Aaw... spoof...
Submitted by Ryuujin on Sat, 2007-12-22 23:47.
Ok, got a magor problem, been searchig for the answer for a while vefore I stumbled onto this site. A freind of mine wants to creat a new Mush based around the Bleach anime, so i told him that I would take care of the coding. So I go to ask my brother, who is a coding master, about it, and he says he is too busy running his mush. Then I tried to learn myself... however I can't figure out for the life of me where to even start. Does anyone know of a place where I can look for information about the how to d the coding? or better yet, if there are some premade codes that we can use to get us stared?
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There aren't a great many resources available, unfortunately. The best references are probably Amberyl's MUSH Manual (old, and a little out of date in places, but still relevant), which I think you can find links to by typing 'help code' in any PennMUSH, or with Google. There are also some logs on mushcode.net, though they're probably of more use when you've already learned some of the basics. Definately worth a look, though. And the help-files in PennMUSH themselves, of course. You can also log onto M*U*S*H (mush.pennmush.org 4201) and ask questions on the Softcode channel there.
If you want pre-written code, I have some on my website (www.talvo.com/mushcode.php) that you're welcome to use. There's also some on the PennMUSH ftp site, and MUSHcode.com, though a lot of the code on the latter isn't that well written, IMHO.
If you want to recruit a coder for your game, you can try posting on the ad boards on M*U*S*H, and on ElectricSoup.net, though the demand for good coders is often a lot higher than the number of people available...
Hope that helps a bit. Other people will probably add in some other resources I've forgotten...
Mike
Re: softcode
Thanks for the website, and the M*U*S*H info. They both really heped me out... but the codes that you put up have just a teensy-wincy little problem with them. the help window won't work... it is written in a verion of windows help no-longer supported by Vista. Just thought I would point that out. Thanks for the help.
The help-files are actually
The help-files are actually plain-text files with a .hlp extension, like those used by Penn's own help files (you can edit them in Wordpad, Notepad, etc). If you put them in /pennmush/game/txt/hlp they'll work in the normal PennMUSH "help" command, or in a +help added via help_command in mush.cnf.
oh.
oh. O.O I feel stupid. But that's not hard to cause.
*grins* Don't worry about
*grins* Don't worry about it. It'd be less confusing if IE listened when it was told they were plain text, and didn't try and open 'em as Windows help files. Not it's strongest point, alas...