Which graphics mode do you use

Message

Tachyon · #16 Post by **Tachyon** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:49 pm

Well, congratulations, Xandor!

Makkoan · #17 Post by **Makkoan** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 3:10 pm

Well, first I made the poll and all was fine.....Then I edited my post to fix spelling errors, and when I was done, the poll was gone! So I figured, ok no problem, I'll just edit it again and include the poll. So thats what I did and the poll showed up but with the previous poll options also. I think I tried it again for some stupid reason and created triples of each option

#18 Post by **Xandor Tik'Roth** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 4:02 pm

Tachyon: Do I sense sarcasm in that?

Makkoan: Hmm, that's wierd. The forum should have only had one set of options. I have no idea why it had three. Oh well, it's fixed. Let the problem die well.

Tachyon · #19 Post by **Tachyon** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 8:56 pm

No, you do not sens sarcasm in that

I really meant it.

Rubinstein · #20 Post by **Rubinstein** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 2:46 am

Sven wrote:I played Old Tiles all the time. But you cannot see the differnce in ego-monsters so I switched to Adam Bolts.
I never was able to get warm with ASCII, allways played with GFX since good old Nethack/Larn/Moria.

It's quite the other way around here:
I started my first roguelike (Nethack) for ~5 years and immediately played tile versions (Qt, Gnome, X).
My last 3 games where in ASCII on Linux console (I even ascended one of them) and then never switched back to tiles.
It's like the difference between a movie and a book:
Create your own pictures when reading a book is something special...
Another reason for playing on Linux console: It *never* crash (other then X).
Recently I switched to gentoo again (ready now

) and spent the last 4 days with compiling everything.
Although I had no running X during the first 3 days I already could play ToME on Linux console.
Another reason why I *love* playing on console!

A sidenote: Even don't know how the Adam Bolts look like. Is there a screenshot somewhere?

Makkoan · #21 Post by **Makkoan** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 5:51 pm

Here's one:
http://www.zangband.org/common/gfx/screenshots-tk.jpg

Rubinstein · #22 Post by **Rubinstein** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 7:34 pm

Thx Makkoan
I'll stay with the ASCII tiles...

Blackdog · #23 Post by **Blackdog** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 7:40 pm

It seems the problem many people have with graphics is that it's darn hard to tell what the monsters and items are.

Still, I like the look of the walls and doors, and especially the health, magic, and monster health bars. Perhaps a 'reduced' version, with graphical interface and terrain, but ascii items and monsters would be a good idea. Hmm...

wolfis · #24 Post by **wolfis** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 10:13 am

adam bolt all the way

Bottle-of-Smoke · #25 Post by **Bottle-of-Smoke** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 2:13 pm

I like the graphics, and have no problems knowing exactly what I am seeing. My problem is only with the genocide spells, since they would ask me for the character of the baddie I wanted to exterminate.... left me clueless.

#26 Post by **Xandor Tik'Roth** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:32 pm

Tachyon: Okay, if you say so....

I hate using the ASCII tiles, they drive me nuts. I've been using the 8x8 tiles (Mac version, not sure if they're Adam Bolt or Old), and they're pretty cool.

Makkoan · #27 Post by **Makkoan** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 4:30 pm

pretty sure 8x8 is old and adam is 16x16

#28 Post by **Xandor Tik'Roth** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 5:19 pm

Oh, okay. I've been using 8x8 for a while now (a month or so) and I've gotten used to the look. But the 16x16 look a lot better, so I think that I'll try those out. I really have gotten bored with the Ascii tiles, though, they're just way too.... bland. Maybe it's because ToME is the only variant that I can get the other tiles to work on...

Tachyon · #29 Post by **Tachyon** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 8:11 pm

Newangband has Adam Bolt's graphics on by default. It really drives you nuts when you walk up to that Ettin and slash it, only to break your sword on a Greater Balrog (Boss).

Malifrax · #30 Post by **Malifrax** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 7:57 am

I personally use the Adam Bolt tiles simply because I get graphical refresh problems when using ASCII mode (the @ will often duplicate iteself visually, and that irks me to no end). The tiles aren't all that bad when I use bigtile mode and increase the tile width and height enough times to make them a decent size.