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Beginner Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 13

On the mud I play on, it has a thing called combat shape. When you combat shape a mob, it shows a nice little graphical "gauge" of the mobs health. The mobs remaining health changes color as the bar goes down.

There bar itself is composed of a series of (30 to be precise) colored "spaces".

Here are a few pictures of what I am talking about:

Mob has full health:

Little Less:

Even less:

Monster is about halfway dead:

More than halfway dead:

Almost there:

Barely hanging on to life:

So what I was thinking could possibly be done, is somehow count how many blue spaces there are, and conver that into some kind of numerical value for its health. As the number of blue spaces increases that means the health of the mob is decreasing.

This could very well be beyond what zmud is capable of in terms of triggers, but if it could be done.. well that would be very neat indeed. In summary, I would be interested in getting some kind of "percent" health left.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Impossible for zmud scripting, but it should be doable in plugin form. ZMud doesn't have the capability to draw out the ansi codes for a specific position in the text, so while you maybe can match and then count the total number of bars there'd be no way to differentiate between red, blue, yellow, or green.

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

I've got a question though. If it can't get the ansi of a specific line, what's up with the ansi trigger option that says Pattern contains ANSI color codes that must match line from MUD? I've been looking at this and wanting a little more information on it anyways.

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:32 am

Considering Matt is a Wizard and I'm still a Wanderer I hope I'm not speaking out of turn. However, if I understand the problem correctly I believe it is possible to do that with zMud. You would of course need to specify an ANSI trigger. capture the entire line and calculate the remaining spaces. More specifically you'd need your ANSI trigger to match. After that it becomes simple mathematics. Now I did notice something a little funky while matching spaces in zScript a few days ago (but I'm chalking as possible errors on my part) but I can match multiple spaces with a Perl regex in the pattern.

The following is a crude attempt at pseudo-code

Novice Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 33 Location: USA

I wouldn't say it's impossible. It shouldn't be that hard to do a trigger on receiving the blue ANSI code and then store the resulting spaces (%s) in a variable and count the length of the variable..

Beginner Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 13

any chance someone could help me get some of this started?

I tried the code Tech wrote, and it didnt capture anything into the variable.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Beginner Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 13

but what about whenever the bar is 100% green? It wouldnt have any blue to pick up then, would it? There is no way I could trigger on a group of 30 spaces, and then figure out how many are blue from there?

Also, as far as the ansi code for the blue.. I turn on ansi logging, and saved my log.

There is a picture of a combat shape and here is its corresponding log:

[1;32mGhirma[0m [1;7;31m [0;32;44m [0m

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

#TRIGGER "combatshape" {Doing: combat shape} {}
#COND {%e[1;32m*%e[0m (*)%e[0m} {RawBar="%1"} {within|param=1|color}

That will give you a variable Rawbar which contains just the whole bar including ansi codes.

This is what I have so far and its untested but should work, There is still alot more work to be done but it should be enough to get you started

Beginner Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 13

yes, thank you nexela!! we are almost there. Now, lets say I have a raw output of:

[7;32m [0;32;44m

what is the easiest way to count the number of spaces after 44m?

It must be the 44m that it counts after and not anything else.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Capture the output in its entirety, then use %match() to divide up the pieces (spaces), and from there use %len() to get the lengths?

Beginner Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 13

ok, im using:

#show %eval(100-%format(2,%eval(100*(%eval(%len(%right(@RawBar,%match(@RawBar,"44m")+2))/%float(30))))))

That is what I am currently using to display the %health left of the mob and it seems to work. Can anyone see anything wrong with it? Or perhaps a simpler way? The way I had to format the numbers I wasnt sure if that was the best method or not. Well anyway... it works!!! Thanks everyone.