Currently each two way exit line is drawn twice for rooms in the same area, with the effect that unless you set a door symbol on both ends of the exit the square that is drawn appears to be underneath the exit line for some exits (where the symbol is on the first room that draws the exit line) and on top for others (if it is on the second) - I've hacked my code to turn the door symbol into a perpendicular rectangle only a third of the way along the exit line so I can tell which room the door symbol is on (and to remind me to check for a door on the exit from the other room!)
The quickest way to prevent this variable drawing (see attachment for a sample) I found was to only draw (just over) half of the exit line nearest the current room under consideration - this "Z" suggestion could work with that if each room exit draws its stub and the line to the end of the other room exit's stub. if it was a one way exit the "from" room would have to draw all of the lines - um, from what direction should the exit line approach in that case??? You would want to put a door symbol on the stub to keep it near the room that defines it. An alternative approach would be for a map auditing / checking procedure to check the angles that each exit leaves the room symbol at and warn if it is say more than 45 degrees from the expected angle... My 0.02 GBP worth! ** Attachment added: "Exit lines being drawn both under and on-top of door symbols" https://bugs.launchpad.net/mudlet/+bug/1164804/+attachment/3622338/+files/Exit%20lines%20being%20drawn%20twice -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mudlet Makers, which is subscribed to Mudlet. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1164804 Title: Exit lines don't 'anchor' to exit direction Status in Mudlet the MUD client: New Bug description: Mudlet 2.1, Win7 x64 Visual issue in the mapper: Consider two rooms connected east-west. If I move the room to the east 'below' the room to the west, I would expect the connection between them to visually be a 'Z' shape, where it is obvious that the exits still extend from the east and west respectively. Instead, the lines originate from the center of a room. So if I move the east-west pair as above, the exit line will visually appear as if it extends from the south/north. The exit lines should potentially be drawn between the ends of the 'exit stubs', rather from the center of a room. In the example above, this would give the expected 'Z' shape. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mudlet/+bug/1164804/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mudlet-makers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mudlet-makers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
