NEXUS: Muliple Choice Aliases Examples

Xiru

Figure I'd put this out there cause it took me forever to remember how to do it. Disclaimer: I'm not a coder. These aliases are mainly how I roll. Anyway. Here's an example using:
OBLIVION CHANNEL [EMPYREAL]

alias text: ^oc(a|c|p|s|t)$
matching type: reg expression

then under actions:
execute script: 
var empyreal = {

    a: "architect",

    c: "conqueror",

    p: "progenitor",

    s: "sunderer",

    t: "traveller"}

send_command("oblivion channel " + empyreal[args[1]])

so oct does oblivion channel traveller and so forth... Can be adapted to a variety of things. Like infecting targets while hacking.

alias text: ^inf(a|f|g|h|s|)$
matching type: reg expression

execute script: 

var ices = {

    a: "antivirus",

    f: "firewall",

    g: "glitch",

    h: "honeypot",

    s: "scanner"

}

send_command("infect " + ices[args[1]])

where inff does infect firewall, infa does infect antivirus. etc...

Xiru

This is what it looks like in the Nexus editor.

Squeakums

Thank you for sharing! 

Selador

Have you both tried this as-is and found it to work? 

Edit: It works.

Albion

It works, make sure it's regular expression. Did you save it? 

Selador

Albion said:

It works, make sure it's regular expression. Did you save it? 

Yeah. I got it. It was, of course, user error. The game doesn't recognize the hacking commands unless you're in a terminal so it looked like it wasn't working.

Quean

I'm using this one, it's both handy and inspiring. Thank you for sharing! I will be using this pattern for other things for sure.

Selador

This is such a neat tool. I've also adapted it for the following so I don't need a whole folder just for this anymore:

alias text: ^st(n|ne|e|se|s|sw|w|nw|)$
matching type: reg expression

execute script: 

var sdir = {

    n: "north",

    ne: "northeast",

    e: "east",

    se: "southeast",

    s: "south",

    sw: "southwest",

    w: "west",

    nw: "northwest"

}

 

send_command("ship turn " + sdir[args[1]])

Xiru

@Selador A hint there, you're overwriting a built-in alias wherein st = set target. I have a single alias for that, but it's sht. then i can suffix anything on like sht e or sht w  and I'm turning my ship. Because all the directions are built in to be listed with just a letter or two.

so alias text: sht
begins with

send a command: ship turn (and then check the box that says include prefix and suffix)

Selador

Hmmm.... That's good to know and hasn't come up yet since I haven't done any ship combat since adding that script. Thank you.

I'm going to have to add a bunch more before I do ship combat again since I don't have any aliases for guns yet, just navigation for now.

Teotwauki

Slight derail, when I ST ROCKHOPPER. It will automatically target a specific ID number, similar to when using TAB. Any ideas or do I need to create my own seperate targeting variable?