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Maps: Re: Maps

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 21:15:14 +0000

I've been making some maps and replacing some of the very big maps (and added quite a few that were missing)

Maps: Re: Maps

Fri, 10 Jun 2016 19:12:48 +0000

You can upload any type of file to the wiki, as long as it's not too big - so that's not a concern.

Images (like png) can be embedded in a page, which is an advantage for those. Either of your files can be linked in a "click here to open" way to allow people to zoom in as far as needed themselves.

I guess what I'm saying is… not very helpful, just "either way can be made to work, so pick which is most convenient / looks best for you" ?^^

Maps: Maps

Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:53:21 +0000

So I don't know how active the forums are here, but I thought I'd give it a shot. I have a mapping program that allows me to not only make maps, but it also shows colors to specify what area that room is part of, as well as showing if it's a safe zone or not. There's two ways I can save these maps. One way is saving them as a png image, and it looks like this: imgur . com /5Yk7bMs (remove spaces)
The problem is, I can't save big maps like this. If I zoom out too far, you can hardly see any detail, so big city maps would either have to be pieced together in Photoshop, or another solution must be found.

The other way is saving the map as an html file. It looks like this: imgur . com /fLtkbxu
The problem here is that it can ONLY be saved as an html file. It breaks links sometimes, and I don't know how to fix that if I can't save it as an image file. Plus, I don't know if I can upload html files to this site.

Anyone have any suggestions or preferences?

Helfiles in wiki: Re: Helfiles in wiki

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:46:33 +0000

Second this. In my eyes the Wiki should contain solid numbers from tests, and exact or approximate formulas whenever possible. It would also be helpful to note changes in skills/spells, such as gain or loss of affecting stats, and bugs or previous bugs in the skills, along with dates or approximate dates they were fixed.

Helfiles in wiki: Helfiles in wiki

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:14:23 +0000

I wonder what is the point of copying information from retro helpfiles to the wiki.

My worries are the following:
1. Duplication of information is always bad. Sooner or later the wiki files will become not up to date, and thus misleading.
2. Are you actually testing all information from the retro helpfiles before copying them? History shows that the helpfiles in retro are often very inaccurate, and some things are virtually impossible to test. Why copy incorrect information?

I believe wiki should contain well tested information, in particular of the kind that is not clearly explained in the helpfiles. For example quantitative description of the effects, information about non-fixed bugs etc.

Announcement!: Announcement!

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:00:16 +0000

Hi everyone! Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be extensively updating all the guild, skill, spell, and helpfile links here on the Wiki. I also encourage each one of you to sign up as a member of the site and to create your own character page!

Let's get RetroWIKI out of the dark ages and turn it into a useful tool.

Thanks,
Karo

wiki help: Re: wiki help

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:53:01 +0000

I already threw it in there for you, but it needs to have a parent site. When you save the page, scroll down to the bottom and click on More options, then click on Parents. Your parent for any character pages is "Characters". You can see what the parent needs to be by clicking on Character pages on the side, and then checking the breadcrumbs links at the top of the page.

wiki help: wiki help

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:27:49 +0000

once i write a charater page how do i get it to show up under char pages?

Tag length limit: Re: Tag length limit

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:43:51 +0000

The best way to do it is to simplify it. Lots of guilds get a combat skill, so just tag it as a combat skill.

Mud Scripting: Mud Scripting

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:58:29 +0000

Hi again,

The world exits interface discussion page didn't seem appropriate, so I made this new thread to talk about more general scripting stuff.

In a similar theme to the world exits I posted before, I also have almost the same script to check the time on Sosel.
It will tell you the time in Sosel hours, and also how long (in real life Earth minutes) till the next sunrise or sunset.
From what I have observed it is reasonably accurate. Again, it's a terrible hack and comments are welcome.

#ALIAS soseltime {timeprogress = 1
#VARIABLE timeobject %comcreate( "InternetExplorer.Application")
timeurl="http://70.86.15.74:3003/cgi/calendar?=fire"
#CALL @timeobject.Navigate(@timeurl)
#ECHO Looking for Sosel time…
timecheck 0}

#ALIAS timecheck {timeout=15
#IF {!@timeobject || %1 > @timeout} {#ECHO Timed out!
timeprogress=0
timeobject=0} {#IF {@timeobject.ReadyState==4} {timeprogress=0
#ECHO It is %copy( @timeobject.document.body.innertext, 24, 5) on Sosel.
soselminutes = %eval( %copy( @timeobject.document.body.innertext, 24, 2)*88+%copy( @timeobject.document.body.innertext, 27, 2))
#IF (@soselminutes < 235) {#ECHO It is %round( (235-@soselminutes)/12) minutes till sunrise.} {#IF (@soselminutes<620) {#ECHO It is %round( (620-@soselminutes)/12) minutes till sunset.} {#ECHO It is %round( (1035-@soselminutes)/12) minutes till sunrise.}}
timeobject=0} {#ALARM {+1} {timecheck %eval( %1+1)}}}}

Guild help: Guild help

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:01:23 +0000

I transcribed "help guild fighter" into the fighter page here to see what it might look like. Not necessarily in love with the layout as is, but I think it does make the wiki a bit more robust than just going to the retromud site.

Skill/spell pages creation: Re: Skill/spell pages creation

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:03:53 +0000

Another bit of Unixy stuff: the command
dd ibs=16384 obs=16384 | sed -e 's/[^[:alpha:][:space:]]//g' -e 's/^[[:space:]]*/[[[/' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$/]]],/' | sed -e :foo -e N -e 's/\n/ /' -e 't foo'
can turn a copy of the tert choices from a secondary guild page on the retromud.org site into a list of links, e. g.

 +-Disciple +-Faith healer +-Guardian acolyte +-Guardian priest +-Inquisitor +-Lazarite

into

[[[Disciple]]], [[[Faith healer]]], [[[Guardian acolyte]]], [[[Guardian priest]]], [[[Inquisitor]]], [[[Lazarite]]],

That makes creating secondary pages with lots of terts a bit faster. (And, yes, the sed stuff could be more compact.)

Theme: Theme

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:57:36 +0000

I’ve been playing around with the site’s theme. So far, the only change should be that text paragraphs are formatted justified, if your browser supports that. If you see layout problems, please report them.

Content licence: Re: Content licence

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:07:36 +0000

Licence changed as announced, but it is still open to discussion. Alternative formulations of 300 characters or less are welcome (‘This is LEGALESE!’).

Content licence: Content licence

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:45:16 +0000

The wiki software allows setting a licence for pages here. This is currently set to the CC-BY-SA-2.5 licence, but that does not reflect that most of our content is from the RetroMUD website and therefore proprietary.

So, I’m going to switch it to something more appropriate to reflect the ownership of that content. That will not be a copyleft licence. If there are objections or alternative suggestions to that, please comment here within the next few days or MUD mail me, send me a tell, etc.

P.S. Such matters can also be clarified on individual pages, when there is a need for that.

Skill/spell pages creation: Skill/spell pages creation

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:40:57 +0000

Hi,

I’ve written a script that lets you convert the output of help skill foo in RetroMUD to the wikidot syntax and formats it like the existing pages. It’s a sed script, so if you have a Unix system (e. g. some Linux distro), you can run it. How to use: download retrowikify.sed below (click on ‘Files’ for the link) and

Do help skill foo in RetroMUD.
Copy the output, beginning with the first non-empty line after 'Help for skill:' and until the last line of the description.
Run sed -f retrowikify.sed | dd ibs=8192 in a terminal.
Paste what you copied, in the terminal. Hit enter if you didn’t copy the last linebreak. Hit ctrl-D after pasting.
Copy the output of the script, paste it into the edit box on the wiki and adjust as needed.

It’s faster than the description makes it sound, really, and saves a lot of typing. I’m using GNU sed, no idea if this works with others, too.

The creation of a better script is left as an exercise for the enthusiastic reader.

Tag length limit: Tag length limit

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:26:31 +0000

Hi all,

we’re currently using tags to connect spells and skills to guilds. Some skills are provided in a lot of guilds, which means we need to put many tags on the page, but the tag entry box has a length limit of 70 characters. For example, this is already insufficient for the bludgeon skill.

There doesn’t seem to be a server-side limit (or I haven’t noticed one yet, at least), so I’ve made a script that temporarily disables the limit. You need Firefox and the Greasemonkey extension. (I hear there’s something for Opera that does the same thing, though.)

Once you have the extension, download the attached script (click on ‘files’ below, the file is wikidotutils.user.js), drag and drop it in a Firefox window and confirm you want to install it. It’ll add an ‘unlimit tags’ button to the right of the ‘tags’ button. When you click on tags and run out of space in the text box, click the new button to disable the limit. Please use this with caution.