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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (23,133 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

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Tue 09 Mar 2010 03:17 AM (UTC)

Amended on Sat 17 Apr 2010 01:39 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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If anyone wants to play with the work-in-progress mapper plugin I am working on, you can grab a copy from here:

~~http://github.com/nickgammon/plugins/raw/master/Achaea_Mapper.xml~~ (EDIT: changed name to ATCP_Mapper)

http://github.com/nickgammon/plugins/raw/master/ATCP_Mapper.xml

(Just save the contents of that page as Achaea_Mapper.xml and install in the usual way).

You also need the ATCP_NJG plugin which sends the current room location, name and exits:

http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=10129

You probably also need the latest gauge.lua from here:

http://github.com/nickgammon/mushclient/raw/master/lua/gauge.lua

(put in the lua directory)

And also checkplugin.lua from here:

http://github.com/nickgammon/mushclient/blob/master/lua/checkplugin.lua

The mapper generates an empty mapping database if you don't have one (which you won't, yet). I am working with the Achaea admins to get a preloaded database which will show much more information without you having to walk around mapping rooms yourself.

Until that happens, the mapper only knows of the room you are in, and its current exits. If you take an exit, it then knows where the exit leads. If you then go back to where you came it knows the new room leads back to the old one. As you walk around, entering rooms, and then backtracking to where you came from, it will gradually learn the topography of the place.

A dashed line indicates an exit it knows exists, but doesn't know where it leads. In other words, follow the dashed lines, that make them become continuous lines, which indicates it knows where that exit goes.
You can RH-click on any room to speedwalk to that room.
A purple connecting line indicates an up/down connection. A cyan line indicates an in/out connection.
You can type "map zoom in" or "map zoom out" to zoom the map in or out (which makes the room boxes larger or smaller). I have those set up as a macro (F2 and F3) to make zooming fast and easy.

You can type "map find <place>" to search the room names for matching words, eg.


> map find path

Path north of the fire pit (road) - 1 room away
Tree-lined path (road) - 2 rooms away
There were 3 room(s) found which I cannot find the path to within 50 rooms from here.

Click on any of the listed hyperlinks to speedwalk to that room. Speedwalking takes the shortest known path.

You can hover the mouse over any room on the map and an information box will pop up giving the room name, exits, room number and area.

At present the area will be "Area 0" - in the preloaded database the areas will be known.
The mapper always draws the current room first, and then the rooms connected to the first room's exits, and then repeats for each of those rooms. The net effect is that sometimes the map appearance changes as you move around, because it doesn't draw rooms on top of each other. If the number of rooms shown seems to have decreased, try walking back to where you were before.
Sometimes fixing up one-way directions (those with a small arrow on them) by walking to and from a room will suddenly make a lot more of the map appear, as the mapper knows now where rooms lead.
Paths you have visited recently (in the last 5 minutes) are shown with a thicker line, so you can see which way you came from.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com