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➜ Random Number function.
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| Posted by
| Shigs
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| Mon 04 Feb 2008 04:42 PM (UTC) |
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| | Sorry for all the silly questions, but I've checked the scriptfunction list and can't find a rand function, is there one and whats the syntax? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| StuDraKi
Germany (17 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Mon 04 Feb 2008 04:50 PM (UTC) Amended on Mon 04 Feb 2008 04:51 PM (UTC) by StuDraKi
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| I've looked for "rand" in the help function and found:
math.random () --> 0.30195013275552 (for example)
math.random (5) --> (a number from 1 to 5)
math.random (4, 8) --> (a number from 4 to 8)
And as it's alua function from the "module" math, it's not in the list of script functions (I assume). | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Shigs
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| Reply #2 on Mon 04 Feb 2008 04:53 PM (UTC) |
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| Ok, it seems having the rand function dosen't help me at all,
What I actually wanted was a command to be inputted after a random number of seconds between 20-30 seconds, given the way timers work I can't do that or can I? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| StuDraKi
Germany (17 posts) Bio
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| Reply #3 on Mon 04 Feb 2008 05:01 PM (UTC) |
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| By the way, there is a speed walk delay in the World Configuration->Input->Commands. but this is giving you a fixed delay.
But back to your question: it's possible, if I understand you correctly. How do you fire this? on an trigger you will send a fixed command with a random delay? Or you will put in "xx command" and after 20-30 seconds the command is send to the mud?
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| Posted by
| Shigs
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| Reply #4 on Mon 04 Feb 2008 07:12 PM (UTC) |
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| | I was initaly thinking of setting a timer for 15 seconds and then having a delay of between 4-14 seconds to launch the command | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #5 on Mon 04 Feb 2008 08:29 PM (UTC) |
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| As well as the MUSHclient functions you are advised to check the help for Lua functions, eg.
http://www.gammon.com.au/scripts/doc.php?general=lua_math
These are language-specific functions (or in some cases extensions I added for Lua) that do stuff like random numbers, sine, cosine, string formatting, and so on.
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What I actually wanted was a command to be inputted after a random number of seconds between 20-30 seconds, given the way timers work I can't do that or can I?
What is wrong with:
That generates a number between 20 and 30, randomly.
Thus you could do:
DoAfter (math.random (20, 30), "sigh")
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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