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Scarn
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Joined: 24 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 3:11 pm   

Distance between rooms on map.
 
Hi again everyone,

Trying to work out a way for the map to return the distance between two different rooms (or from my current location to a list of rooms), returned as a number of steps.
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Scarn
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 3:14 pm   
 
The reason for this is so I can workout where the closest healer is to me from wherever I am on the map. The quick get around would be to give all healers on the MUD the same room nickname/shortcut and let the mapper work out what is closest, however this would cause certain problems for various unrelated reasons.
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MattLofton
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Joined: 23 Dec 2000
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 6:15 pm   
 
Check out %pathfrom().
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Scarn
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:23 pm   
 
Yeah, trying out a few methods.

With that method I would need to get the pathfrom, expand it, and then count the ";" to see how many steps.

I just made an alias that changes all the room IDs of the healers to "healer" and hoped that a simple #WALK would go to closest one, aparently it doesnt... just picks a random one to travel to... odd!
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shalimar
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Location: Pensacola, FL, USA

PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:39 pm   
 
%numitems(%pathexpand(%pathfrom(, there)))
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charneus
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Joined: 19 Jun 2005
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Location: California

PostPosted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 7:46 am   
 
Keep in mind that any extra commands (open door, unlock door, etc) will be counted as a "step", too, so you may find:

Nearest healer:
unw2nwnd

2nd nearest:
open d;d;open w;w;open n;n;open n;2n

In reality, the second is actually shorter (dw3n), but because of the open doors, it'll count them as steps and seem longer.
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clk4suport
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Joined: 21 Nov 2013
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Location: NOida

PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 12:49 pm   
 
Hi there,

okay :)
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teion
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Joined: 03 May 2005
Posts: 72

PostPosted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:47 pm   
 
Anyone have an idea on this? I play on the same mud as Scarn and I have a list of rooms in a string variable called healers

healers - 22754,34454 etc etc

I want to cmud calculate the distance to all the rooms in the variable and save the lowest three to 3 aliases - heal1, heal2, heal3


I'm not exactly sure how to make cmud do the math for this. Somone mentioned using the pathfrom command. so maybe i could use that in a loop to calculate steps and then save the lowest ones.
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Scarn
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:21 pm   
 
I figured it out Teion, I'll give you a shout on the MUD to help you.
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