Text for the icon

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Oct 25 2003, 10:38 am
HI

I am no good a drawing icons so i thought i would use text as the icon, i have seen a few people do it in games but i am not sure how to do it. It would be a great help if some one could explain it to me.

Mousie
Oct 25 2003, 11:04 am
mob
text="@"

or, for a nicer effect
mob
    text="<font color = red>@</font>"
Oct 25 2003, 11:17 am (Edited on Oct 25 2003, 11:27 am)
In response to Airjoe
Thanks for that.

What other type of effects can i get from this?

I tried making some grass using the ^ symbol but it didn't look to good.

So is there any other ways of improving this?

Mousie
Oct 25 2003, 12:12 pm
In response to Mousie_kebabs
wow. you planning to make a game completely with ASCII? peoples eyes will hurt if they play it after a while.
Oct 25 2003, 12:17 pm
In response to ZDarkGoku
wow. you planning to make a game completely with ASCII? peoples eyes will hurt if they play it after a while.

I play rogue-likes all the time and it doesn't bother me. In fact some of them gave graphical modes but I still think the text mode looks nicer.
Oct 25 2003, 2:06 pm
In response to Mousie_kebabs
You can make grass have a green background, if you'd like. 
turf
   grass
      text="<font bgcolor=green> </font>"
I'd suggest looking up the reference for detailed information on the text var. Experiment!
Oct 26 2003, 1:04 am (Edited on Oct 26 2003, 1:34 am)
In response to Crispy
Thanks Crispy.

I have experimented with colors and found that i can only use green, red, blue and yellow. Is there any other colours i can use?

Objects:

When i make an object it does not show up on the map. I tried this,

obj
torch
text = "font color = red>^</font"

(i removed the <'s and >'s to stop the html)

But it did not show up on the playing map.

Oct 26 2003, 9:56 pm
In response to Mousie_kebabs
Mousie_kebabs wrote:
I have experimented with colors and found that i can only use green, red, blue and yellow. Is there any other colours i can use?

You can use any valid HTML colour; either by name (e.g. red), or by colour code (e.g. #FF0000). These sites have a few of them:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/colors.html


Objects:

When i make an object it does not show up on the map. I tried this,

obj
torch
text = "<font color=red>^</font>"

The bold line wasn't indented enough.
Oct 27 2003, 1:45 am
In response to Mousie_kebabs
I'm not sure, but I think if you do:
text="<font color = blue>/|\</font>"  or
text="="<font color = blue>/,|,\</font>"

it makes an animated text, which, for that one, could make a cool water affect.
Oct 27 2003, 9:41 am
In response to Crispy
I got the objects thing sorted now, i dont know why the object was not showing up before.

but thank you all :)