paper I can't read the back of paper, what is the command? Paper is very difficult to use., sora, 2003-09-27 11:13:43

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Remove 'sides' from paper?, acius, 2003-09-27 17:24:29

One thought would be to remove the 'sides' from a sheet of paper. This is my personal favorite solution.

Another option would be to make it so that when you read the paper, it goes into a more-like paged interface, where you read the first side, hit enter to read the next side, etc. ... this is looking forward to how books will probably work.

Other'n that ... yeah, I'd like to see something a little cleaner.

paper, malap, 2003-09-27 19:10:39

As the guy who wrote read/write/sign/paper/book:

Sides should be removed from paper. Reading needs a rewrite, there's an old bug in there when reading different locations. Locations should probably be a sorted array, with a special value 'pages' that will go through the pages. If a book has the array (title, cover, pages, back) and you type 'read book' repeatedly, that's the order you'll get it all in.

You need to be able to craft pages into a book.

This project is open for anyone, moving to todo. I'll give at least four points (bugfix, cleanup, locations, crafting) for all this, maybe more. (Are the helpfiles up-to-date?)

Fixed?, athenon, 2003-11-08 22:09:57

I think I have made paper somewhat 1-sided. See /home/athenon/items/paper.c, /home/athenon/bin/read1.c, and /home/athenon/bin/write1.c. You should be able to clone the paper, write the paper, and read the paper, with 3 easy commands (clone paper.c, write1 paper, read1 paper).

you do that..., allaryin, 2004-04-01 09:44:23

If somebody makes reliable crafting of books, I will extend upon it to make spellbooks as part of my work on scrolls.

Grin, allaryin, 2004-09-02 21:00:23

Ok, well, it looks like I have volunteered myself to rewrite the paper system and will be doing so. Goals:

- Paper will be one-sided.
- Different sizes, colours, and qualities of paper should be possible, as well as stationary and such.
- Different sizes implies differences in written capacity.
- Like sheets of paper (same size, material, etc...) may be bound into books of arbitrary size (probably restrict to 5-100 pages)
- Like blank sheets of paper should stack like other resources.
- Book covers should be customizable.
- Quills and different colours of ink.
- Spells may be scribed onto specially prepared pages of a book, from whence they may be memorized but not recited.

Other ideas:
- Languages and crypto
- Make spellbooks dangerous somehow
- Smudging/decay over time

oh..., allaryin, 2004-09-02 21:01:02

And while I am at it, I'll write scroll cases which are entirely different than books.