bcproxy-enabled TinyFugue triggers

BatMUD in terminal with 2020s' scripting.

The goal of this project is to have a fast windowed BatMUD playing environment in terminal with modern programming features. The main elements are TinyFugue (with python), bcproxy and tmux.

batmux.conf

tmux configuration file to have windows (panes) inside a terminal.

• Right half is the main TinyFugue pane
• Top left is party chat and tells (chat)
• Middle left is for spell binds help (caster)
• Bottom left is for party status (party)

Middle left has also some extra room for general statuses, which is yet to be done.

Communication from tf to different panes is done via unix socket using Python's multiprocessing.connection.

party.py

Party status output and party member keyboard targetting.

This script uses batclient's party status message, which is updated more often than normal pss from mud.

Missing features compared to pss is first of all minions: only nine actual party members are reported. Ambush-status is also missing.

There are places for nine members plus seven minions or members with unknown places. Targetting uses alt-7, alt-8, etc.

Each member has name, hp/hpmax, hpdiff; status, ep, sp/spmax and * if it is the current target for prots and heals. Hp is colorized from green to red. Name and status are colorized if member is unconscious, stunned, etc.

• party.py triggers for reading status messages, targetting
• partyoutput.py output printing
• partytypes.py types to be used in both scripts

caster.py

Spell casting.

The idea is to have multiple sets of different spells that can be cast from keybindings. In the example, blast, typeprot, etc. can be selected with alt-1, alt-2, etc. blast vacuum, acid blast, etc. can be cast with alt-q, alt-w, etc.

Spells can be cast with or without target, depending on whether the spell supports it. For example, blast vacuum can be cast at current target with shift-alt-q and without target with alt-q.

• caster.py casting triggers and keybind handling
• casteroutput.py spells help output
• castertypes.py types to be used in caster scripts
• spells.py definitions for spells
• blaster.py spells for blaster (channumage in my case)
• healer.py spells for healer (tarma-only here)

chat.py

Tells and party chats to their own pane. Uses bcproxy's chan_party and chan_tell channel keywords for triggering.

This is the simplest example of socket communication.

• chat.py triggers
• chatoutput.py output

resists.py

Astrax [report]: Jacobi resists: acid: 0, asphyxiation: 20, magical: 40

Spell resists reporting to party report channel and general status output pane.

Reports are done only once for given mob and damage type, and all the damage types are collected to the same row with increasing resist.

• resists.py triggers
• spells.py definitions for spells

heartbeat.py

Heartbeat and tick counter.

ginfo.py

Guild information shortener.

Astrax [100]: channu-mage-asphy-acid-pois-inner magical duck, Finland

• ginfo.py

channeller.py

Channeller supply report message enumeration.

You feel a soothing inner warmth. You have a good supply of drained energy. (3/6)

• channeller.py

shrine.py

Shrine pray message enumeration.

You raise your eyes to the sky as celestial wind flows through you. (8/9)

• shrine.py

Installation and configuration

You need

• TinyFugue with python enabled
• bcproxy
• tmux

Copy or symlink python scripts from this repository to TinyFugue's tf-lib directory.

Edit the batmux.conf to have correct paths to output scripts and start tmux:

tmux new-session "tmux source-file ~/bat/bcproxy-tf-scripts/batmux.conf"

Start bcproxy and tf:

~/bat/bcproxy/obj/bcproxy 2901 & sleep 1 && tf -f~/bat/astrax.tfrc

Load the scripts (this can of course be done in your .tfrc):

/python_load party
/python_load resists
/python_load blaster
/python_load chat