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Novice Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 34

long story short, im doing something that will be 2 parts. in part 1 im going to be using automapper to map out an area of roughly 700 rooms.
the difficulty ill be facing comes from the area not using cardinal directions. instead its "enter CELL1" , " enter CELL200" etc.
i attempted this in zmud but it took considerable time because i was doing this entirely through the GUI.

ive seen some commands that sem to do what i need, that will speed this up for me, such as #makeroom and %roomlink

im wondering if anyone has any advice on how to make this as painless as possible.

in part 2. i would like to take this area and using the mapper create paths from each room back to a certain room, and back. these i plan to store in arrays so i wont need to load the mapper just to navigate this area with speedwalks.

I sort of have this now, in that the paths are stored as strings in array subsets, ie 118|101|90 ... etc etc and my scripts process it into a true set of commands to navigate.

creating the map is the only thing i really want to do, via commands, but it would be nice to generate the arrays that I need via scripts as well.

also, does cmud have the array problem that zmud had where it would forget subsets?

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Well, #makeroom and %roomlink are the functions you will need, along with possibly some of the other %roomXXX functions. But without further details of what the mud looks like or what you are doing, there's not a lot more we can say.

For part 2, you could do it that way. But you should be aware of two things. First, in the next public version, the mapper will be completely changed, and you will be able to do speedwalks without having the mapper displayed. Second, perhaps an easier way of doing what you want is with Cmud paths. Third, you shouldn't use "arrays" in Cmud for this. What you want is either a stringlist or a database variable. Arrays are specifically designed for COM functions, and really shouldn't be used for anything else.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

1)Is this for area building (you are filling in the room info), or just as a player exploring an already-available area (the game is sending you room info)?

If it's the latter, don't bother trying to script room creation and simply use the MapDir character:

>command>direction
>enter cell1>n

command = the command you want to send to the game to walk into this room
direction = compass position (relative to the current room) to draw the room on the map

2)to generate paths, use the %pathfrom() function. You'll need to get the room numbers of the rooms you want to generate paths to, but %mapfilter() and %find() with %roomnum() should get those easily enough.

Novice Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 34

Ask and ye shall recieve.

I am a player on the mud in question.

The area is a special area, accessible to 1 guild, and anyone else who completes a quest.

My character is a member of the guild.

when i enter the area, I have to send a command, "scan" to see the room

this is what i see

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Ok, that didn't really help much. Post up an exact log of you moving around this area (no explanations or commentary, you can post that separately). If you want to narrate the log, do so using your in-game speech commands.

Novice Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 34

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 2:11 am

You can use a cardinal exit if you want, just use the 'Name' field on the exits tab of room properties window to input the command used to go that way.

Novice Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 34