set_weight_unit |
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set_weight_unit |
Name
set_weight_unit - The amount of this stuff.
Syntax
void set_weight_unit(int *unit);
Description
This is an array of two elements: ({ a, b }) means that b units have weight a.
This allows you to define up less than the smallest weight weights for continuous items. ie: For rice the weight unit would be something like ({ 1, 200 }) which means 200 of the objects weigh 1 weight unit. In other words, the array is a fraction a/b representing the weight per volume (if you think of the amount as a measure of volume).
This is also used in food when the eat_effect is run to modify the number passed into the eat_effect. So the number parsed in is the actual weight of the stuff eaten.
Example
/* Food inherits cont_medium */
inherit "/obj/food";
void setup() {
set_name("rice");
set_long(
"Little oval shaped hard nuggets, they are made almost totally "
"of starch.\n");
/* Make it a continuous object */
set_continuous();
/* Set an alias to the medium so that it can be connected correctly */
set_medium_alias("RiceStuff");
/* How much of the stuff we have here */
set_amount(100);
/* 200 bits of rice weighs 1 weight unit */
set_weight_unit( ({ 1, 200 }) );
/* The name of a pile of them */
set_pile_name("pile");
/* The size of each of the amounts */
set_amount_types( ([ "pinch" : ({ 1, "pinches" }),
"handful" : ({ 100, "handfuls" }),
"bucket" : ({ 10000, "buckets" }) ]) );
/* The name for each of the sizes of piles */
set_pile_types(({ 400, "small", 800, "medium", 1600, "large", "huge" }) );
} /* setup() */
See also
query_weight_unit, query_amount, set_amount, add_eat_effect
