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DoomRL => Bug Reports => Topic started by: ciccioal on December 07, 2009, 19:27

Title: Floor tiles are confusing me
Post by: ciccioal on December 07, 2009, 19:27
I just downloaded doomrl, and I played it a bit. Nice game, but floor tiles are a bit confusing: instead of having white dots on a black background (.), my floor tiles are a black question mark on a white background (?), making it hard to see and to play. Is this a bug, or just a problem of my pc? I run the game on Ubuntu 8.04.
Title: Re: Floor tiles are confusing me
Post by: Thomas on December 07, 2009, 19:45
(This post is made under the assumption that Ubuntu is some form of linux. I sincerely hope my nerd cred has not been ruined.)

You did get the linux version, right? The downloads page has two links.
Otherwise yeah, it's definately a bug. The linux version is "unstable", to quote the downloads page.
Title: Re: Floor tiles are confusing me
Post by: thelaptop on December 07, 2009, 19:58
You might need to provide more details.  For example, are you using xterm, or the gnome-terminal, or something else to display the game?  Are you using the default doomrl.ini file that is provided?
Title: Re: Floor tiles are confusing me
Post by: Kornel Kisielewicz on December 07, 2009, 20:40
Your terminal font doesn't support HIGH ASCII -- edit the doomrl.ini and set HIGHASCII to false.
Title: Re: Floor tiles are confusing me
Post by: ciccioal on December 08, 2009, 07:12
Perfect, I just needed to modify doomrl.ini setting:

AllowHighAscii   = FALSE;

Now it works! Thanks a lot!

You might need to provide more details.  For example, are you using xterm, or the gnome-terminal, or something else to display the game?  Are you using the default doomrl.ini file that is provided?

I tried using both xterm and gnome-terminal, and the result was the same.
Title: Re: Floor tiles are confusing me
Post by: thelaptop on December 08, 2009, 18:55
I tried using both xterm and gnome-terminal, and the result was the same.
Curiously, what distribution are you using?  I've tested it on Xubuntu using both xfce4-terminal and xterm and things were fine.  Maybe you were missing some option to support UTF-8 or some other encoding for your console?

(I know that the issue has been resolved -- but I think it is more of a workaround than a complete solution.)
Title: Re: Floor tiles are confusing me
Post by: ParaSait on December 09, 2009, 13:49
(This post is made under the assumption that Ubuntu is some form of linux. I sincerely hope my nerd cred has not been ruined.)
Yep, you just totally got kicked out of nerd-dom.
:P