The Terminal Material
ASCII Art Materials
Rendering ASCII art means setting three things:
- The character (char)
- The foreground color (implemented as a tint to retain shading)
- The background color (which overrides a "mask" color with another color value - the mask color is magenta by default)
TerminalText
This is a material for use with Indigo's standard Text primitive. In addition to foreground and background TerminalText also supports a solid colour dropshadow.
Looks great but has a glaring problem: Changing colors mid-artwork (e.g. setting the text red and the border blue) is a pain, you need to use another Text instance and make them line up!
Great for pop-up menus, and monochrome sections of ASCII art, or maps that aren't too big. After that, a new strategy may be needed.
TerminalMaterial
This material is a near drop-in replacement for TerminalText. It does not support the drop shadow feature, but has a leaner implementation for performance sensitive contexts. Supposed to be used with the TerminalEmulator/RogueTerminalEmulator's toCloneTiles method.
Additionally, TerminalMaterial will attempt to preserve tile colours. If you apply a foreground colour to a tile, it will only apply the tint to greyscale pixel values. This means you can have a tree with a brown trunk, but tint just the leaf colours to autumn reds, yellows, and greens.