Wonko on 6 Oct 2002 01:08:05 -0000


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Re: [spoon-discuss] About locations


Quoth Orc In A Spacesuit,

> Right now Fire is a Grid Substance.  What do you guys think about giving a
> Location the follwoing properties:
> 
> Substance: Things like water, ice, turf, rock, dirt, air, void, etc.
> Condition: On Fire, Frozen, etc.
> Surface: True or False
> Solid: True or False
> 
> If a square with substance water becomes frozen, it's substance turns to
> ice.  And other stuff.
> Surface is whether or not it has a surface (that can be walked on).  All
> squares in a 2D grid are surfaces.  In a 3D region, if somebody's in a
> non-surface square, e 'falls' to a square in the direction of gravity,
> barring other forces.
> Solid is whether or not the substance completly fills a place.  This is any
> underground, non-tunneled places on a 3D region.

I've been meaning for some time to move 'on fire' from the Substance list to
the attribute list. So yeah, I'm for that.

-- 
Wonko

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