Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 5 May 1997.
Anymore mIRC color ascii files?
alt.ascii-art
· 4 messages · 5 May 1997 - 9 May 1997
Hi all... Does anyone have anymore of those color mIRC ascii files to share? Thanks to the creator of the alligator one...After much playing around, I finally found the way to make it work in mIRC (not difficult but I'm just not very familiar with mIRC yet) and it was really cute! I'd love to try others. I may try to work on some myself but I'm not very talented in the art department. ;-) Thanks, Paula *11th commandment - Covet not thy neighbor's Pentium.* (Remove *nospam* from my addy to email me. Thanks!)
In article <5klo6s$b88...@atl.bellsouth.net> pkaye*nospam*@bellsouth.net (Paula) wrote: > > Hi all... > > Does anyone have anymore of those color mIRC ascii files to share? Thanks to > the creator of the alligator one...After much playing around, I finally found > the way to make it work in mIRC (not difficult but I'm just not very familiar > with mIRC yet) and it was really cute! I'd love to try others. I may try to > work on some myself but I'm not very talented in the art department. ;-) > > Thanks, > Paula (Remove *nospam* from my addy to email me. Thanks!) Paula, it's pretty easy to colour any ascii drawing. Just make sure that you leave the initials of the original artist in the ones you colour. You can use the codes you got from Shanaka's alligator one: .-._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .-''-.__.-'00 '-' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '-. '.___ ' . .--_'-' '-' '-' _'-' '._ V: V 'vv-' '_ '. .' _..' '.'. '=.____.=_.--' :_.__.__:_ '. : : (((____.-' '-. / : : snd (((-'\ .' / _____..' .' '-._____.-' [MAKE SURE YOU ADD THE "snd" TO THE ONE YOU HAVE! The person who posted those colour coded drawings left out the initials] But we can't post the control codes for the colours here in the newsgroup. It really screws up some readers. So you're on your own. NOTE: If you hit the reply button, add an "e" to the "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- ___ _/ | ,^%--- Always give credit |_____| __ > \ where credit is due. --- == -- > [_____] __>,^ llizard aka ejm | | //| | cq5...@freenet.toronto.on.ca
pkaye*nospam*@bellsouth.net (Paula) wrote: > > Does anyone have anymore of those color mIRC ascii files to share? Thanks to > the creator of the alligator one...After much playing around, I finally found > the way to make it work in mIRC (not difficult but I'm just not very familiar > with mIRC yet) and it was really cute! I'd love to try others. I may try to > work on some myself but I'm not very talented in the art department. ;-) > > Thanks, > Paula (Remove *nospam* from my addy to email me. Thanks!) 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. The "[]" has to be changed back to the character that looks like a box. (I don't know what or where to find it other than copying it from one of the coloured asciis you have on file. ------------------------------------ ***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.
It is fairly easy to colour asscii files. Just connect to mirc and form a
channel and where you type do a Ctrl "K" and highlight it and copy it.
Then go to the text file you want to colour and paste it on the extreme left
of every line with the number of the colour you want to the immediate right
of it and hey presto...if you have ctrl "K" 13 all the way down the left of
your text it will be Shocking Pink .
Cheers from Muz
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