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erkin / ponysay

Pony rewrite of cowsay.
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How can I add ponies? #308

Closed elpideus closed 3 years ago

elpideus commented 3 years ago

Hi, I'm not really that good at coding but I like to draw pixel art. I would really like to create something and contribute to this project. But I do not understand how must I write the color codes and test them.

matthias4217 commented 3 years ago

Hello, there are some instructions in the pdf documentation. What you roughly need to do is the following :

  1. Create the picture and export it as a PNG file.
  2. Install `util-say :
    1. If you are running ArchLinux, it's available in the AUR repo, else, you need to clone the git repository
    2. Execute a make install in the repository (you'll need java-runtime version 6 minimum and coreutils.
  3. Convert the picture to a .pony file using util-say : img2ponysay -- SOURCE_IMAGE > PONY_FILE
  4. Then you can display your pony : ponysay -F PONY_FILE -o

Then you can edit the metadata, using ponysay-tool --edit PONY_FILE.

If you want, I can do the conversion to a pony image for you. However it may be a bit slower as the colors used by terminals are limited, and thus the picture do not reflect exactly the true colors of the original picture. I maintain a repository of non-pony pictures here if you want to see more.

elpideus commented 3 years ago

Thank you so much for your answer. I will try to do it all by myself. I already know that the terminal colors are limited, I will try to draw using limited colors. I will let you know when I'll finish doing my first pony for ponysay.