Core Concepts

This documentation cover more over-arching concepts of Evennia, often involving many Core Components acting together.

General concepts

• The Message path
  • Ingoing message path
  • Outgoing message path
  • Components along the path
• Out-of-Band messaging
  • Sending and receiving an OOB message
  • Supported OOB protocols
• Async Process
  • Synchronous versus Asynchronous
  • utils.delay
  • @utils.interactive decorator
  • utils.run_async

Text processing

• In-text tags parsed by Evennia
  • Colors
  • Clickable links
  • Inline functions
• Messages varying per receiver
  • Director Stance
  • Actor Stance
  • Referencing other objects
  • Recog systems and roleplaying
• Internationalization
  • Changing server language
  • Translating Evennia
• Text Encodings
  • How to customize encodings

Access

• Character connection styles
  • Changing the login screen
  • Customizing the login command
  • Multisession mode and multi-playing
  • Character creation and auto-puppeting
• Guest Logins
• Banning
  • Creating a ban
  • Booting
  • Summary of abuse-handling tools

Extending the Server

• Protocols
  • Adding a new Protocol
• New Models
  • Overview of database tables
  • Adding a new database table
  • Defining your models
  • Referencing existing models and typeclasses
  • Creating a new model instance
  • Using the SharedMemoryModel parent
  • Searching for your models
• Zones
  • Zones in Evennia
  • Using typeclasses and inheritance for zoning