tcod_tutorial_v2 VS libtcod

The map shouldn't be hidden by the changes. You can compare your sources with the expected part-6 sources here.

The old branches from 2020 don't work anymore. So I tried to get the changes from the new version and update the old part-13 (final) branch. You can find it in backports branch of my repo. This won't be merged with upstream, and here is the reason why.

engine is supposed to exist as engine.py in your projects working directory. See the part-3 example code for the correct layout. Something as simple as running main.py from a directory other its own will cause imports to not be found, so try running the sample code once.

The engine itself had a few fixes which were planned for a 2021 tutorial which wasn't finished, those changes and panned ones are listed here and include things like a dedicated data directory, most modules being moved into a package, an updated color scheme, automated linting, and automated deployment of Win/Mac/Linux builds. Since then I didn't do much other than test a scene graph implementation that I've mentioned previously.

I've made an issue to keep track of my current progress, and I'd also like suggestions on what people want updated in the tutorial.

I finally remembered to add a license to the v2 Python tutorial. It is now in the public domain.

The latest tutorial with type-hinting is the "new" one, but this is if you wanted to follow the tutorial. To review the code itself you should look at the GitHub repository instead. This tutorial was written for Python 3.7.

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Libtcod itself uses SDL2. It maps tile glyphs to a texture atlas and maps Unicode codepoints to tile positions. Then it has another data structure called a console which has the background color, foreground color, and codepoint for each tile on that console. It then uses SDL_RenderGeometry to quickly render the background and colored glyphs to an SDL texture, skipping unchanged tiles as an optimization, then renders that texture to the window. The C99 source is here: renderer_sdl2.h renderer_sdl2.c, a C++ version would surely look better.

libtcod has always been a favorite of mine. Does a lot of things to zero fanfare outside the indie roguelike scene.

I've ended up recovering the old 1.3.2 to 1.5.0 builds of libtcod. You can find them on the GitHub releases page. Most of, maybe all of the other places which had these builds are down, but thankfully Jice still had copies of these builds.

FoV is a port from C -> Java of the algorithm found here

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Hey man, I don't wanna piss in your cherrios if you're intentionally doing it all the hard way, but you know about tcod right? https://github.com/libtcod/libtcod/

Browsing the repo, looks like it has a full C only API, https://github.com/libtcod/libtcod/blob/master/src/libtcod/libtcod.h

libtcod support for terminals is in progress at least for ANSI true colour, and I have a minimal compatibility layer for UNIX only.