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Kvetch:

10. OBJECT TRANSFORM

This can be used to make it appear as if an object breaks when it is

dropped, or to magically change into something new when you wear it

or remove it.



EXAMPLES:

1. Wear trigger:

if %self.vnum% == 23603

%send% %actor% You put a spider on your nose!

%echoaround% %actor% puts a spider on their nose. YUK!

%echo% The Spider spins its web over its new home!

otransform 23604

end

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2. Rem trigger:

if %self.vnum% ==23604

return 0

%send% %actor% You struggle but just cannot get the sticky web off your

face.

%echoaround% %actor% struggles but just cannot get the sticky web off their

face.

otransform 23603

end

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Drop trigger, object 230:

if %self.vnum% == 230

wait 1

%echo% As the vial hits the floor, it shatters into tiny fragments.

%echo% A pool of red fluid spreads on the floor.

%transform% 231

end

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(231 is a pool of liquid with glass shards, with no take flag)



When an object transforms to a new vnum, the scripts set on the

original object will follow over to the new vnum. To avoid this, and

to make sure that the right scripts are attached to the new object,

you use the commands dg_attach and dg_detach:

dg_attach <vnum of trigger> <id of object to attach it to>

dg_detach <vnum of trigger> <id of object to remove it from>

Kvetch:
11. ROOM SWITCH

This is a neat trick, a player with a certain flag is taken to a different

room than everybody else when he enters a certain room. The new room can

have an identical desc, but contain a reward, or perhaps an entrance to a

part of the zone that you cannot get to without the flag. Since there are

no messages it's hard for the players to figure out what happens.



Make two different rooms and use an Enter trigger:



if %actor.varexists(whatever)%

 eval r %actor.room%

 %door% %r% %direction% door <vnum of second room>

 wait 1

 %door% %r% %direction% door <vnum of first room>

end



EXAMPLE

if %actor.varexits(NewRoom)%

 eval r %actor.room%

 %door% %r% east door 1220

 wait 1

 %door% %r% east door 1221

end

Kvetch:
12. ENTER RESTRICTION

This simple loop on an Enter script can stop the actor from entering the

room, unless he's got a certain flag. You can put in a message, but it is

even more frustrating without. The exit east is there, but nothing happens

when you type east.



EXAMPLE:

if !%actor.varexists(whatever)%

 return 0

 %send% %actor% Alas, you cannot go that way...

end

Kvetch:

13. RANDOM LOAD MOBS

Sometimes it can be useful to make a mob load in random rooms,

when the zone resets. If nothing else it makes for more variation

and makes the mob a bit harder to find. (The mob only appears in

a new room if it is killed before the zone resets).



For: mobiles

type:load

narg: 100

commands:

set num1 <first.room.in.zone.vnum>

eval room (%num1%+%random.<total.number.of.rooms.in.zone>%)

if (%room.name%!=0)||("%room.name%"!="")

*this makes sure the room exists

mgoto %room%

end

Kvetch:
14. RANDOM LOAD OBJECTS

Making objects load in random rooms is a bit trickier. You have

to make a mob that teleports around and drops them. Make the mob

purge itself after it dropped the object, if you want a new object

to appear every time the zone resets. Otherwise the object only

appears if the mob is killed before the reset. Both principles

can be equally useful.

The script below will make the mob drop a given number of the

item randomly in any of the rooms of the zone each time he is

loaded after a reboot or getting killed.



for: mobiles

type: load

narg: 100

arg:

commands:

set num1 <first.room.of.zone.vnum>

set total <total.amount.of.items.to.be.randomly.distributed>

set what <vnum.of.item.to.be.distributed>

set count 0

while (%count%<%total%)

eval count (%count+1)

%load% obj %what%

eval room (%num1%+%random.<total.number.of.rooms.in.zone>%)

mat %room% drop <name.of.the.item>

done

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