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Newbie Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

Okay, so with Arminas' help, I've almost got the mapper working with Fed II. Here's the trigger code I'm using:

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:19 am

The random direction thing is usually due to the mapper not realising you've moved since your last direction, or that you failed to move. For example, you're in a room with two exits, north and south. You type east and get a You Can't Go There message. The mapper is still waiting for output from the east command. You type north and move into the room - the mapper creates a new room to the east. The easiest way around this is to have a #nodir trigger on messages that indicate that you didn't manage to get where you wanted to go. You'll be able to see rooms in the queue in the bottom right corner of the mapper - use #nodir if there's something there that shouldn't be.

As for the room creation thing, that's what happens when the names and/or descriptions don't match. If you're done creating maps, you can just turn off creation mode and it'll stop making new rooms. You can also merge the rooms. This might indicate something wrong with the mapper's detection or with your room names or descriptions changing, which may screw up the mapper in the future. Might be worth a look.

Newbie Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

Cool, thanks for the help. I'll keep an eye on that queue in the future - never knew what that was before =)

Newbie Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

So, am I right to assume that if I'm in a room with two exits, north and south, and I go north, get a room description, but "n" appears in the queue and no room is created in the mapper, this means that the mapper doesn't recognize the name and description of the room I just moved into as a valid output? This happens a bit too -- should I take this to mean that my triggers aren't detecting room names and descriptions as well as I thought they were?

Thanks for helping out a total newbie,
Ryan

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Look at my reply in your other post. It should provide enough things to get going mapping. However, from the rooms you put in this post, it won't always detect all the exits and create stubs for them. On the plus side it looks like it should work well enough that you may be able to add just a few phrases and get it up to 95%.