[Fwd: Re: [Newbie]A Portal room]

From: invincibill (long@hercules.ntsource.com)
Date: 12/13/96


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Daniel Koepke wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Anthony J rye wrote: > > > > -The players walk into room 12878. In room 12878, there is a portal. By > > > typing 'enter portal' the players are transported to room 12803. How would > > > i do this? > > Instead of doing all this why dont you just make the room they enter > > portal like (as if there have already entered a portal) > > then make one exit to room 12803. > > More exciting i think :) > > More exciting? That's an exit. Just create a new type of item, say, > ITEM_PORTAL, and assign it a spec proc to catch 'enter'. Not as easy > as creating an exit, but, imho, better. > > -- > Daniel Koepke > dkoepke@california.com > Forgive me father, for I am sin. > > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | > | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ i'm not exactly positive but i THINK if you set the portal room to type outside and set the target room to type inside and set the name of the exit to "portal" you can type enter portal and voila, there you are. no new stuff to make or anything. i fiddled with it a bit on my mud because its actually kinda based on a bunch of portals. cant remember what i ever did with it tho. heheh..been too busy coding to do any building lately. invincibill -- ** I truely believe that the internet will do more to bring about world peace than any other devicein human history. ** http://www.ntsource.com/~long Myths of Time Mud telnet://206.152.243.1:4000 +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+



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