It's not as hard as you'd think Detah! You'll need the gdlib to do it, so make sure the server you're on has it. Then glance around the net to find code for it (I'm pretty sure it comes with the stock overland code). With the lib, not only can you auto-generate the image, but you can also read the image. I used the gdlib to allow my MUD to read a png file and load up the world based on it. So I could draw my wilderness and then let the MUD build all the rooms for me.

That's pretty cool Kelvin! IIRC, you also set it up so players could have their stats in a banner, and it'd auto update them as they advanced! I thought that was really cool.

Yeah, forum banner sigs, which are also pretty easy to do:

Our map started out with a player making us the nice "plain" green/blue one and then Dragona freehand copied it to a bunch of sheets of printer paper that we thumbtacked to a 4'x5' cork board that still sits between our desks with push pins holding "flags" in place for each of our areas. The color coded version that Hades used to prettify the "plain" one was again Dragona freehand re-drawing the map onto a single piece of printer paper on a clipboard that she used colored pencils to indicate roughly what terrain went where for building reference. Then I took a picture of these various versions of the map (that weren't on the computer to begin with) using my digital camera and imported the images to my hard drive, the rest of what you see if Hades' own magic. :biggrin:


That really is amazing. Not as pretty and slick as what Hades just made for us, of course :wink:, but for completely auto-generated that's really nice. And the fact that you've got it auto-generating is pretty cool in itself. :blues:



Wow, that's pretty slick too! I'll bet your players love that. :smile:
It's kind of like the baby birthday tickers that Dragona likes to use, I suppose…

Anyone has some useful tips on how to turn a ascii world map into a bitmap image?

Assuming your ascii map is loaded into game memory, you could write a routine to save it as a bitmap or png, then load the mud and let it read the ascii and then save it as an image. Outside of that I don't know of any utilities or anything that would be able to do it properly.

Here is our world map which shows real time movement of our players, what areas they are in, if they are grouped or not and with who, and our boat paths between our islands and continents:

http://www.slothmud.org/eqlist/dynmaps/m...


We are now working on zoom ins of each individual area where you will be able to watch the players and certain epic type mobs move about.

Managed to create a gif of my mud's wilderness. Couldn't get the colors right but everything else seems alright.

http://slackhalla.org/~demise/wilderness...

That's really nice, Splork! Does it involve outputting from the mud every few seconds to update it?



That's not too shabby either, though it seems really kind of dark.

I think the colors are decent now. I'm quite pleased with how the coast lines turned out, the rest is so so.

Indeed, that's much better, Scandum. :smile:

Here's a first look at my map. It's the prototype for my mud. Legends of Old. If Hades Kane would want to put his creativity on it that'd be grand, but if not then that's fine as well. Figure it is worth a try :). The black dots represent cities/villages. The bigger the dot the bigger the city.

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Kjwah wins.

Small version

LARGE

Not bad at all, HavenDuuk. :smile:

Here's a map of ground level in the feudal era.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v123/rebirthseph/biyg_map1.gif

Feudal Japan had quite of a bit of forests, of course. :P

Note that we're in alpha and most areas are going to be relinked when the correct linking areas are in.

Here's a world map I made for a Final Fantasy 6 based MUD (that never went anywhere) a couple years back:

http://www.eotmud.com/ff6map.jpg

It's the FF6 "World of Balance" map.

To compare:

http://www.eyesonff.com/ff6/maps/ff6-wor...
http://www.uffsite.net/ff6/images/maps/1...


That's a large screenshot of the actual in-game map, though.

Looks a bit like overland code to me.


This one also looks a bit like the overland code to me, but it does appear to match fairly close to the maps it's modeling.