X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,927c1cfd5e85a2b3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: cq547@freent.toronto.on.ca (llizard) Subject: Re: hi From newbie Date: 1997/04/26 Message-ID: <336210AF.6A3D@freent.toronto.on.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 237593914 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: lagoon.idirect.com References: <3360D3B3.739E@epix.net> X-Newsmaster: Laszlo Herczeg (las@idirect.com) Organization: via Internetdirect, Canada; zone 5 (or is it 6A?) X-Client-Port: 1756 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Carol wrote: > I would like to try ascii art. I read the FAQ, and read the tutorials > here (thanks) I just want to make sure which is better. Should I try to > draw with dos or notepad? Someone gave me a program for coloring the art > for irc, called UltrAsc that I cannot figure out. [snip] > So what I am asking...whats is a easier way to start as a beginner? dos? > or notepad, and should I just get rid of this color program? > Thanks in advance > Carol I use Notepad. I suspect any text editor will do, as long as you use a fixed width font like Courier. And you don't have to get rid of the colour program yet; just shelve it for now. (And Never, Never, post your colour codes in the newsgroup.) I have coloured things for mIRC and got a long chart from someone there. Here is a modified shortened version that might help you use your program. I have changed the control characters to "[]" so as not to annoy people unduly. ------------------------------------ USING COLORS IN mIRC 4.7 When you want to "colorize" something, you can copy the desired code from the chart and paste it where you want in your text file. * * * * * CODE CHART * * * * * 0=[]0white[] []0 1=[]1black[] []1 2=[]2navy[] []2 3=[]3green[] []3 4=[]4red[] []4 5=[]5brown[] []5 6=[]6purple[] []6 7=[]7orange[] []7 8=[]8yellow[] []8 9=[]9lime[] []9 10=[]10teal[] []10 11=[]11aqua[] []11 12=[]12blue[] []12 13=[]13pink[] []13 14=[]14dark grey[] []14 15=[]15light grey[] []15 Start color code [] EndColorCode [] []bold[] [] <-start end-> [] []underline[] [] <-start end-> [] []reverse[] [] <-start end-> [] []plaintext[] [] <-start end-> [] ---------------------------- ***Colorizing a text file (ascii art) Open the text file: (using llizard as example) These colours are GREAT! | | ha ,^ | ha -----%^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | ha ha / " " | ejm97 / | | Make sure your drawing has enough spaces after each line to make it into a rectangle. The lines I put in at the end of each line are only there to show how far the spaces go. You don't need to put them in. To make the background black, put "[]1,1" at the beginning of each line. If you wanted to make it navy blue, you would put "[]2,2". To make the first "ha" red, put []4 before it. Then to make the tail green, put a []3 just before the characters for the tail. If you have put a verticle line at the end of your rectangle to help you see where your drawing should end, put a []1 before it to make it black (the same colour as your background) []1,1[]14These colours []14are []8G[]7R[]4E[]6A[]12T[]0! []1| []1,1 | []1,1 []4ha []3,^ []1| []1,1 []4ha []3-----[]11%[]3^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ []1| []1,1 []4ha ha []3/ " " []1| []1,1[]14ejm97 []3/ []1| []1,1 | Adding color code *seems* to distort the picture, especially when you change colors on one line, as done here on line three for the "ha", nose, eyes and body. But when you run it in mIRC, it will still look like the original llizard --but coloured. Save the file. Use the /play command to send it to the chat screen. (If file is saved as llizard.txt, in C:\mirc, the command would be: /play C:\mirc\llizard.txt Hope this helps you. Have fun and don't make your drawings too wide or too many lines or you will get horrible distortion. If you colour somebody else's drawings, make sure you colour and leave their initials in. NOTE: If you hit the reply button, add an "e" to the "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- ___ _/ | ,^%--- |_____| __ > \ yes, yes, I'll get right to it.... --- == -- > [_____] __>,^ llizard aka ejm | | //| | cq547@freenet.toronto.on.ca