room sector conflict for automapper

Posted by 6dragons on Sat 23 Feb 2008 05:43 AM — 6 posts, 27,071 views.

6dragons Sat 23 Feb 2008 05:43 AM #0

I have a problem with my mapping function. We used an automapper like style to do our wilderness code. Thus my wilderness is one big hairy 5000 vnum area. Automapper generates the maps, and another function generates the room names and brief descriptions.

My problem is when I connect an area to my wilderness unless I connect it on the edge of the wilderness the automapper tries to map the sector types of the area that is connecting to the wilderness. Thus I end up with some crazy look maps where areas connect to wilderness.

I thought of 2 ways that may solve that one I know would, the other I'm not sure.

1) Make an enter exit command for wilderness and keep zones seperate from wilderness. Thus no sector type conflicts. I know that would work, but I think it doesn't look the greatest. Also, with my limited coding ability would be an ugly function like player uses enter command if in this room then send char to this room.

2) Not sure if this would solve it, but was thinking if I make my sectors extended bits, I could keep sector flags different from the wilderness sector flags, maybe putting a W in front of the names of my wilderness sector flags, and some how only having function look_map or draw_map only check wilderness sectors and ignore others? Or will the automapper end up putting blank spaces where it knows a room from another zone is there?

I tried doing this...

In draw_map...

with my define from mud.h
#define IN_WILDERNESS(ch) ((ch)->in_room->vnum >= WILDERNESS_MIN_VNUM && (ch)->in_room->vnum <= WILDERNESS_MAX_VNUM)

I placed this at top of draw_map function
if (!IN_WILDERNESS(ch))
{
return;
}

It didn't work still sector overlapping.

Vladaar

David Haley USA Sat 23 Feb 2008 06:54 AM #1

I don't really understand the details of what you're doing, so please bear with me, but why isn't it enough to simply stop the automapper when you leave the wilderness area?

Robert Powell Australia Sat 23 Feb 2008 07:58 AM #2

The way i would fix this Vladaar is to, have a sector_exit, when a PC enters a sector_exit, you look up a table to find the room that that exit links to then move the PC into that room.

Then there are no real exits from the overland and your mapper function will just display the correct rooms. To make it slightly more realistic, you might need some sector_no_enter for the overland, so PC's cannot move say north onto a sector_exit which links to an area with the first room going south.

So on your map you see this,

^^^
^@^
^.^

where ^ is sector_no_enter, @ is sector_exit and . is sector_road.

A zone then can exit to the vnum of room_exit and the PC can then move south.

6dragons Sat 23 Feb 2008 09:11 AM #3

I do not get what you mean Robert. You think you have to stand in the room for mapper to show the area connected to a nearby area?

Look how far away I am from the Area Entrance Sector Room, and it starts showing the other area sectors. I am the * 3 down and 1 west of the area Entrance Room. The above is suppose to be all trees cept for a road that goes horizontally. Below the trees is supposed to be all ocean, but you see road from the connecting area going into the ocean.


  TTTTTTTTTTTT@TTTT
  TTTTTTTTT_TTTTTTT
  TTTTTTTTT_TTTTTTT
  @--------___-----
  TTTTTTTT@___TTTTT
  TTTTTTTT____TTTTT
  TTTTTTT*T_______T
  ~~~~~~~~____~~__~
  ~~~~~~~~~____~~_~
  ~~~~~~~~~~__~~~~~
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This what the function looks like itself. I need to figure out a way to get it to ignore sectors from areas not in the wilderness zone. I did remove quite of the sector cases from draw map function just so the function is smaller and easier to view.



void draw_map(CHAR_DATA *ch, unsigned short int map[50][50])
 {
         int x,y;
         char *sect;


         for (y=1;y<= MapDiameter;++y)
         {
                 for (x=1;x<=MapDiameter;++x)
                 {
                         switch(map[x][y])
                         {
                                 default:
                                         sect = ".";
                                         break;
                                 case SECT_INSIDE:
                                         sect = "&w_";
                                         break;
                                 case SECT_ROAD:
                                         sect = "&O_";
                                         break;
                                 case SECT_JUNGLE:
                                         sect = "&g&&";
                                         break;
                                 case SECT_VROAD:
                                         sect = "&O|";
                                         break;
                                 case SECT_HROAD:
                                         sect = "&O-";
                                         break;
                                 case SECT_CAMPSITE:
                                         sect = "&Rx";
                                         break;
                               case SECT_DOCK:
                                         sect = "&w0";
                                         break;
                                       case (SECT_MAX+1):
                                         sect = " ";
                                         break;
                         }

                         if(x==center && y==center)
                                 sect = "&R*";

                         send_to_char_color(sect, ch);
                 }
                 send_to_char("\n\r",ch);
         }
         return;
 }

Robert Powell Australia Sat 23 Feb 2008 10:15 AM #4

What i am saying is to not have actual exits from the wilderness into the areas. The map function then has nothing to follow.

6dragons Sat 23 Feb 2008 12:03 PM #5

Well that did the trick, but my command is very very nasty looking checking the room each player is in, and sending them to a different room.

Thanks for suggesting it, works for now.

Vladaar