Triggers

Triggers are used to automatically send commands to the game when certain lines of text are received from the game.

How to Create a New Trigger

Triggers are settings that automatically send commands when your character receives specific text from the game. For example, you may want to automatically attack a rat whenever you see one enter the room you are in.

On this page we will demonstrate how to create a new trigger and explain the various settings.

Examples of triggers are linked at the bottom of the page. These examples will help you better understand triggers.

Step 1. Open the settings page and click the 'Reflexes' tab.

Reflexes is a term for all of the settings used to automate the game experience. In order to create a new trigger you must first click on the 'Reflexes' tab as shown in the image below.

Step 2. Click the 'Add' Button and select 'Add a Trigger'.

There are several different reflexes you can create. We want to create a trigger. In order to do this, click the 'Add' button located in the left pane and then click on 'Add a Trigger'. This will create a new, undefined trigger.

Step 3. Options for Triggers.

There are two main parts of a trigger. Matching and Actions.

Matching is used to figure out what text you would like to respond to.

Actions are used tell the game what you want to happen when that text is matched.

Matching Options

The matching part of a trigger is used to tell them game what text you want to react to.

There are five options for matching text.

Trigger Text

In this field you put the text you want to match.

Examples:

• You have recovered balance.
• You have recovered
• recovered balance.
• You have recovered balance.

This works hand in hand with the 'Matching Type' option.

You can match much more complicated text then just text. You can set up triggers to look for text that may not always be the same using regular expressions. This is more complicated and you can check the examples at the bottom of the page for how to do this.

Trigger Name

(Optional) The name of the trigger. The name is an identifier that will show up in your list of triggers. It is not required for your trigger and has nothing to do with the actual operation of the trigger.

Matching Type

There are four options.

• Contains: This will match any line that has your trigger text in it.
• Begins with: Will only match a line that starts with your trigger text in it.
• Exact match: Will only match a line that matches exactly like your trigger text.
• Regular expression: This will match any regular expression patterns. This is advanced, but good to learn.

Whole Words Only

If this box is checked, the trigger will only check whole words. For example:

With 'Whole words only' checked and Trigger Text set to 'You have recovered bal'.

In this case, if the game sends the text - You have recovered balance. - it will not match, because 'balance.' is a different whole word than 'bal'.

If I uncheck 'Whole words only', then the trigger would work.

In almost all cases you will just want to keep 'Whole words only' turned on.

Case Sensitive

If checked, the capitalization from the game must match what is in the trigger.

For example, if this box is checked then 'You have recovered balance' is not the same as 'You HAVE reCOvered balance'.

However, if you uncheck the this option, the example above will work.

Action Options

Once you have matched text from the game, you will want to send an action back.

There are eight different action options.

Send a command

This is the most basic and commonly used action. The trigger will automatically send text back to the game.

Show a notice

The action will just display a notice using whatever colors you choose. Typically players use these to get something to pop out at them so they know it has happened, but they may not want to automatically respond.

Wait

The wait action is usually used in conjunction with other actions. In the example below, we wait 3 seconds and then attack the rat.

Hide the line

You can also opt to just hide any line that matches you trigger. Sometimes this is good for text that you see over and over again and are tired of reading.

This is also refereed to as a gag or gagging.

Highlight

This will highlight the text you have matched. There are more options here to highlight the text around the trigger as well.

Rewrite

A rewrite will change the trigger text into whatever your would like. Players will typically use this to shorten long messages in combat.

Call function

Functions are used when you may be doing something more complicated and would like to use some javascript to make it happen. You can read more about functions here: Functions.

Execute Script

Scripts are just like functions, but you write them in the box provided. You can read more about writing scripts and functions here: Functions.

Examples

Balance Recovery Attack: This is an example of a trigger to automatically attack a target when you recover balance.

Regular Expression Help

• http://www.regular-expressions.info/