Any tips with making ASCII art with lists in scratch? Specifically:
-how to make the art (I already know how I want it to look)
-good character to use for white space
-extra points if you know how to make the map scrollable/zoomable
I am working on a text/list based rpg game, and for the game I am wanting to make a world map with text/ASCII art. This has proved to be very difficult for me!
First I tried making the map in a word text editor and pasting the string into the list, but that doesnt work because the font scratch uses doesn't have consistent spacing of characters.

Next I tried making the map in the scratch editor by breaking up list entries like so:

add [^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^] to [list v]
add [^^^^^^Rocky Mountains^^^] to [list v]
add [^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^] to [list v]

but it really doesn't look good with the breaks between the entry lists.

I tried copy/pasting the entries into a single entry to get rid of the list entry breaks, but it acts really weirdly with white space so each “line” of characters doesnt line up in a single entry as it does in seperate entries.

If I could get help with drawing just a single image for a map with text that would be great. Ideally, there will also be a way to zoom in on the map and scroll around. This seems insanely difficulty with text art, but thought I would ask anyways

Thanks!

Basically any Japanese chars are great for ascii art because they are mostly fixed-width.
use the jp style spaces as well as kanji for styling

TheUltimatum wrote:

Basically any Japanese chars are great for ascii art because they are mostly fixed-width.

０　１　２　３　４　５　６　７　８　９
＆　＾　！　＠　＃　＄　％　＊

use the jp style spaces as well as kanji for styling

Your back!

Also, thanks for the reply. I am a little confused though with the code you posted, are you saying I should use those symbols? (&,^,!,@,#,$,%,*)? And what do the numbers mean?

Second also, do you know how to type a jp style space? Google just gives me images of empty rooms in japan…

Bump

called an ‘ideographic space’
https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/3000/index.htm

ge-b wrote:

called an ‘ideographic space’
https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/3000/index.htm

Ohhh I found it. Thanks!

TheUltimatum wrote:

Basically any Japanese chars are great for ascii art because they are mostly fixed-width.

０　１　２　３　４　５　６　７　８　９
＆　＾　！　＠　＃　＄　％　＊

use the jp style spaces as well as kanji for styling

Also, I understand your post now. Those are examples of kanji that are all the same width! This is super helpful, thanks!!

So the Japanese characters are working great, but there is one issue. When I view the list art in normal screen mode it looks good, just like how it looks on my other text editors, but when I view the list art in full screen the spacing gets off by about half a space per line. Anyone know how to fix this?

nvm, fixed it by changing the size of the list window a tad bit