I have numerous ansi files created for game descriptions that I want to show on my web site. Is there any way (short of finding an ansi to bitmap or gif converter, which I don't even think exist) of showing these ansi's in an html or java environment so that visitors can see them before they download?

Just wondering.

I would be happy to find a way to convert a gif or jpg file into an ansi one to use in the game. Anyone have any ideas on that too.

quote:Originally posted by Boss

I would be happy to find a way to convert a gif or jpg file into an ansi one to use in the game. Anyone have any ideas on that too.


Sure, I do it all the time!

You download "The Brush" which is a companion program to "The Draw."

Make your bitmaps using a standard program like Coral. Make sure you drop them to 256 colors or even 16 colors, then create a new picture that is about 1.25 wide by .72 deep and fill it in with black, then take your bitmap you've created and cut it to about .40 x .40 or so (give or take) then paste it into your black screen picture and merge.

Now you've got a working picture of the right dimensions for the brush. Save that file to your The Brush folder as a bmp.

Load the brush and hit Alt I and select bitmap, then select resize yes, color yes, and you'll have to experiment with your contrast settings.

This will take lots of trial and error on your part until you get the right colors, the right everything so that The Brush will see your picture as you created it.

After it's to your liking you hit alt S and save it as an ANSI file. Then you move that ansi file to The Draw folder, and load the draw, and hit ALT L and select the new ansi. Now you can do anything you like to the picture.

Oh, and I answered my own question in this post. I found a program called Pablo Draw that converts Ansi to Bmp. I then converted my bitmap to JPG using Thumbs Plus.

You all want to see one of my ship ansis?

here it is:



PS I don't know why I didn't give it an interdictor, gonna have to fix that sigh

Links links.. we need links

quote:Originally posted by Wotok

Links links.. we need links


Ok Link to the Draw:

http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/49632.html

Link to The Brush

http://www.cotbbs.org/bbsfiles/bbs/ANSI/thebrush.zip

Link to Pablo Draw:
http://www.cotbbs.org/bbsfiles/bbs/ANSI/pablo086.zip

and in the future a lot of my ansi descriptions will be available (NOT WORKING YET BUT SOON) at

http://www.hyperscream.com

quote:Originally posted by Boss

I would be happy to find a way to convert a gif or jpg file into an ansi one to use in the game. Anyone have any ideas on that too.


OH shoot! I left out a step. You gotta first convert the jpg or gif to BITMAP. There are numerous programs that do this. I highly recommend Thumbs Plus for this.

http://www.cerious.com/

Or you could try Poster, it supposedly converts gifs straight to ansi straight, but I've never had any luck with it. But some of you "gurus" might prefer it.

http://artscene.textfiles.com/viewers/dos/poster12.zip

If someone figures out how to use poster 12 to make workable ansi files can you help me out?

Hey SGO!!! I like the site, looks great! Probably a stupid question, but what song is that, that you have playing when you bring up the site??? Sucker ROCKS!!

quote:Originally posted by KingD

Hey SGO!!! I like the site, looks great! Probably a stupid question, but what song is that, that you have playing when you bring up the site??? Sucker ROCKS!!


No it's not a stupid question at all. It's written by some great guys out of Washington State who made it a "one hit wonder" a few years back, it's "Space Lord" by "Monster Magnet" and many of us believed it was inspired by Twars, though I never got a confirmation of that

My two favorite lines from the song:

"When I don't get my bath I take it out on the slaves..."

and "the time has come for me to kill this game, so open wide and say my name... Space Lord... Mother Mother!"

hehe gotta love it.

The links on cotbbs.com are down.. I'm hosting those files on my site.. http://tradewars.wotok.com