Need help with a trigger/script.

I'm trying to do a script where when a mob i'm attacking flee's i follow and re-attack. but not when someone else flees, just someone i'm attacking. so i'm thinkin it'll have to set the enemy name to a variable when i attack, or am attacked, or assist. that way when it flee's it'll know thats the same mob i was attacking and follow. flee msg is on 2 lines:
A dwarven noble panics, and attempts to flee!
A dwarven noble leaves south.

any suggestions on how i could do this? I'm not up to speed on the scripting languages. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Miltazar

Was just thinking, if you use an * in the flee msg you'd need an actual keyword for the mob to initiate combat, so you'd have to parse through the wildcard and get rid of the A and An's and stuff like that, and use the first word. Or some other process...just thought i'd post that just incase. Thanks again for any help anyone provides, i REALLY need to learn more languages...would be a simple task in C or C++. Thanks again:)

Miltazar

The important thing here is to know what it is you are attacking. One way would be to make an alias, and enter the name in the alias, eg.


Alias: KILL *
Send: kill %1
Script: OnKill



The script routine could look like this:


sub OnKill (thename, theoutput, thewildcards)
world.setvariable "mobname", thewildcards (1)
end sub



Then you could make a trigger to catch the mob leaving:


Trigger: * leaves *
Script: OnMobLeaves


The script routine could look like this:


sub OnMobLeaves (thename, theoutput, thewildcards)
if world.getvariable ("mobname") = thewildcards (1) then
world.send wildcards (2)
end if
end sub


I haven't tested this, and there are probably other ways of doing it, but this is a suggestion to get you started. :)