Changing the map name during gameplay?

[Caru]

So this is a bit of a weird question. I tried asking about this on DoomWorld about a month ago but never got a reply; perhaps this is more of a zdoom question since the answer will probably involve scripting of some kind (which is also why I've put it on this subforum -- mods, feel free to move this somewhere else if I'm wrong).

I had this idea a while back of a MAP11 homage in which the name of the map changes every time you open the automap (variations on "Circle of Death" and "'O' of Destruction; silly things like "Circle of Circle", "Destruction of Death", etc.). I've had no luck achieving anything like this so far with standard MAPINFO/LANGUAGE setups, nor with my limited knowledge of ACS; I fear zscript may be necessary, and those are still pretty uncharted waters for me. But it's also possible I've been completely overlooking some easy way of doing this that's been around since the early Boom days.

I guess my question has two parts:

1) Is it possible to change the map title (as displayed on the automap) in the middle of gameplay at all?
2) If so, is there a way to randomly draw from a list of strings a la the Quit Game message? (I have been unable to figure out how that's implemented so I'm assuming it's hardcoded, or at a minimum requires zscript?)

[Caru]

Sidenote, unrelated, and sorry for double posting, but it's kind of important:

I'm the same person who posted this question yesterday, and I'm signed into the same profile I signed into yesterday. I say that because for some reason this site is displaying my name on that post as "Rebecca Brondleworth". I have no idea who that is. I am not Rebecca Brondleworth, and I would suspect the real one would like to know someone's posting under her name (albeit by accident). I did not sign into that profile, or any profile different from this one (in case it happens again with this post, my real profile name is Caru). Something might be seriously wrong here, and if the site is getting profiles mixed up it might open up a security risk.

[wildweasel]

That's just a plug-in our forum uses that gives silly randomized names to guest posters. You just forgot to log in before starting your thread. No worries, though, I can assign it to your account easily.

[AFADoomer]

I *think* that the only way to do this is to use ZScript to:
1) Create a new status bar based off of the Doom status bar
2) Re-code the native DoDrawAutomapHUD automap drawing function in ZScript (it's native code in shared_sbar.cpp).
3) Replace the call to the FormatMapName function in the code in step 2 with some logic to do the random name selection
4) Use your new ZScript status bar's DrawAutoMapHUD function to call the code in step 2

This is quite complicated for a novice ZScript user (and I may be over-complicating this, but I don't think so)... So... See attached.

This automap drawing code will randomly pick a LANGUAGE entry that is formatted properly ([map name]_RN[0-n] - so MAP01_RN0, MAP01_RN1, MAP01_RN2, etc. would work for MAP01), and will swap that string in as the map name, and will pick a random string each time the automap is activated. If the entry isn't valid, the map will just display the normal map name.

The attached .pk3 has 4 random strings set up in LANGUAGE for MAP11 as an example.