mob prog - how to activate only if a PC is in room

[Nedylene]

On my time away from the mud I have been spending time building and muddling through it myself. While working with wizinvis mobs that load up certain mobiles, food etc for quests I have a dungeon in the area for the crime code.

There is an if check for if in room, does this check if the MOBILE is in said room or if the PC is in said room?

If this checks that the MOBILE is in said room, how can you make the program only activate IF the PC is in the room?

The program I am trying to put on the mobile is a program that loads up breakfast at 7am and dinner at 21pm ONLY if the PC is in the dungeon. How can we accomplish this?

More questions to come, wanted to keep them seperate for easy searches =)

[Dalvyn]

You would most likely have to use a time_prog (to make it trigger at a given time), or actually two time_prog, one for each hour.

Then, in the program, you could use a pcinroom check. I do not remember the exact syntax (nor the exact name of the check - so it might be a bit different from "pcinroom"), but you'll find it in the web lessons. This check indicates how many PCs are in the room. If that value is > 0, then there is at least one PC, and you can bring in breakfast.

[Nedylene]

I don't suppose I could convince you to post the feed prog from the waterdeep dungeon as example? *goes off to reread the building lessons*

[Japcil]

all the feed prog really is:

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time_prog -1
mpoload ifood
mpecho Someone shoves food from a slit in the cage.
drop ifood

a better one would be:

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time _prog -1
if ovnumhere (ifood) < 1
  mpoload ifood
  mpecho Someone shoves food from a slit in the cage
  drop ifood
endif

[Dalvyn]

An even better one would use the correct form "drop" instead of "mpdrop".

Note that the feed program above triggers on each hour (that's what time_prog -1 means) and that the second version above will only load a new food item if there is none on the ground.

[Japcil]

Eeep. Edited!