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<H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits?</H1>
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<LI><em>From</em>: Ben Greear <<A HREF="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:14:39 +0000</LI>
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J C Lawrence wrote:
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> In a long prior life I hacked a tool to build maps from telnet game
> logs. The algorithm was simple:
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> 1) Pull out all command lines which contain a directional command
> (U/D/N/NE/E/SE/S/SW/W/NW) and the next line of output (the room
> desciption of the room moved to).
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> 2) Trim out all error/"You can't do that" entries.
I will be working from my world database, and so can make complex, and
arbitrarily correct assumptions about the exits et al. I can also
do things like stop at zone boundaries and so on...
> 4) Build a graph of nodes representing thr trimmed log (just walk
> down the log, adding nodes as new locations are found).
Care to elaborate on that part?
> 5) In the case that a reverse direction not being symmetric,
> branch (I then fixed such by hand later).
Yep, I'll probably be able to read in some kind of script that has commands
for specific rooms/exits that I want to behave in non-standard ways....
>
> 5) Print.
Was this ASCII, or something more advanced? I know very little about
graphics programming, could it be programatically similar to writing to
a Canvas provided by normal GUI libraries??
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00172" HREF="msg00172.html">[MUD-Dev] Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits?</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Sat 08 May 1999, 05:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00186" HREF="msg00186.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits?</A></strong>,
Mik Clarke <a href="mailto:mikclrk#ibm,net">mikclrk#ibm,net</a>, Sun 09 May 1999, 11:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00188" HREF="msg00188.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits?</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Mon 10 May 1999, 07:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00194" HREF="msg00194.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits?</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#varesearch,com">claw#varesearch,com</a>, Tue 11 May 1999, 20:13 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00217" HREF="msg00217.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits?</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Wed 12 May 1999, 22:13 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00236" HREF="msg00236.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits?</A></strong>,
Sunny Gulati <a href="mailto:sunnywiz#radiks,net">sunnywiz#radiks,net</a>, Fri 14 May 1999, 08:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00203" HREF="msg00203.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits?</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Tue 11 May 1999, 20:11 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00167" HREF="msg00167.html">[MUD-Dev] Discussion of large server IO handling desing</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00165" HREF="msg00165.html">[MUD-Dev] Virtual Property</A></strong>,
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