HP changing macro

Weero · Post by **Weero** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 5:52 pm

So I'm trying to make a simple macro to change HP with no output in the chat. So far it's been going well...until I wanted to add commands to make sure the TempHP never went below -10, and not over MaxHP. In this one I've tried the -10 command first...

[TempHP]
[HPValue = HPChange]
[NewHP = max(-10, MaxHP + HPValue)]
[TempHP = NewHP]

...What am I doing wrong?

edit: Nevermind...I just had to change MaxHP to TempHP...noob mistake >.<

edit2: Okay...new problem!

[TempHP]
[HPValue = HPChange]
[NewHP = max(MaxHP, min(-10, TempHP - HPValue))]
[TempHP = NewHP]

Sorry if I seem really, really stupid...but I have next to no experience with this kind of stuff. What am I doing wrong now?

edit3: I figured it out...wow, it really helps laying it all out and disassembling everything in the macro before you put it back together.

Here's the finished macro:

[TempHP]
[HPValue = HPChange]
[NewHP = max(MaxHP, min(-10, TempHP + HPValue))]
[TempHP = NewHP]

(All I had to do was change "TempHP - HPValue" to "TempHP + HPValue")

PyroMancer2k · Post by **PyroMancer2k** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:52 pm

While your macro may work it still displays stuff to the chat box. If you don't want stuff to display in Chat you need to use [H:] in your commands.

So [HPValue = HPChange] becomes [H:HPValue = HPChange]

Weero · Post by **Weero** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:59 pm

Will do! Thanks for the input.

edit: Okay, I changed the macro to this:

[H:TempHP]
[H:HPValue = HPChange]
[H:NewHP = min(MaxHP, max(-10, TempHP + HPValue))]
[H:TempHP = NewHP]

But I still get a line in the chat containing nothing. how would I go about not getting that empty line in the chat?

lmarkus001 · Post by **lmarkus001** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:34 pm

Pretty sure you can not get rid of that.

Mr. Pokeylope · Post by **Mr. Pokeylope** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:51 pm

Try adding either /discard or /do to the beginning of the macro; this should execute it without displaying any output.

Weero · Post by **Weero** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:10 pm

Nope, /discard and /do didn't work, but I did try /self, and it does a fine job.

Mr. Pokeylope · Post by **Mr. Pokeylope** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:20 pm

Hmm, /discard must not have made it in yet. Should be in the next build, I suppose.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:24 pm

It was sent a while ago so I dont know if it will ever make it (maybe the patch was too simple

). I will resend it again.

In the meantime you can use the abort function to discard the output, its cant always be used to discard output but it can in this case.

Abort stops the macro processing at the point it is called if the argument is 0 which will discard output so if you tack an [h:abort(0)] on the end of the macro then you will get no output but everything up to that point will still run. It has to be at the end because anything after the abort will not run.

Weero · Post by **Weero** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:22 am

Oooh, nice! I'll be sure to not use it in just anything.