How to handle long wand names

[jfschwarz]

[samepant]

That's pretty rough. We'll need to change the naming system to only allow for a maximum character limit.

[nginnever]

this is an interesting challenge, we were using random seeds to select the names which implies we would need check each word and its length and then find a way to get smaller words if over..

Maybe there is a simple approach.

• no random generation
• generation done server side for easier trial and error checking (not trustless)
• all combinations are less than max length
• drop a word if length over

i'll keep thinking about this too

[samepant]

One really simple (maybe too simple) approach could be to replace the word list with shorter words, so any combination of 4 will never be longer than the max amount. I think @keikreutler was tinkering with replacing some of the wordlist at some point as well.

[samepant]

Talked to marv on discord a bit about this, and he brought up animating the name — i kinda love it, it's all in SVG, and it would allow names of any length.

pushed this demo code into the animated-title branch

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6718506/180514547-4e660d20-905d-4484-a4ce-044ac8e4d43d.mp4

[samepant]

fixed in #47