Customizing ClassroomDecorator

[okkhoy]

This is more like a feature request (or information request) rather than a bug!

Customization

Classroom Decorator is a great way to build (complex) environments. However, after wading through the code and the documentation, may I conclude that there is no way to customize the environment that will be generated by the ClassroomDecorator?

Some possible things which would be helpful:

• To be able to set the positions of goal state
• To be able to set different "kinds" of goals (currently it is just one block, defined by the type of the palette).
• To be able to specify the number of rooms and how they are connected.
  • I guess roughly we can achieve this now using the specification option and the number of divisions?

A work around I can think about is to use the ClassroomDecorator and add elements using DrawingDecorators. However, for this, we will need the size of the environment created, and work with the <x, y, z> coordinates.

What can be returned from Minecraft?

Assuming, there is no way to customize ClassroomDecorator ( see: #599 and #272 ), I want to ask if there is a way to return information about the environment that is just created. E.g: (at minimum)

• How many rooms are created?
• What is the actual size of the environment?

What is the alternative?

If the above two are currently impossible, is there a (easy) way to hack out an environment as good as the one created by ClassroomDecorator? If so, can you please point me to the relevant resource(s)?

[petrosgk]

I found the ability to customize the environment produced by ClassroomDecorator to be quite limited too. I ended up crafting my own classroom-like environments in Minecraft itself like shown in the gifs here.

[okkhoy]

@petrosgk will take a look, thank you. I will reuse your environments in my work, if possible!

[petrosgk]

I've added a link to download the environments in the README.

[okkhoy]

:+1: great! Thanks!