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Cheddarius

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Age of Revolution - Need Python help
« on: March 14, 2010, 01:25:56 pm »
So I'm making a blend of Age of Restoration and Evolution (the games with the hexes) in Python. I need a way to display the hexes, but I don't want to use graphics - that's a huge jump in difficulty. How can I display it in ASCII?

Basically what I have is a list called hexes with 26 lists in it, which have hexes from 0-30 even or 1-31 odd.
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Re: Age of Revolution - Need Python help
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2010, 06:18:18 pm »
Draw the hexes in ASCII. This is an incredibly bad solution, however, as you're going to have line-selection problems (if you include mouse support). Basic graphics are probably a better solution.
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Re: Age of Revolution - Need Python help
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2010, 06:29:11 pm »
It's a text game, there's no mouse. It's very basic because I'm not very good at programming.
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Re: Age of Revolution - Need Python help
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2010, 08:19:43 am »
Use something like this, where X is a tile:

Code: [Select]

   X X X X X X X X
  X X X X X X X X X
   X X X X X X X X
  X X X X X X X X X
   X X X X X X X X
  X X X X X X X X X
   X X X X X X X X
  X X X X X X X X X
   X X X X X X X X
 
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Re: Age of Revolution - Need Python help
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2010, 10:05:07 am »
If you want to get fancy you could do it as

_   _   _
X\_/X\_/X\
_/X\_/X\_/
X\_/X\_/X\
_/X\_/X\_/
X\_/X\_/X\
_/X\_/X\_/

You could even use an underlined character for the bottom part to have a two-character tile.
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Re: Age of Revolution - Need Python help
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2010, 10:36:51 am »
Quote from: Cheddarius on March 14, 2010, 01:25:56 pm
I don't want to use graphics - that's a huge jump in difficulty.

It's easier, mostly cause python has bindings for every task known to mandwarfkind.

Hexgrid library: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libhex/
Example in python: http://libhex.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libhex/trunk/examples/example.py?view=markup

I think that is what you need, never used it but it looks simple and promising.


Edit: I was wrong, appears that stuff generates SVGs which I don't think will help you?
« Last Edit: March 15, 2010, 10:39:36 am by Shades »
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Re: Age of Revolution - Need Python help
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2010, 01:12:17 pm »
Hmmm, that example looks great!
Is there some way to have numbers (perhaps colored) in the hexes representing population, up to 10? And additionally color the hexes themselves?
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Re: Age of Revolution - Need Python help
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2010, 01:54:43 pm »
-delete- misread
« Last Edit: March 15, 2010, 01:56:25 pm by Shades »
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Re: Age of Revolution - Need Python help
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2010, 08:01:45 pm »
So, er, is there any way to generate ASCII hexes with (possibly colored) numbers, 1-10, in them? Not stretching out the hexes or whatnot depending on how long the numbers are?
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Re: Age of Revolution - Need Python help
« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2010, 04:18:36 pm »
have it go from 0 to 9 instead of 1 to 10
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Re: Age of Revolution - Need Python help
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2010, 05:52:03 pm »
Hrmm...
That's sort of strange. I want to have 10 population, and I want to have it clearly visible.

I guess I could just make a function that prints "  " if the input is 0, and the input, with color for team, if the population isn't 0.
Does anyone know how to implement colors in Python?
And does Python give the letters all equal spacing, like with the code or tt tags on this forum?
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