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Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:47 am

Okay so I had to remake a package for myself on a new system.
All i had to start with was a map i had gotten from a friend who uses zMUD, i used the map conversion utility on it.
(technically it was converted from a map i had made so it has been converted, and then converted back again)
I only JUST got around to trying to map a new area.

First, since i hadn't mapped on this MUD on this system, i configured the mapper.
Things were going fine and i mapped about 5-6 rooms before i tried to merge into an existing room.
It made a new room instead, no problem i thought, lets merge them....
But they wouldn't merge.

In fact I couldn't select any of the new rooms indivually by clicking on them, only by surrounding them in a highlight box, as you would for moving several rooms at once.
I figure maybe if i restart CMUD it'll work better. No dice.
On reloading all the new rooms i had made are not visible.
The room i had initially started mapping from, the exit i first used looks like a black box, like the indicator it goes to another zone.
But there is no new zone.
I follow the exit into the supposed new room.
I stayed on the same map, the blue dot for current room disappeared.
I could open up the room properties for the hidden room and see acurate information, but they are not getting painted to the map.

Furthermore, upon walking back into the visible room i started from...
The exit indicator changes from the black box into a white rectangle, the door indicator with a one way arrow now pointing back to the visible room.
I can no longer walk into the invisible rooms.

I have no idea what to make of this.

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 2:05 am

Definitely sounds like your map is messed up. If you can't select a room by clicking on it, then there is something seriously wrong. Please email me both of your map files (the *.MDB zMUD file and the corrupted *.DBM CMUD file) to sales@zuggsoft.com so I can look at the database tables to see what might be wrong with it. It will probably be a couple of weeks until I can work on this since I'm not doing any mapper work until the TeSSH public version is released.

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 2:47 am

Sent.. the rooms that went invisible were made in the southeast end of the desert zone.

Wanderer Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 55

Hello,

Just a heads up, these symptoms are also appearing in the converted maps that I sent to sales@zuggsoft.com last week.

Thanks,

Jamie