AreaAnnouncements

Area Announcements
Updated for DayZ 1.29
A small DayZ mod that shows cinematic location text when a player enters a named area on the map.
When a player moves into a town, city, village, ruin, marine location, or other supported named area, the mod displays the area name on screen, with optional coordinates and in-game time underneath.
Has 2 different types of displaying, and a lot of options in configuration file.

Thanks to LudaBaby for the 'Custom Areas' idea!
Thanks to Guxlar for the Bitterroot map request!
Thanks to Kid for the Banov map request!
Thanks to eXp|CEBEP for the Cyrillic/Russian text display + text color configuration ideas!
Thanks to Grim for the idea of configuring all default zone/subzones in the config!

Updates:
v1.5 2026-06-21:
* Fixed the temperature reading to be correct - thanks mac1014 and naunaud84820 for reporting!
* Added in-game date showing, with configurable settings.
* Made every default hardcoded zone/subzone configurable in the settings instead, so people can change names of zones - thanks Grim for the suggestion! :D

Features
Shows the current named area when entering a location.
Supports Chernarus, Livonia, Sakhal, Namalsk, Deer Isle, Bitterroot and Banov, will support Badlands once that is released.
Optional coordinates display
Optional in-game clock display
Optional seconds on the clock
Uses in-game time, not the player’s real computer time
Configurable screen position
PositionX = -1.0 can be used for automatic horizontal centering
Configurable font sizes (supported sizes: 12, 14, 16, 22, 28, 48, 58)
Configurable left, center, or right text alignment
Configurable line spacing
Configurable text shadow
Configurable text colors
Configurable English/Russian-Cyrillic zone names switch (enable/disable)
Separate shadow offsets for zone name, coordinates, and time
Separate text settings for zone name, coordinates, and time
Fade-in/fade-out display mode
Typeout display mode
Optional tick sound for each typed character in typeout mode
Configurable custom areas
Server-side settings file

IMPORTANT:
YOU DO *NOT* NEED TO ADD THE FOLLOWING MAPS TO THE CONFIG FILE YOURSELF:
Chernarus
Livonia
Sakhal
Namalsk
Deer Isle
Bitterroot
Banov
(and Badlands when it is released)
THE ABOVE MAPS ARE ALREADY PRE-CONFIGURED IN THE CODE, WITH ALL THEIR AREAS!
So, short story short, to make life easier for you -- if you are running any of the above mentioned maps, you only need to install the mod and run :D

Display Mode: Fade
The zone name fades in first.
Then the coordinates and time fade in.
The full announcement stays visible for the configured duration.
Then everything fades out.

Display Mode: Typeout
The zone name types out one character at a time with or without sound (think The Matrix or tech-movies)
Then coordinates type out.
Then time types out.
After that, the full announcement stays visible for the configured duration and fades out.
A short optional tick sound can play for each typed character.

Configuration
The server creates the config here:
profiles\AreaAnnouncements\settings.json

Custom Areas:
If you built a town or a military area or whatnot, you can have it announced when entering.
Here is a tutorial video on how to set up the configration file:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7STdaOb0A6Q

Usage:
-mod=@CF;@AreaAnnouncements

Map Support:
Chernarus
Livonia
Sakhal
Namalsk
Deer Isle
Bitterroot
Banov
Badlands will be supported once it's released.
(If your map is not listed here, you can use the config file to define all areas that you want, on your map!)

Mod Support:
https://livonia.ironhorde.com/discord

Mod Repack / Server Pack:
You are allowed to repack this into any server modpack as much as you like,
because I'm not an epic-teared kid about these things, like some ;D