Re: ANSI art
By: Bagwaa to phigan on Sun Jul 13 2025 02:11 pm

haha, yeah, I did think about just doing that, not even sure what
the decent editors are, I looked at something called "durdraw"
which looks kinda neat.

you could always use old ansi packs to take tidbits or get inspiration.
you could convert bmp gif etc to ansi with some editors.
you can use figlet to generate menus.

One thing I did wonder is if I could somehow finagle AI todo all the
heavy listing for me, but it seems to only want to create ASCII
art and it's VERY basic even by my standards lmao.

i doubt it.
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Re: ANSI art
By: MRO to Bagwaa on Sun Jul 13 2025 11:00 pm

you could always use old ansi packs to take tidbits or get
inspiration. you could convert bmp gif etc to ansi with some editors.
you can use figlet to generate menus.

also check out this guy.
https://www.roysac.com/

there's also a collection of thedraw fonts here https://www.roysac.com/thedrawfonts-tdf.html

also cleaner is a great guy and he might draw you some
ansi if you compensate him for his work. https://cleaner.ansilove.org/releases.html
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Re: ANSI art
By: MRO to Bagwaa on Sun Jul 13 2025 11:24 pm

Use TheDraw and the fonts mentioned previously from Roy/SAC site to make
quick headers.
The Moebius ansi editor is the most photoshop like one for drawing pictures. blocktronics.github.io/moebius
Use Synchronet's ans2asc to convert them to a .MSG file and then use
Notepad++ or some other editor and strip out any empty space at the bottom
of your image.

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Use TheDraw and the fonts mentioned previously from Roy/SAC site to make quick headers. The Moebius ansi editor is the most photoshop
like one for drawing pictures. blocktronics.github.io/moebius

Moebius is a bit old now, last update 2021. Consider IcyDraw by mkrueger:

https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools

It has TheDraw font support, and half-block drawing like Moebius, but builds on it with layers+channels ala PhotoShop, SIXEL support, LUA plugins, and more! Highly recommend.

Current version of IcyDraw is 0.4.1: https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools/releases/tag/IcyDraw0.4.1

Cheers,
RetroSwim

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Re: ANSI art
By: Lord Raptor to MRO on Tue Jul 15 2025 09:06 am

Re: ANSI art
By: MRO to Bagwaa on Sun Jul 13 2025 11:24 pm

Use TheDraw and the fonts mentioned previously from Roy/SAC site to
make quick headers. The Moebius ansi editor is the most photoshop
like one for drawing pictures. blocktronics.github.io/moebius Use Synchronet's ans2asc to convert them to a .MSG file and then use
Notepad++ or some other editor and strip out any empty space at the
bottom of your image.

why are you telling me? i dont need any help.

i use thedraw or aciddraw. i dont have any empty space. i dont
convert them to a .msg file.
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Re: ANSI art
By: Retroswim to Lord Raptor on Wed Jul 16 2025 02:42 am

Thanks. Still trying to learn what's being used now.

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Re: ANSI art
By: MRO to Lord Raptor on Tue Jul 15 2025 03:26 pm

Sorry about that. I replied to the wrong thread.

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Re: ANSI art
By: Retroswim to Lord Raptor on Wed Jul 16 2025 02:42 am

https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools

It has TheDraw font support, and half-block drawing like Moebius, but
builds on it with layers+channels ala PhotoShop, SIXEL support, LUA
plugins, and more! Highly recommend.

yeah it's not bad. i like how it shows previews of the fonts.
i forgot which ones i made custom.

i'm not so sure i would use all those fancy features.
i still prefer a full screen interface for drawing ansi. not that i draw
ansi anymore.

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Re: ANSI art
By: Lord Raptor to MRO on Tue Jul 15 2025 04:03 pm

Re: ANSI art
By: MRO to Lord Raptor on Tue Jul 15 2025 03:26 pm

Sorry about that. I replied to the wrong thread.

no problem. dont quit bbsing because of me.
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Re: ANSI art
By: MRO to Lord Raptor on Wed Jul 16 2025 01:00 am

Re: ANSI art
By: MRO to Lord Raptor on Tue Jul 15 2025 03:26 pm
Sorry about that. I replied to the wrong thread.

no problem. dont quit bbsing because of me.

Just getting back into it. Been 30 years since I last used a
bbs mailer! No telling what I'm gonna quote or who I'll end up
responding to but I'll eventually get this interface down.

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