Register forum user name Search FAQ

Gammon Forum

Notice: Any messages purporting to come from this site telling you that your password has expired, or that you need to verify your details, confirm your email, resolve issues, making threats, or asking for money, are spam. We do not email users with any such messages. If you have lost your password you can obtain a new one by using the password reset link.

Due to spam on this forum, all posts now need moderator approval.

 Entire forum ➜ MUDs ➜ General ➜ Title screen

Title screen

It is now over 60 days since the last post. This thread is closed.     Refresh page


Posted by Celebii 03   (3 posts)  Bio
Date Wed 13 Nov 2002 12:17 AM (UTC)
Message
Excuse me im srry if this sounds newbie of me but in new to this and the FAQs wont give me info that will help me i started a small mud on my own computer and i have no idea where to go from here i have almost no c experence and dont know much but if you guys can help me id be very greatful.

namely at this time i wanna know witch files to edit and what to do with them so that i can add a cool little picture at the start:)
but other then that i jsut need to know stuff the faqs tells me but with better detail(i think the faqs needs to explain a little more).


Thankyou,
Thomas
Top

Posted by Loki   (44 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #1 on Wed 13 Nov 2002 01:38 AM (UTC)
Message
We would love to help you. But first we need to know what codebase you are using. There may be a greetings.txt somewhere in the MUD's Directorys, or it may included in another help file. To further assist you we need the name of the Codebase that you are using so we can answer your question more accurately.

-LºKi_
Founder
Endless Dreams
Top

Posted by Celebii 03   (3 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #2 on Wed 13 Nov 2002 01:48 AM (UTC)
Message
umm as in codebase do you mean like the little rom thing it has me run?
well i downloaded it and ill describe it if it helps cause i stink at remembers things ok i downloaded it from this site.
it was a zip file and it had a file called rom in it and it had all the files to have a rom based game.
other then that i dont know:S
well the area folder has shutdown file and all the areas and the area.lst i think.


Thankyou,
thomas
Top

Posted by Loki   (44 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #3 on Wed 13 Nov 2002 04:16 AM (UTC)
Message
Brother,

If you are thinking about starting your own mud you might want to do a little more research. It is a bad sign when you don't know the name of the codebase that you are using.

Ok, now if you have hedit or a helpfile OLC editor
try typing "hedit greeting"

You may also want to try looking for a help directory
and trying to find the greeting.txt there.

I have also seen the the greeting under the MOTD file.

Once again this depends on the codebase that you are using.
Please be more specific so that I may further assist you :)




-LºKi_
Founder
Endless Dreams
Top

Posted by Celebii 03   (3 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #4 on Wed 13 Nov 2002 09:40 PM (UTC)
Message
ok listen this is my research tell me a site that goes into specific details and ill tell you i dont even know what codebase is. tell me what the codebases are and btw i checked for those files and found none so it aint those i am realy good at learning but nothing much on mud making is out there. can you guys refer me to a site that explains indetail about mud makeing or anything to get me started im srry to waste your time if thats what you see it as but this is what i want to do its fun as ive seen i just want to know something about it.
Think of it like this a person who persues a dream but doesnt know much about it he has to learn but wait nothing to learn from. ends up haveing to go on the fly. asks ppl questions they dont know so he goes to a faqs site doesnt help him in the least. thats me.

Thanks,
Thomas
Top

Posted by Loki   (44 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #5 on Wed 13 Nov 2002 10:56 PM (UTC)
Message
I apologize, I didn't pick up the ROM mentioned above.
Well you can start off by doing a search for ROM, you can goto google or you favorite search engine and do a search on
"ROM MUD Codebase". This should give you a lot more links on the codebase that you are working with. You can also look at the below listed web sites for great research tools.



  1. http://www.Kyndig.com
  2. http://www.topmudsites.com
  3. http://www.mudconnect.com
  4. http://www.mudranger.com
  5. http://mudworld.inetsolve.com


Ok to change the Greeting or the wizlist list you must go into area/ directory and open rom.ARE file, this the main files where the Wizlist, Greeting, and other help files are kept. If you look throught this file you will see ~GREETING
and the current greeting following it. just change it to what you would like. Now you might have to manually Open it with Notepad or your favorite Text editor. I hope that this has helped you.

-LºKi_
Founder
Endless Dreams
Top

Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #6 on Wed 13 Nov 2002 11:06 PM (UTC)
Message
Have you read this - MUDs FAQ ? That answers some of your questions, like 'what is a codebase'. Best to browse those items, so you have more idea of what the various words mean.

- Nick Gammon

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

The dates and times for posts above are shown in Universal Co-ordinated Time (UTC).

To show them in your local time you can join the forum, and then set the 'time correction' field in your profile to the number of hours difference between your location and UTC time.


22,945 views.

It is now over 60 days since the last post. This thread is closed.     Refresh page

Go to topic:           Search the forum


[Go to top] top

Information and images on this site are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License unless stated otherwise.