Tutorial 3: Configure zMUD for WoTMUD
Link to ZMUD help files regarding preferences:
https://www.zuggsoft.com/zmud/help6/Preferen.htm
The following tutorial is how I setup my preferences for zMUD for use on WoTMUD.
Any options that I do not change I have omitted from including a screen shot of that preference settings window.
Place mouse over settings to receive a brief summary of the setting at the bottom of the Preferences window.
Click the large Prefs button on the main toolbar to open the preferences window.
![Image](https://sites.google.com/site/houseofmedakan/zmud-tutorial-3/zMUD%20General%20user%20interface.png?attredirects=0)
Click User Interface on the folder tree to the left of the window.
Changes: Refresh Amount, prompt for save, help balloons. (refresh amount I use is 0)
Refresh amount 0 is choppy but fastest, 1 is smoothest but slowest, and 5 being a decent inbetween.
![Image](https://sites.google.com/site/houseofmedakan/zmud-tutorial-3/zMUD%20General%20logging.png?attredirects=0)
Changes: Save scrollback buffer to log when opened.
![Image](https://sites.google.com/site/houseofmedakan/zmud-tutorial-3/zMUD%20Colors%20color%20schemes.png?attredirects=0)
This is the default Color Schemes window.
To change color schemes select the Scheme selector on the right side of the window.
Scheme options: VT100, ANSI, Windows, and User-defined.
![Image](https://sites.google.com/site/houseofmedakan/zmud-tutorial-3/zMUD%20Colors%20color%20schemes%20USER%20defined.png)
My User-defined scheme looks like this.
To change a color click the color boxes to the right of the Sample MUD Output box.
![Image](https://sites.google.com/site/houseofmedakan/zmud-tutorial-3/zMUD%20Colors%20foreground%20mapping%20DEFAULT.png)
This is the default Foreground Mapping setting.
The top row are the normal colors, while the bottom row are the highlight colors.
Note: Changing the zMUD info messages color in the previous window will change #11.
![Image](https://sites.google.com/site/houseofmedakan/zmud-tutorial-3/zMUD%20Colors%20foreground%20mapping.png)
The above Foreground Mapping is how I set my colors for playing WoTMUD.
Click a color box to change colors, select from standard zMUD list of available colors.
For scripting with color names they remain the same regardless of foreground mapping changes.
The following number map is how zMUD matches to WoTMUD's native color mapping.
#0 Basic text color (room descriptions, ect...)
#1 not used.
#2 Object on ground color when using look command or entering a room, and your melee hit opponent color.
#3 Room names, Immortal messages, and Lightside cross race color
#4 Received tells color, received melee hit color, and Darkside cross race color.
#5 Seanchan cross race color
#6 Mob color when entering a room or using the look and scan commands.
#7 not used.
![Image](https://sites.google.com/site/houseofmedakan/zmud-tutorial-3/zMUD%20Connection%20reconnection%20RECONNECT.png)
Deselect Check for updates as zMUD is no longer being developed or updated.
It is important to turn off (deselect) auto reconnect when playing WoTMUD.
Repeated connection attempts could receive a firewall ban for too many connections withing a certain time period.
![Image](https://sites.google.com/site/houseofmedakan/zmud-tutorial-3/zMUD%20Fonts.png)
Here you select the font type and size that fits you and your screen best.
I change both Output and Command line windows fonts.
Vertical space adjust greater than -2 will cutoff parts of the text.
![Image](https://sites.google.com/site/houseofmedakan/zmud-tutorial-3/zMUD%20Memory.png)
Memory defaults at 1000 lines and can be set at a maximum of 65000.
![Image](https://sites.google.com/site/houseofmedakan/zmud-tutorial-3/zMUD%20Tick%20Timer.png)
Tick Timer message interval default is 5 seconds, I prefer 3 seconds.
Deselect Display tick message to turn this feature off.
![Image](https://sites.google.com/site/houseofmedakan/zmud-tutorial-3/zMUD%20Window%20options.png)
Windows options set to my preferences.