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Newbie Joined: 01 Jun 2008 Posts: 1

I'm a recent user of CMud and these forums, so please forgive any ignorant transgressions on my part with this post.

Here is my problem:

I play on CthulhuMud and they display their room names like so:

Miskatonic University - Common Room (inside)
Miskatonic University - Main Lawn (city-sunny-clear)

This causes a problem with the 'city' rooms as the 'sunny-clear' part can change as the day progresses and night comes around. So the automapping feature will hook into 'Main Lawn (city-sunny-clear)' and then fault when I come around to the same room but it's 'Main Lawn (city-night-fog)'. I saw that there were some configuration possibilities with the mapper as to how it read room names but I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what exactly I can configure.

Is it possible to configure the auto-mapper to read a room name up until '(' and how would I configure that.

It has a really nasty side effect when dealing with 'zones' in a map. If, as I have done, I set an interior room to link to another zone that is an exterior room, then unless the exterior room text matches exactly with what weather and time conditions existed before, it'll cause an error - thankfully, the app can recover from the errors but it's annoying to have to click on a 'continue' button every time I switch zones from interior to exterior.

Any help would be appreciated.

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 5:05 pm

It's very possible - the way you do it is by setting up a trigger that matches your room names (and only your room names) that uses the #tag command to tell the mapper what the room name is.

The hard part is making a trigger that'll work for all room names, but no other lines. It helps if your room names are always one colour, or something like that, but without more information on that, there's not much more help we can give.

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

Use a #TAG trigger:

#trigger {^([%w%s] - [%w%s]) ~(} {#tag name %1}

You'll probably have to edit your map to fix the existing room names, and if the room name was really the reason for the AV then those will stop (I don't think it's the room name, though).

There's also an existing bug with the mapper where you can't use room scripts.

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:33 pm

You may place an alias as a room script within the script box. If you put the actual script into the box, CMUD will bomb when the room is entered.