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Announce News Post #1519

Changes for all you automappers

Written by: Clementius, the Weaver
Date: Monday, February 16th, 2004
Addressed to: Everyone


For those of you using automated mapping systems, most notably zMUD's
mapper, various little things have been done to make life easier.

To get the most out of zMUD's mapper, configure as follows:
- VERBOSE - use verbose descriptions in Achaea during configuration.
This is _not_ necessarily needful while actually mapping, but
can help during the configuration/setup steps for zMUD's mapper.

- use zMUD mapper's configuration steps as usual to configure it.

Once everything is set up, you may wish to use the following,
though it's not entirely clear which version(s) of zMUD it applies to:
- To keep the mapper from trying to match the first line of the
room description, open the map window, click on config, then
configuration settings, which will take you to the map preferences
window. Select speedwalking, then change the automatic room matching
radio button to match room name.

The main thrust of the changes made recently is that the exits line
(or lines) will now always start at the beginning of a new line,
and the brief description at the top will now never end with a
space (it used to, in cases where it didn't end in "(road)").

This should make the mapper much more usable in Achaea.


Penned by my hand on the 14th of Glacian, in the year 356 AF.


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Announce News Post #1519

Changes for all you automappers

Written by: Clementius, the Weaver
Date: Monday, February 16th, 2004
Addressed to: Everyone


For those of you using automated mapping systems, most notably zMUD's
mapper, various little things have been done to make life easier.

To get the most out of zMUD's mapper, configure as follows:
- VERBOSE - use verbose descriptions in Achaea during configuration.
This is _not_ necessarily needful while actually mapping, but
can help during the configuration/setup steps for zMUD's mapper.

- use zMUD mapper's configuration steps as usual to configure it.

Once everything is set up, you may wish to use the following,
though it's not entirely clear which version(s) of zMUD it applies to:
- To keep the mapper from trying to match the first line of the
room description, open the map window, click on config, then
configuration settings, which will take you to the map preferences
window. Select speedwalking, then change the automatic room matching
radio button to match room name.

The main thrust of the changes made recently is that the exits line
(or lines) will now always start at the beginning of a new line,
and the brief description at the top will now never end with a
space (it used to, in cases where it didn't end in "(road)").

This should make the mapper much more usable in Achaea.


Penned by my hand on the 14th of Glacian, in the year 356 AF.


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