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Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

In Achaea, we have wormholes that are spliced between two rooms (in addition to all the "normal" exits) and we can "worm warp" back and forth between these rooms.

Can anyone give me any tips on possibly using triggers, room scripts, exit commands, or whatever to successfully map these wormholes and speedwalk with them? On a semi-related note, can I associate a cost with a certain exit or does it go with the room only?

Thanks,
Larkin

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

If these are user created, temporary items then the scripts could get quite complex. If they are a permanent thing then you can create an exit link between the appropiate rooms and set the 'Other Com' field of the exit to the correct command. The exit can be put to any direction open on the room for easy of use or can be set with 'other' as the direction.

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

They are player-created wormholes, but they're fairly permanent, for the most part. I'll play around with creating custom exits for them and using the room command.

I'm a bit concerned about a couple room, however, that have exits in all possible directions already, including the 'other.' I've noticed that the mapper does not deal with more than one 'other' exit from a room.

For example, if a room has both an 'in' and an 'out' exit, zMUD will move you in for both of them. When I tweaked the 'out' to look like a down on the mapper, it followed me the correct direction. I know that this is a different sort of bug, but it's related to the use of the 'other' exit for wormholes...

Thanks,
Larkin

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

Since I consider a wormhole to be a sort of permanent portal, would anyone be willing to explain how to use the #portal command properly? I'm a bit confused on what goes where and how the mapper gets updated when you portal.

Thanks!