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From: Chris Gray <cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 08:15:05 -0600
Organization: Kanga.Nu
[S. Patrick Gallaty:]
>You are standing at the edge of the sea. To the west and
>north you hear the sound of breaking waves. To the east
>you see a grassy plain. To the south you see a sparse
>forest.
>In the distance to the north you see dark tower.
>
>and the resultant text map to create this virtual room
>would be something like :
>
>. . -
>. - '
>. % %
Sounds very cool! The closest I came was in my 3-d "Troll maze", where
I used character strings to initialize the data structures for the levels
(my MUD language not having any other kind of bulk initializer). I did
a similar "generation of text description" there, but not as sophisticated.
What exactly triggers the actual creation of a room? Do you create one
for the character to be in, or only if they interact with it in some
way, like dropping something? I copped out and never created real rooms,
just the one room, and then a coordinate in it. Dropping things was
not allowed (hack!)
--
Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA