I am just wanting to know if anyone had any ideas for a main menu? It's got me stumped I mean I can draw the some cool stuff with ansi. I just don't know what I could do for a main menu! lol....
This may sound like stupid question but I have some other main menus on other systems. Nothing has really stuck out to really grab my attention (for ideas) I don't want to rip someone's artwork like that. It needs to be unique and to the point. Not too over the top with too much ansi were it looks stupid. No flaiming skulls or upside crosses. Been there and done that back when I was young running a wwiv board at the age of 10! So that is not for me anymore. Hope I get some really cool ideas guys!
Thanks for your input as well
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Re: Ansi for main menu
By: Lesser Keys to All on Thu Oct 17 2013 00:00:10

Ahoy, < Keys,

I am just wanting to know if anyone had any ideas for a main menu? It's
got me stumped I mean I can draw the some cool stuff with ansi. I just
don't know what I could do for a main menu! lol....

I would suggest an icy skull, and an uninverted cross.

:D

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Hello Lesser!

17 Oct 13 00:00, you wrote to all:

I am just wanting to know if anyone had any ideas for a main menu?
It's got me stumped I mean I can draw the some cool stuff with ansi. I just don't know what I could do for a main menu! lol.... This may

Try putting the menu options on the screen first and draw around them?

the age of 10! So that is not for me anymore. Hope I get some really
cool ideas guys! Thanks for your input as well

If your board has a theme, try to use that theme around the menu options? Sorry not much help. :)

Shawn


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Re: Ansi for main menu
By: art to Lesser Keys on Thu Oct 17 2013 09:20 am

My mom get's on this system sometimes and she was not liking the refrences to satan lol. I didn't think I had any. She seen it in the door games list
example

DARKESS
LORD
THE BEAST DOMAIN

So putting icy skulls and inverted crosses just isn't going to cut it...She said she wasn't comming back to it lol.
I changed the game's name lord to Legend of the Red Dragon
Still doesn't look good when you have a wanna be fanatical christian getting on your system...
I happen to like inverted crosses and things that deal with the geotia and lesser keys of solomon. I have been in mystery schools for years.
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Re: Ansi for main menu
By: Tiny to Lesser Keys on Thu Oct 17 2013 07:58 am

That's the thing it's subliminal and has masonic lingo on it. And I am trying to keep it some what clean. That way if my mom happens to get on the server again she wont go into hell fire and brinstone mode.

I wanted to have the eastern star as a main menu with the two pillars seperating the menu lists (named jacob and boaz) with the star pointing to the east... I can't do that because people in my family don't read history books. They do no know that the star pointing to the east is not satanic. Satanism addopted this symbol in the 19 century.
My mother seen my door game list and my chat handle (lucifer) and flipped. Thinking i was talking about satanism or something. The bible only mentions it once i know i know....
it's talking about babylon's king falling from his title lucifer (the light bearer)

So my theme is masonic in origin. It is based around the knights templar, and king solomon's temple. Thing is the catholic church ruined the sacred symbols by calling them satanic...That missinformation is still going on today...As you can see when my mother flipped out over a few things...I am trying to keep it clean as possible children do get on my bbs and play door games and my family does too. All are traditional christians who don't read into the texts and assume the worst.
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Re: Ansi for main menu
By: Lesser Keys to All on Thu Oct 17 2013 12:00 am

I just started using PabloDraw, if you look around there's beta versions (higher than 3.1.3 which is the current version online) Pablo draw will correctly read/edit Ctrl-A files (Synchronet .asc files), but you have to click file > Open from the file browser, select the file and choose CtrlA from the file type menu or it won't display correctly. Once you see the file as it's supposed to look then click edit to change it around.

Check out the wiki.synchro.net for a page on Ctrl-A codes and @ Codes that'll help in your design.
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I am just wanting to know if anyone had any ideas for a main menu? It's got me
stumped I mean I can draw the some cool stuff with ansi. I just don't know ->what
I could do for a main menu! lol....

Heh, at least you can ANSI draw! I can't. For the ANSIs in my latest wcCODE script I borrowed the ANSIs from the AgoraNet info pack. They actually ended up working quite well, btu now just need to get ride of the crappy looking stock WINServer ANSIs that Santronics throws in.



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Re: RE:Ansi for main menu
By: ROBERT WOLFE to LESSER KEYS on Thu Oct 17 2013 10:44 am

Heh, at least you can ANSI draw! I can't. For the ANSIs in my latest wcCODE script I borrowed the ANSIs from the AgoraNet info pack. They actually ended up working quite well, btu now just need to get ride of the crappy looking stock WINServer ANSIs that Santronics throws in.

HEH..... What kind of theme are you going for? Give me some Ideas and I can draw you something cool! just let me know what you want I can give you a few things to choose from if you need them...lol
I can actually draw ansi!!! I Used to suck back and got my stuff from art packs but now just by drawing it, screwing up, drawing ansi again...Finally I started to get to were my stuff looked real good. like acid art good! lol let me know if you want some help with the ansi. I am more than willing to help those who need help.
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Re: Ansi for main menu
By: Lesser Keys to art on Thu Oct 17 2013 16:35:00

I happen to like inverted crosses and things that deal with the geotia and lesser keys of solomon. I have been in mystery schools for years.

Well, here's an idea, although it's kind of what I was planning to
do but never got around to... As I'm sure you know from your mystery schooling, the special nature of Solomon's Temple was the exact
proportions in the geometry of the architecture. It all relates to sacred geometry. The farthest I've made it on my BBS to referencing this is a
very simple star tetrahedron/merkabah (it's on my login screen if you want
to check it out, and referenced in the BBS name, Tinfoil Tetrahedron).
Why not do some googling of those ratios and architectures, and maybe try
to plant menu options in them, and then take some more of the interesting sacred geometric forms or platonic solid representations and use them as boundaries in your banner screens?


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Re: Ansi for main menu
By: Lesser Keys to Tiny on Thu Oct 17 2013 16:42:08

I wanted to have the eastern star as a main menu with the two pillars seperating the menu lists (named jacob and boaz) with the star pointing to t east... I can't do that because people in my family don't read history books They do no know that the star pointing to the east is not satanic. Satanism addopted this symbol in the 19 century.

I understand that the Masons claim not to be satanic or
lucifarian, but you do understand that jacob & boaz, as found in Masonic temple architecture, are reversed as per the order that they are found described in the bible, thus symbolizing leaving heaven when entering the grand lodge/ritual room, and not entering it, right?

So my theme is masonic in origin. It is based around the knights templar, an king solomon's temple. Thing is the catholic church ruined the sacred symbol by calling them satanic...That missinformation is still going on today...As can see when my mother flipped out over a few things...I am trying to keep i clean as possible children do get on my bbs and play door games and my famil does too. All are traditional christians who don't read into the texts and assume the worst.

The geometry of King Solomon's temple is also a foundation of any custom built masonic lodge; if nowhere else than in the primary
ritualistic room. Another good reason to work with the geometry, if you
ask me, to appropriately symbolize the theme of your BBS without offending
the naive and uninitiated.


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Re: Re: Ansi for main menu
By: Khelair to Lesser Keys on Fri Oct 18 2013 05:59 pm

Another good reason to work with the geometry, if you

ask me, to appropriately symbolize the theme of your BBS without offending
the naive and uninitiated.

I agree I have some good ideas now..
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HEH..... What kind of theme are you going for? Give me some Ideas and I can ->draw you something cool! just let me know what you want I can give you a few ->things to choose from if you need them...lol
I can actually draw ansi!!! I Used to suck back and got my stuff from art ->packs
but now just by drawing it, screwing up, drawing ansi again...Finally I ->started to get to were my stuff looked real good. like acid art good! lol let ->me know if you want some help with the ansi. I am more than willing to help ->those who need help.

Well, an outer space theme would be nice or maybe even something to do with a river, just not sure, since the address of the BBS is bbs.rivernet.us and the name of the BBS is Omicron Theta.



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Re: RE:Ansi for main menu
By: ROBERT WOLFE to LESSER KEYS on Fri Oct 18 2013 06:21 am

Well, an outer space theme would be nice or maybe even something to do with a river, just not sure, since the address of the BBS is bbs.rivernet.us and the name of the BBS is Omicron Theta.

Ok I got ya! I will see what I can come up with. I saved your bbs to syncterm so I can return...I will try to send you the ansi via your bbs.
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Ok I got ya! I will see what I can come up with. I saved your bbs to syncterm
so I can return...I will try to send you the ansi via your bbs.

Ok, saw your email on my BBS and replied. Thanks! :) Will be by your
BBS ASAP :)

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Re: RE:Ansi for main menu
By: ROBERT WOLFE to LESSER KEYS on Sun Oct 20 2013 08:24 am

So you want rivers or something to do with stars huh? Well give me a few days and I will draw up a few things and you can direct me from there. I don't want to draw something (take all the time to draw it) if you are not going to like it. No offense but you see what I am trying to say? I will throw a few ideas with a few snippets of ansi and you can tell me what you like and what you don't. That way you get the ansi you want ;)
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So you want rivers or something to do with stars huh? Well give me a few days
and I will draw up a few things and you can direct me from there. I don't want
to draw something (take all the time to draw it) if you are not going to like
it. No offense but you see what I am trying to say? I will throw a few ideas with a few snippets of ansi and you can tell me what you like and what you don't. That way you get the ansi you want ;)

Cool! Thanks! And yeah, I can understand that, so no offense taken :)

I am planning on TRYING to write an ANSI art gallery for Wildcat! here
to see how it turns out and maybe even release it, but I don't know yet.
I consider myself a fairly good modder when it comes to WINServer (wcCODE/wcBASIC is one of the easiest scripting languages to learn and
indeed one of the most powerful in my opinion), so it should not be too terribly hard. :


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Re: RE:Ansi for main menu
By: ROBERT WOLFE to LESSER KEYS on Sun Oct 20 2013 08:53 am

Cool! Thanks! And yeah, I can understand that, so no offense taken :)
I am planning on TRYING to write an ANSI art gallery for Wildcat! here
to see how it turns out and maybe even release it, but I don't know yet.
I consider myself a fairly good modder when it comes to WINServer (wcCODE/wcBASIC is one of the easiest scripting languages to learn and indeed one of the most powerful in my opinion), so it should not be too terribly hard. :

Let me know if you get stuck on piece of ansi you can't seem to get quite right. I have been there sometimes I even put all my ansi's im not happy with in another folder and slowly modify them until they look good. Sometimes ansi art can be easy other times, not. I think it is because of the characters we have to use to draw ansi. They are very big and square....Hard to make something round out of a square block lol.
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Let me know if you get stuck on piece of ansi you can't seem to get quite right. I have been there sometimes I even put all my ansi's im not happy with
in another folder and slowly modify them until they look good. Sometimes ansi
art can be easy other times, not. I think it is because of the characters we have to use to draw ansi. They are very big and square....Hard to make something round out of a square block lol.

Yeah, have not even begun to code the ANSI art gallery mod for Wildcat!
yet. Been too busy with other thigns. I barely had enough energy on
reserve to complete my AgoraNet BBS list database mod for Wildcat! :)

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Re: RE:Ansi for main menu
By: ROBERT WOLFE to LESSER KEYS on Thu Oct 17 2013 10:44 am

Heh, at least you can ANSI draw! I can't. For the ANSIs in my latest wcCODE script I borrowed the ANSIs from the AgoraNet info pack. They actually ended up working quite well, btu now just need to get ride of the crappy looking stock WINServer ANSIs that Santronics throws in.

Did you try Pablodraw? I didn't think I was much of an ANSI artist, but I can draw decently with PD. Supports Ctrl-A mode as well so real easy to edit synchronet.asc files.

Problem I had with ANSI was that the tools were just hard to work with.
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Did you try Pablodraw? I didn't think I was much of an ANSI artist, but I can
draw decently with PD. Supports Ctrl-A mode as well so real easy to edit synchronet.asc files.

Problem I had with ANSI was that the tools were just hard to work with.

Yeah. Wildcat! uses @-code screens, like PCBoard does (although the
similarity between the two stops there). Ctrl-A codes are not
interpreted as they are in other BBS packages.

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I just started using PabloDraw, if you look around there's beta versions (higher than 3.1.3 which is the current version online) Pablo draw will correctly read/edit Ctrl-A files (Synchronet .asc files), but you have to click file > Open from the file browser, select the file and choose CtrlA from the file type menu or it won't display correctly. Once you see the
file as it's supposed to look then click edit to change it around.

Check out the wiki.synchro.net for a page on Ctrl-A codes and @ Codes that'll help in your design.

Have you realized all the neet stuff these ctrl-a codes can do? also @ codes
as well, It would be cool if we could write baja and js straight into the ansi art. It pretty much can handle a lot of things that can be done in script.
like executing programs and stuff. It would be cool to have more features. However, it is pretty darn cool.
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Re: Re: Ansi for main menu
By: Lesser Keys to Android8675 on Sun Nov 24 2013 21:49:33

Have you realized all the neet stuff these ctrl-a codes can do? also @ codes as well, It would be cool if we could write baja and js straight into the ansi art. It pretty much can handle a lot of things that can be

It's possible to call a Baja or JS module using the @EXEC code. For more information, read the documentation at http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:atcodes.

Also, thanks for that lovely email you sent me earlier this week. I thought you weren't going to be posting around here any longer. I see you've changed your mind.

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