Damnit. I got the wonderfully laid out snippet of how to put object progs and room progs into a rom24 code that already had olc with mob progs.
I spent the time, put it in, fixed the errors, and promptly started to code the various progs needed for my mud. The problem is....I have become mostly convinced that there is no real way to do 98% of what myself and my builders WANT to do with object progs. My biggest wish...is to have a $* value that you can put in object code that would stand for the character(or mob) who wore/held/wielded the item. for most of the triggers to the progs (such as random, fight, speech)...$n doesn't really work. $r works....if the person wearing the item doesn't enter a room with other creatures (walking into a room with a mob reset's $r as the name of the mob. my deepest wish at this point in time would be to know how I could add another $* target for obj progs... any time the objprog goes off...the new $* target would be whoever wore/held/wielded the item. But, I don't have the coding knowledge to do so...and I've spent a good day and a half working on trying to force obj progs to always and only...and consistently...fire (let me say ONLY again) on the wearer of the item. I do have another dream as well. using obj vforce [vnum] you can make the mob point, emote, social, talk, yell... but for some reason you can't get the damned thing to cast. I created a mob...with the same short name as the item...and a long intricate name so that only that one mob would be affected... using (for example) obj mload 26 obj vforce 26 nudge $r <- of course, there is no $* argument that I know of that will point to the right person obj vforce 26 ' what the obj vforce 26 c continual obj purge specialswordobjprogmob everything works...but the spell. (put the spell in quotes, and it takes the quote to mean "say") I've tried every spell in stock rom....none work. I've checked that the item was higher rank than the mob so the force would work...I've checked that the mob had mana to cast... so...I guess I have two "over the rainbow..it would be a perfect world if.." wishes. a $* target for the wearer... and a way to have objects cast...(or a way for them to force mobs to cast) Out of those of you who have read this far down my long train of thought ramble...if any of you could offer some insight or help or direction on how I can fulfill those two wishes...I would be eternally greatfull.
