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Adept Joined: 30 Dec 2001 Posts: 220 Location: Canada

Is that possible?... reading through a 2meg log without colors from the mud output is hard

GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

This is very possible.

You can make an ANSI color log by clicking the Prefs button, clicking the + next to General, selecting Logging and then checking Log ANSI color.

This will put the ANSI color codes that the MUD uses in the file. However, these will not show up as colored in the vast majority of text viewers/editors out there. The zMUD editor (Windows menu, Editor) will do it, though.

Another option you have is HTML (the format web pages are in). Either my HTML Logger plugin or Deathlok's ANSI2HTML program would work. With ANSI2HTML you have to first log with the ANSI color option on and then convert the log when you are finished. You can also convert ANSI logs with my HTML Logger but one thing it can do that ANSI2HTML can't is log from within zMUD directly to HTML and not have to worry about any other settings.

You can find out more about both HTML Logger and ANSI2HTML in this thread.

Feel free to ask any other questions you might have.

- Charbal

Adept Joined: 30 Dec 2001 Posts: 220 Location: Canada

Anyone know why the colors that being show on my zMUD screen differ from the colors that is in the log? Look so nice on the screen, and, slutty on the log

GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

Which program are you using? HTML Logger or ANSI2HTML? Regardless, you need to set the color mapping in the program to match the color mapping that you have set up in zMUD.

In HTML Logger, you can load your zMUD colors via a .col file or choose them with a color picker box. If you have ANSI2HTML, you need to know the hex codes for the colors you want to set stuff to. This is all detailed in the thread I previously mentioned.

If that doesn't do the trick for you, try to give us some more specific information on what's not working.

- Charbal

Adept Joined: 30 Dec 2001 Posts: 220 Location: Canada

I'm using HTML Logger, how would I go about setting the color I have on the mud with the one on the log? I mean, I don't even think I set my mud colors, all I did was type color on, and it was all set.

GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

Go View, Preferences, Colors and then click the Save Colors button. Save these, close the dialog box and then go to the Plugins menu, HTML Logger, Setup... and click Load zMUD .col file. Open the file you just saved and that should be it.

Note, if you are in the middle of logging a file and are using an embedded style sheet (the plugin default), changing the colors won't apply until you the next time you log.

- Charbal

Adept Joined: 30 Dec 2001 Posts: 220 Location: Canada

thanks