Would it be selfish on my part to ask for a change from this:

There is a pine door in the way.

to something like this:

There is a pine door in the way to the north.

As it is now, making a trigger to open said door is near impossible and makes walking around in Celest more trouble than it's worth. Of course, I could trigger that to open doors in every direction until it hits the right one, but that would just be spammy. Unless, some of you have a better idea about how to properly trigger something like that?

You setup your movement aliases to store the last direction you moved and then use that for opening the door (or avoiding other obstacles, such as walls).

Um...in English? Since I'm interested in this, too. Could I code this in nexus?

As in, let's say you use "n" to move north.

You would make an alias that matches on "n" which would send the actual command north to the game, and then set a variable, called "lastDirection" equal to north.

That way, you could trigger the door closed message to "open door @lastDirection" and then send the direction as a command, to move again.

In Nexus..

Do the following for all directions.
Alias: n
#set lastdir n

Trigger: There is {*} door in the way.
open door $lastdir
$lastdir

What happens when the door is locked? Wouldn't that cause an infinite loop?

No, eventually it sends a "You cannot move that quickly" or whatever and stops itself.

Hmm good point. Except it's Nexus, so that won't happen.

I'm too annoyed at the lack of a revolt to think how to code it right now.

So, going off the Nexus example, for Zmud, I would just do this:

#VAR LastDirection {}
#KEY KEY8 {n;not sure what should go here}
#TRIGGER {^There is a %w door in the way.} {open door @LastDirection;@LastDirection}

Is that even remotely correct? Pardon, I'm no coder and not sure how to make it set a variable.

#VAR LastDirection {}
#KEY KEY8 {n;#VAR LastDirection n}
#TRIGGER {^There is a %w door in the way.} {open door @LastDirection;@LastDirection}

If you're wanting to avoid a locked door situation you can do something like

#VAR LastDirection {}
#VAR LockedDoor 0
#KEY KEY8 {n;#VAR LastDirection n}
#TRIGGER {^There is a %w door in the way.} {#IF (!@LockedDoor) {open door @LastDirection;@LastDirection} {#VAR LockedDoor 0}}
#TRIGGER {A locked door pattern} {#VAR LockedDoor 1}

EDIT: Though I'd do something like "There is * door in the way." for the pattern. Just to cover the bases of types of doors in the simplest way. "There is {a|an} %w door in the way." would work too if you're positive there are no two word door types.

How wonderfully helpful, thanks! How's this look:



Who knows, I might actually end up learning how to code enough to make my own system!

Yep, you've got it. There is more than just that one locked pattern. Don't know the others off hand! And it's been awhile since I've done zmud but if the #IF (!@LockedDoor) doesn't work then #IF {!@LockedDoor} will.

Change
#TRIGGER {^There is a * door in the way.}
to
#TRIGGER {^There is * door in the way.}

It works! Thanks a ton.