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Mudlet 4.9 - Public Test Builds & ANSI art

We’ve improved Mudlet’s editor and highlighting as well as even more improved art display. Also, you can now every day receive new Mudlet developments with our Public Test Build (PTB) version!

Public Test Builds

While these have been prepared for a few months now, PTB are finally mature enough to be mentioned here. You can now always play with the most recent Mudlet developments enabled, if you don’t want to wait for the next official release.

New PTB versions are built nightly, hence their icons are dark, whereas new developments start with a dim red sun light. See immediately which is which via distinct icons both before and after you started Mudlet.

Mudlet PTB will be installed right next to your regular Mudlet. Meanwhile, the original release version will stay unchanged, so you can always go back. Find the latest PTB on top of Mudlet’s snapshot website: https://make.mudlet.org/snapshots/?platform=all&source=ptb

Please beware: Even though we test new features, the PTB may actually still break sometimes. Please report any doubts or feedback to us, so we can fix things long before the official release happens. This is why we’re doing this: for better Mudlet quality.

Improved ANSI art display

While Mudlet 4.8 started CP437 support, we received a request for help in Mudlet forums. A player wondered why Mudlet would not display their game’s sweet ANSI art upon connection as expected. SlySven investigated and fixed the issue, even surpassing the original request:

Please feel free to let us know any display problems you may find with Mudlet in your games, so we can look into them as well. Or even better, send us a fix to review! ;-)

Highlight foreground or background only

Even non-tech-savy users can easily use triggers in Mudlet to highlight interesting words or phrases happening in their games. The default highlighting will use red foreground and yellow background color.

With the new Mudlet version, you can now choose to only use one of them for highlighting and keep the other one as-is. In the example, keep the (maybe different) foreground colors, just use yellow background.

Editor placeholder text

Mudlet’s feature-rich script-editor (edbee) just learned a new trick: The initial comment “put your Lua code here” will vanish, as soon as you start typing. No more left over fragments at the beginning of your code scripts!

Credits

Thanks to all coders: Damian Monogue, Edru2, Gustavo Sousa, Kebap, Manuel Wegmann, Nicholas Molen, Stephen Lyons, and Vadim Peretokin.

Thanks to all translators: Alan Sneath (alsneath), Leris, Marco “M0lid3us” Tironi (wiploo), rodeos, and Vadim Peretokin for their work on this every day.

Changelog

added:

Public Test Build (PTB) versions of Mudlet for macOS and Linux
New icons for Mudlet’s Public Test Builds and development versions
IRE mapper automatically installed for Starmourn as well
Lua code in Mudlet can now be translated in Crowdin
Option to keep color highlighting, so you aren’t forced to specify both fore and background colors
New sysWindowMousePress and sysWindowMouseRelease events for user windows

improved:

A single echo’s size was raised from the 10k character limit in the last release to a million characters
Check for updates will check for updates more regularly
The generic mapper script will automatically run ‘find prompt’
The generic mapper script will handle room titles with embedded mini ASCII maps on the side
Geyser HBox/VBox are now much quicker
Geyser now stores stylesheet in the object
Mudlet’s website is now shown in the Discord line
MXP support rewritten, now supports colours
Faster in-script search in the code editor for big scripts – won’t search on first two characters anymore
Support graphics on Durismud (mud.durismud.com)

fixed:

Prevent crash when closing a profile that hasn’t successfully connected
Event handlers continue running now after one of them had an error
Locking and minimization on creation is working now as expected for Adjustable Containers
Module sync can’t be enabled for mpackages, as those aren’t supported for syncing yet
Improved pixel precision in Adjustable Containers
Replays now process cr+null correctly
Time units aren’t translated in the UI anymore, making it work for other languages
Userwindows can now still show up if previously closed/hidden
Ctrl+C breaking when you have played a lot

infrastructure:

Linux builds now use Qt 5.12.8
Removed unused code

Vadi2

Re: Thanks for the RP (Version 1.0 Alpha)

Thank you, @Lantra! That was a lovely chat, hindered only by the incredibly amount of typos I made! Apparently I was more tired than I realised.

Tired Gif GIF

Aeryon

Re: Descriptions: From Divines to Mortals, and Beasts, and Items, and Mobs, and Places!

Misericorde said:

Were there any actual descriptions for all of the dragons that have showed up? I missed almost all of the events

Yes and no. Most of the time that players interacted with dragons, they took the form of dracnari - since if they were their true dragon form, they would be the size of a city district!

But you can get an idea of how those dragons might look from their dracnari forms.

Here's an example of a mature dragon from the Celest event, who looks similar to most others:

an arrogant dracnari emissary

Restless and impatient with her constant movement, this dracnari's position as an emissary is made clear by her fine robes. Silver in hue, they are made of silk so soft and shimmering that it has the appearance of liquid metal. It falls as a curtain down her flat chest to her thighs and down her back to her knees, split at the sides to show the fitted layer underneath. A belt of unearthly stones cinches the garment together. Her features would be unremarkable for a dracnari, except for the fact that her scales are entirely devoid of colour. They are not white; rather, they are unnervingly translucent, displaying the blurred forms of blood vessels and nerves. She carries nothing, bears no weapons, and has little in the way of adornment save for a single silver circlet atop her bald, scaled head.

Here is Nemuruko's dracnari form:

a tall dracnari garbed in spectacular finery

Almost ethereally tall and slender, this dracnari gentleman regards his surroundings with an almost exquisitely curious attentiveness. Azure scales cover his body, glistening like precious chips of sapphire, while sharp, preternaturally blue eyes gleam with canny intelligence, a faint misty haze swirling behind his irises. Lines of liquid silver accentuate the curves and planes of his jaw and cheekbones, whorling upward about his eyes and the ridge of his brow before unfurling in a lazy, lacy pattern at his temples. Equally suited to his eager demeanor, his garb is decidedly ostentatious: wide, sweeping shoulders serve as the mantle of his many-layered robes, multitudinous silks falling to obscure his form and brush against the ground. Intricate traceries of filigreed embroidery meander throughout, the whole affair shifting in hue and tint with no discernible provocation.

Here is Mamira Shika's dracnari form:

a hazy, iridescent dracnari girl
Almost insubstantial, the vague appearance of this lissome dracnari is hazy with a shining iridescence that blurs her soft, girlish features. Amidst the shifting colours, however, prismatic scales that glisten through a spectrum of pale pinks, lavenders, yellows, blues and whites are visible, emanating a constant aura of light that wreathes her diminutive silhouette. Through glimmers of that light, a silken garb can be glimpsed that drapes over her youthful form in an elegant wrap. A beautiful head scarf of changing hues veils much of her head from view, though her crystal clear eyes shine with a startling clarity that speaks of a wisdom far beyond her years. Twined about her arms are two crystal bangles, one ornamented with the symbolic imagery of an open eye, and the other wrought to resemble an eye that remains closed to the world. Tendrils of smoke and mist dance about the dracnari's delicate figure to cast her in the languid beauty of a dream, rendering her both incorporeal and yet clearly present in a bewitching paradox of being.

And here is Sachiana's dracnari form:

a dracnari matriarch with piercing blue eyes
Garbed in simple emerald-green robes which do little to hide the muscular contours of her form, this dracnari matriarch glares resolutely about her, affixing her surroundings with piercingly vibrant azure eyes. Blood-red scales cover the front of her body, gradually lightening to an amber hue as they approach her spinal ridge. She wastes no energy on unnecessary actions: every movement she makes is sharp and precise, and executed with intense speed. Standing out as the sole piece of adornment she has deigned to display, the tips of her claws are sheathed in gold. Three parallel jagged scars mar one side of her face from brow to chin and reveal the blackened flesh beneath her scales.

You can read newsposts discussing each of these dragons to get a better idea of their personality and role in the year end events.

Lantra

Re: Dreamweaving Concerns

Props to @Enyalida, @Synkarin, @CyndarinAscends, @Xenthos, @Luce for this conversation about dreamweaving. I'm definitely appreciating you guys right now.

Salome

Re: Looking for a Spouse

Oh, hey, that weirdo is here again, and has learned thread necromancy. Luce. Market open

Cons

Manic bursts of activity followed by extended lulls. (He might be part ferret? Maybe just bipolar!)

Absolutely no idea what he's doing 95% of the time in combat.

Takes a while to open up to physical contact.

Absolutely no idea how to be sociable.

Messy bedroom with, ironically, no bed.

Severe case of AD-Oh look a bird.

Usually broke.

Usually in over his head.
Chairman/Warlord/Emporer Former politician
He designed fish brew tea.

Pros

He can cook, paint, write plays, and design things.

Down for an entirely intellectual relationship if physical touching isn't your bag.Realized this isn't quite true. He probably needs touching and contact therapy even if he doesn't realize it yet. (Wait, wouldn't this be a con now?)

Shevat

Published, and a Stage Prestige winner.

Dreamweaver and illusionist who is no stranger to making ideas come to life.

Shevat.

Isunite.

Hasn't killed his thunderbirdgarosaurkirin.

Polite, demure, and composed at least 60% of the time. In the Shevat homestead or villa when he isn't. (Oh no, he's loose, ruuun!)

V. Loyal. Especially to people he considers family or Comrades.

Seriously, Lookit his family tree. You got @Maligorn, @Pejat, @Sylandra, @Irillia, @Daraius, @Choros, @Alexandria and more as in-laws!

You will never mistake him for someone else. He's the one with green-white fur. That is occasionally glowy and/or cloudy, because hey! Demigod.
Chairman/Warlord/Emporer
He designed a cake made with fondant origami birds.

Looking for:

Slight preference for Lobo, Aslaran, Tae'dae, and Furrikin, but okay with anyone under 6'6".

Preference for males

Above points are both negotiable due to Shevat and Collectivist outlook.

Hallifaxian or willing to assimilate for preference, allies accepted if they survive the vetting process.

To apply:

Contact Luce or any Shevat and survive the scrutiny of the people he cares about.

Edited, characterization marches on.

Luce

Re: Lusternian Divine AMA

Shaddus said:

First off, welcome @Lantra. And I guess @Terentia too. /forumrp

I'm absolutely stunned (and happy, shh) to see @Terentia returning, and I know there are a lot of Celestians who missed your character deeply. Was she your first choice? Without giving away too much, had you ever interacted with her while you were a mortal?

Terenta was, in fact, my first choice. I sought out roles based on characters I hadn't had the chance to play (most of my player characters were less martial or commanding), and I knew from the start that I didn't want to create a new role. I landed on Terentia because I thought that there would be something very enjoyable in plumbing the depths of a pre-existing god, figuring out how they were portrayed beforehand and building from that. Terentia's militarism is something very interesting to me, and I'm hoping to figure out ways to make it more nuanced.

To my recollection, I never had the chance to interact with her while I was a mortal. I think most of the times when I was playing, she was inactive. But everyone has a very strong memory of her (both Celestians and non-Celestians alike), which helps mediate that lack.

Terentia

Re: Gurashi Draws: An Autobiography

warm uppy

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020142/uploads/editor/n8/1390h0hhxxu4.png

Gurashi

Re: Lusternian Divine AMA

How often do gods check things like RPWHO when they're looking for, well, RP? Or does it vary more between the divine?

Esei

Re: Lusternian Divine AMA

Shaddus said:

First off, welcome @Lantra. And I guess @Terentia too. /forumrp

I'm absolutely stunned (and happy, shh) to see @Terentia returning, and I know there are a lot of Celestians who missed your character deeply. Was she your first choice? Without giving away too much, had you ever interacted with her while you were a mortal?

As for @Lantra, I'm looking forward to seeing how you develop her in the game as opposed to merely hearing about her in the histories. What drew you to her?

A very, very long late night brainstorming session led me to Lantra. I had compiled a list of the things I wanted to achieve in a Divine and was ping-ponging those ideas back and forth with another admin. We talked about existing roles and how they would fit, and then we considered roles that no one had played.

When Lantra came up, I floated a few ideas, not expecting them to go anywhere... and then suddenly it was early morning and I somehow had several thousand words written in my godrole proposal! And it only got longer from there (Sorry, Aonia).

That first draft contained a lot of "What if?" questions. Lantra is mentioned in multiple books in the Elder Wars (Tae, Loboshi, Krokano), where she often speaks on behalf of the hamadhi and is considered a key player in many historical events. What would it be like to live through those moments? What sort of person would emerge as a result of these experiences, such as being shoved aside by Fain when he brings forth the Elixir, or being betrayed by Malmydia?

I enjoyed the character that came alive from asking those questions, and I very much look forward to sharing more about her story with the playerbase.

And to both of you, do you feel like sharing your biggest misconception from when you were a mortal, now that you're up in the havens?

Here is something that players should appreciate: new admin get RP jitters, too! Sometimes when you're roleplaying as a visible Divine you wind up immediately engaged in city conversations, guild conversations, tells, and Fulcrux conversations all at once. It's an accelerated pace that definitely takes getting used to.

Also, you may not realize it, but there is often a concerted effort to help new gods acclimate to their org before they release. Even though we weren't released yet, Terentia and I both had been quietly working on the New Celest guild revamp and the latest Ascension events, which helped get our feet wet in the org (no pun intended).

Lantra

Re: SSC and You

SSC shotguns on unknown afflictions, even if those afflictions are in categories.
* Phantasms - Reality are mental affs.
* Necromancy - Contagion are dust affs.

I am sure more examples. While not a HUGE issue, it would reduce cures sent and keep you on balance for a potential aff in the next 1-2s (depending on cure bals).

Malayn