BTSUITE ZMUD SCRIPT

Michael Grenard

with the consent of

Tuncay Goncuoglu

 

This Zmud script is was written by MM (aka: Michael Masters, Michael Grenard). It is made to be used in conjunction with BTSUITE written by Mav (aka: Alex Golen, Tuncay Goncuoglu).  Many thanks go out to Mav for his support of the project.  With out his creative genius and HUD this script would be worthless, and without his consent I would not be posting it.  Users of Mushclient can find the script for that client at http://btsuite.tripod.com . This script is a port to Zmud of that script. 

INSTALL:

This script does not self install and some of the client settings must be changed in order for it to work.  I tried to script the changes to be done automatically, but this proved to be either ineffective or too buggy to be practical, so these steps MUST be followed to insure that the script runs correctly.  It is assumed that all the files have been unzipped and are accessible.  BTSUITE must be installed, and Zmud version 6.10 or higher must be used.

  1. Create a new character, or open an existing character in OFFLINE MODE..  

  2. If you are using an existing character save your old script by Menu => Settings-Export.  I have found saving as a .ZSC file works out best.

  3. Before importing the script some preferences must be changed.  BT muxes use some characters like @ and ! that the client will parse to mean something other that what was intended by the user.  If these setting are not changed the Script will not run properly.

    • Choose Menu => View-Preferences-General

    • In the File Menu that appears choose EMULATION and disable (uncheck) the MXP/HTML box.  When done it should look like this:

    • Now choose Script Parsing-General Parsing. Disable the Allow[] ,  Allow<> . and Stip Quotes.  And enable a=b syntax and Expand Vars.  When done it should look like this.

    • Now choose Colors-Color Schemes. Choose ANSI

    • MOST IMPORTANT Choose Special Characters and change the @ to $.  Disable ! . and >. This is very important because all the variable in the script are prefixed with $ and the ! . and > are used in the mux for macros and commands.  FAIL TO CHANGE THIS AND THE SCRIPT WILL NOT RUN PROPERLY!!!!

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    • Although it is not necessary I have included in the archive the Font VT100.  I find this is the very best output font to make the tactical displays very symmetric and easy to see.

    • Also optional:  Choose Windows-Window Options and enable Window tabs in Menu Minu window as well as Windows-Layout-none

     

  7. Well Now that that is all done you are ready to Load the Script.  Settings-Import-Script(ASCII). When the pop window comes up, change file type to .ZSC.  then load the ZHUD.zsc script.
  8. Save your settings by choosing Settings-Save.
  9. Connect to the Mux, and you are ready to role.
  10. Type /SHELP to start the help files.
  11. To use the CON windows, put the file 'mecha.mud' into the Zmud folder.  The script used to make this file is included in the archive.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I liked writing it.  If you see an MM on the field and you use this script, you might consider not beheading me :-)

Any comments, suggestions and bug reports should be sent to MM through +mail on about any Btech Mux, or email grenardm@bigfoot.com

Some Triggers in ZHUD have sounds that will be played.  Not having them will not hurt, but if you wish to try them just copy the sounds from the archive into the sounds directory of your character.