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Shady
Newbie
Joined: 02 Jul 2002
Posts: 2
Location: USA
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 Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 8:24 pm
Fooled by emotes!
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Hi,
I was hunting a very annoying player who stole from me the other day. I thought he would use a common huntbreak and set a trigger to chase him through it. The problem
is that he emoted the break first and set off my trigger. I ran into the break and he mocked me for the next hour for being such a newbie. The syntax is:
Huntbreak: X fiddles with something on the wall and disappears!
I saw >X fiddles with something on the wall and disappears!
Which set off my trigger: fiddles with something on the wall and disappears! todo push brick
I can't figure out how to make my trigger discern the difference between the emote and the real action!
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Kjata
GURU
Joined: 10 Oct 2000
Posts: 4379
Location: USA
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 11:07 pm
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Use the fact that the huntbreak has the word Huntbreak in fron to restrict your trigger. You can use the following pattern:
^Huntbreak: %w fiddles with something on the wall and disappears!
Also, if the name can be more than one word, then this should do:
^Huntbreak: * fiddles with something on the wall and disappears!
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seamer
Magician
Joined: 26 Feb 2001
Posts: 358
Location: Australia
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 11:11 pm
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if emotes are prefaced with >,
#act {^~>(%w) fiddles with something on the wall and disappears!$} {say oh, you CHEATER %1!;#abort 1}
edit: changed < to >
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Shady
Newbie
Joined: 02 Jul 2002
Posts: 2
Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 1:01 am
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Sorry Kjata, the word Huntbreak doesn't preface the other text, i was just labeling the line. So the emote is:
>JoeBob fiddles with something and disappears!
Whereas:
JoeBob fiddles with something and disappears!
Is the actual semote I want to trigger.
So the question is, how do i set a trigger that will fire in the second case and NOT in the first?
Thanks again for your thoughts.
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MattLofton
GURU
Joined: 23 Dec 2000
Posts: 4834
Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 6:27 am
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quote:
Sorry Kjata, the word Huntbreak doesn't preface the other text, i was just labeling the line. So the emote is:
>JoeBob fiddles with something and disappears!
Whereas:
JoeBob fiddles with something and disappears!
Is the actual semote I want to trigger.
So the question is, how do i set a trigger that will fire in the second case and NOT in the first?
Thanks again for your thoughts.
Shady
To have it fire in the second case but not the first case, use the beginning-anchor character, ^. Unless you have a problem with prompts, this is the easiest thing you can do to fix your problem.
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TonDiening
GURU
Joined: 26 Jul 2001
Posts: 1958
Location: Canada
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 6:36 am
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As Kjata and Matt pointed out, anchoring is very important.
I'd humbly suggest to most folks that they
should make their triggers as explicit
(well defined) as possible and anchor if possible. Even check for a blank line
where possible to give credibility to the
preceeding line. Saves you grief.
Failing that, you can be spoofed all over
the place, especially if you are in PK and
have a mud with dropable illusions.
Ton Diening
Providing untested answers that tend to be
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Kjata
GURU
Joined: 10 Oct 2000
Posts: 4379
Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 1:01 pm
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Just in case, in summary, the pattern should then be:
^%w fiddles with something and disappears!
maybe even:
^%w fiddles with something and disappears!$
^ matches the beginning of a line
$ matches the end of a line
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Private
Adept
Joined: 10 Jan 2002
Posts: 264
Location: USA
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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2002 3:51 am
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are the messages and the emotes the same colors? if not make it color dependant
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