Roleplay essentials: flavor text & records

[Ephemeralis]

About The Pull Request

This gets probably the last major feature before version 0 can go live into place: flavour preferences.

It is a mixture of stuff ported from NovaSector and new code.

Notable additions/differences:

• Flavour text and species information is output in chat versus a new TGUI window. This started off as a concession towards the effort involved in making an entirely new TGUI window design, but then started to gain some aesthetic merit in its own right.
• Relevant character preferences have been split out into their own Lore page in the character creator. Most of us are used to Nova's way of doing things (aka declaring every new preference as "non-contextual" and shoving it in the same category.
• Silicon-specific preferences. Cyborgs have their own description and species/model fields, so you can now feasibly play a cyborg character who swaps out into an IPC/synthetic shell mid-round with an entirely unique description that you've written for them. This also includes headshot images.
• Basic player-written record support. Kind of shitty at the moment but they appear in both security and medical consoles, PDA apps forthcoming. Exploitables are renamed to 'classified records' and guidance is given in the character creation screen about writing interesting ones that aren't just some variant of 'my character has a stash of hardcore pornography involving a particular species of desk fern that they're really bashful about'.

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In preparation for further customization options linked to preferences later down the line, I've also cut out a PreferenceSingle react element that references a single preference by its chosen savefile key, allowing people who aren't very acquainted with react/typescript (me and the rest of the fucking planet) to create new pages for preferences that aren't wrapped three layers deep in autogenerated wizardry. Mothblocks did an amazing job on the auto-preference stuff, and this gets us the best of both worlds.

Changelog

🆑 yooriss
add: Bespoke in-chat flavour text via examines. Also includes custom species information in a new, separate dialogue!
add: Flavor text, records and other important roleplay-centric character information can now be set via the Lore panel in the character creator.
add: Player-written records are viewable in security and medical records consoles.
code: New PreferenceSingle react element to make creating TGUI interfaces for new preferences significantly easier (where specific sorting/ordering is needed)
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[CliffracerX]

This is just about ready, just a few things need properly demarkated with doppler edit indicators so it's easier to spot our stuff in future merges.

[CliffracerX]

Looks ready to go now!