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Wanderer Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 54

In this game I'm playing the room exits have =east and -east and regular old east...the mapper is going haywire and I can't figure out to make it correctly direct these movements....any help?

Wanderer Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 54

my bad, here's output

Exits: east -west- =north= [south]

south is a door then the - and = don't really mean that much just the matter doesn't recognize it :(

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:31 am

#trig {Exits: (*)} {#tag %subchar(%1,"-=[]") exit}

Then reconfigure the mapper.

Wanderer Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 54

Now it's not making doors :(, the [] and () brackets are doors

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:35 am

You could try removing the [] part from the %subchar and see if it starts working again, but this might be a case where you can't have your cake and eat it :( You'd have to apply the doors manually, or with a script using zMapper.

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

I had found the [] characters impossible to use directly in a function I wrote. Instead I used two steps:

After capturing the exits, I replaced the "[" "]" and "(" ")" with "j" and "q".
Then I looked for the open and closed doors and added them to string lists.

This might be too slow for the mapper but you can nest %replace(%replace()) or regex j and q

I rarely used subchar (something about it I don't like), and I don't get the mapper at all. The function was to 'squint' in every direction, and I opened doors to do that. Sorry I can't help more, but I think you can create special handlers for doors.