https://github.com/setghm/cmdpaint
Tool for create images or sprites for windows console games.
https://github.com/setghm/cmdpaint
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Tool for create images or sprites for windows console games.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/setghm/cmdpaint
- Owner: setghm
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2024-06-04T04:24:42.000Z (12 months ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-02-22T20:00:14.000Z (3 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-22T21:17:57.844Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: cmd, console-games, cpp, paint-application, windows-cmd, windows-console-game
- Language: C++
- Homepage: https://setghm.itch.io/cmdpaint
- Size: 197 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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README
# CMDPaint
_by setghm_
CMDPaint is a Windows console (CMD) application designed to facilitate the creation of color arrays for the creation of color video games that run on the command line.
The application is designed to be very simple, you can load files and open already created files.
The editor has 4 tools: The **pencil**, the **paint bucket**, the **color picker** and the **grid**.
## Examples
You can test the application with these sample files located at `/examples` folder.
## Output files
The output files have the extension `.bytecolor` which means that they are simple color arrays accepted by the Windows console.
The format is as follows:
- The first 32 bits are used to store the width of the image (unsigned integer).
- The next 32 bits are used to store the height of the image (unsigned integer).
- All other bytes are Windows console colors.
> [!NOTE]
> The width and height refer to the **size in characters**, not in pixels.
### Composition of colors
Each byte of the color array is made up of 2 parts:
- Background color: first 4 bits, the desired color.
- Foreground color: next 4 bits, visible color (either black or white) over the background color.
This way of color coding is very useful to **simply print blank spaces** and be able to get the image in the Windows command prompt.
This way we also avoid having to configure the application in unicode or set the page code to print the unicode block character "█" (0x2588) on the command line.
### File structure
The file structure is as follows:
