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Newbie Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 4

I am trying to get zmud to autoconfigure but it won't recognize anything.

This is what I get in a sample room when I type look:

Hallway [St. James Hotel]

A red carpet barely covers the floor, stretching across the hall.
Cigarette smoke, beer and urine scents permeate the air and thick
graffetti hides what might have been blue...maybe yellow paint on the
walls.

Markie is here.

Exits: stairs (down, d), up (u), and east (e).

First line is the room name
After that is the description (in this case being sent as one line)
Then a list of people and things. Then the exit line. It can't seem to parse any of that correctly. It decided that 'Markie is here.' was the Room title. The only exit it recognized was East (marked the 'e).' as being the only part of the exit line it recognized.

It's a MOO and I run it. I'd be willing to make minor modifications if it would help Zmud automap better but it should at least be able to parse the room TITLE here.

Newbie Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 4

[xx(]Ok, this is really disturbing me now. I've tried manually configuring the automapper and I've tried altering the exit format. I created several rooms in the MOO with simple titles and descriptions (and NOTHING that looks like an exit) just to see if I could get the automapper to make sense of anything.

I've read elsewhere here that the automapper needs to find the exit line before it can find ANYTHING else like the room title or room description. So I tried changing the exit line format. MOO doesn't support a prompt but I figured I could cheat and make the exit line look like one. (I figure if it's the last line of output and has a unique character then it's a prompt)

Currently the exitline looks like this: (example)
>Exits, north and south
When autoconfiguring it will create a room (when coloring the text, the autoconfiguration wizard does not indicate it found anything but the title but when it creates map rooms it correctly puts in the title and description. The exit confuses it and when moving back and forth between two rooms, the mapper follows incorrectly. (goes north when I move south and south when I move north)

other exit line examples I've tried:
>Exits: North (n), South (s) and East (e)
Exits: North (n), South (s) and East (e)

At best it will only recognize the last exit (as opposed to parsing the entire exit line). At worst it confuses the exit line with either the title or the description. So I guess my question at this point is this: What the hell is the automapper expecting when it looks for an exit line? What would satisfy it?
Is my exit line too non-standard???

Newbie Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 4

Please? Any suggestions? Someone must have some idea.