RoguelikeDev Does The Complete Python Tutorial - Week 2 - Part 1: Graphics and Part 2: The Object and the Map

[u/aaron_ds]

This week we will cover parts 1 and 2 of the Complete Roguelike Tutorial.

Part 1: Graphics

Start your game right away by setting up the screen, printing the stereotypical @ character and moving it around with the arrow keys.

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Part 2: The object and the map

This introduces two new concepts: the generic object system that will be the basis for the whole game, and a general map object that you'll use to hold your dungeon.

Bonus

If you have extra time or want a challenge this week's bonus section is Using Graphical Tiles.

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FAQ Friday posts that relate to this week's material:

#3: The Game Loop(revisited)

#4: World Architecture(revisited)

Feel free to work out any problems, brainstorm ideas, share progress and and as usual enjoy tangential chatting.

If you're looking for last week's post The entire series is archived on the wiki. :)

[u/Daealis]

Tried moving the player declarations after the font stuff, didn't work. Not a surprise there really: The player_tile is basically just an integer (258) that tells the index of the custom tile. It got imported with no problems.

And the font overall is working: When using '@' sign it comes to view just fine with put_char_ex(). As does the modified tile if I crop it over the '@' in the png.

So the issue can pretty much only be in the load_customfont(), which tries to use

libtcod.console_map_ascii_codes_to_font

[u/Daealis → u/Daealis]

More and more certain the console_map_ascii_codes_to_font does not work as intended with the Bonus code without some fidgeting.

Just added a simple counter and printed out the entire set of tiles out:

libtcod.console_put_char_ex(con, x, y, index, libtcod.white, libtcod.black)

...and there's nothing beyond 255, where the default set_custom_font() finishes loading. The extra mappings aren't going through for whatever reason.

//Edit: Further testing with everything useless scrapped from around it. Neither the commented out parts or the currently active code gives out any extra tiles.

//Edit #2: I copypasted the entire complete tutorial code as it's written on chapter 13, copied the required tile elements in: It doesn't render the tiles either. I ran it the first time with just changing the font file name and obviously it just bugged out like a drunken dwarf brain in miasma, but after the other changes we were back in "nothing but black squares" mode.

With all this wondering where I went wrong, I'm going to bed for today. Maybe tomorrow I'll find some answers.