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Make your own plugin like features and more using VariableTriggers

This is a very powerful plugin that has unlimited potential. Create triggers that run lines of script when a player Clicks or Walks on a block (dirt, door, switch, trigger, torch, any block) or Create Event Triggers such as PlayerDeath , EntityDeath, BlockBreak, BlockPlaced, Join, Quit, Respawn, Interact and EntitySpawn that also run scripts. You can define Area Triggers and Command Triggers as well. You can use Dynamic Object variables and conditional IF and ELSE statements in the scripts. You can run any command that a player or OP can run and many speacial built-in commands to Teleport, Spawn Entities, Play Effects Visual or Sound, Set Blocks, Toggle Blocks, Check Players Heath and much more!. The scripts are executed on their own threads to take the strain off of the main server thread.

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Lyoko_Firelyte
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Posted Sep 23, 2017
In reply to Sir_Drakeon:

What version are you using? Try @SETINT $scythe.soulenergy $sythe.soulenergy +1

You don't need to use eval, however it should have worked so the latest version may have an issue if that is what you are using.

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Sir_Drakeon
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Posted Sep 25, 2017
In reply to Lyoko_Firelyte:

Thank you for the quick response! I ended up changing the way my custom item functioned to bypass the issue. I simply Capped the possible soul energy at one so it acts more like a Boolean. I however will try playing with it more today to test the eval function. One thing I noticed that I may have been doing incorrectly was using spaces.

"@SETINT $scythe.soulenergy $sythe.soulenergy +1" I notice you have a space after the variable. As silly as it sounds I never thought to test that.

The example for eval shows no spacing inside the statement

"Example: <eval:$object.variable%*4*100+10*%object.variable2%+10>"

Ill Edit my comment after I have the time to test some things. I do however have another couple of questions for you.

The first I imagine is quick to answer. The <entitytype> placeholder is specific to Interact and spawn only correct? There wouldn't be a way to get that to function for say something like a right click trigger? Autonomous Activaters seem to trip the Right Click trigger and spam my console with an error reading something along the lines of Player must be online to check item held. I think I found a work around to this one just checking if <health> > 1 but I wanted to check with you.

The second question I just started pondering on so maybe you have an easy solution that I'm missing, but I don't see one. I'm looking for a place holder and trigger combo that will let me tell when a player is damaged by another player and specifically have that place holder store the attackers name. Ultimately I'm trying to make an armor set that causes the person attacking the armor wearer to be struck with potion effects. I was thinking a combination of Left Click trigger, filtering out all non combat left clicks, filtering out left clicks not applying to this armor, but I still don't have a way to get the attackers name. If you have time for any insight I would appreciate it!

EDIT:

So I've tried playing around with it as you suggested and still cant get it to work. Im not sure what version im using, it was installed by another staff member. Our jar is 230 kb if that helps.

Im trying to make an item that increments a players health by some amount and consumes that item. Which is a perfect chance to check into this potential issue. Here is my code.

- '@IF i <health> > 1'
- '@AND b <holdingitem:<playername>:CUSTOMNPCS_NPCHEART> = true'
- '@AND b <takeitem:<playername>:6638:1> = true'
- '@SETINT $<playername>.hpup <maxhealth:<playername>>'
- '@TELL <playername> HEALTH $<playername>.hpup'
- '@ELSE'
- '@ENDIF'

1. Checks if its a player

2. Makes sure they're holding the item I want

3. removes the item

4. is there im trying to get their current max and increase it by one. Ive given up on that latter part and am just trying to detect their current max HP. I even tried...

- '@SETINT $<playername>.hpup <maxhealth>'

The script outputs to me whatever the previous value of $<playername>.hpup was. It seems SETINT can only take on numbers?

- '@SETINT $<playername>.hpup 1+4'

Returns the previous value of the variable, as does as maybe syntax variations I could cover.

Thanks again Lyoko_Firelyte

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Lyoko_Firelyte
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Posted Sep 25, 2017
In reply to Sir_Drakeon:

Try using the old version of VT in my github under deprecated folder. There is a 1.12 version. If that works then the latest one has an issue. That script should work.

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Posted Aug 15, 2017
Hey @if

doesn't work in 1.12 :/

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Posted Jul 21, 2017
I'm new on VariableTriggers, How do i make "If money is than or equal to 5000" script with @IF?

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Posted May 17, 2017
Releasing beta version here https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/triggerreactor

still a lot more things to do :/

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Posted Jun 28, 2017
In reply to wysohn:

Thanks for your plugin. I've downloaded yours and starting to use

(as I'm 1.12 user vt doesn't work)

But it is yet hard to use... idk is it because I'm new or the plugin...

I think it will be great if you give a set of examples to users

few trg I wanted to establish are as follow :

1. trg w send message only to the user who step on the trigger

2. trg in relation to other plugins eg) send jail if a person work on specific /trg w block

Extra. is <username> not work on this plugin? I saw that I have to type +player.getName()+ to show the name of user in message

Thanks again to you to let us use your convenient plugin :)

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Posted Jun 28, 2017
In reply to johnna:

Hi! Thank you for choosing TriggerReactor!

For the example, you can find plenty of examples in the bottom of Wiki section.

You can find Examples, and More Examples link that will lead you to there

For your questions:

1. /trg w #MESSAGE "Hey you stepped on it! "+player.getName()

2. /trg w #CMDCON "/sendtojail "+player.getName()

extra. Yes, sorry, but TriggerReactor is not entirely replication of Variable Trigger. You might find it hard at the first time, but you will quickly get used to it. You are highly advised to look through the Wiki.

If you have more question, leave it on Github issue or leave a comment here. I can respond faster if you leave issue in Github though!

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Posted Jun 28, 2017
In reply to johnna:

And please use the TriggerReactor's plugin page next time!

I wasn't even aware that your reply was on VT's plugin page :/

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Posted Jul 1, 2017
In reply to wysohn:

Remember the point of a scripting plugin is to make it easier for those who don't understand complex coding techniques to create their own content. Some of your syntax seems a little Java-like and un-simplified (such as player.getName()) - people won't understand what that's doing and make a lot of typos as it looks weird to them. That's why we used simple placeholders such as <playername> at VariableTriggers - there's not really any room for people to mess it up.

Other than some of the naming schemes, it seems like a good start. Glad you're working on it!

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Posted Jul 1, 2017
In reply to Lyoko_Firelyte:

Thank you! I recently realized that it's becoming a lot more complex than I actually planned xD

Will try to find out some good point between scalability and easiness to use.

And thank you for the support!

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Posted May 10, 2017
On going progress if anyone wonder :p

https://github.com/wysohn/TriggerReactor

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Posted May 7, 2017
I've been a big fan of VT for a long time, but it seems the author abandoned the project. I decided to make my own solution that has similar programming syntax as VT. I will release it to the public as soon as it's done.

This is so far what is going on:

original:
#MESSAGE "Start!"
WHILE X >= 0
#MESSAGE (1+(4/2.0)/3*4-(2/(3*-4)) >= 0)
#MESSAGE "X = " X
X = X - 1
ENDWHILE
#MESSAGE "DONE"

result:
MESSAGE is Start!
MESSAGE is true
MESSAGE is X = 3
MESSAGE is true
MESSAGE is X = 2
MESSAGE is true
MESSAGE is X = 1
MESSAGE is true
MESSAGE is X = 0
MESSAGE is DONE

Hopefully VT team will not get upset about it; I really really loved VT and waited it for long time, but it seems the project is just abandoned.

(of course it will work with 1.11.2)

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Posted May 7, 2017
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Excellent, Vary good. I look forward to see what you come up with. Might I suggest that you consider that you center your work around an engine and the scripts are compiled into the run-time engine at server start up so that at run-time there is no interpretation needed.

In the mean time I decided that if I had to learn another scripting plugin's syntax, then I might as well byte the bullet and take a crash course in Java to become independent from off-the-shelf plugins.

Guess what! It wasn't that hard after all. I let myself be intimidated for far too long about having to learn yet another programming language. In the 2 short weeks since my last post here, I learned Java, got familiarized with the different programming environments and settled on using Eclipse, learned a little about the spigot/bukkit APIs and finished my first valuable plugin for my server.

A couple of years ago, I previously scripted with VT, a similar functionality that automatically opens doors on my server when players approach them. With VT, it took months to finally get right, fighting Yaml all the way, and requiring several hundred lines of script with a lot of extra commands nested into each walk trigger that had to be laid down.

I accomplished this same thing with about 100 lines of Java code in about 4 days and most of my time was used searching for the right classes and methods that I needed to accomplish my task and debugging. I didn't even have to write my own interfaces which you kind of have to do with VT because you are scripting. With Java, all interfaces are available to you through the bukkit API. All I had to do is create and register my event handlers through WG regions API which took only a few lines of code. I use WG Regions to set each door's threshold and then, when any player enters a door's threshold, the few lines of code I provide opens all doors within that threshold. When the last person leaves the threshold my code closes all of the doors.

Considering the simplicity of my plugin, it was somewhat of a struggle at first but as I gained an insight as to how the bukkit API is designed and with a little help from Eclipse, it became easier as I went along. I recommend to anyone looking to start over with someone else's scripting plugin, byte the bullet and just go with Java.

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Posted May 8, 2017
In reply to AncientTom:

It's great that you can write codes in JAVA :D

There are so much things you can do with Java than using script languages made by bukkit plugins. However, script plugins such as Skript or VT are so dominant because of the easiness behind it. It takes quite of time to train developers to certain level, and it's not so ideal to most Minecraft community servers; we have limited time! Perhaps some big servers do, but we need some simple solution; VT is a good example.

Unfortunately, the author abandoned this amazing plugin, so that's why I'm trying to remake a similar plugin.

Keep up the good work on Java Programming!

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Posted May 9, 2017
In reply to wysohn:

You're absolutely correct. Because of this, I will still be looking to use a scripting shortcut whenever possible for small functions. You are choosing to take on a mammoth undertaking by yourself by starting this project to replace the now defunct VariableTriggers. Lexlaiden has proven that it is possible for one person to accomplish this but even he could no longer continue with his work. Luckily for us, we had Lyoko step in and save the project in the eleventh hour.

May I suggest that the first order of business would be to assemble a small team of coders to take the weight off of any one person so the project continues on when an individual looses interest.

I began writing my last post as an expression of how bad it is to have to be dependent on off-the-shelf plugins. more than half of the ones that I started my servers out with are now but embers blowing in the wind. They were mostly created by well meaning coders that ultimately got tired of working on them or could no longer continue supporting them. Never the less, because of this fact, I was left holding the bag with non-functioning servers. The demise of bukkit as a result of their team being in discord left further proof as to how vulnerable we server operators are on the dependency of someone else's work. Heck, even sk89 seems to have moved away from his creations since his involvement in the Sponge project. I Still can't tell if we've seen the last of WorldEdit, WorldGuard, and WG Regions updates and upgrades. Most all of us will be in a world of hurt if this comes to pass.

Anyway, That was the original intent of my last post, but instead, it ended up as a testimonial as to the value of becoming a Java coder as a better option than becoming dependent on yet another off-the-shelf work that will again leave you hi and dry.

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Posted Apr 24, 2017
Friends, I need help. How to create a teleport at random at the specified coordinates using triggers? Example: [3000,100,1500 3015,100,1515] teleportation within these coordinates.

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Posted Apr 25, 2017
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What version of VT? I got a nice one all written out.

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Posted Apr 26, 2017
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Version 1.2.2. Yes, I know that old.Perhaps as something to do above I have written?

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Posted Apr 21, 2017
It has been almost a year since the last update was posted. All the links that point off site, other than the github link, no longer work. The requests made here some months ago have gone unanswered. Lyoko's last response here was last August. No other VT team member has been posting here. Haven't heard From Lexlaiden since Lyoko took over. I think that we've been abandoned and this project is now dead.

I've been studying other programming plugins such as Skript, Denizens, and CommandHelper.I think that I am going to start working with CommandHelper because it was started by sk89 back in 2010 and is still being maintained with the latest update of 5 days ago. Skript and Denizens have a similar syntax but Denizens uses a run-time engine and compiles your scripts during initialization so it should run faster. If CH doesn't work out for me, I will go with Denizen.

I really don't want to jump ship here because I am used to VT's syntax, but if this ship is sinking, I guess I have to. If there is any other bukket/Java programmers out there, please talk to Lyoko and ask him to not just abandon us but pass the baton off to let it continue.

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