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by Nny
October 24th, 2016, 12:33 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: First Encounter with Computer Programming?Your Origin Story!
Replies: 8
Views: 3172

Re: First Encounter with Computer Programming?Your Origin St

Mine was actually in the game Garrys Mod. There was a mod for it called Wiremod that allowed a lot of hooking things together through inputs and virtual wires and such. Eventually they made their own language called Expression 2 and added IO chips and CPUs and many complex systems. I used to make gu...
by Nny
October 22nd, 2016, 7:35 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Pixel Font
Replies: 11
Views: 5423

Re: Pixel Font

Hmm, I would have just done it like a function full of putpixels, one for each character. I like this solution. If I do an update video I'll try and remember to pimp it out :D ^_^ Did you use graph paper to determine the pixel/block locations? Or, maybe just zoomed in on some text in a paint progra...
by Nny
October 22nd, 2016, 5:09 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: Pixel Font
Replies: 11
Views: 5423

Pixel Font

I am sure there are MUCH better ways to do this, but based off what I've learned in the current series with the Chili Framework, this is what I came up with. I figure something similar was used back in the day on things like the 2600 when you saw badly done text drawn in the scenery of a game. No sp...