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Newbie Joined: 12 Jan 2013 Posts: 3

stuck and need help, here is my prompt

<40/40hp 84/130m 130/130mv 11,050to level>

trying to make a health, mana, move ment and exp bar to keep track of them and i'm totally new to scripting lol. any help would be greatly apreciated.

Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 108

Well, I'm a novice as far as gauges go, I just decided to make a couple myself, which I'm not really using in the intended manner (on/off indicator and such).
However, I think this should be a pretty simple set of gauges to set up, apart from the exp bar.

Now, I know cmud has a built in method of keeping track of the values in your prompt, but I personally have shied away from using in favor of just making my own triggers.

There can be some issues with triggers based on the space between the different parts of your prompt, on some MUDs you might find that you have an extra space after a value drops below the maximum number of digits, and so forth, but assuming that spaces remain constant, the trigger:

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:17 am

gauges are far easier to make via the GUI in the editor than by a line of zscript

Newbie Joined: 12 Jan 2013 Posts: 3

As far as the exp bar, it always counts down to zero so it's a set value the variable is the number shown

Newbie Joined: 12 Jan 2013 Posts: 3

Also thank you for your reply, I'll test it as soon as I wake up.

Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 108

That's actually a bit tougher than anything I had considered. If you have some way to check the total xp required from the beginning of each level, you could use that as a "Max" value, otherwise, you're just looking at a gauge that has the same max value and current value, i.e., a bar that's always at 100%.

Thinking in terms I'm used to, where accrued experience increases the total, there are some ways to make a workable gauge--I don't think calling current exp a negative number would work. If you know the total amount of exp required to get from the start of one level to the next, you can set that as maxexp, then subtract current exp from max exp to get an alternative version of current exp, which would actually represent the amount of exp gained thus far.

Or, you could simply make a gauge that changes color once it reaches a certain number, to indicate that you're near level. That would be more of an on/off indicator than a gauge, but I do use them in that way sometimes.

Otherwise, someone who uses gauges a lot more than me probably has a much better idea of what to do here. It may be that the gauge system was designed for this sort of thing and I don't know because I've never encountered it.