Because playing the game is too intimidating, I entertained myself learning triggers by making something that might be useful for those who use screen readers with Armageddon. These features were suggested on Discord.
This tintin++ script does the following:
- Supress the opening ascii, turn on brief menus right away, and gag lines up to entering your account name.
- Supresses the prompt, but captures all the values into variables
- Gives you aliases to access the prompt values
- Prints how much your hp/mv/mn/st drops by when it does, this can be turned on and off with "showdrops"
- Prints an alert when health or focus is less than 10% of max
- Inserts spaces between the room exit directions, when brief mode is enabled. For example "Caravan Road [NEW]" will be Caravan Road [N E W]
How to use it:
There is an alias "myprompt" which sets up the prompt so it is captured, and also adds colour to the room name and exits which is used to reliably capture/reformat. Then the key prompt aliases are hp, mv, stun, mn, and fs. you can also type maxhp, maxmv etc. The other prompt values you can access via alias are invis, pos, flying, lang, riding, speed, armed, enc, scanning.
The script:
#NOP INSERT ANY CONFIGS HERE... ARM IGNORES SCREEN READER MTTS ANYWAYS BUT COMMAND ECHOS PROBABLY NOT DESIRABLE;
#config {SCREEN READER} {ON}
#config {COMMAND ECHO} {OFF}
#NOP PACKET PATCH IS IMPORTANT FOR ARM, TRIGGERS MISBEHAVE WITHOUT IT;
#config {PACKET PATCH} {0.20}
#NOP This gags the default launch menu of Armageddon and changes it to brief;
#event {SESSION CONNECTED} {#showme Welcome to Armageddon!; #line gag 37; B; C;}
#NOP SET PROMPT FOR CAPTURE, AND ROOMNAME/EXIT COLOURS FOR CAPTURE;
#alias myprompt {
prompt hp:%h/%H mn:%m/%M mv:%v/%V st:%t/%T fs:%x/%X [%i] [%s] [%f] [%o] [%a] [%k] [%w] [%A] [%E] [%p] FINPROMPT;
change color fg_room_name 105;
change color fg_room_exits 111;
}
#NOP ALIAS FOR TURNING OFF PRINTING OF PROMPT CHANGES;
#var showdrops on;
#alias {showdrops} {
#if {"$showdrops" == "on"} {#var showdrops off};#else {#var showdrops on};
#showme Printing prompt changes now ${showdrops}.
};
#NOP ACTION CAPTURES PROMPT VALUES AND STORES THEM, PRINTS CHANGES;
#action {hp:%1/%2 mn:%3/%4 mv:%5/%6 st:%7/%8 fs:%9/%10 [%11] [%12] [%13] [%14] [%15] [%16] [%17] [%18] [%19] [%20] FINPROMPT} {
#if {&{h}} {
#math {d_h} {$h - %1};
#math {d_v} {$v - %5};
#math {d_m} {$m - %3};
#math {d_t} {$t - %7};
#if {$d_h > 0 && "$showdrops" == "on"} {#showme Lost $d_h health};
#if {$d_v > 0 && "$showdrops" == "on"} {#showme Lost $d_v movement};
#if {$d_m > 0 && "$showdrops" == "on"} {#showme Lost $d_m mana};
#if {$d_t > 0 && "$showdrops" == "on"} {#showme Lost $d_t stun};
#if {$x/$X >= 0.1 && %9/%10 < 0.1} {#showme Focus critical!};
#if {$h/$H >= 0.1 && %1/%2 < 0.1} {#showme Health critical!};
};
#var h %1;
#var H %2;
#var m %3;
#var M %4;
#var v %5;
#var V %6;
#var t %7;
#var T %8;
#var x %9;
#var X %10;
#var i %11;
#var s %12;
#var f %13;
#var o %14;
#var a %15;
#var k %16;
#var w %17;
#var A %18;
#var E %19;
#var p %20;
} {1};
#NOP GAG THE PROMPT;
#substitute {hp:%*FINPROMPT} {};
#alias {hp} {#showme $h health.}
#alias {maxhp} {#showme $H max health.}
#alias {mv} {#showme $v movement.}
#alias {maxmv} {#showme $V max movement.}
#alias {stun} {#showme $t stun.}
#alias {maxstun} {#showme $T max stun.}
#alias {mn} {#showme $m mana.}
#alias {maxmn} {#showme $M max mana.}
#alias {fs} {#showme $x focus.}
#alias {maxfs} {#showme $X max focus.}
#alias {invis} {#showme Invisibility status: $i.}
#alias {pos} {#showme Position: $s.}
#alias {flying} {#showme Flying status: $f.}
#alias {lang} {#showme Speaking $o with a %a accent.}
#alias {riding} {#showme $k.}
#alias {speed} {#showme You are $w.}
#alias {armed} {#showme You are $A.}
#alias {enc} {#showme Encumbrance $E.}
#alias {scanning} {#showme $p.}
#NOP THESE FUNCTIONS PUT SPACES BETWEEN CHARACTERS WITHIN ROOMEXITS; MIGHT NEED A FIX FOR 'LEAVE';
#substitute {~\e[38;5;105m%1\e[0m\e[38;5;111m [%2]\e[0m} {\e[38;5;105m%1\e[0m\e[38;5;111m [@space_exits{%1;%2}]\e[0m}
#function space_exits
{
#var roomname %1;
#list roomexits tokenize {%2};
#list roomexits collapse { };
#return $roomexits
}
#NOP Separate input from output with split;
#split 0 0;
#NOP Connect to Arm;
#session Armageddon ginka.armageddon.org 4050
added #split 0 0 to separate input from console per tt++ faq suggestions