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Subject: Learning New Skills...
When I was much younger I used to dabble with the programming now and then. Using mostly BASIC, and later Pascal I would create silly things like a text adventure with the goal of escaping from my elementary school or very, very rudimentary apps storing data in a text file and retrieving it...
It wasn't until HTML and PHP that I managed to put these skills to use, dabbling here and there with PERL and PHP, but never really doing anything more than modifying existing code to work the way I needed it to.
Well, yesterday I tried to do something clever. I know you don't care too much about my programming stories, so I'll get right to the point: I succeeded, and now I can do![[Image: http://nfggames.com/system/arcade/im.php?y=fzg&x=things like this!]](http://nfggames.com/system/arcade/im.php?y=fzg&x=things like this! "http://nfggames.com/system/arcade/im.php?y=fzg&x=things like this!")
Basically, I made a script that takes any text, cuts it back to 100 characters max, converts each letter to its ASCII equivalent, copies the appropriate letter from a font file (see below) and creates a new image with the original text as graphical letters.
Mostly from old arcade games, natch. =)
![[Image: http://nfggames.com/temp/Capcom-sample.png]](http://nfggames.com/temp/Capcom-sample.png "http://nfggames.com/temp/Capcom-sample.png")
Now I just need to slap together a few more fonts, work out a way to select 'em on the fly, cache frequently-used images, prevent hot-linking...
Fun!
It wasn't until HTML and PHP that I managed to put these skills to use, dabbling here and there with PERL and PHP, but never really doing anything more than modifying existing code to work the way I needed it to.
Well, yesterday I tried to do something clever. I know you don't care too much about my programming stories, so I'll get right to the point: I succeeded, and now I can do
Basically, I made a script that takes any text, cuts it back to 100 characters max, converts each letter to its ASCII equivalent, copies the appropriate letter from a font file (see below) and creates a new image with the original text as graphical letters.
Mostly from old arcade games, natch. =)
Now I just need to slap together a few more fonts, work out a way to select 'em on the fly, cache frequently-used images, prevent hot-linking...
Fun!
![[Image: http://nfggames.com/system/arcade/special.php/b-d/bp-5/y-kof97/z-10/x-What?/.png]](http://nfggames.com/system/arcade/special.php/b-d/bp-5/y-kof97/z-10/x-What?/.png "http://nfggames.com/system/arcade/special.php/b-d/bp-5/y-kof97/z-10/x-What?/.png")
This post was edited 2 times, last on 2009-01-09, 16:46 by ![[Image: http://nfggames.com//system/arcade/Arcade-Gradius-Blue.png]](http://nfggames.com//system/arcade/Arcade-Gradius-Blue.png "http://nfggames.com//system/arcade/Arcade-Gradius-Blue.png")
![[Image: http://qtchicks.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xexex_fonts.gif]](http://qtchicks.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xexex_fonts.gif "http://qtchicks.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xexex_fonts.gif")
![[Image: http://nfggames.com/games/fontmaker/font-sampler.png]](http://nfggames.com/games/fontmaker/font-sampler.png "http://nfggames.com/games/fontmaker/font-sampler.png")