Zugg Software :: View topic - Help creating triggers for group and self.

Beginner Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 21 Location: USA

Me again!

Have I told you lately how much I appreciate all of you for your help?
If not, I really appreciate all of your help :)

Here are my questions about triggers:

1) How would you go about setting up a trigger to auto cast a spell on someone that asks for it in your group?

For an example of what I'd like to accomplish:
Garrison (me) and Bob are grouped.
Bob tells the group: heal please
Garrison casts "heal" on Bob.
Bob tells the group: shield please
Garrison casts "shield" on Bob.
(etc, etc)

2) How would you recommend creating a trigger to auto-heal the group tank? Our mud doesn't have a feature for following group members specifically, short of typing "group" which display a format like this:
Name: HP: MANA: MOVE:
Garrison 100% 100% 100%
Bob 50% 100% 80%

What I'm thinking is to somehow be able to somehow set Bob as a "target" (if you will) so that when I type "Group" and it comes up, if zMUD sees a set HP % (say, 50%) it casts a heal spell on Bob. Btw, our mud dosn't have a specific "target" feature.

I think that's all I've got questions on, for now :)

I'm sure I'll think of more in the future!

Again, I appreciate all of your help!

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

1) "How would you go about setting up a trigger...?" Decide what the pattern will look like by copying a sample line to the Pattern: box, and replacing changeable information with appropriate wildcards from the Pattern Matching topic. Information which will be used in the value should be surrounded with (), this will usually be the same information you used wildcards for. Once the pattern is finished, put the desired commands in the Value: box.
Pattern:
(%w) tells the group: (%w) please
Value:
cast '%1' %2

2) "How would you recommend creating a trigger to auto-heal the group tank? " Use a variable for the tank name. I'd just type the #VAR command into the command line to change it, it's simple enough.
#VAR tank Bob

You then use the variable in a trigger so you'll cast the spell when the tank's HP drops below the threshold.
Pattern:
@tank%s(%d)~%%s%d~%%s%d~%
Value:
#IF (%1 < 51) {cast 'heal' @tank}
NOTE: The %s is needed since the number of spaces between items may change. The ~ is needed so that zMUD will treat the % after each number as a normal character.

Finally, if the group hp display doesn't come up automatically you'll need an alarm to send the necessary command every couple seconds.
#ALA *2 {group}

Apprentice Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 100 Location: USA

quote:

1) "How would you go about setting up a trigger...?" Decide what the pattern will look like by copying a sample line to the Pattern: box, and replacing changeable information with appropriate wildcards from the Pattern Matching topic. Information which will be used in the value should be surrounded with (), this will usually be the same information you used wildcards for. Once the pattern is finished, put the desired commands in the Value: box.
Pattern:
(%w) tells the group: (%w) please
Value:
cast '%1' %2

cast '%2' %1.