ASCII Art for Irrlicht :D

dejai · Post by **dejai** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:59 am

Hello Everyone, I have recently taken up one of the most useless art forms in the world, yet I love it so I thought I would try to use it for irrlicht. Yes I am talking about ASCII art. Anyway I thought this would be a nice addition for the console of irrlicht projects. I am not sure it will fit but I can always resize it.

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## ## ## ###### 88 88 8888 88 88 888888
## ## ## ## ## #### 88 88 88 88 88 88
## ## ### #### ## 88 88 88 8888888 88
## ## ## ### ## #### 88 88 88 88 88 88
## ## ### ## ### ### 88888 88 8888 88 88 88
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Well that looks horrible but the .txt looks way better sigh.

Oh well If you want the .txt post me.

vitek · Post by **vitek** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:42 am

You have to put into a code tag. If you don't, all whitespace is collapsed into a single space. Like this

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           ____,'`-, 
      _,--'   ,/::.; 
   ,-'       ,/::,' `---.___        ___,_ 
   |       ,:';:/        ;'"`;"`--./ ,-^.;--. 
   |:     ,:';,'         '         `.   ;`   `-. 
    \:.,:::/;/ -:.                   `  | `     `-. 
     \:::,'//__.;  ,;  ,  ,  :.`-.   :. |  ;       :. 
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      |,'  |\__,: ;      ;  '/O)`.   :::`;       ' ,' 
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           `    ,            `--' ,: :::,'\   ,-' 
            | ,;         ,    ,::'  ,:::   |,' 
            |,:        .(          ,:::|   ` 
            ::'_   _   ::         ,::/:| 
           ,',' `-' \   `.      ,:::/,:| 
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                   |:  ::::.       ::' 
                   |:  ::::::    ,::' 

taken from http://chris.com/ascii/

Travis

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:53 am

This idea will become much more involved when trying to add an aalib device or driver. It would allow to render full Irrlicht scenes in ascii arts. But I doubt that anyone would really use it...

JP · Post by JP » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:07 am

It would be fun for everyone to play with i'm sure but i think it wouldn't actually be used for anything, unless someone did a specific game designed to use ascii art somehow...

I've seen animations done in ascii art before, rather cool!

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:35 pm

@vitek: Soo cool, soo cool...

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:15 pm

hybrid wrote:This idea will become much more involved when trying to add an aalib device or driver. It would allow to render full Irrlicht scenes in ascii arts. But I doubt that anyone would really use it...

I would! Well, not for anything serious, but it would be good fun to play with!

also, for the ascii art equivalent of photoshop, check out http://jave.de/

FuzzYspo0N · Post by **FuzzYspo0N** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:41 pm

http://www.gamedotdev.co.za/index.php

Check the top post about competition 16, it was "text" as the entries subject and content.
There is some awesome stuff for ascii games in there, take a look some time..