WIP Forest Map - REVIVED by the fantastic work of Unplugged, Michael, Aivilo, alcinda, etc!
July 23, 2021 - 12:54am — SylvanRah
Biography Page Preview - click picto to visit in a new tab
If a group of pictos cover over a picto you want to see, press Escape to shrink the group.
Click to toggle hover biography previews
Unplugged has made a backup of this map in case mine ever breaks due to my changes or lack of them! Go bookmark theirs!
Feel free to comment here or throw suggestions at https://discord.gg/MrmWCXNJmS, and in particular let me know if your picto isn't rendering correctly, and I'll look into the problem!
Disclaimer
I do not intend for this to replace the incredible work of GMSuerte et. al., merely a supplemental tool, demo, test platform, or proof of concept.
I am not a system designer like GMS and you javascript geniuses are; I cannot guarantee an absence of catastrophic bugs. The code is monolithic. There is no design pattern. I don't even know what a design pattern is. I don't even know what javascript is.
Author Note
HHhhhhh rut roles are hacked in temporarily, I'll try to do a better job asap, and generally catch up ;w; <3
So yes! A handful of you have been waiting (a long time), but finally: here's a thing for all you, my friends, to use if you want to!
The aim was to prototype a little tool to help find players, with specific aims being load times, ease of picto clicking, and custom previews! ...I think I managed to only failed one of those, but I'll let you be the judge. ^^' If all that this accomplishes is to serve as inspiration for more talented coders to make the map or site even better, then I'll call it a success.
If you've gotten this far and are curious, please allow me to explain some strangeness in the design...
- Nowhere in the code are links to TEFc, rather, URLs are read from text in this post. That way, you can get from TEFc to the js code, but you can't naively get from the js code to TEFc, which I (maybe wrongly) figured was important.
- I've at least tried to get some encapsulation by making the map its own object.
- I've tried to maintain cross-browser compatibility, yielding some code which I'm sure is not modern best practice. In as many cases as I could, I chose functions that are supported by all the browsers (even IE, bane of js).
- No cookies yet. They'd easily allow you to save your fav map options, but I haven't learned the code or the legal considerations about requiring permission to save cookies... it seems like a whole thing. If there's enough interest I'll look into it soon. In the mean time, to let you save your options, I'm (ab)using the anchor portion of the page href so you can bookmark the page with your chosen settings. This is most likely temporary.
- Sorry that the js file is one monolithic function fest. It at least has the benefit of a single external URL to resolve.
- More that I've forgotten about, I'm sure...
A tiny spin-off from this I'd like to make is a tool that renders out a big version of a player's picto given their username or pictoword.
Improvements
If enough people find it useful, I have a bunch of future improvements in mind. If you have some, please let me know! In the mean time here are mine:
- Option to click a picto to open preview rather than hover over it. Then double click, middle click, or click a link inside preview to visit the bio page
- If a lot of people recognise the deer by the URL, I can add that to the preview box for an easier place to find it rather than in the bottom left hand corner
- A list of pictos who have logged off in the current session, in case you missed someone you wanna check
- Custom preview titles and text, which you can set with special syntax inside your own biographies. This is already half implemented but is currently too slow to post in good conscience
- Cookies to replace #args and give a nicer way of saving settings
- Settings for sizes of various things like pictos, locations, expanded pictos, perhaps the map itself
- What are comments
- Fix a logic error in the spreading (which for now looks pretty good but is technically wrong)
- Better spreading, where pictos go outwards in the direction nearest to their position instead of randomly as now
- BETTER PREVIEWS which are actually the correct height. You'd be surprised how hard it is to tell js how tall something is, or position something in js when it's not deterministic, or have css clamp a box inside another box when the height isn't deterministic, etc Fixed, perhaps satisfactorily
- Maybe, y'know, make the code less horrendous.
Thanks to
Everyone who has done work into pictograms and player data, including:
- Aivilo
- GMSuerte
Everyone who helped me to design and build this thing, including:
- HootinOwl
- ShrinkingRose
- MisMantis
- LolCoyote
- Unplugged
For this game and this community:
- M&A
For being here, and being strong for those who need it:
- You <3
Gonna track this too, its a very epic little project you have going on and you got some real talent! It will surely come useful when really needed, I admire the bio previews and picto grouping.
Hello! Thank you for this beautiful map!
(and, please sorry I stomped at you a few minutes ago. T/////T I've changed all the hotkeys when reset Windows and am now constantly pressing wrong ones)
Track update: TEF will be part of Onassis ONX Group Hug public opening which will be projected on three big screens in New York City tonight from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. EDT
placing a track here AND bumping now that it's fixed!! <33 thank you so much for all the work you guys put into this map, it makes finding your friends in the forest a million times easier.
i wonder if Michael will ever link this map to the map link on the side. newer players would be able to access it easier vs having to scroll through the posts, and then maybe Michael would feel a little less pressure with someone else maintaining the map as well?
Oh this is lovely, didn't know this existed. It'll be so handy for learning deer's pictos and getting a more detailed look at who's on. (when it's receiving user data, seems to have been off for a couple of hours now)
i wonder if Michael will ever link this map to the map link on the side. newer players would be able to access it easier vs having to scroll through the posts, and then maybe Michael would feel a little less pressure with someone else maintaining the map as well? Smiling
It's unlikely, given we've been asking for fixes and updates to the site for a very long time (still hanging out for being able to change our display pictures). I'd love to be proven wrong because it'd be legitimately helpful but...Michael is also the dev who put the site fixes/overhauls under a 50k+ donation incentive that we now cannot reach.
that sucks! i truly understand if Michael is hesitant to allow others to take the reigns on things like this, but i wish he would let one of the community members here (ESPECIALLY one of yall who already proved themselves and worked so hard on the map!) a chance to volunteer, even if that's only updating the coding for display pictures, and the map link, if he didn't want the design changed too much. i know he most likely wouldn't want to even update the website since he's working on the new version of the game, but i know there's players on here that would volunteer to fix certain coding issues with the website, or, if the code is too broken, then even create a whole new, better layout that the majority of the community enjoys.
it's a shame that the donation goals can't still be reached, it really would give a large incentive for players to continue donating. maybe one day, we'll get lucky, and he'll give us another chance to donate and allow us to up the tiers. (even if the perks like the Mardi Gras skin / golden skin do NOT come back, i feel like they should be exclusive to the first campaign donators who unlocked them to be extra special.) but i know adding another skin for a second round of donations to reach higher tiers, and Michael letting somebody help update the website are both completely dreaming. i'll come back from imagination land now lol.
alas, thank you for the response regardless, Draak! you're so right, and I didn't even think about the site fixes being on the incentives that we didn't reach.
The depressing thing is....we've tried extending our help to him but he won't accept it. There are awesome people in the community who have the technical skill and are more than willing, but unfortunately when they approached Michael he essentially told them no because he only wants to work with industry professionals
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/bump
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Testtestwait no how do I delete a comment sorry ;;
This is so helpful! Amazing
Amazing work, very impressive
(Also HELLOOooo! c:)
Gonna track this too, its a
a good map. I've been using
/bump
Track and a bump
/bump
Hello! Thank you for this
(and, please sorry I stomped at you a few minutes ago. T/////T I've changed all the hotkeys when reset Windows and am now constantly pressing wrong ones)
I don't think I've commented
Pictos go brrrrrrrrr
Bump, thank you for the hard
Track, this is wonderful
TRACKING THIS YO
This for everybody going through tough times, believe me been there done that.-Pitbull...2014
thought i'd already tracked
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Track! Thankie!
Thankie!
Tracking this for sure, Thank
back to the first page you go
absolutely tracking this gem.
back to the first page you
back to first page you go. c:
track
Sneaking in here~
bump!
Track update: TEF will be
Anyone is welcome to come participate.
Track for Halloween Festival
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I should make a Smol bump
I should make a Smol bump not-emojiplacing a track here AND
i wonder if Michael will ever link this map to the map link on the side. newer players would be able to access it easier vs having to scroll through the posts, and then maybe Michael would feel a little less pressure with someone else maintaining the map as well?
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Oh this is lovely, didn't
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Quote:i wonder if Michael
It's unlikely, given we've been asking for fixes and updates to the site for a very long time (still hanging out for being able to change our display pictures). I'd love to be proven wrong because it'd be legitimately helpful but...Michael is also the dev who put the site fixes/overhauls under a 50k+ donation incentive that we now cannot reach.
that sucks! i truly
it's a shame that the donation goals can't still be reached, it really would give a large incentive for players to continue donating. maybe one day, we'll get lucky, and he'll give us another chance to donate and allow us to up the tiers. (even if the perks like the Mardi Gras skin / golden skin do NOT come back, i feel like they should be exclusive to the first campaign donators who unlocked them to be extra special.) but i know adding another skin for a second round of donations to reach higher tiers, and Michael letting somebody help update the website are both completely dreaming. i'll come back from imagination land now lol.
alas, thank you for the response regardless, Draak! you're so right, and I didn't even think about the site fixes being on the incentives that we didn't reach.
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The depressing thing
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bump
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Bump up for new players
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