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Beginner Joined: 14 Nov 2001 Posts: 27 Location: USA

Howdy folks,

There should be a folder just for Automapper quests. ( chuckle ) ..

I looked through several posts to see if I could find the answer before asking and I read the helpfile as well.

I just started playing Achaea and I wanted to use AutoMapper to map the land. I did not touch any configurations besides "Auto Config"

The problem I'm getting is that majority of the time the Room Name is not being picked up.

Ex

530h, 470m ex-The Ring of Portals.
You stand within a ring of eleven portals which lead to various destinations
all over the land.

The Automapper catches "You stand within..."
instead of the room title.

now if I get lucky and I enter an area and it looks like this

530h, 470m ex-
The Ring of Portals.
You stand within a ring of eleven portals which lead to various destinations
all over the land.

Automapper picks it up..

Is there a way I can configure Automapper to pick up either or ?

Majority of the rooms I enter have titles like the first example.. but a few have titles like the 2nd example..

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Regards,

Sinema

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

There have been many forum posts specific to Achaea. I don't remeber anyone posting back so I will just give my standard recommendation for that problem, as it occurs with many other muds too.

First step use your muds help or ask on you mud about configuring your prompt. Your goal is to add a new line at the end. You might as well see if you can put max hp and max mana in at the same time as you will probably want them down the road. If done right you will get this when the mud behaves correctly:
530h, 470m ex-

The Ring of Portals.
and this when it misbehaves:
530h, 470m ex-
The Ring of Portals.

That solves the problem for the automapper, it also provides that you can force all triggers to lock on the start of line in the future which is very important as many people stupidly try spoofing triggers with emotes. Next to get rid of those nasty blank lines:
#TR {^$} {#GAG}

If you can't get your prompt fixed like that then we can take one of the three long routes to fix it.

Beginner Joined: 14 Nov 2001 Posts: 27 Location: USA

I spoke to someone on Achaea and they said prompt config was not possible.

Also I did another search to see if I could find the answer in advance.

I searched "Achaea Mapper" and "Achaea Prompt"

I could only find 1 post that had any information on setting up Automapper but I could not get it to work..

quote:

1) Configuration (.zfg file)

ROOM NAME

Room Name: checked
Name Paragraph: 0
Name Start Line: 0
Parse vNum in Name: not checked
Match Room Name at Start of line: not checked
Match room name at End of line: checked
Name ends with period: not checked
Room Name uses Proper-case: not checked

ROOM DESCRIPTION

Room Description: Checked
Description Paragraph: 0
Description Start Line: 1
Multiline Description: checked

ROOM EXITS

Room Exits: checked
Exit Paragraph: 0
Exit Start Line: 7
Multiline Exits: checked
Exit line contains key: checked
(nothing else is checked)
Exit line keyword: exit

MUD PROMPT

Auto Prompt detect: checked
complex prompt: checked
(nothing else checked)

SPEEDWALKING

set to SLOW
do not check Match Descriptions durring speedwalk

2) Making the map.

Achaea has a funny thing about its room names. At the end of every room name is a period, followed by a space. Zmud does not pick up the space. So in order to get the map to follow you, you get to add a space at the end of every room name that does not end with (road). The reason for that exception, is that the achaean titles for roads are "Name of the room. (road)" ... the space is still after the period, not after (road). This makes a rather tedius making of the map, but it is possible. If you'd like, I can email you the maps I have already created, which covers most of achaea. Though I think you'd have to have the zones separately, and figure out yourself how to link them together.

Kellenia/Stacy

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Regards,

Sinema