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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 12:45 am

Yep, still trying to get some map settings for Achaea that actually work, i've read every post there is on it but there is no actuall solutions that work.
I've tried this script:

#CLASS {FixDescription}
#VAR Weather {} {}
#VAR Name {} {}
#VAR Description {} {}
#VAR OutLine {} {}
#VAR Exits {} {}
#TRIGGER {^%e[1;34m(*).*$} {Name=%concat("%1",".");Description="";Exits=""} "" {color}
#COND {^%e[1;37m(*). %e[0;37m(*)$} {Weather=%concat("%1",".");Description=%stripansi("%2");#T+ DescChanger;#T+ DescChanger2} {within|param=1|color}
#TRIGGER "DescChanger2" {%e[1;31m(*)$} {Exits=%stripansi("%1")} "" {color|disable}
#TRIGGER "DescChanger" {*} {#SUB {%ansi(white)@Weather}} "" {disable}
#COND {^(*)$} {#IF (%trigger(DescChanger2)) {Description=%trim(%concat(@Description," ",%line));#IF (%pos(@Exits,@Description)) {Description=%trim(%remove(@Exits,@Description));#T- DescChanger2}} { Exits=%trim(%concat(@Exits," ",%line))};#IF (@Description) {OutLine=%trim(%left(@Description,80));#IF ((%len(@OutLine)=80)&(%rightback(@Outline,1)!=" ")) { OutLine=%leftback(@OutLine,%eval(%len(%word(@OutLine, %numwords(@OutLine)))+1))};Description=%trim(%remove(@OutLine,@Description));OutLine=%concat(%char(27),"[0;37m",@OutLine)};#IF (%ends(@Exits,".")) {OutLine=%concat(@OutLine,%cr,%char(27),"[1;31m",@Exits);Exits=""};#SUB {@OutLine};#IF ((@Description="")&(@Exits="")) {#STATE DescChanger 0;#T- DescChanger}} {looplines|param=99|disable}
#CLASS 0

And it didnt seem to make any difference what-so-ever, should it put everything on new lines or something?

Does the fact that i have CONFIG COLOR'ed all my colors to my prefferences make a difference?

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

Changing the colors will most definitely affect how this script works (or doesn't work). It relies entirely on ANSI color codes to parse the room information. What's more is the colors in this script aren't even the default colors (which is what I use, and this script didn't work for me at all until I changed a few color codes). This script had a few other problems for me and so I've gone back to my own personal mapping script again. I've got the room name and exits just fine, except for a few strange room names, but I haven't had much success with the descriptions yet.

I had submitted a rather lengthy post with my current script and asked for assistance, but still have received no replies. Feel free to look at my script and modify it to do anything you like. I'm still hoping to get someone to help with the room descriptions. Anyone?

http://www.zuggsoft.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12842

Wanderer Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 60

Still arguing with trying to clean up ansi out of your paragraph?

I don't have any firm solutions (yet) but I have noticed that %stripansi will trigger on commas. That's right. commas. It finds a comma in your string and it calls it ansi, kills the comma and everything past the comma..

Naturally, this is a pain in the butt. =( I'm looking at alternate functions that might work, but it's starting to look like I'm going to have to basically scratch build a function to parse text correctly. Yuck.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I can see how that old one really doesn't work. I went ahead and created a character over on Achaea and took a good look at it. The script I came up just attempts to pretty up the room texts and make it readable for both humans and zMud. I think the way they have everything mashed together is absolutely horibble to read. In fact before using the script I can't even be sure I am in the right room for certain fixed location mobs. Just too much clutter.

Beginner Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 15

Ok then.. I started trying to get the mapper to work properly on differentiating descriptions from room contents. For now, I'm trying, to base this on ANSI, as I don't see other solutions for this problem. (except if you'd dictate a huge number of possible object and their descriptions, etc.)

So.

Beginner Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 15

Bump.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Bump, bump, I am not supporting the old script. I will support the newer script I wrote. As I say it doesn't specifically do mapper things, but it make everything readable for both humans and zMud. Which means the mapper should be much happier. In either case, from what I have seen the changes Achaea made themselves to split the exit line off was really all that was required to make the mapper happy. This means you should have no problem mapping, with information in the help on Configuring the Mapper.

Beginner Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 15

No-no, I don't want to just map it, it maps fine curretnly, albeit, it uses more info for the decription than I want it to. Which is what I'm trying to fix here. Just poke me in the direction of a sollution to the pattern matching problem. I'll try another idea in a minute, but still, help would be appreciated. And I'll go dig up the mapper-override script.

PS
The script you provided doesn't work as is. What id does is gag _everything_. Permanently.. Prolly something to do with me changing Achaea(in the MUD) settings.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I actually went and created a character on Ahaea, just because so many people had problems there. The script I came up with works solidly. It does gag everything, and then redisplays it. I have noted some problems with the %t wild card that was used in my script originally, and changed that to instead specify a list of the direction words that should actually be used. Beyond that I use it with no changes and actually play a little there.

Magician Joined: 25 Oct 2000 Posts: 461 Location: USA

Thanks to Vigilante's and Larkin's inpspiration, I went ahead and got the mapper up and going as well. My code is a bit messy yet, but I'll describe loosely what I did:

I didn't care for the way Vigilante split lines via a period. While that makes the code a lot nicer, it does funky things with screen layout (I'm just picky). So I used some of the ideas to instead parse by blocks of ANSI instead of by sentence. I begin by parsing on the Room Name. Then, I capture everything up to the exit line. I then split this block of text up by ANSI color into a string list. I walk through the string list, and pull out things like weather, players, and things by ANSI color, then clean up the big block of text so I'm left with just the long room description.

If this sounds messy, well... it is. I'm sure it isn't great for speed either. But it works great, and the mapper (thus far) appears happy. I can see why Achaea is one of the big challenges in the mapping world... their output is MESSY. In a single room description, they repeat a room color up to 10 times (the same color!). They put in random linebreaks as well, which is nuts since the screenwidth is a configurable property. So I strip all that junk out as well. Now I can set my screenwidth to 250 in Achaea, and let zmud take care of the line wrapping. Each "section" (weather, desc, players, things) starts on a new line and is much more visually pleasing.

Beginner Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 15

Could you post it up, please? I have made my own script, and what it basically does, it parse the text between name and exits in three triggers. One for desc, one for objects, one for players. But I so far have had no luck making it appear more tidy on the screen(though I can store it in a tidy manner in the variables, for redisplayal).