Hi everyone.

Macbook hardware crashed on Friday. My new one doesn't have windows/zmud.

I'm struggling to make mudlet workable. I've never used triggers, but am struggling to setup even basic aliases. Ironically, think I have target system worked out, but how about simple macros outside targeting system.

Eg. How do I make "fl" = co 'fly' but if I type "fl bob" make it = co 'fly' bob (without changing whom I'm targeting) this was standard on zmud but not mudlet

2) does anyone have a check affect script? I use to type caffs and it would list missing affects.

Thanks!
Lilyth

I'm trying a lot of your tips! Thanks everyone.

I've got most alias's back and simple targeting.
Still having problems with using non-targeting aliases on 2.something or if two words like locating.. But it isn't game breaking.

Not seeing affects missing as a priest class is hard, but making do.

The HARDEST adjustment for mudlet (which I guarantee let's opponents escape) is:

1) the text seems "bouncy" as it scrolls. Zmud it was almost instant...mudlet I swear I can almost see the lines writing

2) false lag. Sometimes it seems like it's lagging and if I throw in a filler command like "where" THEN it moves.

It's actually making playing less fun, but I'm so USE to zmud. I'm hoping to get my Mac with windows back. If it's erased, I have the zmud/VMware registration, just have to track down my missing windows cd ;)

Oh, and pretty awesome of everyone for the offered tips. Good community

That you're right, you can't use the same alias for both a target and non target with mudlet. I ended up simply writing double alias and just making them very similar to one another to be able to remember.

Sadly, I have no idea how to make a trigger to check for something that isn't even there either. Zmud makes doing these things so easy that they seem simple but they really aren't.

My suggestion would be to either learn to play a different way or just pick up windows again, neither sound very fun but once I got past the initial... oh, I can't do this any more feeling, I improved again.

I started mudding with a Mac, been using Ytin and a few scripts I adapted to suit. By no means a good script writer but can help you with the basics for Mac if you like.

Aliases are easy in mudlet if you just lookup the right format. There is a solid section in the user guid that takes you through making a replacement, setting up a target alias, and using targets in aliases. the syntax is different than what you would see in zMUD but it works all the same.

I think something like this will address your specific request.

the alias trigger is ^fl$ and in the big text box type com fly

that way typing fl will be replaced with com fly and you can do it with the argument optional.



Oh and if you are using mudlet and want to log, log in HTML instead of text, it doesn't record linebreaks otherwise.

For your targeting system, I do the following

I alias "tt" to #var target %1 This sets the variable "target" to whatever follows tt. Example tt lilyth sets my target

next I use the following (for your example of fly)

alias fl to the following

com 'fly' @{target}%param(0)

this does two things, it always hits target first (for offensive stuff) and it accepts an argument after the 'fl' command

for example, if target is set to 'lilyth' and you fl it will "com fly lilyth"

If no target is set, and you type fl bob it will 'com fly bob'

The only issue you may run into, is you need to clear your target (tt with no argument) if you leave it set and try to fl bob you might 'com fly lilyth bob'

I use this gig, and it works REALLY well..for non offensive sups (if you just want the argument with no automatic targeting) alias it to

com 'fly' %param(0)

hope this helps