by Nascosto » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:51 am
yeah, the automapper can be a little strange although mostly i've learnt to work around or live with most of its oddness.
2 ways to do this.
1) I email a file with it already configured
2) there may be a better way, but this is what I did -
zmud stores buttons, alias, triggers in files with .mud extension.
generally there are 3 files loaded: Zmud/default.mud, Zmud/global.mud, and then your primary mud file, probably Zmud/SlothmudIII/SlothmudIII.mud
the default values for how directions work are stored in default.mud
you're supposed to be able to override them, but in my experience the automapper reads both values, the overridden value and the new value and creates 2 exits for any up or down exit
a) first, make a backup copy of default.mud (say default.bak)
b) start ZMUD. click the new button.
c) for host type: NULL. click the save button
d) double click on your new mud NULL button
e) it'll fail to find the host and show a warning. click cancel so that you're at the non connected NULL window.
f) go to EDIT, SETTINGS so it brings up the edit settings window
g) in the edit settings window, go to view and make sure that view hidden and view inherited are turned on
h) if you view all there should be a blue folder called system, go inside that
i) inside that there are 2 folders of interest, directions, and directions diag
j) go into directionsdiag. delete all the directions in there that are black. leave the blue ones alone, they'll be overwritten soon enough.
k) go back and into the directions folder.
click on the black 'u' entry and change it's map property to Northwest
click on the black 'd' entry and change it's map property to Southeast
l) err, quit zmud
m) copy zmud/null/null.mud to zmud/default.mud
yeah, hopefully that was somewhat coherent.