In my experience Arcanum isn't that great. One of my builders actually wrote a complete editor just for our mud in Java. Makes non-OLC builders much happier.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mitu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 4:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Area loading problem > > > Thanks to everyone that replied, I managed to sort the > problem in the end. > Turns out Arcanum isn't so great after all :) After studying > the proper > format for an area file, I just took out an extra line which > seemed to be > appearing in each room for no apparent reason, and it's all > working now! > > Thanks again, > Mitu > > > > From: "Mitu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2003 2:38 > >> I have searched high and low for a satisfactory solution to this > >> problem, but I'm having to come here as a last resort! > >> > >> Anyway, my builder has created a nice new first area for our MUD, > >> using Arcanum Editor. However, on startup I get the > following error: > >> > >> [*****] BUG: Load_rooms: vnum X has flag not 'DES' > >> > >> where X is the number of a room (and there are rather a > lot of them!) > >> which has a door flag. Now, short of deleting all doors, > is there any > >> resolution to this problem? > > > > Usually the problem is in a room before the one > reported. Open the > > area in a text editor (like TextPad), if a line number was > reported for > > the error go to that line else go to the room with the vnum > reported. > > Work back from there checking for missing or extra elements like > > tildas(~). > > > > > > |\ _,,,---,,_ > > /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ > > |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' > > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) > > BluSky is often lurking at Afterlife MUD: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.afterlife.mudservices.com > > ------------------> telnet://afterlife.mudservices.com:5000 > > ROM FAQ ----------> http://www.hypercube.org/tess/rom/ > > ROMList Archive --> http://the-infinite.org/lists/romlist/ > > > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom >
