Zugg Software :: View topic - getting the rooms vnum and triggering a variable

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:29 pm

Hi

Is there any way to store or retrieve the current marvnum of the room your in or more specifically passing through. I trigger off of the exits line already and store the %mapvnum() value in a variable each time but as I want to fast speedwalk this number very soon becomes the final destination rooms vnum and this value is captured for each room I pass through. I have a slowwalk search function but some paths are long.

Also I want to sometimes look out for mobs on certain speedwalks so I can say at the end of the walk if there was one that I passed by. I've been trying to send a variable to a trigger to record this, such as :
#trig {@Questmob} {@mobpresent = @currentvnum}
where I set the mob Im loking for in Questmob and later interogate currentvnum to see if its alive and where it is.
This has proved to be a bit fiendish to set up and I cant even set up testing triggers to trigger off of a variable. The documentation briefly mentions putting it in quotes or something but I'm not sure how to do that as concat doesnt fire the trigger.

Enchanter Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 627 Location: USA

first making a list of what you want to do and in what order step by step and post that here
use your var names and give a small example of what you would like each step to do.
Then I am sure anyone here can help you further.

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 9:02 am

ok
I want to have the ability to:
give one command alias and parameter and walk to a given location on the map from anywhere, long distances included
arrive actually where i wanted to be and not wind up in an obscure corner of the world getting a red nose
goto a mob directly by feeding in a location or list of locations , also to detect if I find the mobs other than the locations given.

I have two ways of doing this so far, both probably horribly conveluted, #al gotoloc goes to a location and gotomob uses a database record to go to a mob.
GotoLoc:

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:26 am

hooking in with my other thread on finding the romm vnum which should help alot, i can map on default and see:

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talk of problems or to discuss current news issues. Travellers from far
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The Commons
Visible Exits: N E S

People from all over town come here to talk to the leaders of town and to
talk of problems or to discuss current news issues. Travellers from far
away lands may tell of their travels. You also might find a few of the
local merchants peddling their goods.
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as i move
The prompt is a script prompt but the mapper works fine off of reconfigure or new settings menu items

a mob might be:

A castle guard is here checking to make sure nothing illegal is going on.

which the mud calls 'A castle guard', and I call guard in my mob database in fields name , short and look string

Enchanter Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 627 Location: USA

whenever I want to goto a spicificplace and not get involved in other stuff I have a #alias that suhts down my active combat script while I am in route, if I run into a mob I have a trigger that pauses my step. I have found that slow walk works best for this. Unless I know the route is clear of danger then I speed walk.

#alias TownSquare {#t- combat;e;e;e;d;n;n;n;n;n;#t+ combat}

you can also take the time to do a temp re-route

where you get the room vnum then check it against the list of directictios (store those in a var) then pick up where you left off
this way you can stop and pick fights

Also I am not sure I have to look into it, but you could get the vnum of where you are going and where your at and use a plot to get there.
But this might take work.