Making a secret room using OLC

Andreas · Post by **Andreas** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:15 pm

Trying to make a secret room in my area and can't seem to get the exit to set up properly in OLC.

I've tried making the exit normally then applying the flags, but it's still visible and when I look in that direction, I get a loopout bug. I'm stumped.

Dalvyn · Post by **Dalvyn** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:29 pm

You can add two flags (with redit exflags) : secret and hidden. I'm not sure what the difference is.

If you have holylight on, as a god character on the test port, you will see hidden/secret exits.

Cyric · Post by **Cyric** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 10:48 pm

I believe, but not sure, one makes the door hidden on VT and your exit command, and the other one makes it so when you look <dir> you get, "You see nothing special" instead of "You see the door closed" or whatever the command is, not sure. Been a loooooooooooong time since I built.

Tyr · Post by **Tyr** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 2:01 pm

They should act just the same when closed. The difference is that when open one is visible and the other still is not. I think it is the secret that becomes visible.

Tyr

Andreas · Post by **Andreas** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 3:53 pm

Still seem to be having problems with the exit flags. Logged on my mortal just to make sure it wasn't Holylight that was causing me problems. Here is the series of commands I used and the results:

<#25824> redit bexit n 25825
Build: Andreas: redit bexit n 25825
Done.
Build: Andreas: redit exit 2 25824
Done.

<#25824> redit bexit e 25829
Build: Andreas: redit bexit e 25829
Done.
Build: Andreas: redit exit 3 25824
Done.

<#25824> redit bexit w 25823
Build: Andreas: redit bexit w 25823
Done.
Build: Andreas: redit exit 1 25824
Done.

(Made the three secret doors that lead from room 25824 and saved then went to the room north.)

<#25825> redit exflags s closed
Build: Andreas: redit exflags s closed

<#25825> redit exflags s secret
Build: Andreas: redit exflags s secret

<#25825> redit exflags s hidden
Build: Andreas: redit exflags s hidden

<#25825> redit exflags s searchable
Build: Andreas: redit exflags s searchable

<#25825> redit exflags s bashproof
Build: Andreas: redit exflags s bashproof

When I look south I see Records and Treasury Room. Loaded up my mortal (Zhalar) and here's what happened:

look south
Nothing special there.
You see Treasury and Records Room.

open south
You see no south here.

open secret
You see no secret here.

Soooooo, I'm still stumped on this one.

Tempus · Post by **Tempus** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 3:58 pm

Secret : When closed, exit does not appear on VT. Must know exit name to open it, <open east> will not work. When open, exit appears on VT, can close with either dir or doorname.

Hidden: When closed, exit does not appear on VT. Can open with either dir or doorname. When open, exit does not appear on VT, can close with either dir or doorname.

Tempus · Post by **Tempus** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 4:33 pm

You hadn't added doors to the exits

redit bexit <dir> <vnum> <flags> <key> <keywords>

For example

Code: Select all

redit bexit e 12345 11 -1 secret

would make a bi-directional exit east from here to room 12345 with flags ISDOOR, CLOSED, SECRET, with no key and doorname 'secret'.

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