Hi all! Normally I do my ANSIS with the Mystic editor but I would like
to try another.
Which one you use usually in linux?
Thanks.

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Hi all! Normally I do my ANSIS with the Mystic editor but I would like
to try another.
Which one you use usually in linux?
Thanks.

Most will tell you T-Draw, which I used for years back in the day. However,
I have become more of a fan of Pablo Draw as of recent. Id say both have
their purpose, but for longer screens, cut / paste /copy and or moving
blocks, you can't beat Pablo Draw. I also hear it's tablet compatible but can't confirm that. I don't have a tablet. If I did, and Pablo does allow free writing, I'd be producing a lot more ANSI.

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However, I have become more of a fan of Pablo Draw as of recent. Id say both have their purpose, but for longer screens, cut / paste /copy and
or moving blocks, you can't beat Pablo Draw. I also hear it's tablet

I'd agree with your assessment, though I don't think it's possible to make animations with Pablo Draw, and oftentimes there's weirdness when going from Pablo Draw to Mystic.

That said, for static ANSIs, what I could really use is the ability to have layers. After I got used to those in GIMP, it's hard to go to any graphics software without it.

But I know this is a niche hobby, and it's not like there are big
corporations that'd have some reason to throw money at coding projects.

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x1pepe wrote to All <=-

Hi all! Normally I do my ANSIS with the Mystic editor but I would
like to try another.
Which one you use usually in linux?
Thanks.

I use TheDraw running in DosBox.



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I'd agree with your assessment, though I don't think it's possible to
make animations with Pablo Draw, and oftentimes there's weirdness when going from Pablo Draw to Mystic.

Not sure, I haven't tried. I have seen several "movies" on ANSI URL sites
like ANSI Garden, but not sure what they are using. I'm not sure TDraw is being supported anymore, and does not work on modern PC's without a DOS EMU. Considering I lose multi-tasking capabilities once I enter DOSbox, I chose an ansi editor still being developed and supported -- paticularly for Windows 7/10.

That said, for static ANSIs, what I could really use is the ability to have layers. After I got used to those in GIMP, it's hard to go to any graphics software without it.

Hmmmm.. I'll have to check it out. Does it support Windows 64bit machines,
and do you have a link?

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Ok, I will try PABLO-DRAW.
Thanks!

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x1pepe wrote to All <=-

Hi all! Normally I do my ANSIS with the Mystic editor but I would like
to try another.
Which one you use usually in linux?
Thanks.

Moebius here.

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Moebius here.

Moebius is pretty much the standard for the ansi artists now. It's in active development and pushed Pablodraw off to the wayside. It's got some cool features we haven't really seen in ANSI editors like a halfblock drawing tool for greater precision sketching, and a built in overlay feature where you can overlay an image at 50% opacity to sketch under. I also find it's web server
to be nicer than Pablos (I could never get backups working).

That's not to say that Pablo isn't good anymore though. Moebius lacks customizing the palette at the moment (I'm not sure how much use the BBSes would get out of that though). There's maybe some other things I'm missing
but that's the gist of it.

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Thanks also I wil try it!

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On Saturday, June 6th x1pepe was heard saying...

Which one you use usually in linux? Thanks.

Moebius and Pablo Draw are the defacto's




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enter DOSbox, I chose an ansi editor still being developed and supported -- paticularly for Windows 7/10.

Yeah. I tend toward PabloDraw, too, for roughly the same reasons. Though the ability to move blocks around is nice. I just wish there were blocks that
were more like layers with transparency.

have layers. After I got used to those in GIMP, it's hard to go to an

Hmmmm.. I'll have to check it out. Does it support Windows 64bit

I kinda laughed at your response, since it seemed like I somehow made GIMP
seem like an ANSI editor rather than what it is -- a free alternative to Photoshop.

But, yes, go to gimp.org if you're interested, and there is a 64bit version.

But do be warned -- the learning curve on GIMP is... steep. I still don't
know anything, but I can edit images a bit, and play with various features. E.g., I took a picture of myself in a dress, did light editing, removed the background, cartoonified it, then using a picture-to-ANSI conversion tool on manytools.org (do check that out. It's great fun.), came up with a 256-color ANSI graphic that you can see at aprilmonoceros.com.

But even that low-level amount of skill was gained through using layers and whatnot as part of a variety of other projects.

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Hello Adept!

** On Sunday 07.06.20 - 22:27, Adept wrote to The Godfather:

features. E.g., I took a picture of myself in a dress, did light editing,

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


TMI? :/



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features. E.g., I took a picture of myself in a dress, did light editi

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TMI? :/

...is there something wrong with wearing dresses?

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features. E.g., I took a picture of myself in a dress, did
light editi

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ TMI? :/

...is there something wrong with wearing dresses?

Not at all.

Andrew

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Hello Adept!

** On Monday 08.06.20 - 03:19, Adept wrote to Ogg:

features. E.g., I took a picture of myself in a dress, did light
editi ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

TMI? :/

...is there something wrong with wearing dresses?

Ahh.. some research reveals: Adept = April.

My bad. Apologies.


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...is there something wrong with wearing dresses?

Ahh.. some research reveals: Adept = April.

My bad. Apologies.

Thanks for the apology, though I still think that various male movie stars would look cute in the right dress.

But I know it takes a lot of confidence and whatnot for men to rock that sort of an outfit.

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I kinda laughed at your response, since it seemed like I somehow made
GIMP seem like an ANSI editor rather than what it is -- a free
alternative to Photoshop.

But, yes, go to gimp.org if you're interested, and there is a 64bit

Whoops. I'll still check it out. Sounds fun!

picture-to-ANSI conversion tool on manytools.org (do check that out.
It's great fun.), came up with a 256-color ANSI graphic that you can see at aprilmonoceros.com.

I've tried using the picture-to-ansi conversion tool. It comes out great online, but when downloaded the image is all gray or inverted. How do you
fix that? I've wanted to use it for more complex shapes I'm having trouble drawing, that I can shade and color in myself.

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On 08 Jun 2020, Adept said the following...

Thanks for the apology, though I still think that various male movie
stars would look cute in the right dress.

But I know it takes a lot of confidence and whatnot for men to rock that sort of an outfit.

Hey, if The Rock can play the tooth fairy in a movie, then anything is possible!

Jay

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picture-to-ANSI conversion tool on manytools.org (do check that out.
It's great fun.), came up with a 256-color ANSI graphic that you can see at aprilmonoceros.com.

Adept,

Spill the beans ... how did you convert the ANSI? I've found all scripts on github, or available online, do a great job as long as you keep it within the HTML format. Otherwise, the copy paste to Pablo draw is a mess to clean up. If you edited the photo on aprilmonoceros.com .. you do fantastic work. The shading via conversion or editing is fantastic. I have found one online
editor that does an OK job if you copy and paste it grey scale, but
everything is inverted, so It's a slow process to correct -- and of course, with my luck, there's a Pablo draw feature for that :/

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On Sunday, June 7th Adept said...

...is there something wrong with wearing dresses?

nope.


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I've tried using the picture-to-ansi conversion tool. It comes out great online, but when downloaded the image is all gray or inverted. How do
you fix that? I've wanted to use it for more complex shapes I'm having trouble drawing, that I can shade and color in myself.

Did you download the files directly? To be fair, my example on my website is not standard ANSI, and would look terrible in CP437. And it's in HTML, not ANSI, thus when you copy/paste it, it's just pasting the non-color bits of info.

But I think you can download ANSIs directly, now, which should help some amount.

Specific instructions might be good, but from my previous experience with the site, there was a lot of, "Well, let me try this _this_ way" and slowly
gaining some understanding on the limitations.

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But I know it takes a lot of confidence and whatnot for men to rock t sort of an outfit.

Hey, if The Rock can play the tooth fairy in a movie, then anything is possible!

I do imagine that The Rock would make most any outfit look good, whether through being super buff or displaying the stage charisma he has.

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Spill the beans ... how did you convert the ANSI? I've found all
scripts on github, or available online, do a great job as long as you
keep it within the HTML format. Otherwise, the copy paste to Pablo draw

It's a website. Thus it's in HTML, not ANSI. :)

The guy behind manytools added the ability to download an ANSI file, but, again, my website has the HTML, 256-color version. It doesn't look anywhere near as good in 16 colors. I had tried some (extremely slow) colorization
after copying out the black-and-white version, but it's a painstaking process that requires an artistic eye and skill with ANSI coloring to make it look decent.

So I'm sad that I don't have any good short cuts on making the things better. About all I _did_ do, was write a program to take in the HTML files and
reduce the size of files by not having color information if one block was the same color as the previous.

But that's not what you're aiming for. It's still a neat tool, though, and provides _something_ to get started with.

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Hello Adept!

** On Monday 08.06.20 - 20:01, Adept wrote to Warpslide:

But I know it takes a lot of confidence and whatnot for men to
rock t sort of an outfit.

Hey, if The Rock can play the tooth fairy in a movie, then anything
is possible!

I do imagine that The Rock would make most any outfit look good,
whether through being super buff or displaying the stage charisma he
has.

I rather enjoy his The Titan Games show. The engineering and artistry
behind the various mechanical obstacles is amazing.

One of my favourites is the one where the contestants push against a
common wall to push the other contestant off the opposite end as the
platform gets narrower and narrower for the loser.

The wannabee version with Kevin Hart was terrible.


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It's a website. Thus it's in HTML, not ANSI. :)

Ok, that makes sense. I can get images to look good on the 256 color HTML version, but even black and white documents do not download with anything
other then a grey screen when the CP437 option, or the UTF option can be downloaded and apparently converted, which I haven't found a tool for. There is a .gif to ansi converter that used to work rather well back in the 90's.
I found it on Dan's site (Castlerock,) finally. So hopefully I can get it working with DOSBox .. its ANSICV22 .. there is also an ANSIREZ I've downloaded but can't recall what it does .. but I do remember both being excellent tools.

The guy behind manytools added the ability to download an ANSI file, but, again, my website has the HTML, 256-color version. It doesn't look anywhere near as good in 16 colors. I had tried some (extremely slow) colorization after copying out the black-and-white version, but it's a painstaking process that requires an artistic eye and skill with ANSI coloring to make it look decent.

I recently attempted to do so with a Camero I wanted to draw ... It was a major fail of patience for me. The shadowing just takes practice, I'n not a pro at it, but work on smaller ANSI menus to brush up on long lost skills.

So I'm sad that I don't have any good short cuts on making the things better. About all I _did_ do, was write a program to take in the HTML files and reduce the size of files by not having color information if
one block was the same color as the previous.

lol, it's quite alright, I thought you had the secret trick and or software I had been missing.

But that's not what you're aiming for. It's still a neat tool, though,
and provides _something_ to get started with.

It does a great job converting images to ASCII, even colors relatively well. It's of no suprise to me in 2020 for ANSI utilities to be side tabled for
more pressing develpment.

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features. E.g., I took a picture of myself in a dress, did light

...is there something wrong with wearing dresses?

Not if you're a lumberjack! :)


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I've tried using the picture-to-ansi conversion tool. It comes out great online, but when downloaded the image is all gray or inverted. How do you fix that? I've wanted to use it for more complex shapes I'm having trouble drawing, that I can shade and color in myself.

I used to a converter for the flames on the TLP logo, with a bit of manual �cleanup in TheDraw. If you're going to try and use it for BBS purposing, �then you need a pretty low resolution original, that is some multiple of 80 �to get reasonable results.

If you're only in it for the giant sized thing to bang on a web page they �work
a treat. Most seem to default to B&W but almost all have the option for �CP437
ANSI.

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Spill the beans ... how did you convert the ANSI? I've found all scripts

https://www.ascii-art-generator.org/

I used this site, select image to ansi art, you get a choice of html or �coloured ansi, it'll let you download a .txt file afterwards. �

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https://www.ascii-art-generator.org/

Thanks, just checked out the site you suggested. It's a good combination to: www.manytools.org ...

Manytools getting the basic shape of an ANSI copy (ONLY copy and pasted into Pablo draw... at this point .. unless I'm doing it wrong .. the downloads are useless .....)

ASCII-Art does a pretty bang up job at capturing details of shading in grey scale only (when copy and pasted) and capturing the finer details normally found on good 24/80 ansi's.

There doesn't seem to be one "product" that does both, but so far your recommendation does make it easier to simply draw blocks over the letters
used. Unless, you're aware of a way to convert ASCII to ANSI?

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I used to a converter for the flames on the TLP logo, with a bit of
manual cleanup in TheDraw. If you're going to try and use it for BBS purposing, then you need a pretty low resolution original, that is some multiple of 80 to get reasonable results.

Thats why I'm primarily using it. I find peoples faces the hardest to draw when trying to make the face small enough to fit in a 22 to 23 line screen,
and it's a great way to learn ansi. I also like it for tough to draw things such as you stated -- fire, flames, etc....

I'm using it mostly to learn and or to create secondary menus where the
ansi's are only 12x40 at most. Most of my ANSI has been drawn by Luciano
Ayers, and I"ve just added MOST of those to my BBS this past week. He has a few more on the way to me that he's currently working on.

-TG

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However, I have become more of a fan of Pablo Draw as of recent. Id

say

both have their purpose, but for longer screens, cut / paste /copy

and

or moving blocks, you can't beat Pablo Draw. I also hear it's tablet

I'd agree with your assessment, though I don't think it's possible to make animations with Pablo Draw, and oftentimes there's weirdness when going from Pablo Draw to Mystic.

Still using TheDraw you'll need some kind of DOS emulator though.

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used. Unless, you're aware of a way to convert ASCII to ANSI?

No, but you can download an ANSI file from generator, it'll have a .txt �extenstion on it though. What I found with the flames original out of �generator is that where things don't make a particularly good fit to any �given chracter you end up with a . so the flames had fringes of coloured . �thats all I needed to clean up not colourise it.

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On 06 Jun 2020, Adept said the following...

But I know this is a niche hobby, and it's not like there are big corporations that'd have some reason to throw money at coding projects.

Yeah, I don't see Adobe adding an ansi editor to their creative cloud suite anytime soon... ;)

Jay

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Adept wrote to Ogg <=-

But I know it takes a lot of confidence and whatnot for men to rock
that sort of an outfit.

I'd wear a kilt, but I'm only 1/8th Scottish. I did find my family's
plaid, though.



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But I know this is a niche hobby, and it's not like there are big corporations that'd have some reason to throw money at coding project

Yeah, I don't see Adobe adding an ansi editor to their creative cloud suite anytime soon... ;)

If only some higher-up there had a BBS passion project and so pushed for it
for purely selfish reasons.

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I'd wear a kilt, but I'm only 1/8th Scottish. I did find my family's plaid, though.

Kilts somehow seem super manly. Though also something that gets one prone to being asked indelicate questions.

Still, if I were the least bit Scottish, it'd be interesting to find plaids, family crests, etc.

That said, I have a group of friends with the same last name, and we _have_ a family crest, that I've used as part of my lock screen on my eReader. Such things seem fun, even without a long history.

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No, but you can download an ANSI file from generator, it'll have a .txt extenstion on it though. What I found with the flames original out of generator is that where things don't make a particularly good fit to any given chracter you end up with a . so the flames had fringes of coloured
. thats all I needed to clean up not colourise it.

I'll have to try and find super low res images as the downloads just don't
seem to work. Either they are garbage numbers and charactors, or they are inverted greyscale images (meaning black shows up grey, grey/white shows up black, and basically you can't see the black.) However if I drag, copy, and paste from the HTML displayed conversion, into pablo draw, some turn out
rather well, albeit in grey scale which is fine. I haven't found any that
can really convert to 16 colors. But then again, I haven't browsed for older .gif images to maybe do the trick. Most images on the web relating to .gif's are those motion memes these days.

Thanks for the link to the image to asciii though, as that does work very
well, and I from there can draw over the letters used to create the picture, and develop more complex ANSI's. I'm mostly using it to relearn how to shape and shade. But I think moreso it's become an obsession to get the damn thing to work right, or find one that does :)

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Re: Re: Drawing ANSIS
By: Adept to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jun 10 2020 07:00 pm

Still, if I were the least bit Scottish, it'd be interesting to find plaids, family crests, etc.

I worked for the company that made After Dark, the screen saver - the one with the flying toasters? The engine was open and people wrote their own modules for
it.

One of my favorite modules was called "Work of the Weaver", and it drew plaids - first all of the warp colors, then all of the weft colors. It was sort of mesmerising - the only screen saver I actually watched.
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One of my favorite modules was called "Work of the Weaver", and it
drew plaids - first all of the warp colors, then all of the weft
colors. It was sort of mesmerising - the only screen saver I
actually watched.

I liked that castaway one? Johnny castaway or something maybe? Just a
guy on an island who got up to all sorts of things..

Andrew

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I'll have to try and find super low res images as the downloads just
don't seem to work. Either they are garbage numbers and charactors,
or they are inverted greyscale images (meaning black shows up grey, grey/white shows up black, and basically you can't see the black.)

I get the feeling you're doing something.... wrong....

I'm not sure what your target is either. HTML or BBS ANSI?

Anyway my best results have been to either crop your image to say 160x50 or �resize the original to the same, and convert that. 320x100 can work also but �its not as good, for BBS ANSI. Download the resultant .txt file, rename it �to .ans and try feeding that into Pablo or TheDraw.

If you're after HTML then the skies the limit... the ASCII width is as �large as you need.

https://www.ascii-art-generator.org/

You upload your image, select Image to colour ASCII Art. This gives you an �outpit format sub menu, which defaults to HTML with DIV and CSS but also �contains coloured ANSI. Finally set the width to 79 to avoid line wraps, and �convert.

Once it finally stops sucking its thumb and converts you download the �image.ansi.txt file, rename it to image.ans and pablo it. With a quick slash �of the knife Bob's your Aunty.

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I get the feeling you're doing something.... wrong....

I'm not sure what your target is either. HTML or BBS ANSI?

BBS ANSI. not HTML.

Anyway my best results have been to either crop your image to say 160x50

Yeah I've been resizing to between 150 - 250x??? I'm trying an image that is
a white background, the image itself is black. So it's not like it has much
to convert. I download the file but it doesn't show up as an .txt, it shows
up as a .ans, and it's just all grey. I'll make sure we're talking about the same site and try again. With the ASCII one you suggested, I had not tried changing the file extention. We'll see how that goes ..

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But I know it takes a lot of confidence and whatnot for men to rock that sort of an outfit.

I'd wear a kilt, but I'm only 1/8th Scottish. I did find my family's plaid, though.

My day to day for the last 10 years after back work has been a Pareu �(Sarong).
I'd say it doesn't take so much confidence but familiarity with �it. You get to a point where it feels normal, and thats it you just go. You �get a few stares, some people have to pick their jaws up off the floor, �others reckon its great ought to be more of it... oddly enough a lot of the �older "folks" around here are the ones that come out with wish I could do �that.... :)

Spec


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Yeah I've been resizing to between 150 - 250x??? I'm trying an image

You really want multiples of 80... can't stress that one enough...

that is a white background, the image itself is black. So it's not

Send me a copy of the image, sysop@tlp.zapto.org I'll see what I can make of �it. It may be, it just doesn't suit conversion. I've found a lot of things �do not really convert terribly well, despite being the right size and res, �either there's to many colours or it is to busy.

Spec


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apam wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

One of my favorite modules was called "Work of the Weaver", and it
drew plaids - first all of the warp colors, then all of the weft
colors. It was sort of mesmerising - the only screen saver I
actually watched.

I liked that castaway one? Johnny castaway or something maybe? Just a
guy on an island who got up to all sorts of things..

There was another one that was a side-scroller of a Dilbert-type
character who worked at his computer, went to the kitchen, ate cereal,
watched TV in the living room, etc.



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I'm no artist so I can't vouch for any particular tool. Blocktronics has a tool called Moebius that is open source. That might be worth looking at.

It would be nice if there were some tutorials on how to use and create art in these applications but, even YouTube doesn't have any straight up tutorials. Sure, there are videos of people making ANSI art but, nothing where someone explains the applications and how ANSI art functionally works.

I'd be more willing to take a crack at playing with ANSI art myself if I
better understood the mechanics.

-Lord Gareth

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where someone explains the applications and how ANSI art functionally works.

What are you hoping to learn? ANSI files are bits of ASCII (extended set
of characters version, rather than just the stuff you see on your keyboard) with escape codes in front of them to set the color.

But perhaps you're wanting more than that level of knowledge? I know it's a
bit more complicated once you throw in animation or MCI codes and whatnot,
but basic ANSI files...

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It would be nice if there were some tutorials on how to use and create
art in these applications but, even YouTube doesn't have any straight up tutorials. Sure, there are videos of people making ANSI art but, nothing where someone explains the applications and how ANSI art functionally works.

I have seen a tutorial out there, I believe made by Luciano, where he walks through the steps of drawing an ANSI from the basic outline, to colo and shading. I'm not sure which BBS it was on, but likely is on the blocktronics website. It'as a long ANSI tutorial, with text explaining each step. I'll
try to find it and can hatch it to you if I do.

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If you can find that it would be awesome. Honestly, I'm not much of an
artist at all but, I think I could do some tracing and such in Moebius if I
had a general concept of how to use the different Function key brushes and better understood the different overlapping/dithering functions.

Unfortunately, I've gotten hopelessly lost trying to do it when I've tried.

-Lord Gareth

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If you can find that it would be awesome. Honestly, I'm not much of an artist at all but, I think I could do some tracing and such in Moebius
if I had a general concept of how to use the different Function key brushes and better understood the different overlapping/dithering functions.

I just found one that seemed good. I hatched it to the FSX ANSI file base.
Or you can view it on my BBS within the ANSI art gallery, where you can also download it. I'll keep my eye out for the other. There are now three i've seen and this one seems very detailed. File name is hentute.zip.

-TG

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I couldn't find it on the FSXNet file base so I'll hop on your board.

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I couldn't find it on the FSXNet file base so I'll hop on your board.

Thats wierd, I hatched it out. Not sure .. I must have a setting wrong.
Hope you found it on my BBS. It's on the FSX ANSI art file base area. You
can also just do a text search for the file name, mentioned in my prior post; don't recall the name of it at the moment. I also added it to the ansi art gallary, which you view and press "!" to download from within there.

-TG

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I couldn't find it on the FSXNet file base so I'll hop on your
board.

Thats wierd, I hatched it out.

I'm fairly certain only Paul can hatch things to the FSXnet file bases.

Andrew

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Ah, that would make sense.

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