There are now two ways of registering on VMS. This tutorial shows you how to register using a text interface with Mechamaw in Bigfur's IRC. You can however, also use the PHP interface to register which some people might find easier to use.
Please Note, All chat commands containing passwords or email addresses should be sent in a private message window to the chat bot Mechamaw. Otherwise, everyone in the channel will be able to see your message.
All VMS commands begin with vms. For example:
vms register vms login vms setheight
On this page, commands are shown with [] around them to indicate the parts of a command. Do not enter these when typing commands yourself.
Remember to enter these in a private message window to Mechamaw. The register command has five parts, separated by a single space:
The parts come together in this exact order:
[vms] [register] [account name] [email address] [password] For example: vms register Mawie stampy@myemailaddress.com mypassword
Remember to enter these in a private message window to Mechamaw. When you register an account, you will automatically be logged in. When you come back later and find yourself logged out, getting logged in again is easy:
[vms] [login] [password] For example: vms login mypassword
You do not need to enter a username. VMS will use your current in-chat username for that.
Logging out is also easy:
[vms] [logout] For example: vms logout
To check to see if you are already logged in to an account, use the amiloggedin command:
[vms] [amiloggedin] For example: vms amiloggedin
You can also change your password or have your password emailed to you if you have forgotten it.
The primary function of VMS is to display relative heights. To set the height of your character, use the setheight command along with the desired height. You can use almost any unit of measure, in shorthand or longhand form (feet, ft, centimeters, cm, etc).
[vms] [setheight] [value][unit] For example: vms setheight 50ft vms setheight 20centimeters vms setheight 5000miles
If you're feeling precise, you can add a secondary value in a different unit of measure (5ft 4inches, 200m 12cm, 1mile 3000cm, etc). VMS will add the two together to display the correct height.
[vms] [setheight] [value][unit] [value][unit] For example: vms setheight 50ft 20cm vms setheight 20centimeters 1mm vms setheight 5000miles 80km
VMS also monitors your in-chat username. Using the IRC /nick command with a size tag will have the same effect as a setheight command.
[/nick] [name][punctuation][size tag]
For example:
/nick Mawie[78ft]
/nick Vapour{20miles}
/nick Erika_99999km
If you have your height in VMS set to be one height, and you have your username specifying a different height, the name in your name will override the one stored in your VMS account
To check your current height, or someone else's, use the getheight command.
[vms] [getheight] For example: vms getheight
To check someone else's current height, add a space and the target's username to the end of the command:
[vms] [getheight] [target] For example: vms getheight Mawie vms getheight Vapour vms getheight Erika
To get detailed information about your current profile, use the whoami command. This will cause VMS to tell you everything it currently has on file about you.
[vms] [whoami] For example: vms whoami
To get the same sort of information about someone else, use the whois command. Note that this is different from the IRC /whois command.
[vms] [whois] [target] For example: vms whois Mawie vms whois Vapour vms whois Erika
VMS has a large number of additional commands. They tend to follow the [vms] [command] [variables] convention, just like the examples on this page.You can use the help command to find out information about a specific VMS command
[vms] [help] For example: vms help
For a full list of VMS commands, visit the help page