From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2003-12-23T08:26:45+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby-DOOM was Re: learning the "Ruby way"

Tom Copeland wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 10:23, Tom Copeland wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 20:37, Greg McIntyre wrote:
>><lots of nifty stuff snipped>
>>    
>>
>>>LAYOUT =<<END_LAYOUT
>>>###########
>>>0...=...t.#
>>>#.........1
>>>#.........####
>>>#............#
>>>####.........#
>>>   #.........#
>>>   #.........#
>>>   ###########
>>>END_LAYOUT
>>>      
>>>
>>Very cool!  I've been poking around the Doom WAD spec a bit, try to see
>>how feasible it would be to generate new levels with something like:
>>
>>l = Level.new(10,10)
>>l.add(Wall.new(0,0,5,5))
>>l.set_spawn_point(5,0)
>>
>>and so forth.  But this looks like a much nicer way to do it.
>>    
>>
>
>To follow up on this, I've been working on a little utility to generate
>DOOM maps programmatically (using Ruby, of course):
>
>http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-doom/
>
>One of its current features is a "Nethack renderer", i.e.:
>
>http://ruby-doom.rubyforge.org/
>
>I've released a couple of versions and things seem to be working out
>well so far...
>
>Yours,
>
>tom
>
Given this it should be trivial to convert the image into an xpm format, 
and then display it as an xpm bit map.