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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Shawn Halpenny <<A HREF="mailto:malachai#iname,com">malachai#iname,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 30 May 1997 13:38:19 -0400</LI>
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Marian Griffith wrote:
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> On Wed 28 May, Adam Wiggins wrote:
> > [Marian:]
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> > > Why not make the ashes of that bonfire a very real object in that
> > > area that will be present in the room every time that room is re-
> > > created. Of course you also have to make it decay over time but
> > > that's something I find in most muds anyway.
>
> > Right. The trick is, of course, that you just store a general description
> > of the world (things like terrain and elevation), and then *changes* to
> > that. Things like tracks, campfires, objects on the ground, sigils
> > carved in trees, local mana depletions, and so on are stored as lists
> > rather than arrays. If you only have one campfire, you only have one
> > item in the list. [etc snipped]
>
> I'm not sure I follow this all, but my simplistic idea would be to have
> a list for 'the forest of green shadows' and another list for 'the
> mountains of sorrow'. That should allow more special objects to be kept.
> And if that's not enough you can further subdivide the forest and the
> mountains until you have a manageable number of objects in each location
> in the world, right?
Fundamentally, the abstraction of what you're describing and how things
like
R*-trees and the like are implemented are similar, so you're probably
following just fine :-) Sure there are gory implementation details, but
subdividing the forest and the mountains to achieve greater levels of
detail where necessary is
the underlying principle.
--
Shawn Halpenny
"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so
ingenious."
- Unknown
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00670" HREF="msg00670.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00850" HREF="msg00850.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Wed 28 May 1997, 00:28 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00886" HREF="msg00886.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#user1,inficad.com">nightfall#user1,inficad.com</a>, Wed 28 May 1997, 15:46 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00936" HREF="msg00936.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Fri 30 May 1997, 05:31 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00959" HREF="msg00959.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Shawn Halpenny <a href="mailto:malachai#iname,com">malachai#iname,com</a>, Sat 31 May 1997, 00:29 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00962" HREF="msg00962.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Sat 31 May 1997, 03:19 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01000" HREF="msg01000.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#inficad,com">nightfall#inficad,com</a>, Sat 31 May 1997, 18:50 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00658" HREF="msg00658.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk</a>, Wed 21 May 1997, 19:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00659" HREF="msg00659.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Travis S Casey <a href="mailto:casey#nu,cs.fsu.edu">casey#nu,cs.fsu.edu</a>, Wed 21 May 1997, 20:01 GMT
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