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Dual Layers
« on: August 08, 2010, 11:08:35 am »
I'm looking for good combinations of characters to create cool looking text sprites.  The method for displaying these is: display text on graph screen, store pic, display other text at same location, recall pic.

for an example, look here.

Ones I've come up with are:

Finance N with O
X with ^, makes cool "person-looking" character
H with capital i

there are others, but I can't remember right now.  If you know any good ones, post them!
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Re: Combining Characters - text sprites
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2010, 11:15:23 am »
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Re: Combining Characters - text sprites
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2010, 11:43:26 am »
Um... wow.  Yes, you win.
I lost the game :P

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Re: Combining Characters - text sprites
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2010, 11:44:21 am »
There are some more intense ones out there.  Weregoose has some, if I recall correctly.

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Re: Combining Characters - text sprites
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2010, 11:56:48 am »
I does win too! Check out this topic.


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Re: Combining Characters - text sprites
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2010, 12:09:30 pm »
Oh, you're talking about Dual-Layers. This might be of some use. Trevmeister66 made a dual layer generator a while ago and then I recreated it to include all of the tokens (and made one with his original tokens that is smaller than his). Could be useful.
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Re: Combining Characters - text sprites
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2010, 12:24:33 pm »
Yeah, you just have to use storepic/recallpic to get the second layer.

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Re: Combining Characters - text sprites
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2010, 03:46:15 pm »
You can use this small java applet that i wrote to find character combinations to generate any pattern you want!

You start the applet and fill in the grid with the pixels you want, then press the search button to search for possible combinations.  Possiblee combinations are shown in order of how close they are to your original drawing, but will try to find other combinations that look similar to your specifications too.  You can also click the 'shifted' option to switch to duel layer 'offset' sprites.

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Re: Combining Characters - text sprites
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2010, 03:49:32 pm »
You can use this small java applet that i wrote to find character combinations to generate any pattern you want!
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Re: Combining Characters - text sprites
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2010, 03:52:15 pm »
Whoops XD ahhg i had the link in my copy/paste but i forgot to paste it ;D I lose the game

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Re: Combining Characters - text sprites
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2010, 03:56:10 pm »
Thanks.  These really helped.  Now I'm off to find the best-looking ones and begin planning for a RPG.

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Re: Combining Characters - text sprites
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2010, 06:36:44 pm »
Hmm.... in the chart in Raylin's post, on the sloped side of the triangle, near the bottom, in between the small two and three (right before the colon) is a little box.  Is this character printable?  I can't find it anywhere.

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Re: Combining Characters - text sprites
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2010, 07:42:08 pm »
That is the plot style mark box.
[2nd]+[Y=] under MARK.
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Re: Combining Characters - text sprites
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2010, 07:46:41 pm »
That box is different its in the middle of the space.  the one I'm talking about is at the top.  If you look closely in the chart, you can see the difference.

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Re: Combining Characters - text sprites
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2010, 07:51:06 pm »
Ya, the box you're talking about is the solid one right? I don't think it's accessible anymore. It used to be though because I believe DJ used it in one of the Illusiats or something like that.
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