Room Parent

Otherspace uses a custom room parent with lots of configurable options. These can be changed on a per-room basis by setting attributes directly on the room, or across a group of rooms using parenting chains.

List of Room Parents

• #3 - Basic Room Parent, which all rooms are parented to by default.
• #33 - Hiverspace Room Parent, currently identical to the basic parent.
• #34 - Palisade Room Parent, with the Chiarascuro color scheme.
• #333 - Normalspace V1 Room Parent, with the Variant 1 Color Scheme.

Basic Room Information

• DESCRIBE

The actual text of the description.

• ZONE

The name of the zone the room belongs to.

• TAG

The tag currently set on the room.

• NOTE

The note currently set on the room.

Basic Formatting Options

General Settings

• DESC`ALIGN

The Alignment that will be used for text in the body of the description. This is LEFT aligned by default; you can change it to RIGHT or CENTER in

• DESC`SORT

The Sort Type that will be used for the Player, Thing, and Exit lists. By default, this is a NAME sort. Other options are as in help sorting. Regardless of the sort type, the room will show Players first, then Objects.

• DESC`NOTE

A note set on the room, which will be displayed in a highlight color underneath the description itself. Checks for a &note attribute.

• TAGGABLE

Indicates that the room should allow player tags. Tags will be displayed above the note.

Borders

Settings for Horizontal (Top, Bottom, Middle) and Vertical (Left, Right) borders.

• Top Horizontal Border

BORDER`STRING_T - Fill String

BORDER`COLOR_T - Ansi Color

• Bottom Horizontal Border

BORDER`STRING_B - Fill String

BORDER`COLOR_B - Ansi Color

• Middle Horizontal Border

BORDER`STRING_M - Fill String

BORDER`COLOR_M - Ansi Color

• Left Vertical Border

BORDER`STRING_L - Fill String

BORDER`COLOR_L - Ansi Color

• Right Vertical Border

BORDER`STRING_R - Fill String

BORDER`COLOR_R - Ansi Color

Colors

All colors must be ANSI codes compatible with the MUSH. It's possible to use MXP colors as well, but that isn't supported by the room parent at this time.

• COLOR`BASE

The Background / Default Ansi Color used for the entire room description. Background colors might not work consistently for all players, depending on their client and settings.

• COLOR`BORDER

Color used for all borders which do not have a specific color set using BORDER`_COLOR_X. Useful if you want all borders to be the same color, since you don't have to set each one individually.

• COLOR`ROOMNAME

Color used for the name of the Room, in the first line of the description.

• COLOR`ZONENAME

Color used for the name of the Zone, in the first line of the description.

• COLOR`DBREF

Color used for the room's DBREF, which is shown to staffer characters.

• COLOR`DESC

Color used for the text Description of the room.

• COLOR`TAG

Color used for any Tag set on the room.

• COLOR`NOTE

Color used for any Note set on the room.

• COLOR`TIME

Color used for the Time display, immediately below the body of the description.

• COLOR`LABELS

Color used for the Objects: and Exits: labels in the room content list.

• COLOR`PLAYERNAME

Color used for the names of players in the room.

• COLOR`PLAYERTITLE

Color used for the title of players; by default, will be the same as the name color.

• COLOR`THINGNAME

Color used for the name of objects in the room.

• COLOR`THINGTITLE

Color used for the Title of objects in the room (if they have any).

• COLOR`ADDON

Color used for the Addon of any players/objects.

• COLOR`EXITNAME

Color used for the name of exits in the room.

• COLOR`EXITALIAS

Color used for the alias of exits in the room; by default, same as the name.

• COLOR`EXITBRACKET

Color used for the Bracket <> characters on either side of the alias.

• COLOR`MODE_RP

Color used for the tag when characters are IC.

• COLOR`MODE_NEW

Color used for the <NEW> tag on guests and unregistered characters.

• COLOR`MODE_ADMIN

Color used for the <ADM> tag on staffer characters.

• COLOR`MODE_DARK

Color used for the <DK> tag on dark players / objects / exits. Only visible to staffers.

Time

• TIME`ZONE

Time Zone relative to the MUSH clock; this number of hours is added/subtracted when displaying.

• TIME`YEAR

Current Year for the room.

• TIME`CALENDAR

The Calendar being used in the room; i.e. AD, BC, or ATA.

Advanced Formatting Options

These attributes store the actual formatting of the different sections. You can edit these if you wish to make more radical changes; for example, changing the order of individual elements, changing how zone name is displayed, or implementing a custom clock like the Fastheld zone has.

• FORMAT`HEADER

The first line of the description, containing the room's name, the zone name, and the dbref.

• FORMAT`NAME

The format used for the room's name.

• FORMAT`ZONE

The format used for displaying the zone.

• FORMAT`DBREF

The format used for displaying the dbref (only seen by admins)

• FORMAT`BODY

The main body of the description, containing the description text, tag, note, and side bars if applicable.

• FORMAT`TIME

The format used for displaying the time in the room.

• FORMAT`VOBJ

The format used for displaying each individual vobject.

• FORMAT`VOBJ

The format used for displaying all vobjects.

• FORMAT`CONTENTS

The format used for displaying players and things in the room.

• FORMAT`PLAYER

The format used for each individual player.

• FORMAT`THING

The format used for each individual thing.

• FORMAT`EXIT

The format used for each individual exit.

NAMEFORMAT

DESCFORMAT

CONFORMAT

EXITFORMAT

Obsolete Formatting Options

• DESC`BODY

The test of the description, i.e. the description itself. This is obsolete - it still works (as does &desc1) but the code has been moved into descformat, allowing the room to be @DESC as normal.

• DESC`TAG

The Tag set on the room. Don't change this manually, or you'll break future tags. Use the &tag attribute, or the +tag command instead.