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Novice Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Posts: 39 Location: USA

In the mud I play I can travel by different means. One of those is swimming. So in all the room exits with water I have changed the OTHER COM field in the EXITS TAB of ROOM PROPERTIES to SWIM EAST instead of just EAST. This works great. I have another skills that lets me travel as a ghost. Unfortunately I cant swim as a ghost but can pass over the water by just enter EAST. This is a problem because when I speed walk the mapper enter swim east. Is there way to change the OTHER COM field by using a variable? This way I could trigger these exits from east to swim east when needed.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Perhaps you should make some triggers to capture your ghost state then use an alias to check it and issue the correct command. Aliases are properly applied when used in the Other Com field of an exit.

Novice Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Posts: 39 Location: USA

Thanks Vijilante,
Never thought to use an alias in the com field. That will work well.

Novice Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Posts: 39 Location: USA

Ok, got the exits working properly using aliases but no the map does not follow me through those exits using aliases. Here is how I set it up. I may have not followed your instructions properly.

When ghost #al swims {s}

When human #al swims {swim s}

Then I entered swims in the com field. I also tried to have trigger the swimming to the mapper would follow but this didnt worth either. Any suggestions.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Adding a #MOVE command will be your only option. The mapper is actually trying to prevent a trigger loop by not queueing (if you check the queue and the direction appears there in follow mode then use #OK instead) and creating the #OK trigger when your alias sends the command. Alternately you could make a #TEMP trigger with the syntax:
#EXEC %concat("#TEMP {",%roomname(%roomlink(,"s")),"} {#MOVE s}")

This odd syntax would be necessary becuase all trigger creation command preform no expandsion on their pattern parameter. So you have to expand it beforehand. Using this method ensures that the #MOVE command is not issued until you have actually moved.