Scenery objects allow us to add descriptive elements to rooms in a lightweight fashion. One can easily create a scenery object to add to a room, which the player can "look at" or "examine" for descriptive text, and the add_response() method allows lightweight verbs that simply print a response when called on the scenery object. It would be nice to support similar functionality for generic objects. For example, if the long description of a sword includes, "Crude orc-runes have been carved into the metal with a stone," the player should be able to type "look at runes" or "read runes". Today this is difficult since the only object the parser knows about is the sword; the wizard has to use a workaround such as adding "runes" to the possible names of the sword, and then overloading the look_at() function.
I propose to support a list of descriptive features for every object. Each feature has a list of names and adjectives, which the parser will know about, and can have a set of verb-response tuples similar to Scenery objects.
If this works well we could consider replacing scenery objects for rooms, though that would likely be more trouble than it is worth.
Sceneryobjects allow us to add descriptive elements to rooms in a lightweight fashion. One can easily create a scenery object to add to a room, which the player can "look at" or "examine" for descriptive text, and theadd_response()method allows lightweight verbs that simply print a response when called on the scenery object. It would be nice to support similar functionality for generic objects. For example, if the long description of a sword includes, "Crude orc-runes have been carved into the metal with a stone," the player should be able to type "look at runes" or "read runes". Today this is difficult since the only object the parser knows about is the sword; the wizard has to use a workaround such as adding "runes" to the possible names of the sword, and then overloading thelook_at()function.I propose to support a list of descriptive features for every object. Each feature has a list of names and adjectives, which the parser will know about, and can have a set of verb-response tuples similar to Scenery objects.
If this works well we could consider replacing scenery objects for rooms, though that would likely be more trouble than it is worth.