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Beginner Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 13

Hi all;
I have some newbie mapper questions I'd like to be answered.Thanks in advance..

- How do I define a new room type? how do i assign a default color and/or label
to said room type?

- When speedwalking with the map, if the mapper comes upon a door
on its way,it sends the command "open east etc.." how do I make it send a command
of my choosing like ;"open trapdoor" instead of "open down" or "kick wall" instead of
"unlock east". setting the door name doesn't work.

- How can I change the level of the rooms createad manually? it shoudl be obvious
but I can't do it, I've though it was cut, copy,paste etc. but those don't work

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:29 pm

You define and customize a new room type using zMapper. You can access the COM interface for zMapper in CMUD Pro, however you can not define a new room type via the interface. You can customize it via the interface however.

You can do several things you. The easiest is probably to define the name of the room via the settings editor. Next you can try defining a non-standard exit. You can also do a room script for that specific room.

What do you mean by "change the level"? If it's what I'm thinking the COM API from zMapper should do what you want. You can also do this via the spread sheet view for the map. Note that this can be very slow for large maps.

Beginner Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 13

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:30 pm

CMUDPro does not have any user interface for defining new room types. You need zMapper for that. I plan to add this to CMUDPro in the future, but it will be a while.

To change the level of a room, change the Z value. If you download zMapper there is a *.HLP help file that comes with it that describes the advanced COM-object scripting that can be used to change the coordinates of a room. CMUDPro includes this COM-object scripting so you don't need zMapper for that, but that's the only place it is currently documented.

And yes, this kind of COM-level programming is intended for advanced users.

Apprentice Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 145

Changing the "door" field of that link to "trapdoor" should make it send "open trapdoor". If this doesn't work, go to the Config menu in the mapper window, then Configuration Settings, and choose the Strings and Doors tab. Tell us what it says in there.
It sounds like you might have the first box set to "open %1", but you need "open %2".

For "kick wall", you would need to put that into the "name" field of the link. If kicking the wall just makes it open and you still need to move past it with a normal command, you would need to put something like "kick wall;e" into the name field.
(Zugg: Why is that field called "name", when it's not a name but a command?)

To move rooms to different levels of the map, select them then press control-M. You can move them up and down (or other directions) with that window.

Beginner Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 13

As I said previously, I also have doors that can be opened just by giving the cardinal direction, If I am not mistaken what you propose is a map wide toggle
so my other open <directions> would'not work. Am I missing something here?

and about Control-M it just closes and opens map window, regardless of choosing the rooms or not.. It should be simple enough.. and better yet
can somebody explain or show me how to make the new room is created NEernly when I go up or SWly direction when i go down at the same level?

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320