Item help

[_Epila_]

What should i put into an item script, that when player change to warmode, this equiped item do some thing, for example broadcast "this item has been equiped"

[vermillion2083]

So you want to make it so that if a person is holding a paticular item and goes into warmode with it, it broadcast to the world "PLAYERNAME has equiped ITEMNAME"?

[_Epila_]

yes, exactly that


or any Mobile.On* method like OnHelpRequest and it trhow a message "you cant request help while holding this item"

i want to learn about triggers

[vermillion2083]

Hmm, well WarMode is stored in Mobile.cs which is part of the core. Short of altering that script then recompiling the core that isn’t really possible (that I am aware of at this time, I haven’t had much time to research this issue).

Rather then making it send a global message every time someone goes into war mode while holding the weapon I would make it so when a person equips the item it sends the message. I would do this for three reasons

1) People tend to spam in and out of war mode when hiding to keep their opponent from revealing them by walking into them (which would result in a very annoying server spam)

2) because it makes more sense to warn the players when the person begins to wield the weapon, not when they go into war mode and intend to use it (from a role-playing perspective, because you are unaware of a persons intentions).

3) It’s a lot easier to code the on equip method then it is the entering in and out of war mode method.

To accomplish this you would add an OnEquip override into the item in question. Something like this:

		public override bool OnEquip( Mobile from )
		{
			World.Broadcast( 0x35, true, "{0} has equiped a {1}.", from.RawName.ToString(), this.Name.ToString() );
			base.OnEquip( from );
		}

The 0x35 is the hue of the text that is globally sent. The above code placed inside the item itself will result in the message (assuming the player equipping the item name is bob, and the item is named "Glacial Spear"):

"Bob has equipped a Glacial Spear".

Personally in my opinion spamming bob's every action to the entire server could get fairly annoying over time, so I would suggest having this message only be send to the people in bobs remote area, either via MobilesInRange or via Region.

I hope this was helpful, good luck with your project!

[_Epila_]

hehe, the world broadcast is to learning pruposes, but helped a lot

when equiping the item, is possible to add some kind of "event" and in this event we override the players triggers
or i cant modify the original player trigger without modifing Mobiles.cs