Linking Rooms

It is possible to link MUD rooms together using Creator, or from directly in MUD. To do this, you will want to first create your rooms, then build scenes for the rooms that use the 'Link' element to reference to other rooms.

Create rooms

The first thing that you want to do is create your rooms. While you have the ability to create rooms directly from a scene URL, this will generate a new room each time. In order to link multiple rooms together, we recommend generating the rooms first, then updating the rooms to use a scene that contains links to the other room.

1. Go to Dashboard - MUD Foundation and use create a new room in the My Meetings tab.
2. Do this for each room that you want to have available.

Option 1: Linking rooms from inside MUD

There are different ways to link rooms together directly from inside another MUD room without having to create new scenes:

From the settings of the room:

1. Visit the room that you want to add other room links to.
2. Copy the URL to another MUD room.
3. Go to the scene settings and display the Advanced settings dropdown.
4. Paste the URL in the option to "Add" a portal to another metaverse. This will generate a 2D icon inside the room with the title and picture of the room linked.

Creating an image:

1. Visit the room that you want to add other room links to.
2. Copy the URL to another MUD room.
3. Paste the URL anywhere in the first room. This will generate a screenshot of the room, and add a '"Jump" link.

From the toolbar:

1. Visit the room that you want to add other room links to.
2. Open the toolbar and click on upload.
3. Upload a 3d object or an image you want to use as a portal.
4. Copy the URL to another MUD room.
5. Click on advance options and paste the URL. It’ll give you the option to hide the Jump button.
6. Click on the Create object button. This will generate an object with a link to another room.

Option 2: Linking rooms inside Creator scenes

You can also link MUD rooms together from inside a Creator scene. To do this:

1. Create a scene.
2. Use the Creator "Link" element to create a new link in your scene.
3. Place the link element where you want your portal to the other room to be.
4. Copy the room link that you want to link to into the link element "URL" property.
5. Publish your scene.
6. In the original room, change the scene link to the one that contains your new scene that links to the other room.
7. Repeat steps 1-6, publishing a second scene that links to the first room, and use that for your second room.

Note that you can use the same project in Creator as a base by using the 'Save As' feature to create a copy of your project. If you use the same project, it will update the original scene, which will result in the first room updating to link back to itself.