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This is really cool, I've had so much fun putting together critters this morning! I threw together a little page on my site that has a textarea where you can t

This is really cool, I've had so much fun putting together critters this morning! I threw together a little page on my site that has a textarea where you can try out the font, if you want to experiment without having to download it yourself. https://epiccoleman.com/posts/2024-05-02-teranoptia-playground https://epiccoleman.com/posts/2024-05-02-teranoptia-playgrou... I'd like to toss together a little table of the symbols too, and I also thought it would be cool to use html2canvas to let people download a picture of their creation. Maybe I'll get around to that after work tonight.

BugsJustFindMe 2y ago
Your /assets/me.jpg is a 1.3MB image, but is only displayed at very small thumbnail size on your page.
- epiccoleman 2y ago
  Great feedback, I'll look into reducing the size of that image, especially for the post headers. Thanks for checking out the site!
  - epiccoleman 2y ago
    Quick imagemagick command got it down to 22kb, and a slightly larger one for the frontpage is now only 80kb. The frontpage load feels a lot snappier now, thanks again for the tip!
epiccoleman 2y ago
Few days later, but it seemed most natural to post this here - I created a little cheat sheet of all the available options. It lets you copy the relevant character to your clipboard upon clicking it, which is helpful for some of the oddball characters you might not have on your keyboard. https://epiccoleman.com/posts/2024-05-05-teranoptia-cheatsheet https://epiccoleman.com/posts/2024-05-05-teranoptia-cheatshe...
california-og 2y ago
The author of the font made it also Glyph Drawing Club "compatible", which is a modular shape builder I've built that works with font files. You can just drag and drop an otf or ttf file on the app window and it'll load the glyphs as svg shapes to draw with. The neat thing is that it works in two dimensions, and you can also rotate (with r hotkey) or invert (with i hotkey) the glyphs, and output the drawing as SVG or PNG. https://glyphdrawing.club https://glyphdrawing.club
- araes 2y ago
  This is pretty neat, and cool as a design style for doing "tilesque" types of drawing. Would there happen to be a way to add your own tileset, font, or tile atlas? Would then allow for rather quick tilemap creation (GB, NES, SNES style; a lot of cell phone games, many Steam releases, ect...). Lots of market. 500 games released last week on Steam. https://steamdb.info/upcoming/?lastweek https://steamdb.info/upcoming/?lastweek Out of the 28 so far today, 6 appear to be tile based. If not, may borrow at least some of the design features for a project, as with a bit of simplification in a few areas, and changes for cell phones, it would actually make a nice way for users to interact with tile based games. Place an object, move an object, flip an object. The tab based design and layout also works nicely desktop to phone for the most part, which is a nice plus for adaptation. Anyways, neat tool, and especially design flow and layout. Also, the 15 pages of font use on https://velvetyne.fr/in-use/ https://velvetyne.fr/in-use/ is pretty crazy to look at. EDIT: Also, to the author of Teranoptia, the licensing layout is actually rather nice and really clear about uses immediately. Lot of the web has vague license names, yet the direct use listing is beneficial.
- epiccoleman 2y ago
  Wow, that is really cool. I'll definitely be playing with this later, thanks for the tip!
forgotpwd16 2y ago
Thanks. Kinda expected (or at least I do, being accustomed to Google Fonts) nowadays a font-hosting site to have something like that. edit: Just saw sibling comment that placeholder text is editable. Hadn't noticed it.
breadwinner 2y ago
The creatures at the bottom of the page are editable already.
- devin 2y ago
  Thanks, I didn't realize this.
- epiccoleman 2y ago
  D'oh! Of course they are haha. It didn't even occur to me to try. Edit: I guess one neat thing about my page is that you get a readout of the characters in your critter. Obviously you could just copy-paste from that field at the bottom of the Tunera page into any other text field and find out that way, but I did find it helpful when I was trying to experiment.

BugsJustFindMe 2y ago

Your /assets/me.jpg is a 1.3MB image, but is only displayed at very small thumbnail size on your page.

epiccoleman 2y ago
Great feedback, I'll look into reducing the size of that image, especially for the post headers. Thanks for checking out the site!
- epiccoleman 2y ago
  Quick imagemagick command got it down to 22kb, and a slightly larger one for the frontpage is now only 80kb. The frontpage load feels a lot snappier now, thanks again for the tip!

epiccoleman 2y ago

Few days later, but it seemed most natural to post this here - I created a little cheat sheet of all the available options. It lets you copy the relevant character to your clipboard upon clicking it, which is helpful for some of the oddball characters you might not have on your keyboard. https://epiccoleman.com/posts/2024-05-05-teranoptia-cheatsheet https://epiccoleman.com/posts/2024-05-05-teranoptia-cheatshe...

california-og 2y ago

The author of the font made it also Glyph Drawing Club "compatible", which is a modular shape builder I've built that works with font files. You can just drag and drop an otf or ttf file on the app window and it'll load the glyphs as svg shapes to draw with. The neat thing is that it works in two dimensions, and you can also rotate (with r hotkey) or invert (with i hotkey) the glyphs, and output the drawing as SVG or PNG. https://glyphdrawing.club https://glyphdrawing.club

araes 2y ago
This is pretty neat, and cool as a design style for doing "tilesque" types of drawing. Would there happen to be a way to add your own tileset, font, or tile atlas? Would then allow for rather quick tilemap creation (GB, NES, SNES style; a lot of cell phone games, many Steam releases, ect...). Lots of market. 500 games released last week on Steam. https://steamdb.info/upcoming/?lastweek https://steamdb.info/upcoming/?lastweek Out of the 28 so far today, 6 appear to be tile based. If not, may borrow at least some of the design features for a project, as with a bit of simplification in a few areas, and changes for cell phones, it would actually make a nice way for users to interact with tile based games. Place an object, move an object, flip an object. The tab based design and layout also works nicely desktop to phone for the most part, which is a nice plus for adaptation. Anyways, neat tool, and especially design flow and layout. Also, the 15 pages of font use on https://velvetyne.fr/in-use/ https://velvetyne.fr/in-use/ is pretty crazy to look at. EDIT: Also, to the author of Teranoptia, the licensing layout is actually rather nice and really clear about uses immediately. Lot of the web has vague license names, yet the direct use listing is beneficial.
epiccoleman 2y ago
Wow, that is really cool. I'll definitely be playing with this later, thanks for the tip!

forgotpwd16 2y ago

Thanks. Kinda expected (or at least I do, being accustomed to Google Fonts) nowadays a font-hosting site to have something like that. edit: Just saw sibling comment that placeholder text is editable. Hadn't noticed it.

breadwinner 2y ago

The creatures at the bottom of the page are editable already.

devin 2y ago
Thanks, I didn't realize this.
epiccoleman 2y ago
D'oh! Of course they are haha. It didn't even occur to me to try. Edit: I guess one neat thing about my page is that you get a readout of the characters in your critter. Obviously you could just copy-paste from that field at the bottom of the Tunera page into any other text field and find out that way, but I did find it helpful when I was trying to experiment.