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Beginner Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 13

Greetings,
I'm trying to figure out how to create a specific trigger, but for some reason not understanding how. I don't expect anyone to give me code, just a general point in the right direction. Here's what I'm trying to do:
Lets say I'm wielding a shortsword. If someone compulsed me and told me to unwield shortsword or by some other means, I would get the text: You cease to wield a silver shortsword in your right hand.

So what I want is to create a trigger that will auto wield it again. The trick is, I want this to apply to MANY wieldable items. So I'm trying to figure out how I can capture the item name from the unwield text, store that, and then wield that item again.

Any clue?

Thanks.

Meth

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

The best way is not to capture the item name from the unwield message, but to capture the name when you wield the sword. For this, you need to create an alias which will accept one argument and do two things, wield the item you want using the passed argument (which should be a keyword for the item you want to build), and set a variable to contain whatever argument you passed to the alias.

After creating the alias, you would then create a trigger to fire when you see the line that informs you that you stop wielding the item. When this trigger fire it will wield the items you previously had. The trigger knows the keyword of the item you previously had since it is stored in the variable that the alias created.

One thing to take into consideration is that you will want to disable the trigger when you want to manually unwield the item. Otherwise, it will just keep wielding the item each time you unwield it.

Kjata