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Topic: Is zMapper still selling poorly? |
billaben
Replies: 6
Views: 21966
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Forum: zMapper Discussion Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:17 am Subject: Is zMapper still selling poorly? |
Ugh. Well color me not suprised on the poor sales. I should have done a trial on zMapper as well before going ahead and buying the package deal. zMapper is soooooo buggy. =(
I was thinking of using ... |
Topic: Sending a string to the window without getting sent to mud |
billaben
Replies: 3
Views: 5714
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:15 am Subject: Sending a string to the window without getting sent to mud |
Be warned however, anything that hits the screen can activate your Triggers. even #SAY |
Topic: I need Help with mapper and flee |
billaben
Replies: 12
Views: 20771
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:32 pm Subject: I need Help with mapper and flee |
Try playing with these three functions...
%roomname(,"name")
%roomdesc(,"desc")
%roomexit(,"exit")
Note, this still does not answer for portals and one way links. Handling these situations wil ... |
Topic: I need Help with mapper and flee |
billaben
Replies: 12
Views: 20771
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 8:20 pm Subject: I need Help with mapper and flee |
Yuck and double yuck.
* CW>Valinor Street
There is an old street-lamp on the border of the street.
Exits: north, east, west.
The prompt got attatched to your title line, I hate when muds d ... |
Topic: Why are people having trouble getting a new license? |
billaben
Replies: 17
Views: 28060
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:48 pm Subject: Why are people having trouble getting a new license? |
I don't know about everyone else, but I know in my case your database is in error. I purchased your 55$ bundle including zMud, zMap, and acx a bit over a week ago. I have a copy of the webaddress it s ... |
Topic: how to space? |
billaben
Replies: 5
Views: 9281
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:59 am Subject: how to space? |
'~' is the key you want.
#EXEC {say~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ }
That will force it to type say with seven spaces after it. Normally zmud will trim out any extraneous whitespace. There might be other ways to ... |
Topic: Retromud Mapping Script |
billaben
Replies: 6
Views: 18984
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Forum: Finished MUD Scripts Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:12 am Subject: Retromud Mapping Script |
Humm... yea, it is rather a monster, I considered converting it to a string list at one point but chose not to bother. When I initially started coding in those triggers I didn't know how to define str ... |
Topic: Creating a list from the contents of a container |
billaben
Replies: 20
Views: 25896
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:01 pm Subject: Creating a list from the contents of a container |
The FORALL in this trigger looks fairly time consuming. It may help to make it a priority sequence. If it is 'too much text' for it to handle this should resolve it. Note, I also see that your {$} t ... |
Topic: %random & #send added question |
billaben
Replies: 13
Views: 16245
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:41 pm Subject: %random & #send added question |
HUmm.... set the code aside for a minute. Before I can really think about this one I need a clearer picture of what exactly this shuffle concept is intended to do. |
Topic: trigger needs to match to a list...please help |
billaben
Replies: 2
Views: 5135
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:30 pm Subject: trigger needs to match to a list...please help |
Humm.... Well this could be a trigger, but I think your desired IF sequence is going to complcate things if it's going to work in all cases.
#VAR FriendList {human|elf|dwarf}
#TRIGGER ... |
Topic: alarms |
billaben
Replies: 6
Views: 8775
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:58 pm Subject: alarms |
A word of warning on this. If you go with a basic If (HP<250) it will be awfully spammy if you are under this threshold for any amount of time. An example would be a similar message someone spammed ... |
Topic: Retromud Mapping Script |
billaben
Replies: 6
Views: 18984
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Forum: Finished MUD Scripts Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:44 am Subject: Retromud Mapping Script |
Okay, I've been doing a lot of work on this lately. I held off posting off anything new for a while because I was making a pretty profound change to how the script verifies if you have moved or not. I ... |
Topic: Need help.. from scratch :P |
billaben
Replies: 4
Views: 6980
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:59 am Subject: Need help.. from scratch :P |
Humm... Well I guess I'm confused then. Still confused in fact. But If you're making progress on your idea now, that's what really matters. =P |
Topic: Classes Losing flags when ZMud Exits |
billaben
Replies: 2
Views: 4855
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:55 am Subject: Classes Losing flags when ZMud Exits |
This is how I do that. The #CLASS SomethingSomething 0 line only executes once, as soon as you load the script or login or whatever. It immediatelly disables the class before it does anything.
#CLA ... |
Topic: Three Colour Guages |
billaben
Replies: 16
Views: 20887
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:56 pm Subject: Three Colour Guages |
To the best of my knowledge, it simply can't be done currently without going to a plugin of some kind. #GAUGE is simply not designed with more than two colors in mind.
On a personal note, I think i ... |
Topic: need help with fixing up trigger. |
billaben
Replies: 6
Views: 9937
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:19 pm Subject: need help with fixing up trigger. |
#TRIGGER {^%e~[1;31m*DISARMS your Nasr, Claymore of Sovereignty!$} {#ECHO TEST} "" {color}
You forgot to enable color. =P
Also, This doesn't look like ... |
Topic: Need help.. from scratch :P |
billaben
Replies: 4
Views: 6980
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:09 pm Subject: Need help.. from scratch :P |
Don't want much do ya?
As far as I know, zMUD does not do popup windows Period. To say nothing of popup windows of the highlight variety. Also setting this up so it only highlights certain traits f ... |
Topic: Complicated Trigger Help |
billaben
Replies: 5
Views: 6502
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:40 pm Subject: Complicated Trigger Help |
Oh brother... don't want much do ya?
I'm just going to snag a line or two here as example and let you expand things from there. Also I haven't messed much with the databasing side of things yet so ... |
Topic: More problems with Strings |
billaben
Replies: 3
Views: 5086
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:20 pm Subject: More problems with Strings |
I'm still hoping to find an answer on this. I want to store the entire description block in a single variable and keep the formatting intact since in many cases it becomes nearly unreadable if I do no ... |
Topic: End Fight Buff/Debuff |
billaben
Replies: 1
Views: 4112
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:52 pm Subject: End Fight Buff/Debuff |
That's confusing. Could I see a short example of this battlespam and an explanation of what you're trying to do with it ? |
Topic: corrupt settings? |
billaben
Replies: 2
Views: 5977
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:45 pm Subject: corrupt settings? |
I got this a lot for a while myself although I am not entirely sure what caused it. I ultimatelly ended up saving all my scripts and maps off to a seperate folder, nuking the mud folders in zmud and i ... |
Topic: Multiplaying on a MUD? |
billaben
Replies: 5
Views: 11542
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:41 pm Subject: Multiplaying on a MUD? |
You're asking for advise on how to cheat on your Mud? Hehe. You're on your own friend. And yes, there are ways.... |
Topic: Answered: Capture trigger - How to grab [$] |
billaben
Replies: 3
Views: 6122
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:39 pm Subject: Answered: Capture trigger - How to grab [$] |
The problem with $ is that it is a special character. When seen in a trigger command it means <EOL>. So it will try to match your pattern ending at the $ as the end of a line.
If your $ is in ... |
Topic: Creating a list from the contents of a container |
billaben
Replies: 20
Views: 25896
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:26 am Subject: Creating a list from the contents of a container |
There's two main ways to handle that.
#VAR Card {%concat(%1, %2)}
or simply
#VAR Card {%1 %2}
Either should work. |
Topic: IF/ELSEIF/ELSE Statements in Zmud |
billaben
Replies: 7
Views: 23653
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:28 am Subject: IF/ELSEIF/ELSE Statements in Zmud |
No problem. Syntax in zMud can be rather tricky. I reccomend using the editor included with zMud and tagging pretty print regularly. it's good at catching syntax errors for ya. |
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