PhotonASCII

A terminal-based, raycast-light engine in C++ (2D)

Instructions

First, you will need to get the photon-ascii folder and it's contents.

Then, simply create a main.cpp file at the level of the folder, and place these lines at the top of yourmain.cpp file:

#define SCREEN_WIDTH 100
#define SCREEN_HEIGHT 20
#define SCENE_WIDTH 100
#define SCENE_HEIGHT 20
#define TERMINAL_ASPECT 2.0f
#define CLS_CMD "clear"
#include "photon-ascii/self.hpp"

And ofcourse, you can change all these defines.

That's it. You can add and edit stuff in the folder to your likings, and for a working example, have a look at the main.cpp file in this repo.

Also; have a look at the self.hpp file in the photon-ascii folder. There are some things to configure if you want/ need to.

Examples are located at examples/ Idk why I said that, makes sense haha, but here you go.

What can you do with it?

PhotonASCII provides a way to interact with light and self made structures (Yes, you can move and animate structures in the tick loop)

With this, you can create games, rendering, paintings, interactive UI, fancy terminal stuff, and much more

Have fun casting chars as photons!

Color Blend

Candles + Table

"Forest"

Shadow color cast

Animated tick frame

"Spotlight"

"House"

Used mathematical laws/ algorithms

PhotonASCII uses two mathematical laws/ algorithms

Bresenham

Lambert-Beer