Quick question about DoT area vs. ROM Area

Posted by Viruz on Thu 07 Feb 2002 11:16 PM — 5 posts, 22,657 views.

Viruz Thu 07 Feb 2002 11:16 PM #0

after looking through 2 areas on for ROM and one for DoT, I noticed they appear the same (except for the header).


#AREADATA
Version     11
FromMUD     Dawn1.7~
*parent_codebase 1.69h
Name        Limbo~
ShortName   ~
Builders    None~
VNUMs       1 25
AFlags  noteleport noscry hidden~
Security    9
Colour      B~
MapScale    4
MapLevel    1
Vnum_offset 0
Continent   none~
*LastSaved  Fri Mar 09 21:26:07~
End

Compared to ROM

#AREA
city.are~
City~
Maon~
1200 1301

Is what I am seeing true?

if so then one can simply use ORB or "Area Editor" to make a DoT area and just change the header in a text editor to make it official?

Kalahn United Kingdom Thu 07 Feb 2002 11:52 PM #1

Dawn uses wordflags instead of ABCDEF... for flags in areas, this makes areas more portable in the future when a lot of muds have different usage for each bit flag.

e.g.


#MOBILES
#3000
Name laborer~
ShortD a laborer~
LongD A laborer is here, trying to get his work done.
~
Desc This human is very large and muscular.  He is dressed in workman's clothes 
and has some tools hanging on his belt.  He is busy at the moment trying to 
get his work done as quickly as possible.
~
Race human~
Align 1 2
Level 5
Hitroll 0
HitDice 2d5+1
ManaDice 2d5+120
DamDice 1d6+1
DamType pound
AC 50 50 50 50
Wealth 50
Act    npc no_tame stay_area~
Off    assist_vnum~
Form   edible sentient biped mammal~
Part   head arms legs heart brains guts hands feet fingers ear eye~
StartP standing~
DefPos standing~
Size   medium~
Sex    male~
Material unknown
END

Regarding importing ROM areas, just add the area to the arealist, dawn should do the rest.

- Kal

Viruz Thu 07 Feb 2002 11:58 PM #2

I did add an area to the list , booted up fine and the area is there and works

when I type are it shows the area I added but it's colour is different than all the other areas(white instead of blue) whether I am in that zone or not.

And should DoT modify the area at all so that it becomes an "official" Dot Area?

Daos USA Sun 03 Mar 2002 07:12 AM #3

Go into aedit and change the area colour:

While in aedit ->

syntax: colour <colour code>

Type help colour for a list of colour codes.

- Daos

Kalahn United Kingdom Wed 06 Mar 2002 10:43 AM #4

Dawn imports the rom area format, when the area is resaved it will be saved in Dawn format.

- Kal