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Nemesis bulletin boards: LPC bulletin board, note 22

Ok, now one further step:
No matter if there is weather in the room or not, now you can modify or
create you own room items "sky" and/or "weather" in rooms! This is if
there are these room items defined in a room they are displayed. Check
both examples below.

Have a look at room/post (command: 'post'):
- This room has no weather set at all (as weather messages would be annoying
  while writing mails),
- but 'look at sky' or 'look at weather' shows the current weather outside,
- as the room fetches the weather settings from the room outside and asks
  the weather machine for the current weather outside.

Or in Southroad in Nemesis Village (command: 'goto /d/village/rd/south1'):
- This room has full weather with full weather effects like torches getting
  wet in rain or torches doused by a storm,
- but 'look at sky' or 'look at weather' show more than the weather ;-)
  (if not, please 'modernise' as I added it a few hours ago).

If there are room items "weather" and/or "sky" the description of it will
be shown! The weather machine isn't asked! For dynamic room items have a
look at the "@@"-feature.
See also:
room/set_items
room2/page17
Greetings & happy fake weather ;-)
  Kiri

On May 21 2016, Kiri wrote here:
> More than 20 years later it is possible ;-)
>
> Do not use set_weather() but simply add room items "sky" and "weather". And
> please no add_action 'look', 'examine', 'exa,' 'x', etc.!!! PLEASE NOT!!!
>
> Even for others in the room there is no difference:
>
> When I look up to the real sky, others in the room get:
> Kiri looks up at the sky.
>
> In a room with fake weather/sky others in the room get the same message.
>
> PS: I removed all notes of Shadowfax and Poe offering "strange solutions" ;-)

Here you can discuss LPC issues like how to code this and that,
who has coded something like this or how that works etc.
As there are no real "secrets" on this board it is now
available via https://nemesis.de/lpc/board/10/ , too.
The board contains 23 notes:

1. forcing and removing files (Shadowfax, Jul 29 1993, 29)
2. Re: Has someone coded chairs already? (Ping, Oct 23 1993, 30)
3. How does under_water work? (Jhudsui, Oct 28 1993, 28)
4. Request for "query_action()" in living.c (Kilroy, Oct 29 1993, 25)
5. /obj/chest.c (Quicksilver, Nov 11 1993, 24)
6. Amulet of Blinding ? (Mambres, Nov 11 1993, 22)
7. Re: Amulet of Blinding ? (Poe, Nov 20 1993, 48)
8. P_DESTRUCT_WHEN_SOLD (Mambres, Dec 4 1993, 22)
9. set_items(({ "sky"... (Mambres, Jan 12 1994, 24)
10. Howto add default items to a standard shop? (Berny, Dec 23 2001, 30)
11. Use of this_player()->more(...) (Teddy, May 11 2002, 29)
12. Re: Howto add default items to a standard shop? (Teddy, May 13 2002, 29)
13. Re: Use of this_player()->more(...) (Kiri, May 22 2016, 62)
14. Re: missing string efuns... (Kiri, Aug 15 2016, 62)
15. Re: Request for "query_action()" in living.c (Kiri, Aug 15 2016, 62)
16. Re: How does under_water work? (Kiri, Aug 15 2016, 62)
17. Re: /obj/chest.c (Kiri, Aug 15 2016, 62)
18. Re: Has someone coded chairs already? (Kiri, Aug 15 2016, 62)
19. Re: P_DESTRUCT_WHEN_SOLD (Kiri, Aug 16 2016, 62)
20. Re: forcing and removing files (Kiri, Aug 17 2016, 62)
21. New support for feelings with monsters (Teddy, Jan 28 2017, 50)
22. Re: set_items(({ "sky"... (Kiri, Nov 17 2017, 62)
23. P_AREA property (Teddy, Nov 26 2017, 50)