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ASCIIPaint

on: October 23, 2010, 02:23:59 am
Hey guys,

I thought some of you might be interested in playing around with this:

ASCIIPaint

It's a program specifically designed for making ASCII art.  Here's some examples:



By Xion



by Zaratustra



by mthw


I thought you guys could do some neat stuff with it  :)


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Re: ASCIIPaint

Reply #1 on: October 23, 2010, 11:52:16 am
Yup, I'm definitely going to be spending a lot of time messing with this. Reminds me of messing with the editor for ZZT back in the day only 100 times easier. Is there a way to make the blocks rectangles instead of squares?

Thanks for this!
« Last Edit: October 23, 2010, 11:58:42 am by Jakten »

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Re: ASCIIPaint

Reply #2 on: October 23, 2010, 02:22:32 pm
As far as I know that's the only font that's supported at the moment.  Melly said he was planning to add more, and he asked people to suggest other font/palettes to add to the program, so if you had a particular one in mind I would head over to that thread and let him know.

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ASCIIPaint

Reply #3 on: October 23, 2010, 03:16:14 pm
How do you save/load a picture? got it




Just scratching the surface, here. Nice tool. I don't know how to put symbols on top of the dither patterns yet, is there a way? Using layers, I guess?
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Re: ASCIIPaint

Reply #4 on: October 23, 2010, 05:05:46 pm
No, I don't think so, because every dither pattern is a character and as far as I know it only allows one character per 'tile'.  Don't know if Melly plans to add support for layers.

That pic looks good though!

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Re: ASCIIPaint

Reply #5 on: October 23, 2010, 05:16:27 pm
no that's fine, it's better pure as it is. I guess my problem was more with the default palette that made me resort to so many dither mixtures than anything. With more palettes, solids will be more possible and therefore where there's solids there can by seamless symbols.

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Re: ASCIIPaint

Reply #6 on: October 23, 2010, 08:28:17 pm
I just made this:

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Re: ASCIIPaint

Reply #7 on: October 26, 2010, 12:04:19 am
Hey guys, thanks for the interest.

I know it's not very streamlined right now. But I'm not sure when exactly I'll be able to update it, as I got plenty of stuff to be doing and I'm bad enough at working consistently as it is.

But please, do provide feedback. You never know.

Also, no, you can't mix two characters in the same tile. I want to maintain it like a real text console. But I am planning to allow the player to set up his own 16 color palettes

Oh, and delicious pictures. Helm and Cow those look fantastic.
« Last Edit: October 26, 2010, 12:06:53 am by Melly »

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Re: ASCIIPaint

Reply #8 on: October 26, 2010, 07:31:47 am
all it'd need for me is to get the shortcuts all in the same fingerspace (as ptoing said), alternate palettes and undo depth, really. I love the program, otherwise. Thank you for making it :)

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Re: ASCIIPaint

Reply #9 on: October 26, 2010, 11:31:40 pm