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Beginner Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 14

I've put in some custom directions into zmud that seem to be working fine, except that I want a new zone to be created when I use the command if it's a new location.

This mud has space locations and planets, and new planets go into the game as players create them. This requires me to be a little creative in how I link them to my main map.

There are two things I need to be able to do:

Make the mapper understand the "jump <systemname>" command without creating a direction command for each one. This needs to create a new zone if it has never been visited before.

I also need to be able to create new zones when I land on planets. I already have a direction command for that, but it only creates a new location in the current zone, not a new zone. So I need to either be able to move locations from zone to zone, or preferably just create a new zone when I use the "board" command.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Sadly the creation of zones by script has never been included in zMud. I personally think that everything should be scriptable, and I believe there is a way to do it, but it is extremely round about and I can't even be sure it will work. Right now the best you can do is to make the script detect that a new zone should be made. After the room has been established use the #MENU command to move the room to another zone, so it prompts you to create the new zone.

Beginner Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 14

Is there a way to at least to the part where I create a direction with a wildcard in it?

If I could even get "jump <systemname>" to create a new map location that would be helpful, then I could just move it to a new zone manually, but wouldn't have to go through all the hassle of creating the annoying links by hand.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Use the direction character (default of >). At the command line:
>jump systemname>direction to place room

The italics portion is optional.

Beginner Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 14

Awesome, that works great. Much better than manually creating links and all of that garbage.

It's still too bad there's not scripted method for creating a room in a new zone...but this is still much better and much faster than before.