Extended Room

Contribution - Griatch 2012, vincent-lg 2019

This extends the normal Room typeclass to allow its description to change with time-of-day and/or season. It also adds ‘details’ for the player to look at in the room (without having to create a new in-game object for each). The room is supported by new look and desc commands.

Installation/testing:

Adding the ExtendedRoomCmdset to the default character cmdset will add all new commands for use.

In more detail, in mygame/commands/default_cmdsets.py:

...
from evennia.contrib import extended_room   # <---

class CharacterCmdset(default_cmds.Character_CmdSet):
    ...
    def at_cmdset_creation(self):
        ...
        self.add(extended_room.ExtendedRoomCmdSet)  # <---

Then reload to make the new commands available. Note that they only work on rooms with the typeclass ExtendedRoom. Create new rooms with the right typeclass or use the typeclass command to swap existing rooms.

Features

Time-changing description slots

This allows to change the full description text the room shows depending on larger time variations. Four seasons (spring, summer, autumn and winter) are used by default. The season is calculated on-demand (no Script or timer needed) and updates the full text block.

There is also a general description which is used as fallback if one or more of the seasonal descriptions are not set when their time comes.

An updated desc command allows for setting seasonal descriptions.

The room uses the evennia.utils.gametime.GameTime global script. This is started by default, but if you have deactivated it, you need to supply your own time keeping mechanism.

In-description changing tags

Within each seasonal (or general) description text, you can also embed time-of-day dependent sections. Text inside such a tag will only show during that particular time of day. The tags looks like <timeslot> ... </timeslot>. By default there are four timeslots per day - morning, afternoon, evening and night.

Details

The Extended Room can be “detailed” with special keywords. This makes use of a special Look command. Details are “virtual” targets to look at, without there having to be a database object created for it. The Details are simply stored in a dictionary on the room and if the look command cannot find an object match for a look <target> command it will also look through the available details at the current location if applicable. The detail command is used to change details.

Extra commands

• CmdExtendedRoomLook - look command supporting room details

• CmdExtendedRoomDesc - desc command allowing to add seasonal descs,

• CmdExtendedRoomDetail - command allowing to manipulate details in this room as well as listing them

• CmdExtendedRoomGameTime - A simple time command, displaying the current time and season.

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