Very true. I understand your explaination of Diku, and I think it may also lead to odd coding when it comes to things like "soandso enters from the north" or somesuch, but I haven't looked into Diku very deeply yet.

Storing coordinates for each room would leave a table that can be fairly large, but HD space isn't really an issue, speed would be the issue.. Indexes aside, I don't want to turn into a full time DBA for it.

I have the two tables (room and room coord) you mentioned, they're key'd on room_id, with room coord containing x,y,z locations that I planed to draw a square on.. or fill in the blank on a HTML table that I don't really want to resort too..

It's not an object based system in that I really only want to map when viewing things online. Such as where "so and so" is, or for admin purposes. I would love the ability to have each room exit that is not leading to another exit be a link (think: image map?) to an app that will create a new room.. so there can be a fairly high level way to generate new rooms.. other than the simple commands a citizen can use to make them.. but that's in the future.

There is a room_exit table that will allow for things like leaving south to room 2, but you have to go up to get back to room 1 or somesuch. That's up to the question "why", which is better answered in the context of the game itself. There is a table called room_inventory which is key'd again, on room_id and key'd out to the inventory table(for descriptions,etc) too..

I guess my questions all boil down to how it's possible to take x,y,z coords and draw something there..I'm going to look into how other muds do this a bit more.

One4k4 - perlmonks@poorheart.com (www.poorheart.com)

In reply to Re: Re3: Mapping node relationships by one4k4
in thread Mapping node relationships by one4k4

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.