Amazing! A while back I wanted to make a text-based game with ASCII-art, but didn't find a halfway acceptable way to draw stuff. I'll keep this tool in mind for potential text-based projects!
Is there a way to draw line with automatic symbol selection? I mean so that editor picks appropriate symbols itself to make line look as good as it can be (auto select _-/|., etc.)
That's a great idea to make this browser-based! I like how clean and simple this is, with a super easy selection of characters. That's really great!
I've recently played with some ASCII (and variants) tools like lvllvl.com (my favorite). I quite enjoyed the possibility to use specific fonts or tilesets and to set the background and foreground color per character.
Although ASCII is too limited for me, I'm thinking that a box (rectangle or filled) tool, as well as a line tool could be interesting to add. Just an idea!
Here's something I've done in lvllvl.com with a specific vector set, layers and a bit of Photoshop for the texture. Just to show you what I'm referring too when I'm speaking of custom fonts.
Here's another use of the same tool for the background (not characters) with a specific 8x8 font
I just wanted to share this interesting use of text art with you :) Tools like Playscii and Rexpaint also go into this direction, although I didn't enjoy their MS-DOS like interface much 😅
Thanks! There are some interesting things on lvlllvl.com that I didn't think of. i also wanted to add animation capabilities. Choosing and adding a font, I want to add in the next update, but with geometric shapes, I still don’t know how best to do it, using different symbols, or only one selected one.
lvllvl is kind of crazy 😅 with so many options! As for shapes maybe you can start with a single character so that you can quickly draw something repetitive. Anyway, have fun with this new tool! 👍
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Amazing! A while back I wanted to make a text-based game with ASCII-art, but didn't find a halfway acceptable way to draw stuff. I'll keep this tool in mind for potential text-based projects!
Is there a way to draw line with automatic symbol selection? I mean so that editor picks appropriate symbols itself to make line look as good as it can be (auto select _-/|., etc.)
I'm working on it now, I also plan to add other figures
Really enjoyed this tool, used it to make a little ascii thing for my code!
Cool! 👍
wow super nice
Thanks!
That's a great idea to make this browser-based! I like how clean and simple this is, with a super easy selection of characters. That's really great!
I've recently played with some ASCII (and variants) tools like lvllvl.com (my favorite). I quite enjoyed the possibility to use specific fonts or tilesets and to set the background and foreground color per character.
Although ASCII is too limited for me, I'm thinking that a box (rectangle or filled) tool, as well as a line tool could be interesting to add. Just an idea!
Here's something I've done in lvllvl.com with a specific vector set, layers and a bit of Photoshop for the texture. Just to show you what I'm referring too when I'm speaking of custom fonts.
This by the way based on this open font: https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/ksquare.shtml with the added ability to rotate tiles.
Here's another use of the same tool for the background (not characters) with a specific 8x8 font
I just wanted to share this interesting use of text art with you :) Tools like Playscii and Rexpaint also go into this direction, although I didn't enjoy their MS-DOS like interface much 😅
Thanks!
There are some interesting things on lvlllvl.com that I didn't think of. i also wanted to add animation capabilities.
Choosing and adding a font, I want to add in the next update,
but with geometric shapes, I still don’t know how best to do it, using different symbols, or only one selected one.
lvllvl is kind of crazy 😅 with so many options! As for shapes maybe you can start with a single character so that you can quickly draw something repetitive. Anyway, have fun with this new tool! 👍