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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:25 pm

Running a mock battle and having problems with determining the end of the battle.

Assigning a test variable for the purpose of...well, testing..
#addkey testing Trollemite {50}
#addkey testing Vitae {50}

Part of the whole script includes deciding whom is attacking whom and for how much damage. This is part of it and it works:
#add testing.@{CombatantB} {-@howmuchdamage}

Now, the problem is this, once CombatantB reaches 0 or less how do i get it to know?
#if (@testing.@{CombatantB}.##### <= 0) {end} {continue}
.##### represents whatever should go there i guess.
I've tried %key, %iskey, %rec & %val all to no success.

Of course, I could have that #if slightly convoluted and have my whole thought on that wrong.
Crying or Very sad

I feel like I should know this somehow, but I don't know Crying or Very sad

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:57 pm

I'm going to have to assume that the #addkey testing Trollemite {50} is the start damage. In which case you may want to use something like this:

#var Trollemite {%eval(%db(@testing.Trollemite)-@howmuchdamage)} - in place of #add testing.@{CombatantB} {-@howmuchdamage}

and

#IF (@Trollemite<=0) {end} {continue} - in place of #if (@testing.@{CombatantB}.##### <=0) {end} {continue}

Of course, if you want to remove the variable at the end, you can just use #unvar Trollemite.

I don't have zMUD in front of me, but I will tonight. It's touch and go right now, but give it a try and see if it works. Or don't. I'll just bug you on my flist later. :P

Charneus

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:12 pm

#addkey testing Trollemite {50} is the start. Like starting with 50HP

I'm potentially going to have more than 2 Combatant's

I'm tracking everyones HP in the one var type created with #addkey so #add testing.@{CombatantB} {-@howmuchdamage} works much better than having separate variables for each combatant.

Hit me up on flist.

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:45 pm

The problem, I think, is the implicit concatenation you're doing of the variable names. #add %concat("testing.",@CombatantB) whatever might give you better results.

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:40 pm

Got it!

#if (%db( @testing, @{CombatantB})<= 0) {end} {continue}