Hi so i'm making a game through the console window, and i was wondering if there was any way to just get maybe one or two text character's placement to change or disappear. Usually to accomplish this i would have to tell the console to re-type every single character and line all over again, but this just takes to long (1 second fps plus .5 second time spent re-typing the scene).
Is there some way i could re-fresh or change one or two lines or 'characters' seen on the console so so much time is not spent on waiting for the console to re-typing my 24 lines, each a string? (the scene made up of text)
Thanks! =)
btw... does anyone remember that little easter egg in windows which was an entire star wars movie made out of text in the console?? I want the game be smooth like that!
You'll need to use an external library to interface with the console as C++ doesn't have these capabilities, but it is possible.
My old goto for this sort of thing is ncurses. It's straightforward, quick to set up, and cross-platform. But it's old, and its age shows. (If you're on windows you'll have to use pdcurses; same capabilities, different package).
There are also console-specific ways of doing this. In particular, Windows provides an API for performing these sorts of actions.