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Beginner Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 10

hi i'm new here :P
I'd need some help with a trigger( or sumthing else that works) inside an alias.
Basically i've done the following:
alias: psalmii
cast 'psalm of healing'
#ec Casting Psalm of Healing Cost: 500 SPs
#tr {You begin to sing, infusing your song with magic.}
#va song_psalm %ctime
#va s_psalm "ON"
#wait 60000
p' Psalm about to drop

it does everything very nicely.. times the length of spell, echoes what it's suppossed to, BUT that #tr line just doesnt fire :(
when the @s_spalm is set to ON, i can see it as ON in another alias (esongs) anyways, when i fail the spell, it still fires as ON, i tried with #tr, #if, #cond. Help much appreciated on this.

another thing i don't seem to be able to work out is the following:
i have an alias called 'visu' it does cast visualize act at (skill or spell)
when i try to do that with %1 it only takes the 1st of a possible infinite amount of words.. i.e. visu tonal control, would return as "cast visualize act at tonal" and then make a new class called "control" :P
I would also like to know if there is anyway of doing the same with the visualize act as i did with the psalm of healing above, the only catch is that i can only have one psalm at a time but multiple visus on different spells/skills, if there is a way to define a variable for each visu i do and then trigger it to off when the actual one drops (not just any)
the Off message would be:
Your (skill/spell) visu spell is no longer affecting your songs.

thanks alot for any help
--Terl

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

Triggers are permanent settings. They only need to be made once. There's no reason to put a #TR command inside an alias, where it will be remade every time the alias is used.

Your trigger doesn't do anything. All it has is a pattern.
#tr {You begin to sing, infusing your song with magic.}
I'm going to guess that you wanted all the commands after the pattern to be part of the trigger.

#TR {You begin to sing, infusing your song with magic.} {
#VA song_psalm %ctime
#VA s_psalm "ON"
#ALA +60 {p' Psalm about to drop}}

Copy the whole thing and paste it to the COMMAND LINE.

Oops, I seem to have missed the bottom half of your post.
You don't need to use %1. Aliases automatically append unused parameters. As for setting individual alarms for all your "visu's", I'm sure it's possible, but it would require more information than you've given so far.

#AL visu {cast visualize act at}

Beginner Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 10

WOW, thanks :)

Beginner Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 10

hi again
something didnt work :(
i'll explain the whole situation:
I'm bothereing with all this because i made a neat alias. I'm bard in my mud and i can have up to 5 songs at the same time running, later it'll be more, so i'm trying to keep track of those.
the alias is called esongs and echoes all the songs currently running.
for each song that i cast i made an alias, so i can store the vars in it.
i have 2 variables normally for each song
@song_con, @s_con f.e. for constitution.@s_dex,@song_dex for dexterity etc...
esongs those the following:
#SHOW ~] ------- ACTIVE SONGS --------
#IF (@s_str = "ON") {#SHOW ~] Strength Song: [%ctime - @song_str] sec}
#IF (@s_con = "ON") {#SHOW ~] Constitution Song: [%ctime - @song_con] sec}
#IF (@s_dex = "ON") {#SHOW ~] Dexterity Song: [%ctime - @song_dex] sec}
#IF (@s_int = "ON") {#SHOW ~] Intellect Song: [%ctime - @song_int] sec}
#IF (@s_cha = "ON") {#SHOW ~] Charisma Song: [%ctime - @song_cha] sec}
#SHOW ~] -----------------------------

now with the visualize act spell,.. i'd love to put that in this alias showing me what i visualize and how long its been running
the off message for it is easy i think since it has the name of the skill/spell in it.
so how can i convert the stuff from your earlier message regarding visu's into this?

Thanks :)
--Terl

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

I misunderstood your first post. I thought you wanted an alias "visu" which would just "cast visualize act at (skill or spell)".

Beginner Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 10

nod
i can make aliases :)
i'd like to be able to differentiate variables.. without making newones all the time for the visu.
i was thinking maybe it can be done by using #add visu_count +1 and then do something with that :P
But i'm not quite sure how to do it yet.. was pondering over almost all night ;p

again any help/input greatly appreciated.. i think this is almost last difficult thing for my bard set of triggers :)
is there a # or % command to turn parsing on and off?

thx
Terl