Help with Miniature Scripts

[Wheelerm]

I am having a problem with the following script I wrote:


put stance off
wait
put ambush
pause 6
put stance def
waitfor You are now
put hide

So, what happens is the following:

1. I go into an offensive stance,
2. Script waits for the command prompt before proceeding,
3. I ambush whatever it is I'm attacking,
4. The script pauses for 6 seconds in order to wait for the RT timer to expire,
5. I go into a defensive stance,
6. Here is where the "problem" occurs. After the FE reports, "You are now in a defensive stance," the script still just sits there for an additional 3 seconds (approximately, I have not actually timed it),
7. Finally, I hide.

What I want the script to do is the following:

1. go offensive,
2. ambush mob,
3. automatically wait for the RT to expire before proceeding (I don't know how to do this, which is why I have the PAUSE 6 line in my script),
4. after RT has expired, go defensive,
5. immediately hide

Could some of you experienced scripters give me a hand with this?

Thanks.

[Tgo01]

I don't think there is a way to tell the script to wait for round time with a storm front script. As far as it ignoring the wait for part I'm not really sure.

I don't think you even need the wait for command, it should do the commands in order.

[Rolton-Sammich]

The short answer is that you don't need to pause for 6 seconds because Wizard/SF scripts simply don't run in RT.

I'd take out that first "wait" because there's no real reason to pause in between going into offensive and attacking (unless you enjoy hanging around in offensive).


put stance off
put ambush
wait
put stance def
waitfor You are now
put hide

The "wait" I've left there will ensure that the roundtime is accounted for.

Occasionally this will accidentally run during RT -- it's not perfect at timing it out -- in which case you'll get

>stance def
...wait 1 second.
>

And now the script is going to wait until you put yourself in defensive via your own command or macro or whatever.

[Wheelerm]

The short answer is that you don't need to pause for 6 seconds because Wizard/SF scripts simply don't run in RT.

I'd take out that first "wait" because there's no real reason to pause in between going into offensive and attacking (unless you enjoy hanging around in offensive).


put stance off
put ambush
wait
put stance def
waitfor You are now
put hide

The "wait" I've left there will ensure that the roundtime is accounted for.

Occasionally this will accidentally run during RT -- it's not perfect at timing it out -- in which case you'll get

>stance def
...wait 1 second.
>

And now the script is going to wait until you put yourself in defensive via your own command or macro or whatever.

All right, I tried this out and instead of it automatically waiting for the RT to expire, it immediately attempts to go in defensive stance, so I get:

"A XXXX screams one last time and dies.
Roundtime: 5 sec.

R>
...wait 5 seconds."

If I manually enter "stance def" after the RT is over, then it immediately hides.

[Tgo01]

Stop being a holdout, get lich :p

[Wheelerm]

I have lich. :)

What I've done is I've written a series of tiny scripts like this and assigned them a macro. I then mapped those macros over to a Razr Nostromo keymapper. Now, all I have to do is press one button to execute an ambush command. It works great, except for the abnormally long delay between going defensive and hiding.

[Tgo01]

Is this a lich script then? Because want you want done will work a lot better in a lich script.

[Wheelerm]

No, not lich, I wrote it with the standard SF FE scripting tool. I don't know how to write lich scripts, though I suppose I could open one up and try to decompose it.

[Tgo01]

For what you want done it'a pretty similar.

[Wheelerm]

For what you want done it'a pretty similar.

Hmm...I'll take a look at it. In the meantime, I rewrote the script in the following way:


put stance off
put ambush
pause 5
put stance def
waitfor You are now
put hide
wait
put hoot owl

For some reason, the annoyingly long delay between going defensive and hiding is completely gone. The difference between the original script and this one is I took out the first WAIT between lines 1 and 2, and I lowered the PAUSE from 6 seconds to 5 seconds. Another thing that's odd is that the WAIT I inserted between the PUT HIDE and PUT HOOT OWL lines does wait for the 3-second RT to expire before it makes me hoot. When I tried to use the WAIT line between the PUT AMBUSH and PUT STANCE DEF line, it didn't even attempt to wait - I got:

R>
...wait 5 seconds.

So, I guess I'm confused why WAIT seems to wait for the hiding RT to expire, but won't wait for the ambushing RT to expire.

[Tgo01]

waitrt?
multifput "stance off", "ambush"
waitrt?
fput "stance def"
until hiding?
waitrt?
fput "hide"
end


That should do what you want done in a lich script. It will even attempt to keep hiding in case you fail to hide.

[Wheelerm]

Oh, man, you didn't have to do that. That's awesome! I'm going to try to digest this to see what it's doing and see if I can convert all of my other ones over. I've not scripted in Ruby before, so I guess it's time to learn.

Thanks again.

[Tgo01]

If they are pretty simple scripts like this one I wouldn't mind converting some over for you so you can get an idea of how lich scripting works.

[Wheelerm]

If they are pretty simple scripts like this one I wouldn't mind converting some over for you so you can get an idea of how lich scripting works.

Man, that would get me ahead of the curve. The good news is all of them really revolve around six basic circles: melee, warding spells, AS-based spells, utility spells, society abilities, and general/miscellaneous scripts. So, I could give you one or two of each circle and that should have me off to the races to converting all 174 mini-scripts. Since you already gave me an idea with the melee scripts, I'll just copy some examples of the others below:

Bolt Spell Script


put stance off
put inc 118
put stance def
pause 3
put stance def

1. Puts me in Offensive Stance
2. Incants 118
3. Attempts to put me in Defensive Stance, but since in casting RT, goes to guarded
4. Waits for the casting RT to expire
5. Puts me in Defensive Stance

Warding Spell Script


put inc 702
pause 3
put stance def

Casts from guarded, so...

Utility Spell Script I


put prep 511
put cast at %1
pause 3
put stance def

Casts a disk at person. Usage: .disk sentral

Utility Spell Script II


put gird
put prep 116
wait
put cast %1
pause 3
put prep 225
wait
put cast %1
wait
pause 3
put stance def

I use this one for rescues. It locates a person and spirit fogs me to them. Usage: .go2 sentral

Society Ability Script


put sigil of offense
put sigil of minor bane
put sigil of major bane
put sigil of defense
put sigil of minor protection
put sigil of major protection

This one just puts a bunch of GoS sigils on me all at once.

Really cool of you to help with this.

[Tgo01]

Bolt Spell Script

It would probably be better to just use an alias for this.

;eq cast(118);waitcastrt?;fput "stance d"

The ;eq allows you to run script like commands from the command prompt/an alias, using "cast" automatically puts you into offensive stance when you cast bolt spells and will automatically put you into guarded stance right after casting it. The waitcastrt? waits for the cast time to be over and obviously the fput "stance d" puts you into defensive stance.

Warding Spell Script

This will be the same thing really.

;eq cast(702);waitcastrt?;fput "stance d"

Utility Spell Script I

;eq cast(511, "\?")

The \? is what you would type after the alias, for example typing "disk joe" would cast 511 at Joe.

Utility Spell Script II

;eq fput "gird";cast(116, "\?");cast(225, "\?");waitcastrt?;fput "stance def"

The cast command will wait until cast roundtime is over before trying to cast the spell.

Society Ability Script

;eq multifput "sigil of offense", "sigil of minor bane", "sigil of major bane", "sigil of defense", "sigil of minor protection", "sigil of major protection"

If you would much rather do these with an actual script you pretty much just do the same thing except leave out the ;eq.

ETA: I take that last bit back, for the spells you're casting at others you would do the following in a script.

Spell[511].cast(script.vars[1])

I guess cast should work too, I dunno, I always use spell.

[Wheelerm]

Thanks again. There are some spells that I want to cast while in guarded and others I want to cast in offensive. For example, I could cast 118 (web) from guarded and it be an area of effect web, or I could cast it from offensive and it be a bolt version of 118. So, is there a different function from "cast" that will allow me to just cast from guarded or defensive?

The Warding Spell Macro I listed above, the one where it casts 702...in my script, it simply casts from a defensive stance. That's what I'd like to do with my warding spells.

I went through the "20-minute Ruby Tutorial" last night from here (http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/), but got stuck when it wanted me to practice writing a script in a file instead of the Interactive Ruby (bottom of page 3). I can't seem to figure out how to begin a file and the tutorial didn't mention how to do so either. How do I open a file?

Thanks.

[Tgo01]

I imagine with 118 it wouldn't automatically put you into offense stance. As far as casting from a defense stance first just put fput "stance def" in the script before it casts the spell.

[Wheelerm]

I see. If I don't begin the alias with fput "stance off", then it automatically defaults to casting from a defensive stance.

So, for AOE web:

;eq cast(118);waitcastrt?;fput "stance d"

For Bolt web:

;eq fput "stance off";cast(118);waitcastrt?;fput "stance d"

[Wheelerm]

So, after reading some more tutorials, I found that the ruby files are actually text documents that are simply saved with a .rb extension. I saved the "ambush" script you gave me above with a few minor modifications, and it does exactly what I want it to do.

I can't thank you enough for getting me started. This is a huge improvement over the SF scripts I wrote.

[Tgo01]

Just be sure to donate to Tillmen for providing us with lich. He also accepts payment in hookers and coke.

[Wheelerm]

Funny you should say that...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMhgyzUC5S0&feature=share