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Newbie Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Canada

Here is the typical output from "look" on my mud, as well as my prompt...

---SNIP---
Donation Room Hallway
You enter a Hallway which leads to several rooms. To the North, South,
East, and West will lead you to different Immortal Donation Rooms which
contain specific type of donated Equipment.

[Exits: north east south west]
A scimitar lies here.
You see a SeeD Balamb Garden Uniform [NEWBIE EQ], lying here.
A pile of YEN.

<7618/7618 627/627 890/890 -1000 658xp >
---SNIP---

My problem is that when the mapper does a #LOOK it will read the room name, and description properly, but not the exits.
So after it does a #LOOK and i do a #DESCRIBE 0 it says:

---SNIP---
Donation Room Hallway
You enter a Hallway which leads to several rooms. To the North, South,
East, and West will lead you to different Immortal Donation Rooms which
contain specific type of donated Equipment.

Exits: none
---SNIP---

So as you can see, it grabs the name, and description perfectly, yet the exits dont get read.

I have the following triggers made up to help mapper match its input:

#TRIGGER {^~[Exits~: (*)~]$} {#TAG exit %1}
#TRIGGER {^~<%d~/%d %d~/%d %d~/%d %d %dxp ~>} {#TAG prompt}

I can't for the life of me get it to read the [Exits: north east west south] line.
Any suggestions?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

With the triggers you have exits should be detected properly. I would suggest changing the trigger script to either '#TAG exit {%1}'or '#TAG exit "%1"', as it may be possible that the information is not being passed correctly. A side note: the mapper should detect everything correctly without any tweaks or #TAGs on that mud.

Newbie Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Canada

Thanks for your suggestions, but strangely enough, the mapper still will not enter in the exits.

When I changed the triggers as per your suggestions there was no change.
I reconfigure after every change to the triggers.

(the active room in the mapper doesn't change upon reconfigure it will only change the name of the room and description when i click on the Look button)

Anothing discrepancy i noticed within the help files is this:
In the View/Direction settings, each direction can have multiple commands. For example, north is defined as "n|north" which means either "n" or "north" match this direction.

It says that in the help files under "manually configuring mapper" but there is no Direction settings anywhere that i can find in zmud.

because these settings do not exist, perhaps thats why the mapper isn't reading my autoexit line. But if this is the case, is there a way to trick zmud into thinking that these settings exist?

This is the only thing i can think of. Perhaps its looking for those settings and since they are blank, it tries to match them anyway resulting in a blank Exits: line.

I'm clicking refresh on the forum every couple of minutes just so ya know, the quicker the response the better :)

Thanks.

Newbie Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 9 Location: Australia

hi
I dont know if you looked, But did you check with config setting in the mapper and checked the direction boxes when creating rooms.
*points to the exit config settings. check multi exit and exit on prompt?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Actually you are quite right, if the Direction settings do not exist then the mapper does not know what word to associate with a map direction. These settings are built into the default package that comes with zMud. You should be able to find them in the settings editor in the System|Directions and System|DirectionsDiag classes. You must have Show Inheritted checked in the Show or View menu. If they do not exist simply read a little more about them in the help and recreate them.

Newbie Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Canada

Thank you for your response, the mapper works now, but only if i type in the directions...
How would i have it map out when i use my numpad to enter directions?

I have the following macros defined:

#KEY KEY8 {north}
#KEY KEY2 {south}
#KEY KEY4 {west}
#KEY KEY6 {east}
#KEY KEY1 {down}
#KEY KEY9 {up}
#KEY KEY5 {scan}
#KEY KEY3 {look}
#KEY CTRL-KEY4 {o west}
#KEY CTRL-KEY6 {o east}
#KEY CTRL-KEY8 {o north}
#KEY CTRL-KEY2 {o south}
#KEY CTRL-KEY1 {o down}
#KEY CTRL-KEY9 {o up}

I can't seem to get the mapper to realise that i'm going west or east or whatever, it just sits there like a brick. Anyway, if anyone knows how i can fix this please post, thanks (if i get no response within a day or so I'll make a new topic...

Thanks in advance.

Postal.

Novice Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 43

These are the defined defaults for me.

#KEY KEY5 {look} "System|Keypad"
#KEY KEY7 {nw} "System|KeypadDiag" {chain}
#KEY KEY2 {s} "System|Keypad" {chain}
#KEY KEY3 {se} "System|KeypadDiag" {chain}
#KEY KEY4 {w} "System|Keypad" {chain}
#KEY KEY6 {e} "System|Keypad" {chain}
#KEY KEY8 {n} "System|Keypad" {chain}
#KEY KEY1 {sw} "System|KeypadDiag" {chain}
#KEY KEY9 {ne} "System|KeypadDiag" {chain}
#KEY SUB {u} "System|Keypad" {chain}
#KEY ADD {d} "System|Keypad" {chain}
#DIR ns {n|north} n "System|Directions"
#DIR sn {s|south} s "System|Directions"
#DIR we {w|west} w "System|Directions"
#DIR ew {e|east} e "System|Directions"
#DIR ud {u|up} u "System|Directions"
#DIR du {d|down} d "System|Directions"
#DIR hl {nw|northwest} nw "System|DirectionsDiag"
#DIR jk {ne|northeast} ne "System|DirectionsDiag"
#DIR kj {sw|southwest} sw "System|DirectionsDiag"
#DIR lh {se|southeast} se "System|DirectionsDiag"

The #DIR entries are the items you need to verify exist.