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Magician Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 317 Location: Denmark

CMUD should be able to get parameters like hp, mana, etc. and store the value under the System|GSL class.

I can't find those variables. Can anyone tell me if this feature is supposed to work? Maybe tell me how I find them.

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

Dragonrealms customer, or Gemstone? These things are governed by GSL codes and should be getting created automatically, but these particular GSL codes are not used in Dragonrealms. If you want to get that information, you either need to set up a text triggering system that tracks game/command messaging OR you need to enter stormfront mode and handle the XML stream via MXP and plain triggers.

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:01 pm

Actually, I think kjaerhus is talking about the variables listed in the GSL Variables preferences screen. Like with zMUD, CMUD allows you to enter the names of variables that you want to automatically track various GSL values, like hp, mana, etc. My guess is that this is a bug regarding where the variables get created, since the System/GSL class no longer exists by default.

So, I *thought* this feature was working, but you might want to look through your settings to see if the variables listed in the preferences screen might be getting created in a different class folder somewhere.

Magician Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 317 Location: Denmark

It is indeed the GSL Variables I am talking about, Zugg.

I searched for them and they are nowhere to be found. Now I must admit I don't know what variable names there are for Dragonrealms so I just assumed that the default ones would work since you put them there. Under all circumstances I would have thought that the variables would be created somewhere- with or without useful information.

Magician Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 317 Location: Denmark

A related problem:

The %gsl(X) which should work in Dragonrealms according to the documentation is not providing any information for me either.

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

There's no X tag in Dragonrealms, Kjaerhus. Mind posting a link or the contents of what you're looking at? Either you misinterpreted the X as a literal tag when it was supposed to be a variable (X being any valid GSL tag) or the documentation was not written from the perspective of Dragonrealms.

When it comes to Dragonrealms, absolutely none of the stuff on the GSL Variables tab will ever work for you as designed by Zugg. None of that stuff exists in Dragonrealms.

Magician Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 317 Location: Denmark

Sorry to confuse you, Matt. Smile

It was meant as the literal 'X', not as a variable. In the documentation (http://forums.zuggsoft.com/modules/mx_kb/kb.php?mode=doc&index=cmud_%25gsl&page=3&refpage=3) it says specifically that this will get hitpoints from Dragonrealms and Gemstone. Other literals like 'l' and 'm' can be used to retrieve contents of left and right hand respectively for instance and there is more perhaps useful information if you can figure out what's behind the values.

I seem to remember that I've seen gauges for health and mana in Simutronics' own clients so I hoped maybe I could get my hands on them too.

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

Ok, that example is not applicable to Dragonrealms. GSL-dependant Simutronics clients work the same as ZMud does when it comes to the GSL tags. Each of them supports all the tags that appear in ANY game (which means that %gsl(X) does indeed work, just not in Dragonrealms), but the code that deals with the tags doesn't fire until the tag actually comes. Since none of the gauge- or variable-related tags exist in Dragonrealms, any code that might do something special with the information besides setting up the internal %gsl() variables simply does not get a chance to run.

Thus, you'll never see and have never seen health/mana gauges in any of the GSL-dependant Simutronics clients when logging into Dragonrealms. Stormfront is not a GSL-dependant client, instead using XML which is very similar to MXP.