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baby steps, baby steps.

Yesterday I made a working “prototype” version of this concept and I ended up cleaning it up a bit today, rewriting code, and adding some features. The following I wrote yesterday on Reddit: -------------------------------------- I'm under the assumption that the current version of the pen and paper font and presentation is temporary, and that eventually it will look more like a message written by an actual person on actual paper. What i would like to suggest are different handwriting styles for these messages, so that it does not look like every message is written by the same person. Just on new spawn, give the player one of the available styles at random. Now having your own personal style is fun and all, but i'd imagine that people would like to be able to write differently as well. There could be a learning mechanic where after having seen 3 messages written in a certain style you can choose to use it. This would also add to the "end game" collect-o-thon. Finally the last thing that i'd like to suggest would be for notes to be less and less neat depending in how bad of a shape the player is. This could be done by increasing the spacing between letters, their tilt and or size. This would also be a fun opportunity to get some of the community in the game by putting some of their handwriting styles in the game. Not an expert on this, but if someone were to write down the alphabet in big and small in vector format, it should be easy to convert into a font. Naturally this is not a priority at all, but i feel that if it were to be added, it would add a nice touch to the atmosphere of the game. -------------------------------------- I just posted this same message (with some minor modifications) on Reddit as well, but i wanted to share it on the actual DayZ forums of you guys to see. This was more about having fun building something than anything else but i hope you guys will have some fun with it and that i may inspire team rocket to implement the concept at some point. Features: The ability to input your own fatigue level and textEvery letter is uniquely rotated, positioned, and sized, the more the player fatigued the more noticeable the effectThe whole script can end up a bit slanted on higher fatigue levelsOption to center horizontally and vertically5 different fonts, picked at random at the button pressSize limit, so that you can’t exceed the paper -------------------------------------- If you are interested in seeing how it all works, don’t hesitate to take a peek at the source, it is all annotated. Unfortunately I was unable to find a place to temporarily host it but here is the whole thing on pastebin, just save it as a .html file and I’ll work. http://pastebin.com/6gpPCitq It currently only works properly in chrome, that is mainly due to sheer laziness at this point. (its all webkit-transition) Screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/4A2W4fW.jpg 10 fatiguehttp://i.imgur.com/UNX2nLp.jpg 20 fatiguehttp://i.imgur.com/Gqi5lV6.jpg 30 fatiguehttp://i.imgur.com/xTR37Il.jpg 40 fatiguehttp://i.imgur.com/ssvjUuv.jpg 50 fatigue After 50 it gets a bit crazy http://i.imgur.com/9xItfjX.jpg 100 fatigue You can go over 100 but when you do that it’ll pass the max limits that are coded in.