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Syntax: @surface@surface <room>
@surface floor|walls|ceiling is <surface>
@surface floor|walls|ceiling of <room> is <surface>
@surface floor|walls|ceiling [of <room>] is none
@surface <area>
@surface floor|walls|ceiling of <area> is <surface>|none
Says what a room's floor, walls and ceiling are made of. The floor decides the footstep sound in the room; all three shape its reverb.
With no surface named, @surface shows the three slots of the room (here, if you name none): the surface, the detail that carries it, and whether the detail is the room's own or shared from a parent room.
Setting a surface puts it on one of the room's details. A detail already named or aliased floor, ground, wall, walls or ceiling is used; otherwise one is made. Players can look at it (`look floor').
`none' clears the room's own surface. An unset slot uses the default reverb, and an unset floor sounds like concrete. If a parent room shares a surface (the Defiant's deck plating is metal), clearing your own shows the shared one again.
You must control the room. A surface that is not registered, or a floor that cannot be walked on, is refused and the valid names are listed. `to' may be used in place of `is'.
A surface set on an area applies to every room inside it unless the room sets its own. Inner areas override outer areas, and area surfaces precede parent room defaults.
See also: @surfaces, @add-detail