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franti

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Improving the graphics
« on: September 17, 2011, 11:34:53 pm »
I bet you clicked on here to tell me to piss off, right? I know I would.
Hear me out.
I'd like to see DF changed from ASCII to Unicode.
Unicode takes up two bytes per character, rather than one, but I doubt it'll make that much of a deal.
I'd like to see this added because Cyrillic, Greek, and Farsi characters look really neat, and I think they'd fit well into the text-characters of DF.
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Re: Improving the grapics
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2011, 11:44:13 pm »
Expanding the character set is planned, at some point at least. Once it's made possible, nobody's going to stop anything from katakana to ancient egyptian hieroglyphs from being used in DF "grapics". Might want to fix that, btw.
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Re: Improving the grapics
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2011, 11:55:18 pm »
Quote from: franti on September 17, 2011, 11:34:53 pm
Unicode takes up two bytes per character, rather than one, but I doubt it'll make that much of a deal.

That's still twice as much to deal with. But, if it works, then hell yeah.
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Re: Improving the grapics
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2011, 01:07:38 am »
It uses pictures anyway.
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Re: Improving the grapics
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2011, 02:38:53 am »
Dwarf Fortress doesn't actually use ASCII. It uses images that happen to be the ASCII characters.  They could be changed to look like anything else though.
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Re: Improving the graphics
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2011, 09:41:31 am »
It's not ascii. It's a completely different character set which has some overlap, and anyway, they're just rendered as bitmaps so there's no text encoding.
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Re: Improving the graphics
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2011, 11:24:07 am »
Yeah, it's images of CP437 rendered in OpenGL.
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Re: Improving the graphics
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2011, 02:29:23 pm »
Hmm. I didn't know that.
Well, I guess that makes this incredibly easy. I'll go do it myself.
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Re: Improving the graphics
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2011, 08:59:13 pm »
I, for one, like running DF in text mode just because I can.

Quote from: df\data\init.txt
Linux/OS X users may also use PRINT_MODE:TEXT for primitive ncurses output.

[PRINT_MODE:TEXT]
   Mode examples:
    PRINT_MODE:2D
    PRINT_MODE:TEXT
    PRINT_MODE:FRAME_BUFFER
    PRINT_MODE:PARTIAL:0
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