Installing Arxcode?

Cobalt

@Faraday I realized I never answered your question:

On Arx there was an inventory and wear system, where you would in came craft pieces of clothing and then wear them and they’d be displayed on your desc when someone looked at you. And you could color them with 256 ansi colors.

Jennkryst

@Cobalt said in Installing Arxcode?:

@Faraday I realized I never answered your question:

On Arx there was an inventory and wear system, where you would in came craft pieces of clothing and then wear them and they’d be displayed on your desc when someone looked at you. And you could color them with 256 ansi colors.

… and everyone was competing to make the most insane color scheme to make the text unreadable.

Cobalt

@Jennkryst No! Some of us liked color theory and making pretty, readable things.

Except that time I made rainbows, I agree that was unreadable but Saya was insane so that was the point.

Testament

@Jennkryst Well that’s half the fun right there. And make sure to show off your clothes/armor at the end of the world.

If nothing else, that is my fondest memory from the Lenosia scene at the end of the game. People just dumping their wardrobes on the ground and then others modeling clothes.

Faraday

@Cobalt said in Installing Arxcode?:

On Arx there was an inventory and wear system, where you would in came craft pieces of clothing and then wear them and they’d be displayed on your desc when someone looked at you. And you could color them with 256 ansi colors.

I never played Arx but I’m vaguely familiar with the system. The colors are supported, but if you wanted to restrict who could use them in a desc that would definitely require custom code. Or you could adopt the Simple Inventory plugin to track “crafted” items and do it on the honor system.

Cobalt

@Faraday I think I am going to grab the inventory, honor, and economy plugins by Lyanna (sp) listed on the ares plugin site. To kinda soft emulate the economic and crafting systems from Arx.

icanbeyourmuse

For how Cobalt wants to use Simple Inventory there is a small problem: All items need to be added via the admin panel on the website. So, players can’t really use it as something to craft without putting in a request for their cool item to be added. I have the 3 plugins Cobalt wants installed on Atharia. I considered using it to simulate crafting too but that The ‘money’ is connected to Luck. I didn’t look to hard on how easy/hard it would be to change its currency.

bear_necessities

maybe a stupid question but would this even be worth doing on Ares? I play 99.5% through the portal, never look at people’s descs, and would have no idea if they had pretty colored clothes or not.

Faraday

@icanbeyourmuse said in Installing Arxcode?:

All items need to be added via the admin panel on the website. So, players can’t really use it as something to craft without putting in a request for their cool item to be added

Very true, but that’s still a potentially viable option.

There’s all kinds of potential implementations here, from total honor system, to a +request driven inventory system, to a full-fledged crafting system. You could also do a hybrid, like extending simpleinventory or the existing desc plugin without going full-bore crafting code.

@bear_necessities said in Installing Arxcode?:

I play 99.5% through the portal, never look at people’s descs, and would have no idea if they had pretty colored clothes or not.

You can still see peoples’ descs on the portal, but I don’t know how many actually care to look.
(Though from my adesc, I’m not sure how many bother to look in-client either. YMMV.)

somasatori

If I recall @Jumpscare did something with Evennia that has a good crafting system. I didn’t roll a crafter on Silent Heaven when I did (Simon was a disgraced med student), but it looked super cool. Maybe that might be compatible?

Pavel

@bear_necessities said in Installing Arxcode?:

never look at people’s descs

Well, that’s just rude. We took the time to write the damn things.

Tez

@Pavel That’s what you think. I’ve seen some ChatGPT in my day.

Pavel

@Tez Well. We took the time to copy and paste them!

dvoraen

@Tez I’ve seen some TezGPT too. For reasonable rates, I hear.

Jennkryst

… unrelated, but not me side-eyeing code again to try and get an L5R thingy going again.

Cobalt

@bear_necessities Right, using ares I would drop the visual part of pretty clothing and items would become props that add modifiers to rolls rather than an art form.

hellfrog

@Cobalt art sucks no one looks at art

Griatch

@Cobalt

Alas, as is outlined in the old tutorial, Arxcode is maintained by the Arx folks and not by Evennia devs.

I wrote that tutorial as a service back then when it made sense (and it did indeed easily install at the time, promise!) … but at this point I don’t think ArxCode has kept up with Evennia development (it was using an old Evennia version already when it was created, it’s even still on Python2).

I’ll check in with Tehom if there are plans to update the tutorial (or Arxcode).

Jumpscare

@somasatori said in Installing Arxcode?:

If I recall @Jumpscare did something with Evennia that has a good crafting system. I didn’t roll a crafter on Silent Heaven when I did (Simon was a disgraced med student), but it looked super cool. Maybe that might be compatible?

I could pull out my crafting code and allow you all to shred it to bits.

I’m mired in to-dos, but remind me in about a week and I’ll look into it.