Zugg Software :: View topic - Mapping: Non-standard directions, roomexit, roomlink.

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

I know the topic of non-standard exits has been covered, but I couldn't find anything that worked for my problem.

I've got two non-standard exits, in and out, which are for the moment in my DirectionsDiag class, although I've tried putting them elsewhere:
#dir bc "in" other
#dir cb "out" other

What I want is for these types of exits to have stubs added automatically to maps like normal exits. I've got my #tags set up correctly, and all other exits, room titles, room descs, ect. work fine. Also when I look at what's being #tagged that's also correct. However, in and out are never mapped automatically.

I've restarted ZMud several times, reconfigured the mapper several times, and tried using %roomexit(,in) and %roomlink(,in,-2) to create the stubs, but no luck. Roomexit and roomlink with normal directions, like southeast, work fine. When I try using roomexit and roomlink for in/out, I end up with a "blank" exits--e.g. "e|j||k"--the other dot shows up but the other command is still blank.

The direction character, e.g. >in, works mostly, but when I'm exploring I won't always be able to enter every in exit, so it doesn't really work for my purposes.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Not possible. Stubs are only for directional exits, and non-standard exits are directionless.

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

Perhaps "stub" was the wrong word. I'd like to have an exit pointing towards "nowhere yet" (-2, for the roomlink command) which is of the type other and has the other command "in" or "out". If I manually add an exit in the room properties dialogue, I can get this effect. Even if I use %roomexit or %roomlink I can kind of get this effect because I get an "other" exit that points nowhere, it just doesn't save the other command properly.