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I can't find a way to make this work out right.



when the player types take ash it just says they're fixed in place...

on a side not I'm starting to understand this a little better..bouncing from book to book, and having people help has been a real bonus, lol. I found an extension that's really helped me, and I'm only using it for one feature. Emily Shortls Room Description Control. That why I can make ghost items, that the players can interact with, and still have the other items in my rooms...like...have cupboards with plates in them...create a plate item with what ever name...and now the players can try to take a plate...when there are plates in the cupboard..but not get one of course, haha...

I'm not sure if that's the long way of doing things or not, but it's helping.

Also a new issue has arrised with backdrops in a region. It's saying that I'm trying to create two regions or something, lol..

hmm.. I seem to be getting the same problem if I try to make the backdrop into a scenery..



the error message I get is that I'm trying to create a new region called Island Ocean..

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I realize now that's porbably because scenery can only be in one place like things, but I don't understand why when I put backdrop in place of scenerey it still thinks I'm trying to create a region, lol.

Here's a bit more insite into my backdrop problem if it helps..

This is where I tried to make the backdrop. It's at the top of all my source code..



Here's where I defined the region, much farther down in the source..




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I made some headway in my backdrop issue. If I declare the backdrop below where I declared the region it complies. There's a problem though...



that code placed below where the region is declared in source works...but..



that code gives me this compile error..

Problem. You wrote '"You can't see the ocean through th [...] crashing down on the island shores" Ocean is in The Island' : but it looks as if perhaps you did not intend that to read as a single sentence, and possibly the text in quotes was supposed to stand as as a sentence on its own? (The convention is that if text ends in a full stop, exclamation or question mark, perhaps with a close bracket or quotation mark involved as well, then that punctuation mark also closes the sentence to which the text belongs: but otherwise the words following the quoted text are considered part of the same sentence.)

this is the section of code in entirety...

It's just that you're missing a period after "island shores."

oh, lol. Thanks..

I'm trying to create a ladder, to go from one floor of the lighthouse to the second floor. I'm not sure how to go about this...should I make it a door? Then how do I make it climbable.



I know I need to make a rule for the door..Not sure how..

I've tried this..



What's the best way to go about making ladders that go from one room to another?

Yeah, just make it a door but have the prose call it a ladder. And Instead of climbing the ladder, try going up instead. Or if you do this more than once, Instead of climbing a door... and use a when clause to test if the ladder goes up or down from the location. Staircases are the same way.

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If the ladder is portable, it's probably not a good idea to make it a door, since there are specific low-level rules that determine where doors appear. But you might have a door that pretends to be the ladder, which is only present when the ladder is set up. It is a bit of a tricky problem.

One way would be to have a separate scenery (or at least fixed in place) object called "the top of the ladder." You'd have to do some careful management to make sure it appeared where it needed to be. One way would be to use the Conditional Backdrops extension.

Thanks guys. I appreciate the help. I'm sorry so much of this is causing me problems, lol...some examples I'm working with are from books, and they still aren't working!!

like this one isn't killing my player, lol.

This is what I've changed the code to..



after everything I've read on google, and in the books I have this should kill the player, but he's certianly not dying, lol..it's funny, cuz you can go over the cliff read that the player died, and then just walk right back where ya came from, lol. If only falling off cliffs was like that.

I believe the problem is that you're using "entering," which is the verb for, say, an enterable container (like a car or elevator or big cardboard box). For a room, the player gets there by "going," so here you probably want to use "going to".