Re: Anymore mIRC color ascii files?

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.

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***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.

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