Quick lil question

[Tangeleno]

Ok so I read the manual and I was wondering how I would go about checking two things in an /if statement. I need to check to make sure a mob isn't in melee range and won't be in the next second or two.

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/if $target(distance) <= $target(maxrange)

I'm pretty sure thats checking to make sure the mob isn't in melee range at the moment. If not please correct me. Any help would be great.


TIA

[MacroFiend]

Don't put spaces between the comparison and you should be ok.

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/if $target(distance)<=$target(maxrange)

[Tangeleno]

Oh alright thank you didn't know about that.:) Do you know anything about how to check more than one instance in the same if?

[dont_know_at_all]

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/if [color=red]n[/color] $target(distance)<=$target(maxrange)

[Bad Karma]

Yeah, don't forget the 'n' as DKAA pointed out for numerical comp's.

As for more than one instance in the same /if...what exactly do you mean? More than one mob in one /if?

You could set an array and cycle through it.

Or, check $spawn(radius)

[Gumby]

Ok so I read the manual and I was wondering how I would go about checking two things in an /if statement. I need to check to make sure a mob isn't in melee range and won't be in the next second or two.

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/if $target(distance) <= $target(maxrange)

I'm pretty sure thats checking to make sure the mob isn't in melee range at the moment. If not please correct me. :( Any help would be great.

Well as DKAA / Macrofiend corrected, that'd check to see if a mob is within it's melee radius of you.

The second part, if I understand your question correctly, intrigued me enough while waiting for a rez to do a quick test to see how far something moves per unit time. Don't know if this or something akin to this has been before and I apologize in advance if so, but here's my test code and trial conditions. Was useful experiment for me, may work into a kite routine for various conditions, data may be useful to someone else too.

Trialconditions: North Karana for the zone
4 Tests, unbuffed, SoW, SoE, FoE. 60 second times on each, 1 second instant in time speed slices to attempt to account for variation due to obstacles. Data's slightly off as I had small hills on the first two tests which were mostly negated by SoE/FoE on the second two, and there are rounding estimation errors time and other data and others but for a quick ballpark estimate it'll play:

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#turbo

Sub Main
  /declare OriginalY     global
  /declare OriginalX     global
  /declare SpeedArray    array
  /declare TotalSpeed    global
  /declare InitSpeed     global
  /declare TotalDist     global
  /declare i             global
  /declare InitTime      global
  /declare TotalTime     global
  /declare DistPerTime   global
  /declare AverageSpeed  global

  /echo Macro Start
  /varset TotalSpeed 0
  /varset InitSpeed $char(speed)
  /varset InitTime  $running
  /varset OriginalY $char(y)
  /varset OriginalX $char(x)  
  /for i 0 to 59 do
     /varset SpeedArray(@i) $char(speed)
     /delay 10
  /next i
  /varset TotalDist $distance(@OriginalY,@OriginalX)
  /mqlog TotalDist @TotalDist
  /varset TotalTime $calc($running-@InitTime)
  /mqlog TotalTime @TotalTime
  /mqlog InitSpeed @InitSpeed
  /for i 0 to 59 do
     /varadd TotalSpeed @SpeedArray(@i)
  /next i
  /mqlog TotalSpeed @TotalSpeed
  /varset AverageSpeed $calc(@TotalSpeed/@TotalTime)
  /mqlog AverageSpeed @AverageSpeed
  /varset DistPerTime $calc(@TotalDist/@TotalTime)
  /mqlog DistPerTime @DistPerTime
  /mqlog AverageSpeed/DistPerTime: $calc(@AverageSpeed/@DistPerTime)
/return

Result set:

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Unbuffed/RS3:
[2004/02/21 19:20:02] TotalDist 2327
[2004/02/21 19:20:02] TotalTime 60.00
[2004/02/21 19:20:02] InitSpeed 130.00
[2004/02/21 19:20:02] TotalSpeed 7800.00
[2004/02/21 19:20:02] AverageSpeed 130.00
[2004/02/21 19:20:02] DistPerTime 38.78
[2004/02/21 19:20:02] AverageSpeed/DistPerTime: 3.35

Buffed: SoW
[2004/02/21 19:21:21] TotalDist 2773
[2004/02/21 19:21:21] TotalTime 60.00
[2004/02/21 19:21:21] InitSpeed 155.00
[2004/02/21 19:21:21] TotalSpeed 9300.00
[2004/02/21 19:21:21] AverageSpeed 155.00
[2004/02/21 19:21:21] DistPerTime 46.22
[2004/02/21 19:21:21] AverageSpeed/DistPerTime: 3.35

Buffed: SoE
[2004/02/21 19:25:34] TotalDist 2861
[2004/02/21 19:25:34] TotalTime 59.00
[2004/02/21 19:25:34] InitSpeed 160.00
[2004/02/21 19:25:34] TotalSpeed 9600.00
[2004/02/21 19:25:34] AverageSpeed 162.71
[2004/02/21 19:25:34] DistPerTime 48.49
[2004/02/21 19:25:34] AverageSpeed/DistPerTime: 3.36

Buffed: FoE
[2004/02/21 19:28:17] TotalDist 2948
[2004/02/21 19:28:17] TotalTime 59.00
[2004/02/21 19:28:17] InitSpeed 165.00
[2004/02/21 19:28:17] TotalSpeed 9900.00
[2004/02/21 19:28:17] AverageSpeed 167.80
[2004/02/21 19:28:17] DistPerTime 49.97
[2004/02/21 19:28:17] AverageSpeed/DistPerTime: 3.36

To summarize: It appears as though characters / spawns will move approximately 1 distance per second for each 3.35-3.36 speed (probably could've stated this clearer in the log / analysis).

So to check to see if an incoming mob will be within melee range within a given amount of time in seconds (@Time) based upon it's speed (full, walking, snared, whatever), you can use something like this assuming the mob is headed towards you (using 3.35 as the more conservative number for this application):

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/if n $calc($calc($target(speed)/3.35)*@Time)<=$calc($target(distance)-$target(maxrange)) {
   // do stuff while mob is outside of melee range for @Time seconds
} 

Probably to play it safe you'd be better off dropping the 3.35 value down to 3 to give an extra margin of safety.

Hope this helps,

G

[Tangeleno]

Ok what i mean by two instances is in some other programming language ,not sure which, theres an & or && comparitive. So what I need is to check to make sure the mob is not within melee range and won't be in a couple of seconds which would be

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/if n $target(distance)<=$target(maxrange)&&(what ever here to make sure its not going to be in melee range in a second or two)

If the && or & comparitives exist. But as to what I plan on doing is getting this little bugger to automatically sit me down every tic so I get the mana and HP regen while sitting. Dunno if it's been done before and to tell you the truth I wanna make it on my own, with a 'lil help of course :).

[ml2517]

http://macroquest2.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... ght=#35420

[Gumby]

If it won't be in melee range for a couple of seconds, it's a pretty safe assumption it's not in melee range now :).

Don't need the compound operator as you really only need one check in this instance.

G

[Tangeleno]

. . . . Ya know gumby that thought never even came across my mind. :) but you are right. Thank you all for the help.