Is Whyte's Mapper completely obsolete now?

Heliomance

I got an email about the new retirement feature, and between that and the built in auto-curer, I'm actually tempted to give Imperian another try after something like a decade. One of the things I most enjoyed doing, though, was mapping new areas in Whyte's Mapper - I maintained the most up-to-date map file around for quite some time. From what I can gather, though, there's now built in server-side mapping that does everything Whyte's mapper did and is kept up-to-date by the devs. Is that the case?

Ario

That's the case, but there's still use for a client side mapping solution for reliably locating folks and special exits/etc, but the PATH TRACK/FIND feature is way faster than what my client side bit can do.

I remember being very thankful back in the day that you kept that mapper updated. I consider the serve side solution a benefit to having a client side map.

Wysrias

I still use mudbot because it keeps me connected in the (very likely) event that CMud crashes. For users playing with modern clients, it's likely completely outdated.

Ario

Wysrias said:

I still use mudbot because it keeps me connected in the (very likely) event that CMud crashes. For users playing with modern clients, it's likely completely outdated.

CMUD Lives!

Menoch

We are legion, a slower compiling but much prettier and unsupported legion.

Ivellios

There is a way for it to bring up imperian vnums so you can use it to search for rooms mapped in it and get imperian vnums for path finding. Though I forget how to do it and I had to recover my laptop so it's not set up that way anymore.

If someone knows how I'd love to know.

Shou

http://forums.imperian.com/discussion/315/mudbot-imap has a good method of what Ivellios is remembering. It makes a new Imap based on the xml file Imperian has on the website, so it's mostly up to date with areas and in-game vnums, though it doesn't create any special exits and may be missing the newest areas.

Juran

I still use IMTS for absolutely everything.