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| GETTING STARTED
Open a new file in your
text editor. You'll want to use software that displays all ASCII characters
in the same amount of space. This is also called monospacing, meaning that
an "i" takes up just as much space on the screen as a "Z". Monospacing is
very important for creating 3DML, because your maps will appear as easily
readable grids. The Windows 95 Accessory program Notepad
works well, and is included with Windows 95/98/NT. If you use a fancier
word processor such as Microsoft Word, which does not display characters
with monospacing, your maps will not appear as easily readable grids. You
will find this enormously frustrating and you are likely to land in prison
for assaulting the person nearest your workstation long before you finish
building your first spot.
Everything in a 3DML file must be bounded by the <SPOT> and </SPOT>
tags. The <SPOT> tag has one parameter: VERSION. The VERSION parameter
specifies what version of Rover the spot was designed for. If someone
visits your spot with a version of Rover that is older than the version
specified in the VERSION tag, then they will be prompted to upgrade Rover
before visiting your spot. The current version of Rover is v3.4.
Start a 3DML file
Go ahead and type the following lines of code to get started:
<SPOT
VERSION="3.4">
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</SPOT>
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