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Posted by Eammon Wright   (17 posts)  Bio
Date Tue 29 Sep 2020 06:07 PM (UTC)
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Ok, so those that have helped me learn so far know, i'm learning lua making a bot that will walk a square path on this beach, stop when he sees a creature, check stats, kill creature, then resume his path. I want this to run a loop so when he hits the final square he goes back to square one and starts over if that makes sense. So the next part is an Array or a Table I think from what ive read.


ArrayBeach = {w,w,w,w,w,n,e,e,e,e,e,n,w,w,w,w,w,n,e,e,e,e,e,n,w,w,w,w,w,n,e,e,e,e,e,s,s,s,s,s,s,s}

DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[1])


Now I know very little about this still so i'm taking it one step at a time. I have the array, and when i run the keyword it just does nothing. So if someone is again willing to help, where is my first step in fixing what is wrong with this?
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,120 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #1 on Wed 30 Sep 2020 01:01 AM (UTC)
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You need to use "w" rather than w.

eg.


ArrayBeach = {"w", "w", ... , "s"}



Your array is filled with the contents of variables n, s, e and w which are probably all nil (because they won't exist) and thus the array is full of nils, and effectively empty.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Eammon Wright   (17 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #2 on Wed 30 Sep 2020 01:11 PM (UTC)
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Ok so that worked great, simple mistake.


ArrayBeach = {"w","w","w","w","w","n","e","e","e","e","e","n","w","w","w","w","w","n","e","e","e","e","e","n","w","w","w","w","w","n","e","e","e","e","e","s","s","s","s","s","s","s"}

DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[1])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[2])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[3])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[4])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[5])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[6])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[7])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[8])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[9])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[10])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[11])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[12])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[13])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[14])
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DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[17])
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DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[38])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[39])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[40])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[41])
DoAfter (5,ArrayBeach[42])


This is just the beggining of it but this will run the whole map, however, it only does the first doafter. After that it speedruns the whole thing. Any thoughts on that problem?
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,120 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #3 on Thu 01 Oct 2020 07:10 AM (UTC)
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You have heard of loops, haven’t you?

Although that will do them all after 5 seconds. Maybe you want:

That does each one 5 seconds apart.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Eammon Wright   (17 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #4 on Thu 01 Oct 2020 11:47 AM (UTC)

Amended on Thu 01 Oct 2020 12:03 PM (UTC) by Eammon Wright

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That's Awesome, Yes sir. I was reading about loops, however, I was completley unsure if it was possible to have a loop set up, but stop when he comes across a creature, run the creature script, kill, wait and heal, then resume. Plus the loops were a little confusing for me.

Well I know it's possible, I just assumed it was wat too difficult for someone at my level, so Piece by piece it is.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,120 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #5 on Thu 01 Oct 2020 10:41 PM (UTC)
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My loop won’t do that, but then neither would your long list of DoAfter do it either.

You need something we discussed elsewhere, where you build the directions into a “wait” alias, where you do something like:

  • Send a direction
  • Wait for a message indicating you have changed rooms, and see if there is a mob there (and which one it is)
  • Attack if necessary
  • Wait a few seconds perhaps
  • Advance to next direction in the list (wrapping at the end)
  • Go back to first point above.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Eammon Wright   (17 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #6 on Fri 02 Oct 2020 11:29 AM (UTC)
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Yes sir. That's exactly what i'm looking to learn to do. So now that I have the bassic loop and map layout, what would be thr prooper way to pause that loop when I see one of those 3 creatures?
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,120 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #7 on Sat 03 Oct 2020 05:17 AM (UTC)
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Looking at your other thread about this you need to use the concepts there. Now I’m not going to write your bot for you, but this is the general structure:

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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