[MUD-Dev] Re: MapMaker

["S. Patrick Gallaty" <choke#sirius,com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Gray <cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA>
To: mud-dev#kanga,nu <mud-dev#kanga,nu>
Date: Friday, 10 July, 1998 07:40
Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: MapMaker
[ schnip! ]

>What exactly triggers the actual creation of a room?

A player moving into the room, a permanent map object being
preloaded in 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 create a dynamic room object as needed.  If they drop something
in it the dropped thing gets cleaned up with the room eventually.

> 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
>
>-- 

I got some interesting feedback about how the dynamic map stuff
has 'been done' etc.  I don't think I was ever under the impression
that it hadn't.  I am sure that none of us is truly put off by someone
else having coded a version of something you are working on 
previously.  I for one do most of my great hacks for the hell of it.

Besides, mine will be cooler. :)

The reason for doing this is manyfold, but my favorite one is that
I really want to make a random dungeon generator.   A huge 30 
level deep dungeon or something that's different every reboot.


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