from a special-format batchfile. It is intended for large-scale offline world creation (especially things like room descriptions),
where a real text editor is often easier to use than online alternatives. The @batchprocess also has an /interactive mode which allows
stepping through the batch script, allowing to only execute selected entries; e.g. for editing/updating/debugging etc. There is
an example batchfile in the gamesrc/commands/examples directory.
/Griatch
GLOBAL_STATE_TABLE.add_state() before adding commands to it. The state can now be much more configured by including as much or as
little of the normal default commands into it as wanted (so you can now have states which are almost as normal, except some
commands are missing or change their behaviour ... illness or darkness comes to mind). The possibilities here are limitless.
* States now also optionally allow traversing exits as well as using command tables defined on objects.
* States now better handle error messages (so if you try 'look' in a state which does not contain a look command you will no
longer get the 'Huh?' but will be told that the command is not available at the moment).
* All examples in commands/examples/ have been updated to use the new State system. Also added a @test_state function for trying out
the functionality.
* Added hooks at_before_move() and at_after_move(), useful for character based move-restrictions and checks (e.g. movement speed)
* Minor tweaks to the event system; avoiding the counters to go negative should they hit an uncaught traceback.
* Small fixes of typos and minor extra safety checks.
/Griatch
* The startup script (evennia.py) will now take your PYTHONPATH environmental variable into account when starting. This may resolve potential issues with Twisted on Windows with certain combinations of Python.
* The INSTALL file still referred to startup.bat, which is now gone in favor of evennia.py.
Thanks Ari!
- Set up a global cleaner event to clean all @destroyed objects every 30 minutes (makes their dbrefs available).
- Added the @recover command for recovering @destroyed objects up until the point that the cleaner runs and actually destroys them. This can recover @destroyed objects, rooms and exits to the same state as before @destroy. It could easily be made to recover player objects too, but I'm thinking this would be a security issue.
- Added to @dig in order to allow for creating rooms with a particular parent. Also auto-creates exits in each room if desired. The only things that is not implemented is the aliases of the exits, I don't really know how to do that.
- Changed the @create command format to match the @dig (it uses : to mark the parent instead of = now, since MUX' @dig reserve = to the exit list.)
- Added extra security in the example event to guard against the bug that causes the whole scheduler to freak out if the event_function() gives a traceback.
- Changed many instances of type to point to the defines_global.OTYPE instead of giving the integer explicitly.
/Starkiel
- Made it so user #1 is also affected by the on_player_creation() function.
- Added an event folder for custom events, including a working example
- Expanded the example commands and parents to include the changes to how they should be initialized.
- Added an optional ansi scheme (not active by default)
As a side-effect of all of this, logging in more than once acts as behaves now. Also, this will allow things/rooms/exits (IE: not players) or un-logged in players to run commands or be forced to run them via @fo. All of this will bring us more in-line with MUX behavior.
It is important to note that these are currently un-modified MUX2 help files. There are a lot of things that are not applicable, incorrect, or only partially correct. It will be an ongoing project to clean these up.
