Room
A room represents the environment the critters interact with.
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A room represents the environment the critters interact with.
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A room represents the environment the critters interact with. Each room is layered in several different assets, including a background (can be an image or a video), foreground, props sprite-sheet, layout JSON, music, etc.
The following table shows the structure of room data. Each room's data was specified in the which is fetched on page load.
roomId
string
The internal name of the room, usually just a lowercase no-space version of the display name. (eg. tavern).
name
string
The display name of the room, pretty self-explanatory.
width
number
The width of the room.
height
number
The height of the room.
startX
number
The X position each player starts at when they join the room.
startY
number
The Y position each player starts at when they join the room.
startR
number
The rotation each player starts at when they join the room.
media
Record<string, string> (defined below)
The URLs of different assets the room requires.
layout
string
The URL of the layout JSON file. The layout file determines the position, width, height, registration point, etc of each prop in the room.
triggers
spriteSheet
string
The URL of the sprite-sheet JSON file.
extra
TO-DO (requires another page)
TO-DO
The following table describes the structure of the media property of the above table, separated so the documentation is clearer.
background
string
The URL of the background image.
foreground?
string
The URL of the foreground image.
treasure
string
The URL of the treasure image which defines the colliders for the room's triggers.
navMesh
string
The URL of the navigation mesh which determines where the player can walk in the room.
music?
string
The URL of the music in the room, if any.
video?
string
The URL of the video background of the room, if there is one. This was only used for the redesigned Bridge room.
Array<>
The triggers in the room. For more information on triggers, go to the class documentation.