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Newbie Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 3

I have a quick and fairly simple question but it is causing me no end of grief. If someone could give me a solution to these two problems I would really appreciate it.
First (and most important) I am having issues using the Automapper on Dawn of Ages (dawn.rplay.net port 8000). This mud is very good, although we've lost most of our pbase so if anyone wants to check it out we could use the players. Anyway, /shameless_plug :P
The problem lies in the mud's own automapper feature, which spits out a map to the left of the description of a room. Zmud's automapper works beautifully without this feature on, but I use this feature extensively when spamming across the mud, so I am loath to turn it off. I'm wondering if there is a way I can make Zmud recognize the description and properly map areas. Below is a demonstration of the descriptions with automapper (on the mud) turned on.

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:38 pm

Are you actually going to need that map once you have zMUD's automapper working, so you can see every single room on the MUD? You might find it better just to turn it off and learn to use the automapper instead :P

If you have your heart set on keeping it, you need to use the #tag command. Set up a trigger for room names and exits (don't need descriptions) and tag them as those things. You might need to use an ANSI trigger to capture the room name consistently, and you might need also find using a multistate trigger rather than separate triggers.

Once you've got a #tag trigger marking the name and exits, you should be able to reconfigure the mapper and have it start working.

If that seems a little complicated, one other thing you could try is reconfiguring the mapper but unchecking the Room Description box. This may or may not work, but the idea is that the mapper will ignore the description and the small map that's next to it.

Your second question is more simple. If you always go to the same room, use the #teleport command. If you move to a varying room, use the #find command. If you can move from anywhere on the mudto a specific toom, either use #tele or set up a #portal command.

Newbie Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 3

Thanks for the reply Fang Xianfu. The only issue I have with #tag is that I can't find any way to uniquely identify the room name, so I get more false-positives than anything. The issue is that I'm starting to try to database the mud (Items, rooms, mobs, etc) for personal use as well as to write a generalized guide to get new players started in an effort to attract pbase. The database is going to hold all properties. I have a good portion of the framework in place on Zmud already, but I can't seem to convince it to grab the descriptions. So I guess the question becomes how would I go about tagging it. The only idea I can come up with is that the first line of the mud's automapper seems almost constant in the number of periods used. I'll experiment with that after my coffee though :P
Again, thanks for the reply, and if I can't use the periods to trigger recognition, then you are right, I will have to do away with the room descriptions in Zmud's map (Turning off the mud's automapper is another option, but it drives my completely bats not to have it.)

(Thanks to whoever fixed the map example above, btw)

Edit: You're welcome - Taz :@)

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5187

My approach is a little different. Since you want to keep the muds minimap on and the mapper handles the exists and name correctly you should turn off capturing the description in the configuration, and in the Speedwalking section set the automatic detection level to match room name. Then this script will properly set the description for you as you map, assuming I got my regex right and the example you gave showed all the minimap characters.

#CLASS {System|Automapper}
#VAR Description {} {}
#REGEX "DescCap" {^[.|+X -]{11}([A-Za-z .,!?]+)} {Description=%trim("%1")}
#COND {} {#IF (%line!="") {Description=%concat(@Description," ",%trim(%right(%line,12)))} {#STATE DescCap 0}} {looplines|param=30}
#ALIAS onroomcreate {#CALL %roomdesc(,@Description)}
#CLASS 0

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