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quick question on how to make this kind of idea fire. I need it to activate when it hits a number. It is a badly done but its a test:
^Your (.+) has taken (.+)\% damage.$
local autotest = matches[3]
local autotest = autotest + 1
if autotest > 90000 then
send("parry whatever")
autotest = 0
end
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
Tada!
Edit: For the record, had you checked the error log, it would have detailed the issue.
i am rapture coder
Also, you can set variables as local without defining them at the top if need, e,g:
local var1, var2, var3, var4, etc.
Thank you guys, that makes more sense. I just need to translate it into tripwire as its parry setup is being odd.
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
^Your (.+) has taken (\d+)% damage\.$
^That's a better pattern. There is no need to escape the % character in regex - it isn't a special char. And don't use .+ for everything. Use \w+ for words and \d+ for numbers.
Also
http://www.regular-expressions.info/quickstart.html
99% of what you need to know to match IRE mud output efficiently is on the quickstart page.
Better to be as strict as possible with your pattern matching, but yes... Good point.
Edit: Might even be able to get away with just: ^Your ([a-z ]+) has taken (\d+)\% damage\.$ (This assumes the limb has no capital letters).
Further, while it's obviously good practice to use \d+ as Irruel mentioned, in Mudlet, it matters little as even when using \d+, it gets interpreted as a string, hence the tonumber() requirement.
(head|torso|left leg|right leg|left arm|right arm)
But these days I'm a bit lazy for that.
\d does still matter though, as it is still more efficient than .+
Also, I suppose we should be trying to use:
.*
[a-z ]*
I tend to default to greedy + and only think about lazy * when the distinction matters, but to be efficient we should be doing the reverse.
Hey guys tried to make a quick alias to order a troop to move. But I got this error every time? Help please.
Lua error:[string "send("Tell division271491 march to " ..matc..."]:1: attempt to
concatenate field '?' (a nil value)
This is the script I set
^bmarch (\w+)
send("Tell crew666 clear orders")
tempTimer( 2, [[send ("Tell crew666 march to " ..matches[2])]] )
.
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
local dir = matches[2]
temptimer
and change matches[2] to dir in the temptimer @Riluo
I need to create a script that will convert a word to another word when I speak in game, whilst also allowing me to convert it back. It is for rp purposes and driving me insane. I have created the entire language already
(yes I am an uber geek)Once I have it done I will be giving it to people as a "rp quest" I setup down the track. So for example:I will make a simple alias like "Dsay (\w+) that will fire the script. Therefore when I type:
dsay hello world!
Riluo says, "Vir wer!"
Whilst doing the reverse, so
Bob says, "Vir wer!" and I would hear Bob says, "Hello world!"
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
function translate_d(arg)
local translation = arg:gsub("vir", "hello"):gsub("wer", "world")
return translation
end
Then what you do is trigger say to something like:
(\w+) says\, \"(.*)\"
Here, you would need to create a check that runs a string.findpattern on matches[3], and if it doesn't detect a word of your language, to stop running the trigger. Then, do:
deleteLine()
local translation = translate_d(matches[3])
cecho("(yellow) -- replace () with html brackets here -- " .. matches[2]:title() .. " says, \"" .. translation:title())
I'm sure there are other ways you can do that bit, but that's the quick-and-dirty, no-research-done, no-questions-asked kind of thing I'd do. You could develop it from there, that's by no means the most efficient way or the most pared-down script you can do.
For the opposite, in turning out the language, you could do the same thing, only in reverse. Create a function to return a gsubbed string, and then do send("say " .. translate_dsay(matches[2])) on that alias.
Hope this gives you something of a start!
the way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine
open hand or closed fist would be fine
blood as rare and sweet as cherry wine
So, my understanding of Mudlet is that variables are stored globally and can be accessed by all other functions provided that variable only existed for a temporary time- like if it was created by a loop, it would disappear afterwards? But if a function created it before entering the loop and the loop only accessed it, the variable would remain free to use?
Hypothetical problem: If I have a script going that will be setting variables for me and storing values, and a second one wants to borrow that information, but since starting Mudlet the first one hadn't been triggered to create that variable, what happens here? Do people run the equivalent of an init when they logon for all variables they know they'll need?
Thanks!
JSYK she/her pronouns!
When you create a function, for example, the function name is the KEY in some table, and the function itself is the value. The value can be a string, integer, function, boolean, another table, or probably one of a few other types that have slipped my mind, or I just don't know about.
Even when you create a "simple" variable, that is to say:
target = "ezalor"
you are just adding another entry into the global table, which is called _G
Try this:
target = "mhun"
display( target )
display( _G.target)
You'll get the same result - because by default, we can reference individual keys in the global table without having to specify the _G (however, sometimes it can be really useful to do so, which is why I mentioned it).
Now do:
pipes = {
elm = "123",
valerian = "456",
skullcap = "789",
}
display( pipes )
pipes.artifact = false
function pipes.light()
if not pipes.artifact then
send("light pipes")
end
end
display(pipes)
Now you can see that you can have a single table with multiple TYPES inside - in this case, simple strings (text data), a true/false, and a function.
This is pretty neat - it lets you contain/compartmentalise scripts, making them easy to share and resistant to being interfered with by other scripts given to you by other people.
NOW that I am sure you're on the right page, I'll answer your question. I apologise if I explained what you already knew.
if you create a variable as I did above, then it is available globally to any script. The value will not persist between sessions though - if you want to learn how to save values between sessions, ask that question separately (and check out the remember() function. Also saveTable()
If you wish a variable to be LOCAL to the script or loop you create it in, then you must create the variable this way:
local varname = value
Be aware that if you create it inside a for loop, it will not exist outside the loop. The same goes for IF statements/functions etc.
I really appreciate the Lua refresher course too, and I wasn't even aware _G could be used! I'm not new to scripting/coding, but it's been years since I was in practice so no worries about repeating things I knew because it's super helpful to be reminded. I'll look into saving tables and that stuff too!
JSYK she/her pronouns!
* Even though I was still in debug mode, I quit receiving notifications for GMCP events after setting gmcp to nil, and the table never updated. I closed Mudlet without saving my profile and am fine after resetart. Does anyone know what would've happened if I DID save my profile?
Thanks!
JSYK she/her pronouns!
Yeah, setting it to nil was bad as you found out. You could take the advice from Toz, but honestly, that's really never needed. If you might elaborate a little on what you're actually trying to accomplish, it might help to better advise you. Had you saved your profile, you'd have been fine after a restart as the gmcp namespace is declared when Mudlet raises the sysConnectionEvent event handler.
JSYK she/her pronouns!
No doubt you've noticed in debug mode that the gmcp updates are made obvious in the main window.
Have you read through Lin's thread, 'How to SHOT gmcp'?
enableTrigger("x")
Start = "clt6",
Text = {
text = "[0;1;34m(Dion an Duir): Illidan says, \"It was the an eclipse tarot, angwe.
\"[0m[0;37m",
talker = "Illidan",
channel = "clt6"
},
End = "clt6",
When doing chancap via gmcp, how do I turn the ansi control codes into actual colours, so I can preserve the colours when I push the text into the miniconsoles?
I studied the way TW handles chancap and it is horrendous. Chancap is honestly not that difficult, I don't see why there needs (or even how there can) to be 300 lines of code