The Tavern

(May be this was discussed already, sorry if was. Didn't find it with search.)
In 0.8.x console versions walls are displayed with '#' character. In prior versions walls was displayed as block, and I liked it. Is it possible to switch wall looking to older version? Didn't find appropriate options in settings files.
Edit: The same question for doors.

http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/blobs/ ... _guide.txt

The cset section. If your char_set = ascii, then to change closed doors to "+", you'd need to add this to your config file:

cset_ascii = door_closed:+

I think he's asking for the mappings that were in 0.7.X and previous, though. Some non-ASCII (apparently) characters were used, but it's not clear to anyone not used to dealing with character sets what they might have been. Doors were not "+", but were rather a solid rectangle, IIRC. Walls were a "shaded" rectangle. Altars had a different character as well.

I preferred the old sets too, but I've been too lazy to download an older version and trawl through the config files looking for all the specific mappings.

If someone bothers to make a list with all the charset definitions to give the old look, we can ship that in an easily included file.

Here's my settings

char_set = ascii

cset = wall: x2592 (shaded block)
cset = wall_magic:x2591 (not so shaded block)
cset = floor:. (dot)
cset = floor_magic:· (centered dot, optional)
cset = cloud:x23 ( #)
cset= door_closed:x25A0 (solid block centered)
cset = item_book:x221E ( infinite symbol )
cset = tree:x2663 (club symbol, in 0.7 there was an omega symbol though)
cset = altar:x2584 (solid block at inferior part)

I was just posting a tip how to change it, the "+" for doors was just an example. If you know what the feature looked like, you can get the appropriate number from here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437

It's used as outlined in Roderick's post, with an "x" before the Unicode code. List of features is in the options_guide.txt file that's shipped with Crawl.

P.S.: Just wanted to add that you will get most of these settings automatically if you set char_set = unicode. Why is that, I don't know.

Thank you lordfrikk, Roderic! Now my crawl console looks fine again (especially using 8x8 or 16x16 font).

I tried doing what you guys did and my Crawl keeps crashing before I get to even choose a character. I really don't know how to set/edit the options... it's all waaaaay over my head. Could someone just upload their option file somewhere so I could just download it and put it in my crawl folder?

Thank you.

I just use: char_set = ibm, and it turns walls from # to blocks nicely.

Or more explicitly, in init.txt, go to section 6-a "All OS", take the # off the front of char_set = ascii and change it to char_set = ibm

My Crawl is still crashing... I can't even start a game now. Man.... I regret ever trying to change the options.

EDIT: Nevermind I got it to work! Woooo hoooo! Thanks guys.