3D Mud Client

This document is about space in the mud and the mud client.

Position
The mud client assumes muds are made up of a 2D plane in the x,y direction. Things north have a greater y value and things east have a greater x value. There is also 'z' for height above the ground regardless of the terrain (eg z is the same on a mountain top as on the beach if is sitting on the ground).

The Shattered World game that comes with the mud client package has dimensions 359 x 359 (space) mud units where each mud unit is about 10 metres.

When building a terrain you usually build it with the same dimensions as the mud:

The following includes towns:

If a player has the mud coordinates x=200, y=300, z=0 the player will be put at ground level. Ground level can be a combination of the terrain and towns. Towns can increase the height of ground level above the terrain. sceneobjects can ignore towns and be plonked straight on top of a terrain if height calculation is 'primary'. Thus sometimes z=0 can produce different heights above ground level for sceneobjects.

Direction
Objects on the mud also can have direction. Direction on the mud is one of e,se,s,sw,w,nw,n,ne. Thus a dog can face north ({odog,fn}).

In the mud client objects have a direction specified as 0-360 degrees using the 'turn' attribute in sceneobject's. If you want a mirror for example to face north you would set turn to 0.