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Old 01-15-2008, 07:06 AM   #1
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Old 01-15-2008, 08:28 AM   #2
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Re: An area editor tool

Pretty neat. It is always fun to find old code and look it over. Gives you a sense of progress. I remember finding an old DnD roller program (even including initial item purchases and printable character sheets) a few years back. Was quite a chuckle walking through my code.

On a side not, I would love to get a mapper, which included diagonals and up/down, for my builders. Most cannot seem to use that ASCII Mapmaker for some reason or another. If you could pop out a simple 10 direction, save as gif/jpg mapmaker from your old code let me know.
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Old 01-15-2008, 10:23 AM   #3
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This isn't exactly a mud tool but any mud builder might want to look at:



Unfortunately it outputs to PDF but it does have some cool features otherwise.
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Old 01-15-2008, 05:20 PM   #4
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Old 01-16-2008, 11:21 AM   #5
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Whoa. This stuff is really cool.

I bet that would be really easy to use by builders. How long did it take you guys to program something like this?
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Old 01-16-2008, 12:10 PM   #6
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I don't remember. A basic editor can probably be made quite fast. Perhaps minimally 1-2 weeks depending on how much you work on it and what features you want it to have.
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Old 01-17-2008, 03:32 AM   #7
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Just thinking, you might also want to look at Inform's integrated development environment. Inform is for interactive fiction, but they do some nice stuff in their tools (although some of it is IF specific). One really interesting idea is that scripting is done in natural language (kind of).
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Old 01-17-2008, 05:45 AM   #8
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One of our Overlords at ArmageddonMUD has developed a web-based tool for area building...it's pretty neat. He has a YouTube demo of it for those who're interested.

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Old 01-22-2008, 10:54 PM   #9
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It's also now an open source project -- downloadable at

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Old 01-23-2008, 04:37 AM   #10
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Another good offline area editor is
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