Hello everyone,

I was wondering if anyone knew of an effective way to translate ansi art into mystic? I always admired ansi and ascii art back in the day but never
got into making my own back in the day.

Thanks.

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I was wondering if anyone knew of an effective way to translate
ansi art into mystic? I always admired ansi and ascii art back in the

Do you mean... convert an ANSI file to Mystic Pipe Codes? Cause Mystic
handles ANSI just fine.

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I'm trying to import ansi art into different .ans files for menus and such.
Is there a way to link the ansi file directly to the .ans file? Or do i have
to convert it to Mystic pipe language. If so, what's the best way to do that?

Thanks.

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I'm trying to import ansi art into different .ans files for menus and such. Is there a way to link the ansi file directly to the .ans file? Or do i have to convert it to Mystic pipe language. If so, what's the best way to do that?

You don't need to convert it to Pipe Codes... just ANSI will do. The way to
do display an ANSI file when showing a menu is this:

1. Go to Mystic Config Editor (mystic -cfg)
2. Go to Editors -> Menu Editors and select the menu file you want to add an ANSI.
3. While you are editing the menu, press / and a popup menu will show up.
Press Settings.
4a. At the Menu Header prompt, enter: |CL to clear the screen (if you want)
and |DFansifile

Where ansifile is only the name of the .ANS file, without the extension. The .ANS file should be inside the ./text directory of the theme you use. For example: |CL|DFmainmenu

4b. Another way to do it, is to enter the ANSI filename at the "Display File" prompt. For the above example you enter: mainmenu

Hope that clears it for you ;)

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Hah! How handy, I never noticed that header field before. Thanks! :)

I found a more awkward round-a-bout way of doing it. I found menu headers I wanted, edited them in PabloDraw, renamed them to replace the original .ans files in the Text folder (I.E mainhdr.ans). It works but your method is much easier :)

Thanks.

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