Vnum Help?

(I'm using offline editor "Area Editor".) I'm trying to change the vnum range in an area on my game, yet whenever I try I get the following..
"Your area has mud programs, but you have not loaded all of the following files: commands.dat, socials.dat, and skills.dat"

How do I load these .dats, and what are they for?

The Area Editor, unlike some other offline editors, will renumber your mob programs as well as the vnums in the area itself.

In order to do that it has to be able to parse the programs (make sense of them). For that to be possible it needs to know what commands (eg. run), socials (eg. smile) and skills (eg. kick) that you might be using.

Those .dat files will be in the SMAUG "system" folder (not the Windows "system" folder) under the names you gave.

To load them, go to the Skills, Commands and Socials menus, and use the "load" command (top one) in each case to load each of those files.

You can save time in future by setting the paths to those files in File -> Preferences.

Then the renumber should work.

Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it :)

Microps feels as if he has met a celebrity (Mr. Gammon.)

So what I do is this ..

>skills >load skills >smaugconfig.dat
Then do the same thing for commands and socials?

That's cake!

Whenever I alter to vnums, I have to do this?

I'm a bit unclear on that part.

On the tree menu in "Area", if I change the vnums there (low->high), it will alter ALL the vnums throughout the entire Area file (all mobs, obs, and rooms vnums)?


On an unrelated note, the programs (look_prog etc), is there anyplace I could go that would explain what each does, and maybe give me a list of the code for each?

No, you do this ...

>skills >load skills> skills.dat
>socials >load socials> socials.dat
>commands >load commands> commands.dat

Those files didn't come with Area Editor, they came with SMAUG, look for them there.



No, go to the File menu > Preferences.

On the first screen, browse for the three files (skills.dat, socials.dat, commands.dat) in the appropriate boxes. Then they will be loaded every time you start Area Editor, and you won't have to do it again.



No, that only changes the allowed ranges. They are auto-detected as the area is read in, as they are not in the area file. Changing them will not affect the area at all.

To renumber the area, go to the Area menu -> Renumber.



Look in the "doc" directory of the SMAUG download. Then look at some of the links I gave in the forum under "SMAUG Server" section.