Store data thats not attached to an object

[Quilnux]

Ok, so I have an area (probably should call it a zone) of outdoor locations. I'm expanding my weatherroom typeclass to include additional features. What I would like to do is have the weather the same across multiple weatherrooms within the same zone. Is there a way to make a global variable that can be accessed from multiple room objects?

[davidedwar...@gmail.com]

I am betting you want to use the tag feature.

The zones tutorial is here: https://www.evennia.com/docs/latest/Zones.html

Hope that helps.

[Quilnux]

So instead of tying the weather to the zone I would tie the zone to the weather? 

[Griatch Art]

All a 'zone' is, is a group of locations/objects that can be isolated and acted upon together. So all you need is a way to tell the system which ones belong together so they can be easily found together.

It's indeed recommended to use tagging for building 'zones'. Check out https://www.evennia.com/docs/latest/Zones.html?highlight=zone

Tags can't themselves store extra data. For the general question ("Store data that's not attached to an object"), the answer is to use a Global Script. https://www.evennia.com/docs/latest/Scripts.html?highlight=global%20script#global-scripts

Hope that helps!

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Griatch

[Quilnux]

Yeah, I'm currently using zones now as it is. That's what got me thinking about the WeatherRoom typeclass to begin with. I'll review the global scripts page again. Maybe I missed it or something.

[Quilnux]

Nevermind, after you said what you said, I just thought about it. When my weather global script runs it just needs to search the zone tags and apply a Weatherroom.db.weather to each room in that zone. Python is very new for me who is used to C#. Thanks for taking the time and being patient.

On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 5:40:54 PM UTC-5 gri...@gmail.com wrote: