How do I get the player out of a dark room if he unwittingly enters one without a light source?

Question

I can't seem to find any tutorial or documentation that shows how quest handles light.

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In Quest, generally if something is not visible, then it does not exist for practical purposes. This makes a player trapped in a dark room.
The answer to your question is: you would need to write a script.
The script would either need to create a light source, switch the room from dark to light, or transport the player to a lighted room.

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as TM123 already stated, with a bit extra comments of my own:

you can have scripts inside of a global Turnscript or have local Turnscripts for each~all of your dark rooms, which if you get trapped (the scripts check for if there's any lightsource object~exit, a means of lighting up ~ revealing the exit, in the room, and if not...), will rescue you.

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as for specifically how to do all of this... maybe I can do it, or maybe it'd be a bit beyond my ability, not sure as I've not tackled~tried it yet, but I just don't have the time, due to school work, but hopefully someone else can help you with it, if you want this method for dealing with possibly getting trapped in a dark room.

Answer 1

I've still not worked with the 'light~dark' feature yet, but...

here's the documentation:

http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/functions/index_allfunctions.html
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http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/functions/corelibrary/setdark.html

http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/functions/corelibrary/setlight.html

http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/functions/corelibrary/setobjectlightstrength.html (this is the important one: weak, strong, null~blank~empty)
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http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/functions/corelibrary/setexitlightstrength.html
(this is the important one: weak, strong, null~blank~empty)

http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/functions/corelibrary/checkdarkness.html

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and here's the tutorial, but I'm not sure if it covers the 'light~dark' feature (and am too lazy to look):

http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/tutorial/

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P.S.

there's also a 'lantern' (portable lightsource object) library by Darkweaver, here:

http://forum.textadventures.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4610