Adds Newspapers

[TheTyrant25]

[FEATURE] [OBJ]

About the PR

Adds newspapers that can be found lying around, or custom printed by players. They hide your face when you flick them open.
Features:

• You can roll up newspapers to hold them in one hand, or open them up to hold them two handed and hide your face while you read the article. The opened up newspapers have an inhand sprite that visually blocks the front of your face and the face_visible gets set to false. Of course, you're still recognisable by your hair and clothes, but it's funny and blocks the AI's facial recognition algorithm. Of course, you need to take off your ID to show up as "unknown"
• Newspaper headlines, contents and publishers are by default randomly generated. Most are currently done by picking from a list in strings/newspapers.txt, with the most focus on headlines at the moment. It can be expanded later to use the phrase log and possibly even use pick_smart_string to construct new random ones based on partial headlines.
• Newspapers can be printed with the printing press. You can write custom headlines, publishers, and contents, containing whatever you like. Or leave it blank to have it be yhe default random ones. Unlike books, which cost 2 ink and 2 paper, newspapers only cost 1 ink.

Image

image outdated, new sprites have been added

Why's this needed?

Excellent opportunities for roleplay. Sitting on a bench hiding behind a newspaper, selling them while wearing a flat cap... can you imagine? Also: a nefarious way for gangs to spread propaganda.

Changelog

(u)Tyrant, Flaborized
(+)Added newspapers! You can open them up to hide your face behind them, and read the headlines. Make some at the printing press!

[TheTyrant25]

todo:

• See if the face covering works
• Get item sprites
• Get held sprites. Ideally those that would actually physically block the view of the player's face.
• Randomly generate headlines
• Create a way for them to be generated by printing presses.

[zelda4040404]

Would it be at all possible for the newspapers to contain written content as well? I would love to be able to do an actual newspaper gimmick without having to rely on booklets when writing articles.

[TheTyrant25]

Possible, yes. Could make them writable like paper is. I was just keeping them headline only to make them simpler, for the random generation aspect. Generating an article that relates to a random headline... is hard. Then again, could have it so that the article itself is optional when making a custom newspaper.

[Glamurio]

Suggestion: Get the printing press involved. They've recently been spread on all stations and would work perfectly for this. Put written paper in press to copy text from, fill it up with empty paper, create newspaper that cannot be edited anymore, but can be mass produced and spread on the station. This opens a cool new journalism branch that the journalist could get involved in.

[TheTyrant25]

Excellent idea.

[TheTyrant25]

hopefully this fixes things

[TheTyrant25]

okay random articles have been implemented

[TobleroneSwordfish]

Sprites are still way too big, items should not cover two tiles and clip into the wall next to them

[TheTyrant25]

ah i have some new sprites which were made but haven't included them yet

[TobleroneSwordfish]

The face blocking doesn't seem to work?

also nitpick but it'd be neat if the headline was added to the content of the newspaper with header styling, since hiding it in the examine text is a bit obscure

[TheTyrant25]

well, that's an issue.

[TheTyrant25]

okay so i've fixed it and it now works as long as the person isn't wearing their ID. Which is how stuff like welding masks works too. very close to completion now. Just trying to fix one last bug where the article is always a handwritten one.

[TheTyrant25]

fixed the issues with articles not generating right and it's now good to go
the only thing left to fix is automatically generating articles that are grammatically correct. Which i will not be doing because it's hard.

[DisturbHerb]

everythimg is brokegn

[TheTyrant25]

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