Randomly Choose a quest::say()

[Luccian]

Hello again. After getting a problem solved yesterday involving randomly choosing pauses between actions in a loop I decided to try using that same idea with phrases said upon hail.
This semi works, in the sense that when a player hails the NPC, they emote and say things, however it says all the options given.
I'm not sure how it should be scripted, but basically I'm looking to have a player be able to Hail this NPC, or group of NPCs sharing the same name, and have the NPC randomly choose a response based on what is put in the $randomphrase values rolled by the RandomRange plugin.

sub EVENT_SAY 
{
	if($text=~/Hail/)
	{
		quest::emote("appears to be one of Zimora's chosen elite. Light glistens off the shined plate armor.");
		# Random choice of phrases to be said
		my $randomphrase=plugin::RandomRange(1,3);
			if($randomphrase=1)
			{
				quest::say(Hello);
			}
			if($randomphrase=2)
			{
				quest::say(Hi);
			}
			if($randomphrase=3)
			{
				quest::say(Heya);
			}
	}
}

I used easy basic responses til I can get it to work out correctly. Appreciate the help in advance.

[lerxst2112]

if(x = y) means assign y to x and proceed if x is not 0.
if(x == y) means proceed if x is equal to y.

[trevius]

Also, remember to always quote strings. You have it like this:

quest::say(Hello);

It should be like this:

quest::say("Hello");

[Luccian]

So it should look something like this?

sub EVENT_SAY 
{
	if($text=~/Hail/)
	{
		quest::emote("appears to be one of Zimora's chosen elite. Light glistens off the shined plate armor.");
		# Random choice of phrases to be said
		my $randomphrase=plugin::RandomRange(1,3);
			if($randomphrase==1)
			{
				quest::say("Hello");
			}
			if($randomphrase==2)
			{
				quest::say("Hi");
			}
			if($randomphrase==3)
			{
				quest::say("Heya");
			}
	}
}

I'll try and see if it works, just wanted to make sure I understood what you meant leerxst2112

[Luccian]

Works as intended now! Thanks again for the help. Much appreciated =)
I may have questions about your formation_tools.pl sometime as well Trev. Had a pretty nifty idea, and will try to execute before asking to much

[sorvani]

You should also think about using if and elsif statements so the server doesn't have to check each if statement even after it hit the right one and fired.

[trevius]

Or, you can always use plugin::RandomSay() to make it really easy. Here is the plugin if you don't already have it. I keep it in a file named messages.pl, but not sure what it is on the plugin SVN offhand.

###Usage: plugin::RandomSay(chance(1-100), "message1","message2", etc..);
# Example: plugin::RandomSay(50, "I'll get you!", "Get over here!", "That's it!");
sub RandomSay {
	my $chance = $_[0];

	# First roll to see if a message will be sent or not depending on chance
	my $RandomNum = plugin::RandomRange(1, 100);
	
	# Choose the random message to send and send it
	if ($RandomNum <= $chance)
	{
		$MessageCount = @_;
		my $RandMessage = plugin::RandomRange(1, $MessageCount - 1);
		quest::say($_[$RandMessage]);
	}
}

[Luccian]

Thanks for the additional support. I didn't know how to really properly use the elseif commands, thought I felt like it was the right way to go. So I tried to use the same type of script I used for the random animations I was using.

I like the random say plugin, I definitely will use that!

[sorvani]

Originally Posted by Luccian

Thanks for the additional support. I didn't know how to really properly use the elseif commands, thought I felt like it was the right way to go. So I tried to use the same type of script I used for the random animations I was using.

I like the random say plugin, I definitely will use that!

The plugin is the way to go, but for your reference:

sub EVENT_SAY 
{
	if($text=~/Hail/)
	{
		quest::emote("appears to be one of Zimora's chosen elite. Light glistens off the shined plate armor.");
		# Random choice of phrases to be said
		my $randomphrase=plugin::RandomRange(1,3);
			if($randomphrase==1) {
				quest::say("Hello");
			} elsif($randomphrase==2) {
				quest::say("Hi");
			} elsif($randomphrase==3) {
				quest::say("Heya");
			}
	}
}

[Luccian]

Originally Posted by sorvani

The plugin is the way to go, but for your reference:

sub EVENT_SAY 
{
	if($text=~/Hail/)
	{
		quest::emote("appears to be one of Zimora's chosen elite. Light glistens off the shined plate armor.");
		# Random choice of phrases to be said
		my $randomphrase=plugin::RandomRange(1,3);
			if($randomphrase==1) {
				quest::say("Hello");
			} elsif($randomphrase==2) {
				quest::say("Hi");
			} elsif($randomphrase==3) {
				quest::say("Heya");
			}
	}
}

Ah ok, yeah I figured it would look kinda like that, however the formatting wasn't clear to me. Thanks for clarifying =) I can use this kinda knowledge for future ventures as well. Appreciate it.