Player-readable book text about cataclysm-dda HOT 12 OPEN

I've wanted this for years. We could use it to add a huge amount more lore.

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Finding public domain translations of public domain books might not be that straightfoward though, if we want to support all languages.

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A catagory of books that should be excluded should be dangerous books. Think stuff that contains recipies for bomb, weapons etc.

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Also, maybe we could add in survivor diaries? Not from you, but from random people. (Would mostly be found in most places survivor notes can, but rarer & not in spots like cash registers).

They'd be longer than regular survivor notes, w/ a few randomized events in them.

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Nitpick: I would change the title to "Player readable book text", as we have readable books already ;)

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A good resource for this could be project gutenburg: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjFront3tqFAxXkbzABHdtUAHoQFnoECBMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gutenberg.org%2F&usg=AOvVaw2JauHli9xqcV1GtEpGjrSL&opi=89978449

It also includes books for leveling up skills, like mechanics.

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Project Gutenberg is great but often even if the original is public domain translation is not because, well, it came later

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Adding dairies of people that witnessed the cataclysm or people experienceing blob psychoses would be interesting.

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Yeah, & maybe research logs could be added in as well. Perhaps this could be integrated into terminals for more lore?

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How will this reading of the contents work in parallel to the actual skill leveling up that the game makes you wait for?

Should we read the contents during the leveling up? Or before? Or after?

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How will this reading of the contents work in parallel to the actual skill leveling up that the game makes you wait for?

Should we read the contents during the leveling up? Or before? Or after?

I was thinking that the player would be able to read the contents after the wait was over, allowing them to get right back to playing after closing the book.

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Yes, that makes sense. So it should essentially look like this:

-Add a "readable_text": JSON object to a book item which you put in text or a snippet.

-In read_activity_actor::player_read() we should call a new function that creates the popup via ImGUI when it checks that the player is done with the in-game reading and skill leveling. I'm not sure if this is the right function to make that call or it should be done elsewhere? I am new to C++ so this is based off of speculation.

-Then when the dialog is selected "Yes", close that one and open a new dialog that displays the "readable_text" contents in the style of the diary that we already have.

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