visibility

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Sep 21 2000, 5:21 pm
I'm not sure how long ago this was, but objects that aren't visible don't appear in lists of verb arguments with view(), right?

Is there a proc that DOES let me access invisible objects?
Sep 21 2000, 5:30 pm
On 9/21/00 9:21 pm Spuzzum wrote:
I'm not sure how long ago this was, but objects that aren't visible don't appear in lists of verb arguments with view(), right?

Is there a proc that DOES let me access invisible objects?

So far, I've tried view(), range(), oview(), orange(). The objects don't seem to appear in any other self-designed lists, either.
Sep 21 2000, 5:33 pm
In response to Spuzzum
The objects don't seem to appear in any other self-designed lists, either.

I even tried adding them all to a global variable, then checking all of the objects in get_dist(src,O) <= 1.

Isn't there some way that I can accomplish this task, without nulling the icon?
Sep 21 2000, 5:44 pm
In response to Spuzzum
The objects don't seem to appear in any other self-designed lists, either.

I even tried adding them all to a global variable, then checking all of the objects in get_dist(src,O) <= 1.

Isn't there some way that I can accomplish this task, without nulling the icon?

You could keep an invisible, non-dense, non-opaque mob handy, and set its mob.sight value to be able to see invisibility. Then whenever you need to get a list like view(), you could just move it to the spot where you want to look around, and it could generate the list and pass it to whatever needs it.

(I think so, anyway. Never tried it!)