Question dg_script question

I'm attempting to create a script for an item in my mud, it will act like a two-way portal, like this:

Tom drops a gateway on the ground.

Tom types "enter gateway" and is transported to a specified location.

Tom types "leave gateway" and is transported back to the spot where the gateway currently is.

Being dropped on the ground has the potential hazard of mobs or other players picking it up.

I have this for a start:

Code:

if %cmd.mudcommand% == enter && gateway /= %arg%
%send% %actor% You step into the gateway.
%echoaround% %actor% %actor.name% steps into the gateway.
%teleport% %actor% 7798
%force% %actor% look
%echoaround% %actor% %actor.name% just stepped through a gateway.
else
%send% %actor% enter what?!
end


Now the exit part is tough, the player wont' have the gateway so I think it would have to be a room script in the location the gateway takes you to, I'm not sure how to tell what room the gateway is currently in to %teleport% the player back to.

Any help with this will be very much appreciated.

Wow that's a good one! Hmmm. What have you tried so far? Have you tried just teleporting to the name of the object? I was looking over the variables section of the DG script help section, might try using these...

%findobj.<room vnum>(<obj vnum>)%
%findobj.<room vnum>(<obj variable>)%
%findobj.<room vnum>(<name>)%

Though one problem would be that it's checking a specific vnum.

Anyways, here's a link to where the help section is at. I'm guessing that this is something that Rumble would be able to figure out.

Probably the simplest solution would be to create a return portal object and trigger then add the below to your original trigger: Let me know if you have other questions and if this works for you.

I decided to just have it stay in the players inventory, and the below code now works.

Now that the character has been transferred to a new room, I need to be able to send them back to the room they came from, so if the player started in room 3000 and used 'enter gateway' they are now in room 7798, I need to make it so when they type 'exit gateway' it takes them back to room 3000, or whatever room they were initially in.

Maybe I could add a Global variable in the first script like:

Then from a 2nd script on the object, use that global like:

I currently have this as my initial script:
It sends the player to vnum 7798, then the next script:
The second script always sends the player to vnum 800, not sure what i'm doing wrong here, and no the player isn't at vnum 800 originally.

In that case, I would make one "enter" trigger and if actor.vnum = 7798 teleport to the other room and remote the global variable. If not 7798 teleport to 7798.

There are always several ways to do any trigger. KISS method is usually the best approach.