Default area being dense

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Nov 12 2006, 5:34 pm
Hello dream makers. The question is, how do you make the default area dense without making ALL of the areas dense. What I mean by the default area is the black areas in the map that are not occupied with any turf, obj, or mob. I was thinking of something along the lines of this:
area/New()
   density = 1
   ..()

But, ofcourse that wouldn't work because that would make all of the areas dense regardless of which one. Is there a way to distinguish between an occupied area and one that's not or, is there some way to do this?
Nov 12 2006, 5:43 pm
The problem is that there is only one instance of an actual /area object, and one object spans multiple locations. For example, if your playable map area was named /area/place, and /area/place was also occupied in a black area, you wouldn't be able to make it dense without the playable map area being dense.

However, what you can do is set the default turf to a dense object (look up world/turf), and just make all the 'black' area to that type of turf.
Nov 12 2006, 5:43 pm
While i wait for someone to answer my question I'm gonna help you with yours..Um not that I know of What i would do is outside certain areas that you dont want to have people cross is make a certain turf that is black make it dense and outline an area with it.
turf
Void
icon = 'black.dmi'//or w/e yurs is
density = 1

And add indents to that
Nov 12 2006, 7:54 pm
In response to SS10trunks
You didn't even indent -_-.
Nov 13 2006, 3:46 pm
In response to Pyro_dragons
So? Easy code to fix.