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Wanderer Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 55

On my mud, we have portals. One of them will transport me to a 'home' spot like recall does. I have this portal set up with the mapper so that it uses it as the shortest route to most places.

But the problem is, there are some areas were most rooms don't allow portals to be used. If I am in such area, and try to use a speedwalk, the mapper tries to use the portal even though it won't work. In these areas, I would like the mapper to ignore all portals and take the shortest path out of the area on foot.

Is there any way I can get the mapper to see that certain rooms are noportal? Maybe someway to temporarily disable all portals in script, and then afterwards re-enable them just as they were before? Anyone have a suggestion?

Wanderer Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 55

*bump :)

Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:33 pm

suggestion would be for each room set it with a room script.
#trigger {You cannot portall msg} {#nomap;#walk ###;portal command}

where ### is the room # that you use to get out

Drawing a blank right now on what Aard's no portal msg is..Don't forget there's also the no recall rooms ;-)

I've never actually got around to bothering with that stuff myself...in all honesty I don't think that the #nomap will work...lemme know ;-)

Wanderer Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 55

Thx Vitae I'll try that :)

Wanderer Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 55

Ick, I just realized there is a problem

The main issue is that #walk still tries to use portals for the shortest route.

So if I put the trigger in the room script, in a room where there is noportal, it will still try to use the portal since the portal is its shortest route. it will work for some rooms where the noportal room is only one room away or so from a portal enabled one. But not in large areas that are almost entirely no portal like the ST:TNG, which I would really like to set up for. In areas like that path by portal is almost always shorter than by foot, so #walk tries to use portals.

If only there was a command to give shortest path without portals.. that would make this so easy. i suppose i could try putting in room script a big loop to save portal values, disable all portals, then reenable them after I am at destination room. It probably will be very long and laggy though. is there Any easier and better solution?

Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:46 pm

crap, sorry, hadnt thought of that.

portalenabled

Syntax: %portalenabled( PortalName {, Value})

Returns the status of the specified PortalName. Returns 0 if portal is disabled, 1 if enabled. If Value is given, this is used as the new status, and the function will return the previous status.

err..so...

%portalenabled( PortalName {, 0})
#walk ####
%portalenabled( PortalName {, 1})

?...