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Beginner Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 24

This is freaking me out. I have been trying to make my health/mana gauges to work, but I havn't succeeded yet. I have read every thread regarding gauges, I have tried different methods, but none have worked. My prompt looks like this:

hp: 1068(1068) sp: 499(499)

My problem is the ( and ). Should I use a ~ before those? Anyways, I need a little help, so if you feel like helping, go for it.

Yeah, the only problem is how to get the information. I know how to make the gauges and so on, because I have a working gauge on another mud. :/

Beginner Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 24

This is how I did it. First, to capture the information from the prompt "hp: 1068(1005) sp: 493(493)" I made a trigger that looked like this:

^hp: (%d)?(%d)? sp: (%d)?(%d)?$

Then I made four variables:

@hp = %1
@maxhp = %2
@sp = %3
@maxsp = %4

Then I made a gauge, with this information:

Kind: gauge
Caption: hp: @hp / @maxhp

Value: @hp
Gauge Max: @maxhp
Gauge Low: @maxhp/5

My gauge looks like this:

hp: %1 / %2

To do this, I took help from this page ( http://www.thetabworld.com/zombiemud/triggers_and_variables.jsp;jsessionid=DPCINMMNKKCC ), which uses the exact same prompt or short score, and is from the exact same mud. Is there something small that I have missed? What am I saying, there must be something I have missed, because it isn't working.

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

Use the ~( and ~). Parentheses are special characters, as you obviously know. Such characters that come from the mud need to be quoted.

As for the trigger itself, do you have it set to trigger on prompt?

Apprentice Joined: 29 Jun 2001 Posts: 198 Location: USA

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

You can actually set your prompt in zmud to automatically catch numbers from the prompt, this is found in the preferences under surprise surprise, MUD prompt, all you have to do is set what it starts with and add all variables needed. This is the way I collect the information for my gauges.

All you have to do is put @hp @hpmax @sp @spmax and you'll be set.