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Newbie Joined: 19 Jul 2002 Posts: 1

Ok, I've seen a few ask this question already, now it's my turn. I can usually pick up on scripting and learn it when someone explains what each symbol is for. How would I make a gauge for this prompt?

3655/3658|1000/1000|1080mv|

The 1000/1000 is mana.

GURU Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 556 Location: USA

First, make a trigger to capture your prompt data.

#TR {(%d)/(%d)~|(%d)/(%d)~|%dmv~|} {
#VAR hp %1
#VAR maxhp %2
#VAR mana %3
#VAR maxmana %4
} "prompt"

In the above pattern, zMUD will match any number of digits (0-9) for %d. They're enclosed in parentheses to indicate we wish to capture them to a parameter (%1-%4). Moves do not have parentheses because we're not interested in them. I've placed a tilde in front of the pipes (|) in order to treat them literally. Finally, the word "prompt" is added to the end to indicate that this is a prompt trigger, meaning zMUD will not wait for a carrige return to execute the action.

Now, the next step is to create your gauges:

For a hit point gauge enter the following on the command line:

#GAUGE hp "hp" @hp @maxhp (@maxhp/10) "" "blue" "red"

This is taken from the help files. The first two parameters are the gauges id and caption. Next are the variables for hp and maxhp from the prompt trigger above. Normally the gauge line will be blue, but will turn red if hp falls below one-tenth of maxhp.

For mana, it'd look like:

#GAUGE mana "mana" @mana @maxmana (@maxmana/10) "" "green" "red"

Once again, the color changes at one-tenth of maxmana.

Troubadour