A new addition to the magic system is now available in Prime and Platinum (TF to follow). The active spell window keeps track of spells on you and keeps a more-or-less accurate countdown of how long the spell has until it expires.

Please note that, due to the nature of DragonRealms' engine and a desire to keep the processes this consumes within reason, this window is not to-the-second accurate. It will update every 10 seconds, or when a spell is cast, or when you do a general PERC.

If you are currently in-game while reading this, you will need to log out and log back in to gain access to the new window.

Special thanks goes to GMs Rincius and Zadraes, both helped me navigate the jungle of playing with the game's XML stream, and to the anonymous player who inspired the project.

-Armifer
"Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations were wrong ... or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters." - Calvino Italo

OMG YAAAAAAASSSSSSSS!!!!!!

No more having to fish through every single spell for all the possibilities of matches in Genie and creating all those triggers.

I love, love, love, love, love, LOVE anyone and everyone who participated in the making of this!


(Unless this is somehow an April Fool's joke in May, in which case I hate you all.)

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>No more having to fish through every single spell for all the possibilities of matches in Genie and creating all those triggers.

Wait, what? How does this change anything?

Also, as an aside, I think it sucks that Barbs don't get this.

<<Wait, what? How does this change anything?

I used to track this manually with variables and created my own output window in Genie, but now I can just match off the window's html output without all the effort.

That said, I can't seem to get it to work in Genie atm. Trying with SF to see if it's any different.

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Arg, I need a bigger monitor.

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Can ah get ah I say can ah get an Amen brother Armifer?!

>I can just match off the window's html output without all the effort.

You have out client-fu'd me.

<If you relog without creating a new window, Genie will create a window with the percWindow ID and the "Active Spells" title. If you created your own percWindow save your layout and I bet you can just go into your .layout file and change the title there, would end up being the same thing.

It did this. It wasn't functioning, so I had to recreate a new window manually from scratch. I'll try going into the layout to change the display name, however, see if that works.

I've almost got a set of triggers functioning to match and store all the duration data which we can use to trigger with like with other global variables like experience rates, states of being, etc. I'll post it in a bit. Just working out how best to manage tracking durations ending.

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Okay got something cobbled together for Genie tracking of spells using the raw feed data. It only requires two genie triggers:

#trigger {<clearStream id="percWindow"/>} {#var Spell.ClearVariableCommand {#eval {replacere($Spell.ClearVariableCommand,"~",";")}};#send $Spell.ClearVariableCommand;#var Spell.ClearVariableCommand ""}

#trigger {<pushStream id="percWindow"/>(.+)<popStream/><pushStream id="percWindow"/> \((\d+|Indefinite)(| )(.*)\)} {#var tempSpell {#eval {replacere($1," ","")}};#var Spell.$tempSpell.isActive 1;#var Spell.$tempSpell.duration $2;#if {$4} {#var Spell.$tempSpell.unit $4};#var Spell.ClearVariableCommand $Spell.ClearVariableCommand#var Spell.$tempSpell.isActive 0~;#var Spell.ClearVariableCommand $Spell.ClearVariableCommand#var Spell.$tempSpell.duration 0~}

This saves the following variables):
Spell.SpellName.isActive (binary value - 1=true 0=false)
Spell.SpellName.duration (standard spell=raw number, cyclic=Indefinite)
Spell.SpellName.unit (standard spell=roisaen, anlas, etc., cyclic=n/a)

Note: SpellName is the full name of the spell with sentence capitalization and spaces removed (e.g. ClearVision, or StepsofVuan, or InvocationoftheSpheres.) This should work for any spell or ability that appears in the window, unless there's some different duration messaging I'm not aware of.

It also creates two additional variables (temp.Spell and Spell.ClearVariableCommand) but these are purely functional to the trigger itself and has no use for the user directly, so you can ignore them.

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>Anyone know how this works, if it works, with OM?


Osrel Meraud (Fading)
Hydra Hex (Indefinite)
Major Physical Protection (3 roisaen)
Minor Physical Protection (3 roisaen)
Benediction (4 roisaen)
Shield of Light (8042 roisaen)
Persistence of Mana (8021 roisaen)

Notice, the OM orb was not nearly expired. SoL and PoM are all I have in the orb right now.

So I'm guessing OM will always show as fading? That should probably be more like a cyclic, indefinite duration since it will still be there even if it doesn't have power to support spells. Surely the duration on sol and Pom aren't accurate either

Some spells are going to need custom messaging due to how they function, OM is one, Moonblade slivers (which function as a spell, for purposes of tracking) are another. We'll get to them as we can.

-Armifer
"Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations were wrong ... or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters." - Calvino Italo

>>It did this. It wasn't functioning, so I had to recreate a new window manually from scratch. I'll try going into the layout to change the display name, however, see if that works.

You're right, the one Genie auto-makes has an uppercase id. It looks like it needs to be lowercase for it to work. I was able to edit the title after it was initially created and have it still work.

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Oh, also TKS slivers should be better.

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Other option for triggers:

http://pastebin.com/6Jm6eWA8

Strips out spaces and apostrophes and will do everything in minutes. They also don't do the .isActive variable because you can just use "if $spellname.timeRemaining > 0" instead, and it's maybe better to create fewer variables.

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>OM, and related spells should show up a little nicer now.

That was fast. Osrel Meraud still shows up as fading, but the spells in it show as '(OM)'

Neat! I really like this addition, thanks guys!

Armifer, I have a question. Before I logged out and back in, I got the duration messages popping up in the story window every 10 seconds. After logging, they don't show up there at all, whether the Active Spells window is open or closed. Is this how it's intended to work?

If so, can we at least have the (fading) message sent to the main story window? I'd love to just highlight that so I know when to re-buff. I don't really have any room for more windows on my laptop. =(

<<After logging, they don't show up there at all, whether the Active Spells window is open or closed. Is this how it's intended to work?

Nothing is supposed to echo to the game window at all. So yes, it is working as intended.

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Thieves have stolen the secrets of the Active Spells window. Those buggers.

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Are Barbarians in this update?? Don't see anything.

Someone created a Genie plugin that creates variables for the spell status and spell duration: http://www.genieclient.com/bulletin/files/file/202-spelltimer/

Note: The new active spells window works fine in Genie without this plugin. Use the plugin if you want to be able to set and check variables for spell status and duration within your scripts.

How to use the active spell functionality in Genie (no plugin needed)

1. In Genie, go to Edit->Configuration
2. Click the Windows tab.
3. Click the Add button.
4. Where it says Title, enter "percWindow" (without the quotation marks)
5. Check the box labeled "Time Stamp Output."
6. DO NOT CHECK the box labeled "Name List Only."
7. Change the font and color if you want.
8. Click Apply
9. Click OK
10. Arrange the windows how you want them.
11. Layout -> Save Default Layout

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