ASCII animation

[megasnorlax]

Hello! I saw some ASCII art lately and I thought it would be cool if I made a looped sequence like this http://www.bunnyslippers.com/blog/rabbits-in-motion-ten-bunny-gifs/asciibunnylovegifs/ I have never done an animation before though. How would I do this?

[Oria]

The lazy way would be a sprite sheet and using SDL

[megasnorlax]

No, I meant doing it in C++.

[giblit]

use a switch statement like this:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{	
	for(int i = 0; i<12; i++){
		switch(i){
			case 0: cout << "blinking" << flush; sleep(1); break;
			case 1: cout << string(8,'\b') << "Man     " << endl; break;
			case 2: cout << "(-:" << flush; sleep(1); break;
			case 3: case 5: case 7: case 9: cout << "\b8" << flush; sleep(1); break;
			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 10: cout << "\b:" << flush; sleep(1); break;
			case 11: cout << "\b8" << endl; break;
		}
	}
	cout << "Good bye!" << endl;
	
	return(0);
}

[megasnorlax]

Thx!

[Oria]

megasnorlax wrote:

No, I meant doing it in C++.

SDL is a C++ library...