JujuMapper: Open Beta
02 Oct 2013 05:50 - 02 Oct 2013 05:55 #1
by plamzi
JujuMapper is a vector-based plugin that can handle even nutty non-Euclidean worlds. It is now in open beta and loads on the app page. It can be used by game admins and players alike, with the game admin's maps becoming automatically available to players.
Unlike other mappers, Juju does not require rooms to have x, y, z co-ordinates. Instead, it tries to place the rooms relative to other rooms automatically, and then provides the user with the ability to tweak for best results.
Getting Started:
If you have a relatively straightforward world, you can jump-start things by clicking "Edit" in the Juju toolbar, then selecting "Upload":
Juju also supports incremental mapping (for this release, GMCP in the Aardwolf room.info format). This is also how it expects to get the current location from the server:
For this release, only cardinal and diagonal exits (ne, sw, etc.) are supported. Limited custom exit support may be added in the future, if there is interest.
Unique room numbers are required at this time. You don't have to send the "actual" room number, but it needs to be unique in the grand scheme of things. It does not have to be a number--a unique string passed in "num" should also work.
To add new rooms to the map, and to update existing, the edit mode has to be on.
If you don't want certain rooms to be mappable, you can send them without any exit info.
Passing terrain = "Inside" makes Juju generate shorter room links.
In edit mode, click on individual rooms to select them, or Ctrl+click to select all visible rooms belonging to a zone.
Players can tweak the map and save it to their own copy, leaving your official map intact.
With edit mode off, click to move should work for relatively near rooms.
There's a lot more to be said for this major release, but I'll let people ask questions and report issues as they begin to use it.
A lot more is coming in terms of flexibility (e. g. other protocols) and customize-ability (e. g. downloading map data for offline tweaking, choosing colors). For starters, let's focus on technical issues rather than feature requests
JujuMapper: Open Beta was created by plamzi
JujuMapper is a vector-based plugin that can handle even nutty non-Euclidean worlds. It is now in open beta and loads on the app page. It can be used by game admins and players alike, with the game admin's maps becoming automatically available to players.
Unlike other mappers, Juju does not require rooms to have x, y, z co-ordinates. Instead, it tries to place the rooms relative to other rooms automatically, and then provides the user with the ability to tweak for best results.
Getting Started:
j(document).ready(function() {
var mapper = new JujuMapper();
Event.listen('gmcp', mapper.gmcp);
});If you have a relatively straightforward world, you can jump-start things by clicking "Edit" in the Juju toolbar, then selecting "Upload":
Juju also supports incremental mapping (for this release, GMCP in the Aardwolf room.info format). This is also how it expects to get the current location from the server:
{"num":3001,"name":"The Temple Of Garathorm","zone":"Garathorm Inner City","terrain":"City","exits" {"n":3059,"e":3054,"s":3005,"w":3000}}For this release, only cardinal and diagonal exits (ne, sw, etc.) are supported. Limited custom exit support may be added in the future, if there is interest.
Unique room numbers are required at this time. You don't have to send the "actual" room number, but it needs to be unique in the grand scheme of things. It does not have to be a number--a unique string passed in "num" should also work.
To add new rooms to the map, and to update existing, the edit mode has to be on.
If you don't want certain rooms to be mappable, you can send them without any exit info.
Passing terrain = "Inside" makes Juju generate shorter room links.
In edit mode, click on individual rooms to select them, or Ctrl+click to select all visible rooms belonging to a zone.
Players can tweak the map and save it to their own copy, leaving your official map intact.
With edit mode off, click to move should work for relatively near rooms.
There's a lot more to be said for this major release, but I'll let people ask questions and report issues as they begin to use it.
A lot more is coming in terms of flexibility (e. g. other protocols) and customize-ability (e. g. downloading map data for offline tweaking, choosing colors). For starters, let's focus on technical issues rather than feature requests
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18 Mar 2016 01:25 - 18 Mar 2016 01:28 #2
by eckol
Replied by eckol on topic JujuMapper: Open Beta
Hello!
I am trying to understand how to use Jujumapper, but so far I did not manage to draw any room
By now I only like to understand the basics, I paste a JSON with a couple of rooms but it does not draw them.
Could you provide a simple example?
Thank you!
I am trying to understand how to use Jujumapper, but so far I did not manage to draw any room
By now I only like to understand the basics, I paste a JSON with a couple of rooms but it does not draw them.
Could you provide a simple example?
Thank you!
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20 Mar 2016 22:41 #3
by plamzi
Replied by plamzi on topic JujuMapper: Open Beta
I made some improvements to the starting workflow for this feature:
* You will now notice a little globe icon in your scrollview corner when you connect to a game that doesn't already load the mapper. You can invoke the mapper from that button.
* The mapper will automatically enter edit mode if your game is in early stages of mapping (less than 10 rooms). You will also be dropped into the first room, even if the game is not yet sending location info in a way that the mapper can understand.
* When you select "Upload room data", you will now see something like this:
You can actually copy and paste the example into the text area, do "test" and "upload".
Let me know if this helps and if you hit any snags.
* You will now notice a little globe icon in your scrollview corner when you connect to a game that doesn't already load the mapper. You can invoke the mapper from that button.
* The mapper will automatically enter edit mode if your game is in early stages of mapping (less than 10 rooms). You will also be dropped into the first room, even if the game is not yet sending location info in a way that the mapper can understand.
* When you select "Upload room data", you will now see something like this:
You can actually copy and paste the example into the text area, do "test" and "upload".
Let me know if this helps and if you hit any snags.
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