[MUD-Dev] Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits?

[Ben Greear]

J C Lawrence wrote:
> 

> In a long prior life I hacked a tool to build maps from telnet game
> logs.  The algorithm was simple:
> 
>   1) Pull out all command lines which contain a directional command
> (U/D/N/NE/E/SE/S/SW/W/NW) and the next line of output (the room
> desciption of the room moved to).
> 
>   2) Trim out all error/"You can't do that" entries.

I will be working from my world database, and so can make complex, and
arbitrarily correct assumptions about the exits et al.  I can also
do things like stop at zone boundaries and so on...

>   4) Build a graph of nodes representing thr trimmed log (just walk
> down the log, adding nodes as new locations are found).

Care to elaborate on that part?

>   5) In the case that a reverse direction not being symmetric,
> branch (I then fixed such by hand later).

Yep, I'll probably be able to read in some kind of script that has commands
for specific rooms/exits that I want to behave in non-standard ways....

> 
>   5) Print.

Was this ASCII, or something more advanced?  I know very little about
graphics programming, could it be programatically similar to writing to
a Canvas provided by normal GUI libraries??

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