earth and slip themselves into the chariot's harness.

The cards that are flung at a target are: Emperor/priestess/magician/fool/empress/lovers/hierophant/hangedman/wheel/justice/star/aeon/lust/moon/death.
Cards that are flung at ground are:
Hermit/Tower/universe/despair/devil

So, hopefully those examples will help of what I need the glowing charge to trigger any of those cards I mentioned to be flung at the target as stated or at the ground as stated based on the cards that it is only allowed to be flung towards.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

then you could use this instead

Wanderer Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 96

Somehow ralgith left out the target in last example...

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

I left it out on purpose because he is already assigning it elsewhere :P