What kind of engine dwarf fortress uses? Does some handy tool to work with chars only exists?

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Nodev 03/12/16 (Sat) 16:45:20 0ee700 No.25983

What kind of engine dwarf fortress uses?

Does some handy tool to work with chars only exists?

Nodev 03/12/16 (Sat) 16:58:41 ac4633 No.25984

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>>25983

Its pretty easy to draw a big array of different characters using some graphics library or even software rendering.

If you can understand : http://www.glprogramming.com/red/chapter09.html

Then you could make something like what dwarf fortress has pretty easily.

!jbUdbG1eQc 03/13/16 (Sun) 07:09:33 2cf3c3 No.25994

>>25983

I believe dwarf fortress is sustained purely by the power of the dev's autism.

ncurses is supposed to be very nice, though you run into compatibility issues with Windows, I think.

If you aren't using graphics, some things become easier; programming languages like to work with text anyway.

Nodev 03/13/16 (Sun) 19:21:25 2bb59a No.25999

libtcod is what you're looking for

Nodev 03/14/16 (Mon) 03:47:13 c32cb2 No.26003

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>>25994

It's some kind of 2d sprite based graphics. It just simulates terminal graphics by using sprites that look like terminal characters.

The original library for actual terminals was Curses, which has since been replaced by NCurses. I can't tell you too much about it since I just started with it this week, but it should be possible to make DF-style graphics with it.

I was using it to make a Tetris clone just now.

Nodev 03/14/16 (Mon) 11:35:03 1ad475 No.26008

libtcod is a library for roguelikes, it's pretty good

otherwise there's T-Engine

Nodev 03/25/16 (Fri) 22:50:04 6cffea No.26181

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>>25994

>programming languages like to work with text anyway.