Core Concepts

This documentation cover more over-arching concepts of Evennia, often involving many Core Components acting together.

General concepts

• Async Process
  • Synchronous versus Asynchronous
  • Customizing asynchronous operation
  • delay
  • The @interactive decorator
  • Assorted notes
  • Further reading
• Soft Code
  • Examples of Softcode
  • Problems with Softcode
  • Changing Times
  • Our Solution
  • Your Solution
• Using MUX as a Standard
  • Documentation policy
• Messagepath
  • The ingoing message path
  • The outgoing message path
• OOB
  • Briefly on input/outputcommands
  • Sending and receiving an OOB message
  • Supported OOB protocols

Access

• Multisession modes
• Building Permissions
  • The super user
  • Assigning permissions
  • Quelling your permissions
• Guest Logins
• Banning
  • Creating a ban
  • Booting
  • Summary of abuse-handling tools

Extending the Server

• Custom Protocols
  • Adding custom Protocols
  • Writing your own Protocol
  • Assorted notes
• Bootstrap & Evennia
• What is Bootstrap?
  • The Layout System
  • More Bootstrap
• New Models
  • Overview of database tables
  • Adding a new database table
  • Defining your models
  • Creating a new model instance
  • Using the SharedMemoryModel parent
  • Searching for your models
• Zones
  • Zones in Evennia
  • Using typeclasses and inheritance for zoning

Text processing

• Internationalization
  • Changing server language
  • Translating Evennia
• Text Encodings
  • How to customize encodings
• In-text tags parsed by Evennia
• Sending different messages depending on viewpoint and receiver
  • Director Stance
  • Actor Stance
• Referencing other objects
• Recog systems and roleplaying
• Clickable links
• Colors
  • ANSI colours
  • More reading

Web features

• Web Features
  • Web site
  • Web client
  • The Django ‘Admin’ Page
  • More reading