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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:45 am

I'm having trouble finding documentation on portals. Where are they stored in the configuration? I can't find them anywhere. Is there anyway to make their behavior more advanced (add verification to ensure that the command worked) or would it just be better to not use the portal system and develop my own?

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:56 am

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

No, there is no way to automatically make their behavior more advanced. You could, however, wrap your portal command inside other commands that do such checking.

Could you explain exactly what you want to do with portals?

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:13 am

If you read the documentation on how the #PORTAL command works (also the%portal function), you will notice that it says that, at the location you want the portal to land you, you enter #PORTAL <somestring>. Whatever <somestring> is, it will be parsed by CMUD. So, in practical terms, <somestring> will be the name of an alias. So to invoke the portal, you use that alias. Within the alias you do (i.e. send commands to the mud) whatever needs to be done, e.g. fetching the mud portal object from a container, equipping the portal and finally entering the portal. Within the alias you can do pretty much as you wish. Client side, the data for portals is kept in a table that can be accessed via the Edit menu on the mapper. You can update the portal data manually via this table, or use the %portal function. Also read the documentation for the %portalenable function.

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:28 pm

I would suggest you use a trigger and the #TELEPORT command if you want to error proof where you arrived at.
Portal is more for those games that have a 'go home' type command that always goes to one spot.

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:25 am

You are correct, Shalimar. That would command would be placed within the alias to be executed. The execution would update one's location on the map. I tend to put it toward the sequence since, being a CMUD command, it will execute immediately and will not actually correspond to the sequence being executed by the server. Since my portal routines are general, I use this:

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:57 pm

Portal's don't seem to be used by the speedwalking algorithm. Is there any way to accomplish such a task? I.E. if I say #walk <dest> I want the speedwalker to utilize any available "portals" to get as close as possible to the destination ...

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

It should. Make sure you have portals enabled at Edit -> Portals (each portal has its own enabled check box, and there's a global one too).

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:02 am

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:05 pm

How would you go about disabling specific portal commands in specific rooms?

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

You can enable and disable portals in a script with the %portalenabled function.