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Re: Ginger joins the Listeners

Some of her ambients ^_^

Ginger Tailsnap pauses, lifting a small item from the room and stuffing it suddenly into her mouth. Her cheek pouches out with the added volume.

"No, no, no," Ginger Tailsnap murmurs, taking something and moving it one inch to the right. "There. That's better."

Ginger Tailsnap speaks softly to herself as she bustles about, taking stock of everything in the chamber.

Saran

Ginger joins the Listeners

The Listeners had a new addition to the membership and our guildhall this weave. Here's a log of her cutely taking up her duty within the guild https://ada-young.com/pastebin/VhCroyIo.

Eyes glittering with eagerness, Ginger Tailsnap moves to and fro here.

Ginger is a furrikin with a particularly fluffy coat of fur bearing the rich golden colour that is her namesake. Mousy in appearance, she has soft, thin ears, long whiskers, and bright, eager eyes that gleam with light whenever she looks upon a new item in her collection. Her face, patterned in orange and white fur, looks remarkably round, her cheeks particularly so when she stuffs one item or another into her mouth for safekeeping. Monkish gear of red leather covers her body and graces her full figure, bearing numerous pockets into which she has placed either belongings of particular significance, or, at times, cookies the exact shade of her fur. Despite her family name, the furrikin only has a stub of a tail, which protrudes imperceptibly from the back of her armour. Her small hands often clasp together in excitement as she moves about, arranging her precious things over and over again.

The safe-keep room has been around since the beginning, so it's really neat to have a denizen to look after it who also happens to be a shopkeeper. I also really like that she really seems to fit in with the room itself, organising things in her own way which seems like it'll be basically as chaotic as it already is just the existing chaos is wrong.

Saran

Re: Astrology System for Nexus

Welcome to Lusternia! If you scroll through this forum section there's a bunch of helpful stuff for astro.

Here's one that might help with predicting, I haven't tried it as am not on nexus - https://forums.lusternia.com/discussion/4368/bounty-astrology-script-for-nexus

It does depends what you mean by incorporate though.

Fillirriqili

Mudlet 4.13 - LoTJ plus mapper, command line, and color improvements

We’re back from summer, freshly recharged, so here is a new Mudlet update! In this version you’ll find a new game with a Mudlet UI, plus improvements to the mapper, command lines, and colour rendering.

Legends of Jedi

A new game joins Mudlet’s connection screen!

Legends of the Jedi is a text-based roleplaying experience that immerses players in a multiplayer world where they can rewrite classic Star Wars stories with their own heroes, villains, battles, and endings. Over the course of each two-year timeline, the game explores all the key eras of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

Take and hold planets as an Imperial Stormtrooper, command the Rebel navy and liberate the galaxy, pursue targets as a bounty hunter, or shape things on a larger scale as a member of the Galactic Senate. Maybe you’ll even be one of the few born with force sensitivity, destined to be trained by Jedi or Sith.

The game offers an extensive crafting system for engineers to supply weapons, armor, and ships to the galaxy. Develop new, cutting-edge armaments to give your side an edge, or open a shop in a bustling commercial district and become wealthy as part of a powerful engineering conglomerate.

LOTJ offers full PVP in both ground and space combat, governed by a set of rules to minimize griefing and ensure that all kills have sufficient in-character cause.

What role will you play? The legend awaits!

Smoother map scrolling

ktunkiewicz took a stab at improving the mapper once again – and fixed the map scrolling to work like you’d expect it to, regardless of the zoom level:

https://www.mudlet.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/smooth-scrolling.webm

Now it feels like it should on any map app

Command line improvements

SlySven and chrio worked on improving the command line – it’ll now no longer ‘jump’ a little bit the first time you use it, and line wrapping. There’s new commands to visually select text in the command line, too!

Command line wrapping before

Improved command line wrapping after

256 colours harmonized

Mudlet’s rendering xterm256 colours will now look similar to other MUD clients thanks to Kilbukas:

(old) Mudlet 4.12 and below

(new) Mudlet 4.13+

If you’ve thought colours looked a bit better, this would have been why!

Custom profile colour

Speaking of colours, MrZaus added an option to customise the profile colour on the connection screen!

createMapLabel improved

The createMapLabel function now allows you to choose the font, text, and background transparency for map labels – giving you more flexibility in creating nice-looking Mudlet maps.

Map labels can go above and below rooms

Custom right-click actions

While you previously could have made specific text in the window clickable, you couldn’t add to the general right-click menu that showed up. Say, for example, you wanted to select some text, right-click, and do something with the selection? Well, now you can thanks to addMouseEvent, getMouseEvents and removeMouseEvent by Kilbukas.

This joins existing functionality where you can add custom right-click menu actions to the mapper already.

Credits

Thanks to all coders who made this release possible: atari2600tim, chrio, Damian Monogue, Ian Adkins, Kamil Tunkiewicz, Kebap, keneanung, Manuel Wegmann, Matthew Wagner, MrZaus, Piotr, Richard Moffitt, Slobodan Terzić, Stephen Lyons, Tomas Seniunas, and Vadim Peretokin.

And of course all the translators who are translating Mudlet into their native language: Alan Sneath (alsneath), eplis, Hsin-Hsiang Peng (Hsins), hyperi (osakki), Jim Lu (kimiwajim), Leris, Marco “M0lid3us” Tironi (wiploo), olen, Sirith (Senareil), vingi, VVsxmja, and 晉豪許 (gridwing).

Changelog

4.13.0 was skipped as it had a small bug in ansi2decho() – so we’ve fixed it up before getting it out to you.

Check out the changelog below, quite a few goodies for scripters in here:

🆕 added

ability to define custom color in profile buttons in connection dialog
closestColor() function for finding the best match out of color_table
selectCmdLineText() to make command line text selected
get and set state of push-down-buttons
Legends of the Jedi as a default game
mouse menu actions to windows
notarization to macOS builds
pause, stop, and resume functions to complement speedwalk()
selectCaptureGroup() will work with named capture groups
shortcuts to navigate editor between triggers, aliases, etc

✨ improved

adjusted the 256 color conversion to match other clients
descriptive window title now shows for the alias/trigger/script editor
fix incorrect height adjustment of the command line
fixed a fair bit of typos in code comments and texts the player sees
Give the Mudlet icon to new profiles that were just copied
improved line-breaking in the command line
improved zip comment generation for package exporter
Improvements to command line font handling
Mudlet on macOS won’t give security warnings anymore
optional fontName, text and background transparency in createMapLabel()
Optional part of package exporter UI expands if there is space on macOS
Remove experimental label from the package exporter
Revise: improve debug messages when negotiating compression
Revise: make exporter temporary files be a sub-directory of a Mudlet one
Show an error in stdout when script failed to load from XML
Small optimization added for incoming text data
Update fontsize as soon as it is selected in preferences
Update: add some more dictionaries to the list

🔨 fixed

–profile CLI option will now work as expected in a lot more cases
fix json map room symbol loading
Fix markdown headers and images not playing well together
Fix setBorderSizes() when called with 4 arguments
Fix: newly created profiles will remember their connection info
Make f work with variable named ‘str’
mpackage zip comments are preserved correctly for international text
Package manager/exporter now work fine with non-Latin letters
prevent addCustomLine from crashing without custom line points
prevent crashing from double-click on connect button
Reset autowrap limit when changing the font size, if autowrap is enabled
Revise: fixup some package exporter results messages

Just a fraction of the work that went into the release

Vadi2

Re: Announce Post #3169: Year 600 Celebration

What about the black dragons in aetherspace??? I have questions and no one seems to have answers. Loving these so far!

Sapphira

Re: Announce Post #3169: Year 600 Celebration

First one was pretty good! Definitely looking forward to the rest now.

Jolanthe

Re: Mudlet Packages by Ashira

I've come to the realization that if any of the packages in the Mudlet Starter Pack are updated, there is only once place they currently exist on the github. To prevent needing to re-download the entire thing for one package out of the group, I've added a new folder, Packages by Others. It contains the same packages as the Mudlet Starter Package that were not created by me.

As a note, Herbert_v2.1 is now available as a calculation error was found and corrected.

Ashipedia

Re: Announce Post #3168: Seal of Beauty 2021

Appearance:

a coruscating ring of the Eye awakened

Dropped:

Broken sandstone and scintillating gems compose this fighting ring, depicting battle between the

Enigmatic and Kethuru Almighty.

Examined:

Sustained upon a base of lacquered palm wood, this artfully-sundered

display takes shape from jagged chunks of sandstone and clouded quartz,

culminating in a circular arena nearing three feet in height. As the

warring of miniatures is carried out within, another war is perpetually

fought amongst the broken peaks that form this boundary. Fused onyx shot

through with polluting veins of viridian and carmine rises as though

questing to utterly consume the dioramic scene, claiming three-quarters

of the mountainous circle in a salvo of tentacular grotesquery. Where

the dozen and more mirror-slick appendages meet stone, angry fissures

blossom, the web of splinters inlaid with pallid citrine that radiates

from within a haunting portent of corrupting power. Only one figure is

shown in defiance of this onslaught, held aloft on a rod of glass that

elevates them from the crags and aims them straight toward the epicenter

of destruction: enshrouded in tattered wisps of silk, the valiant and

enigmatic being soars among a shower of prismatic bicone beads speckled

along nigh invisible wires. This veiled one could only be the Vernal

Tzaraziko, her identity made all too clear by the blackened, skeletal

arm she raises to threaten the hungering extensions of Kethuru, that

wretched orb that is the Eye of Illith itself reproduced as well in its

grasp. For long spans of moments the Eye alights with amethystine hues,

and the quartz that breaks the mountains' facade responds in kind, at

once illustrating the fleeting turn of the tides as the Enigmatic makes

war against the Almighty over the barren desert.

For an off-the-cuff panic design while on vacation, I'm actually really pleased with an honourable mention this year. Also really happy to get to showcase my reignited obsession with Tzaraziko. If you've never read the diaries from the Scorpion Cult quest, get yourself to a sandworm burrow asap!

Great job all around, everybody

Eritheyl

Re: Mudlet Packages by Ashira

Added items to the Mudlet Starter Package:

- Aetherflare Politics

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020142/uploads/editor/cg/0zp8c8yt6o9v.png

- Domoth Status Enhancements

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020142/uploads/editor/9q/olppohnuvauf.png

- Herbert_v2 (this is an herb harvester!)

- Lusternia InfoHere Window (Demonnic's with upgrades by him and I)

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020142/uploads/editor/n8/t8usclom5qhf.png

Added aliases to the Timequakes package.
- rsearch comms: a list of what commodities are used for what research type

- Quake Stats: Easily see the rift number and how many anomalies have been released. Rift number is set when you do riftl and anomalies released is updated by being inside the timequake only.

As a side note, if you download the Mudlet Starter Package, you will need to unzip it to install it. You cannot install the zip file whole at present. That is something I am working on fixing.

Ashipedia

Re: Announce Post #3168: Seal of Beauty 2021

Appearance:

a bewitching stained-glass music box displaying a weeping goddess

Dropped:

A resplendent music box is here, its bejewelled goddess weeping above intricate stained-glass panels.

Examined:

Encased in a frame of sterling silver, this music box is an exquisite

cube of intricate craftsmanship. Resplendent stained-glass panels secret

clockwork mechanisms, while an ornate figure resides despondently above.

Kneeling, the goddess Li-varili has been impeccably rendered in

sea-green tourmaline, with cascading ruby curls and faceted scales that

glint upon Her arms. Minute detail reveals Her complete anguish; face

contorted and hands spread, the Awakener visibly weeps bitter tears. The

gem-wrought deity rests atop glass of turquoise, evocative of a lagoon

that flows down to the front face, where Callysto, the Siren arises from

frothing waters. The nereid is detailed in aphotic tones, from

voluptuous indigo torso to inky-black tentacles crowning the fae. Hands

upraised towards the Lady of Lagoons, Callysto cradles a spectacular

cobalt sapphire, the faceted teardrop of divine melancholy caught

tenderly in her palms, recreating the poignant moment of her first

awakening. Further images are created in rich jewel tones and argent

delineation around the box; on the first, more exotic nereids breach the

aquamarine lagoon, each bewitchingly feminine with flowing tresses and

voices raised in song. To the back, the stained-glass depicts tangled

mangroves and bright, stinging fireweed blossoms, all beneath a

magnificent sunset of dramatic violet, carmine and amber. The final

panel reveals a lone nereid perched on a rock; combing her hair, the

beauty's aureate piscine tail skims the surrounding lagoon, upon which a

myriad of bromeliads drift - in vivid hues of scarlet and crimson, the

prickly blossoms skate serenely over the mirrored surface of the pool.

Internal illumination ensures each stained-glass scene has an effulgent

brilliance, while a simple press of the glittering teardrop evokes a

haunting nocturne, filling the air with its wistful, enchanting strains.

Sapphira