ASCII artists..

locutus · Post by **locutus** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 8:14 pm

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.

Majination · Post by **Majination** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:45 pm

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...

RUDEBOY! · Post by **RUDEBOY!** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 5:35 am

i used to do it.. ive refrained. the new ones are so freakin huge i hate it

n54 · Post by **n54** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:17 am

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?).

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)

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:23 am

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

n54 · Post by **n54** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:31 am

if the font is 5 pixels wide it would be clearer, which program do you you use to make the font? maybe i could make it for you...

and have you managed to compile the client? (thinking of the other changes)

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:37 am

the font is also another .png file (like the rest of the graphics)

so any art package that can edit .png's will do

n54 · Post by **n54** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 9:02 am

ahh thank you, i see font_s.png (s for small i guess) is the one used for ingame chat. I'll start working on a 5x9 version (the present one is 4x9 "Winamp standard"

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iceman · Post by **iceman** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 4:58 pm

good luck with the font dude

Communist · Post by **Communist** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:16 pm

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

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...

Post by **Tank Program** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:30 pm

I must say that after playing on goshdarn a little bit, that ascii art really is out of control...

locutus · Post by **locutus** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:14 pm

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

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 1:32 am

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)

n54 · Post by **n54** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 3:22 am

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.

locutus · Post by **locutus** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 4:39 am

thanks ice, I figured it must create some extra processing power that we really can't afford, another thing is when people chat incessively, this must create more data than is needed as well.

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