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Beginner Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 23

Hi!
To clear up what I mean about guards:
I have a map, and one of them is containing guards. I've added a script to that room, so every time I step into that room, the script executes.
The script is the following:
#pause

I assume that every time, I enter the room, any currently ongoing speedwalking stops, but that isn't the case. It keeps sending all the remaining directions.
Also tried #stop (however that would be incorrect, because I want to confirm entering to guard's room), but that doesn't work either.
Example, in case my description isn't clear.
R = Room
G = Guardroom
S = Start room
O = Goal room

S-R-R-R-G-R-R-O

I send walk to O command, but it doesn't stop at G.

Using: Cmud 3.34
Map mode: follow
Walk mode: Fast

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 5:31 pm

while in Fast walk mode all commands that are sent to the mapper are ignored so it ignored #stop, #pause what have you, try in slow or safe mode

Beginner Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 23

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:01 pm

you could just the mapper delay manually under configuration settings, under speedwalking.

Wanderer Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 55

Is there a line of text given in the guard room everytime? If so a #NODIR trigger should work in safe mode. Something similar to:

#TRIGGER {guardroomtext} {#NODIR}

Beginner Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 23

Wanderer Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 55

You should not need #STOP or #PAUSE, #NODIR tells the mapper that you did not move to the next room.

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:22 pm

For starters, I believe #STOP and #PAUSE are only for Slow walking. If you want to stop completely you need to clear the entire speedwalking command queue as such:

Beginner Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 23

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:27 pm

Well, can we (I) see some examples of these rooms? There hasn't been much that I've found that you can't do with a little elbow grease.

Beginner Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 23

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

If you gave us examples of the rooms, we may be able to help more.

Beginner Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 23

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Give us actual examples from the mud text, enclosed within [quote]...[/quote] markers.

Beginner Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 23

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

It looks to me like it should be possible to create a configuration, possibly with #TAG commands, which will correctly map this mud and detect movement correctly. All of these formats start with Room Name, followed by other stuff, followed by an easily identifiable exits line. That is plenty for Cmud to work with.

Are the sounds and smells in a particular room constant, or do they change? Do the room descriptions change? If all of these are constant in a particular room, then you can treat the entire text between Room Name and Exits as the Description. If they are not constant, then don't try to record the description at all.

I would try using the first room above (Raknoor Varos Fotere) as your autoconfigure room (in other words, step into that room when autoconfiguring). That should get most of the parameters right. You will want multi-line exits, multi-line description, exit line identified by "kijaratot latsz:". I _think_ room name should be line 0, description line 1, and exits line 2 (I think this really means a _minimum_ of line 2 if multi-line description is set).

If you can't get this to work, then it is definitely possible to do it with #TAG. It may be a bit more complicated, but not too hard. I would need to know three things: Are the description, smells, and sounds in a room constant? Do you actually need to have the room description in the map for some other purpose of your own? Does the list of exits always end in a period?

Beginner Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 23

Hm... I thought I sent a reply, but looks like it got lost in the void.
I am going to keep it short this time then.

Slow walk: Not an option, my mud gags everything except prompt after 5 rooms moved within a given time.
safe walk: for some reason, I had issues with it confirming movement on prompt. (see reason above)
fast walk: I fancy this one. It is fast, only problem I have with it is it doesn't stop at guards, but if the idea I already described in my previous posts works, then that would be the best.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

You should be able to get Slow walk or Safe walk to work. You can set a delay between movement steps to avoid the gag response from the mud.

Your idea for Fast walk is theoretically possible, but complex and awkward. In addition, it will only work with pre-defined paths. It will _not_ work if you click on a room on the map to move to it. It might also have problems if you have special commands stuck in the path list. I think the script will be almost as much work work as getting Safe or Slow walk to work which is why I've been focusing on helping with those, but if you really want to try it, go ahead. The steps would be something like:

Make a list of guard rooms, perhaps named @stoprooms.
Get your path.
Get your curent room number.
If necessary, convert the path to a stringlist with @pathexpand. [edit]this should be %pathexpand[/edit]
Loop through the stringlist with %FORALL; each step will be in %i.
Append %i to a new pathlist with %additem
Use %roomlink to figure out what room that step %i takes you to.
Compare the new room number to @stoprooms.
Continue loop or break out of it.
Convert the new pathlist with %pathcompress.
Execute the new path.

Beginner Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 23

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:12 pm

try making two smaller paths that start/stop at the guards instead of trying to pause one huge one?

Beginner Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 23

Beginner Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 23

Well, it took shorter time, than I thought it would. What it does:
Gets the path from A to B
converts 1 char directions into 2 char mud directions
goes trough this list, and creates an another list that contains the linked rooms in order.
Once it finds a room number that is among a pre-defined guard room list, it checks, if that guard is protecting the next room. If it is, then the loop breaks, and does not copy the remaining of the path.
the $roomnext variable in this case still contains the guard's room number, so I walk to that room. If I send the alias once more, it walks from guard room to final destination, or to the next guard room.

EXACLTY what I wanted. Fast, efficient.

Thanks for trying to help with the matter everyone. I finally got time to make this alias, and the previous few days I've spent reading the help file of Cmud made creating this one very easy.
Oh, here is the code. (I hope I translated everything neccesary to understand the script)

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

You might want to check out the #LMAP command Wink

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Beginner Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 23