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Novice Joined: 11 Mar 2001 Posts: 37 Location: Canada

I have only found one way to get zmud mapper to follow me through portals (besides always typing the whole exit name) and that is to get a trigger to go off when it displays me entering the portal, and most of the time this works. but in certain cases when the enter message is the exact same both ways it sends me into a loop going from one location to the other... and ideas?

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

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I have only found one way to get zmud mapper to follow me through portals (besides always typing the whole exit name) and that is to get a trigger to go off when it displays me entering the portal, and most of the time this works. but in certain cases when the enter message is the exact same both ways it sends me into a loop going from one location to the other... and ideas?

Do you have Trigger on Trigger turned on? That's probably why you get the loop. This SHOULD demolish the loop itself, but if not you'll have to do something a little more elaborate.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

Novice Joined: 11 Mar 2001 Posts: 37 Location: Canada

I'm sure that would help, but i don't know how to turn off Trigger on Trigger for triggers that are part of a room script. i tried opening the folder _MapperRoom that gets created while you are in that room and doing it from there but it never saves it.

Wanderer Joined: 19 Jul 2001 Posts: 59 Location: Germany

Have you tried trigger options:
eg.
#TRIGGER {pattern here$} {command here} "testclass" {notrig}
creates a trigger with 'Trigger on Trigger' turned off
(At least it does in the v6.26a. I'm not sure if the current public version still uses the numeric parameter for trigger options)

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Yeah, it does so too in the public version.

Kjata

Novice Joined: 11 Mar 2001 Posts: 37 Location: Canada

Thanks very much, that works nicely!

Novice Joined: 11 Mar 2001 Posts: 37 Location: Canada

I didn't really notice this right away but it seems that that only works for one way. it makes a class with a trigger "You enter a ring of magical mushrooms." but whenever i try and go back it sends me there but automatically sends me back... any ideas?

Wanderer Joined: 19 Jul 2001 Posts: 59 Location: Germany

First make sure you have the {notrig} option in the roomscripts on both sides of the portal,
second use _MapperRoom as class, so the mapper recognizes the trigger as a roomscript when leaving the room, and removes it.

If that doesn't help post the complete triggers for both sides of the portal here, as well as the mud output it triggers on.
That way we get a better feeling for what happens with your scripting.

Novice Joined: 11 Mar 2001 Posts: 37 Location: Canada

That sounds like a good idea sildaren but when i change the class from "testclass" to "_MapperRoom" it sends me into a loops again. is that not were i'm supposed to put which class i want it to be in?

Wanderer Joined: 19 Jul 2001 Posts: 59 Location: Germany

Sounds like the 'trigger on trigger' option isn't really doing what you need.
If you post the triggers you are using (for both ends of portal), as well as a sample of the portaling text, we can probably find a better solution.

Newbie Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 7 Location: Australia

What do you type to enter the portal?

If it's something like "enter portal" then you can simply make the direction from the room "other" called "enter portal". If you usually type something shorter like "ent port" then rename it to that.

Novice Joined: 11 Mar 2001 Posts: 37 Location: Canada

This is a copy/paste of what i see when i go through the portal:

A Circle of Brilliant Mushrooms
Obvious exits: North East South West
A ring of magick mushrooms has grown here.

< 381/381hp 115m 130mv > ent ring
You enter a ring of magick mushrooms.

A Circle of Brilliant Mushrooms
Obvious exits: North East South West
A ring of magick mushrooms has grown here.
A tall, slender fae in arcane robes paces about here.

It's exactly the same the other way. and here are the triggers:

#TRIGGER {You enter a ring of magick mushrooms.} {#TELEPORT {182} {Silver Tear}} "_MapperRoom" {notrig}

the other sides trigger is exactly the same but different teleport location, and were it says "_MapperRoom" now is were i had "testclass" before and it used to work. i even tried other classes but only testclass seemed to work for some reason.

Any help would be appreciated.

Adept Joined: 29 Oct 2001 Posts: 250

Best way I can think of would to be create a button for each room indiviually.

Goto your map editor and click on the room properties for one of the rooms.Then go to the Room Scripts section in the Room Desc part(you may have to pull it up, it was kinda hidden for me)And put the script in there.
So for the first room(lets say the number is 182, and the second one is 183):

#BU 0 {Enter Ring} {enter ring:#TELE {183} {Silver Tear}}

And the other room would be:

#BU 0 {Enter Ring} {enter ring:#TELE {182} {Silver Tear}}
Hope that helps.