Adding support to SadConsole game engine

[Thraka]

Hi,

I'm going to add support for rexpaint files into SadConsole, an ascii/ansi game engine (MonoGame based) I've been building over the last few years. I can do this easily with RexReader.

Just wanted to say hello.

[Thraka]

Quick question, if REXPaint supports multiple layers, does it use a specific character for transparent? Character 0 perhaps?

Also, does anyone have some REXPaint art they could share with me?

[biomatter]

There's a thread right below this one for stuff people have made :3

Unless you mean the original .xp files?

[Thraka]

Yeah I would love some .xp files to test with. I could make some but it would be much cooler to get it from real users.

[Kyzrati]

Hi Thraka, and welcome!

Transparency is handled using the hot pink background color (255,0,255), this is mentioned in the manual in a few places, including Appendix B--make sure to read that section when you want to add support!

Yeah I would love some .xp files to test with. I could make some but it would be much cooler to get it from real users.

I'd give you some cool .xp files of my own, but they're all in a special version of REXPaint that I use which isn't compatible with everyone else's... someone else hook him up?

[biomatter]

I'd give you some cool .xp files of my own, but they're all in a special version of REXPaint that I use which isn't compatible with everyone else's...

Ha! I figured you'd done something like that. I tried plugging the Cogmind stuff into REXP recently. Unfortunately, the alien parts did not load

[Kyzrati]

Maybe that's why I did that

And stop trying to spoil yourself!

[Thraka]

Ackk! My eyes completely glazed over the manual.txt file.. dooorpp! Thanks

Yeah someone send me some xp pls My email is my username at outlook.com

Thanks!!

[Kyzrati]

They could just upload them here as an attachment, too, if they don't mind and in case someone else wants a look.

[jimmijamjams]

As soon as I get my home Internet connection back I'll link what I have (not until Wednesday next week at this stage). Doing everything on my phone has been very tedious this week...

[ironpotato]

Maybe that's why I did that

And stop trying to spoil yourself!

And now I know what I need to be spending my time breaking!

[Kyzrati]

Thraka, here's a sample given to me by the artist DragonDePlatino (creator of the DawnLike roguelike tileset)

[BaconSoap]

Not sure if this is the best spot to jump in, but you mentioned you're using RexReader in SadConsole. I just cleaned up RexReader's repo a bit, and started publishing it as a NuGet package. I saw that people were starting to use it and wanted to make the process easier, instead of making consumers compile from scratch/include it in the project. Definitely feel free to fork/suggest improvements!

More on topic: SadConsole seems pretty cool, and that dwarf art is impressive. My sample files that I use in my automated tests are shameful in comparison!

[Kyzrati]

Welcome, BaconSoap! Saw you in the forum signup notification and recognized you right away . Thanks for your continued support.

I haven't checked out SadConsole yet, but once Thraka finishes REXPaint support I'll add it to the list of resources. Come to think of it, I'll make a sticky thread here with a complete list of REXPaint resources--better than only on the blog.

that dwarf art is impressive. My sample files that I use in my automated tests are shameful in comparison!

Well, it was made by a pretty good artist. I couldn't do that myself, either . Though you can see from the style that he's got a background in pixel art, rather than ANSI art.

[Thraka]

Thraka, here's a sample given to me by the artist DragonDePlatino (creator of the DawnLike roguelike tileset)

Thanks! I've loaded it and verified that it works. Do you happen to have something with multiple layers?

Not sure if this is the best spot to jump in, but you mentioned you're using RexReader in SadConsole. I just cleaned up RexReader's repo a bit, and started publishing it as a NuGet package. I saw that people were starting to use it and wanted to make the process easier, instead of making consumers compile from scratch/include it in the project. Definitely feel free to fork/suggest improvements!

More on topic: SadConsole seems pretty cool, and that dwarf art is impressive. My sample files that I use in my automated tests are shameful in comparison!

Thanks BaconSoap! I've already forked and sent a pull request to you. I'm avoiding going the nuget route for the dependency. I don't want to have the users of SadConsole (if any...) to have to pull down an additional library at this point, nor do I want to split my code out (that converts the TileMap into my LayeredConsole object) into an additional library with a dependency on yours. If things get bigger for any reason I'll probably go that, but for now it's much more convenient to have your classes directly in my project.

I have this at the top of all of your files that are in my project

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// Copyright (c) 2015 Andrew Varnerin
// Taken from https://github.com/BaconSoap/RexReader
// Namespace changed to match SadConsole


[Kyzrati]

Thanks! I've loaded it and verified that it works. Do you happen to have something with multiple layers?

Not me, no, at least nothing of significance like that art. All my own multi-layered files use the Cogmind-unique .xp format. All I could give you is some quick and dirty multi-layered doodle you could make yourself just as easily