Thanks guys on the suggestions of other ROM derivatives! But, now I have something else to add... With everyone talking about OLC and how much better OLC 2.01 can be over OLC 1.81, I've decided on something. A while back I coded a simple OLC editor for a Merc 2.2 MUD, and found out it wasn't as hard as many made it out to look like. I.e. I know people that are just plain (!)afraid(!) to even look at the files! Now, I'm not promising ANYTHING, (!)but(!) I really do want to contribute to the MUDding community, as I haven't had a chance to yet (I'm only a year old when it comes to MUDding). I propose a simple, easy to use, easy to install, fully customisable, and rish featured OLC. I wish to have:
A) Area Editing B) Mobile Editing C) Object Editing D) Room Editing E) Reset Editing F) Help Editing G) Social Editing H) Command Editing I) Class Editing J) Race Editing K) Skill/Spell Editing L) Clan Editing M) The Addition Of MOBPrograms and MOBProgram Editing N) The Addition Of OBJPrograms and OBJProgram Editing O) The Addition Of ROOMPrograms and ROOMProgram Editing P) Music Editing (OH YEAH!) Q) Bootup Configure Editing R) An FTP Client For C Source Files S) Pfile Editing T) Title Editing For That Stupid title_table U) Maybe even dynamic help file editing (?) And I plan to modify existing code in files as least as possible. I also plan to keep all this in just a few files as I hate how OLC 2 adds millions of files (I.e. the dumbest of all -- allocfunc.h). I.e.: mudprog.c mudprog.h olc.c olc.h And thats all. I'm sorry if this seems like a fleeting dream to most of you, but I already have it planned and started on redit last night. I really do hope this will be as good. All I'll have to do is use Oasis OLC (For string editing -- they have some good stuff), Ivan's OLC for some guidelines to ROM specific code, SSM (Shared String Manager) which compliments OLC very nicely, and Erwin's code for mudFTP, sedit, and other code, and Smaug v1.4a for MUDPrograms. Area files will resemble Greed 0.99.14: -- Mobiles -- #3000 Name wizard~ Short the wizard~ Long A wizard walks around behind the counter, talking to himself. ~ Descr The wizard looks old and senile, and yet he looks like a very powerful wizard. He is equipped with fine clothing, and is wearing many fine rings and bracelets. ~ Act sentinel~ AffectBy ~ Alignment 900 Level 50 Race Human~ Sex male~ Spec spec_cast_mage~ Shop scroll~ wand~ staff~ potion~ ~ 105 15 0 23 End -- Objects -- Name barrel beer~ Short a barrel of beer~ Descr A beer barrel has been left here.~ Type drink_con~ Extra ~ Wear take~ Values 50~ 50~ 1~ 0~ 0~ Weight 65 End -- Rooms AND Resets -- #3001 Name The Temple Of Midgaard~ Descr You are in the southern end of the temple hall in the Temple of Midgaard. The temple has been constructed from giant marble blocks, eternal in appearance, and most of the walls are covered by ancient wall paintings picturing Gods, Giants and peasants. Large steps lead down through the grand temple gate, descending the huge mound upon which the temple is built and ends on the temple square below. Equally large steps lead UP through a small door into the ENTRANCE to MUD SCHOOL. (type 'up' to go to MUD SCHOOL.) A small plaque is on this wall. ~ Flags no_mob indoors safe~ Sector inside~ Regen 100 100 ExtraDescr plaque~ This entire world has been integrated, modified, debugged, and enhanced by Hatchet, Kahn, and Furey of MERC Industries to be run by any MERC Mud. 1992 December 17 ~ Reset M 3011 1 100 Reset E 3005 16 100 Reset E 3005 18 100 Door north~ ~ -1 3054 At the northern end of the temple hall is a statue and a huge altar. ~ ~ Door south~ ~ -1 3005 You see the temple square. ~ ~ Door up~ ~ 0 3700 You see the entrance to Mud School. ~ ~ End Sorry if I've been too spammy, but I really do think this is going to be it, the most advanced ever. I hope I'll also be able to make patches for other codebases and text instructions for heavily modified codebses. Please don't laugh I really, really, really am going to try at this. -Eru P.S. Ivan -- if your reading this, please don't think I'm challenging you, heh.
