ASCII artists..
- locutus
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ASCII artists..
I would really like to say to the newer people that play that the ASCII art is okay once in a while, maybe once in a 10 round match or whatever. Please do not continue to show your art on a repeated basis, especially during the game. It causes more delays in response time for the rest of us. Unless that is your strategy, in which case you can play with yourself.
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Amen.
I know what your player name is, I don't need to see three lines of it.
That said, I guess I can tolerate it once every several rounds...
I know what your player name is, I don't need to see three lines of it.
That said, I guess I can tolerate it once every several rounds...
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i like ascii art but lately i haven't used mine. been thinking about just turning off chat completely as there only seems to be infantile spamming, flaming, trolling and ppl seemingly falling for the trolling (but maybe they are trolling too?).
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<rant> btw i'd like a way to make the chat text smaller (it's unneccesarily huge) and a setting for how much room it is allowed to take onscreen (something like a third from the top), as well as a clearer typefont. One could have a special size for ascii art (smaller of course) so it didn't take so much space, maybe even with a support for line breaks. AND i think the server messages take way to much space, they have a high noise to signal ratio.</rant>
<more rant>ooh ooh and why the phucking hell can't we have player silencing encoded on the client even if it isn't supported on the server? the data does pass through the client so player silencing could just filter away everything from cracker, " " (blank), Brasil rules, Wallywallwacker and others one doesn't care to listen to. Names silenced should be remembered next time you fire up the game and should include any server message concerning the names as well (like entering/exiting), bye bye certain ppl.</more rant>
(of course i do know it would be more efficient to do it all at the server)
BEWARE! One day I'll create the CyberNanny and make it part of all ms and linux kernels (by popular demand), router ios's, and firewalls, all l33t h4><0r wannabee 15-'es will tremble *muahahahaha*
<rant> btw i'd like a way to make the chat text smaller (it's unneccesarily huge) and a setting for how much room it is allowed to take onscreen (something like a third from the top), as well as a clearer typefont. One could have a special size for ascii art (smaller of course) so it didn't take so much space, maybe even with a support for line breaks. AND i think the server messages take way to much space, they have a high noise to signal ratio.</rant>
<more rant>ooh ooh and why the phucking hell can't we have player silencing encoded on the client even if it isn't supported on the server? the data does pass through the client so player silencing could just filter away everything from cracker, " " (blank), Brasil rules, Wallywallwacker and others one doesn't care to listen to. Names silenced should be remembered next time you fire up the game and should include any server message concerning the names as well (like entering/exiting), bye bye certain ppl.</more rant>
(of course i do know it would be more efficient to do it all at the server)
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i agree about this endless spamming (armagoshdarn and the ish's seem to have a lot of crazy spam)
making the font clearer: sorry i did say to z-man that i was gonna re-do the font (because the current font only uses 4 pixel wide characters) but i havent dont it yet
making the font smaller: this will need a recompile, the program currently scales the font to a set size (so even if you made the font 1 pixel wide it would just get enlarged to the same size)
i will make a clear font soon
making the font clearer: sorry i did say to z-man that i was gonna re-do the font (because the current font only uses 4 pixel wide characters) but i havent dont it yet
making the font smaller: this will need a recompile, the program currently scales the font to a set size (so even if you made the font 1 pixel wide it would just get enlarged to the same size)
i will make a clear font soon
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Re: font
That actually makes things more difficult for me... I was hoping for a client that supported Unicode so that I can get East Asian text to be displayed... no luck with that anymore...iceman wrote:the font is also another .png file (like the rest of the graphics)
so any art package that can edit .png's will do
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yeah tank, some nights it gets really bad. like they just got their pc for the first time and want to make sure everyone knows about it
I am wondering if the color coding invloved in some of the more lively art creates even more lag on the server over say, default settings with no special cfg editing
I am wondering if the color coding invloved in some of the more lively art creates even more lag on the server over say, default settings with no special cfg editing
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color lag
well each color code not only adds 8 characters to the data stream but also invokes the color function (although its a small routine that just grabs the characters and calculates rgb its gotta add some small delay)
so i would say yes the color logo's must slow stuff down more (but not much)
so i would say yes the color logo's must slow stuff down more (but not much)
i agree with you commie, the programming for text in this app is <censored/>
wtf do it this way? even Winamp doesn't use bitmap fonts for everything, and the special characters part isn't working on my latin-1 (norwegian) keyboard... full Unicode support would be nice (that includes chinese, japanese, korean, hindi/tamil, arabic and whatnot). Creating an GNU GPL font for this would be a major job, but i guess one must exist already?
Æ,æ,Ø,ø,Å,å, <-- funny sounding letters, you know, the Swedish Chef and all that (these are norwegian though, not swedish!)
btw the font is ready for testing iceman. just tell me when you need it (it's close to the existing one, maybe even closer in looks to the bigsized one than the old font_s.png). there's a few details i'ld like to change but before i can test it i wont do it.
wtf do it this way? even Winamp doesn't use bitmap fonts for everything, and the special characters part isn't working on my latin-1 (norwegian) keyboard... full Unicode support would be nice (that includes chinese, japanese, korean, hindi/tamil, arabic and whatnot). Creating an GNU GPL font for this would be a major job, but i guess one must exist already?
Æ,æ,Ø,ø,Å,å, <-- funny sounding letters, you know, the Swedish Chef and all that (these are norwegian though, not swedish!)
btw the font is ready for testing iceman. just tell me when you need it (it's close to the existing one, maybe even closer in looks to the bigsized one than the old font_s.png). there's a few details i'ld like to change but before i can test it i wont do it.