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Hey guys, how would I write a script that would signal to spawn 1 mob after you kill 4 other mobs? I'm workin on writing a quest script that will require you to kill 4 mobs in each wing of PoT A and then once those 4 are down then in the middle of the zone a bigger guy will spawn. I know it involves quest::signal and quest::signalwith, but I'm not sure how you would make it require 4 signals from those 4 mobs to spawn the bigger guy.

I know to spawn a mob after 1 kill its

Killed mob.pl

sub EVENT_DEATH
{
quest::signalwith(npc_id, 1, 0)
}

signalled mob.pl

sub EVENT_SIGNAL
{
quest::say("Testing.");
}

But I'm not sure what would you write to require the signalled mob to need those 4 signals to spawn. Any ideas? Still kinda new at this quest scripting thing.

I'm sure you can use signalling (which I am not too familiar with - I refer to other signalling scripts like Schmendrick in lakerathe) - but I think you can also use the quest_global tables to achieve your goals as well. Set the NPCs to use qglobals, then make your script update (maybe a bitwise value?) and when you get to your 4-dead total, fire off the spawn of the 5th guy.

Ok, thanks. You got any advice on how to set globals then? Never used them before so like whats the proper syntax when using quest::global? I looked in the quest tutorial section and its got like the variable name and all that for the syntax but what does all of that mean and how would I Set a global for something like signalling mobs to spawn 1 big guy after those 4 are dead.

I guess this document is unavailable anymore, so here it is. Quest writers, rejoice!

http://eq.mmoemulators.com/files/EQEmuQuestLexicon.pdf

Wow...thanks for that John. Didnt find that yet, maybe I Just didn't search the wiki hard enough, I dunno, but yup that will definately help me with all my questing needs!

No I wasn't being sarcastic for once... I don't know who hosts that anymore. Maybe it's on the emu sourceforge. Anyway, it's a little old but a great document.

I used that guide for a script almost exactly like you want. You can look this code over for examples.

Code:

# nadox

# a_Luggald_High_Priest.pl

# a_luggald_apprentice.pl

# respawn named mob on a #Garodizan_Razorfin (227113) death

# Enestox, Angelox

#

# The High Priest (227081) will spawn Innoruuk (186107) 30 seconds after

# all four luggald apprentices (227089) are dead if the ceremony doesn't end.

# The timer kills the ceremony at 10 minutes from the first kill.

# The 10 minute timer also is the repop time of the apprentices.

# JrFaust



sub EVENT_ATTACK {

 quest::signalwith(227081,1,0);

}

   

sub EVENT_DEATH{

 quest::signalwith(227081,2,30);

 my $random_result = int(rand(100));

 my $a = 227113;#Garodizan_Razorfin

 my $x = $npc->GetX();

 my $y = $npc->GetY();

 my $z = $npc->GetZ(); 

 my $h = $npc->GetHeading();

 if (($random_result<=5) && ($razo==2)){

  quest::spawn2($a,1,0,$x,$y,$z,$h);

  quest::delglobal("razo");

  quest::setglobal("razo","3","3","F");

  $razo=undef;

  }else{

  #do nothing 

 }

}



# EOF zone: nadox NPCs:#Garodizan_Razorfin (227113)

Code:

# respawn named mob on a #Garodizan_Razorfin (227113) death

# Enestox, Angelox

#

# The High Priest (227081) will spawn Innoruuk (186107) 30 seconds after

# all four luggald apprentices (227089) are dead if the ceremony doesn't end.

# The timer kills the ceremony at 10 minutes from the first kill.

# The 10 minute timer also is the repop time of the apprentices.

# JrFaust



my $counter;



sub EVENT_SPAWN {

  $counter = 0;

}



sub EVENT_SIGNAL {

  $counter += 1;

  if ($signal == 1){

    if ($counter == 1){

      quest::say("And the ceremony begins.");

    }

  }

  if ($signal == 2){

    quest::settimer("ceremony",600);

    if ($counter == 8){

      quest::say("Innoruuk protect us!");

      quest::settimer("inny",30);

      quest::stoptimer("ceremony");

      $counter = 0;

    }

   }

}



sub EVENT_TIMER{

  if ($timername == "ceremony"){

    quest::stoptimer("ceremony");

    $counter = 0;

  }

  if ($timername == "inny"){

    quest::stoptimer("inny");

    quest::unique_spawn(186107,0,0,1714.00,669.00,-87.00);

  }

}

   

sub EVENT_DEATH{

 my $random_result = int(rand(100));

 my $a = 227113;#Garodizan_Razorfin

 my $x = $npc->GetX();

 my $y = $npc->GetY();

 my $z = $npc->GetZ(); 

 my $h = $npc->GetHeading();

 if (($random_result<=5) && ($razo==2)){

  quest::spawn2($a,1,0,$x,$y,$z,$h);

  quest::delglobal("razo");

  quest::setglobal("razo","3","3","F");

  $razo=undef;

  }else{

  #do nothing 

 }

 quest::stoptimer("ceremony");

}



# EOF zone: nadox NPCs:#Garodizan_Razorfin (227113)

Good example there :) You can also check the Doomshade event in the umbral directory as well, it does a pretty good job.

You kill the 4 dark masters to trigger Doomshade, the trigger event is in the a_tortured_scream file, it seems very clean.

Ok thanks guys, I'll keep all that in mind. Gonna look at the quest in the umbral directory right now. I should have a script together in the next couple of days, making the other 3 encounters first, and if it doesn't seem to be working correctly then I'll post it here for some pointers. Thanks!