Post by hitzu » Fri Oct 16, 2015 4:09 am

vzybilly wrote: I have a question, could I get sprites for letters as well? I made a post detailing some of my plans and I'm feeling like just adding like you have...

I have a strong belief that Nixie tubes aren't good for letter display. There should be 26 (or 30 if you want simple punctuations) individual cathodes in each tube in a row just for basic latin letters that English language uses. In the real life the farthest one just wouldn't glow because it would be so far away from the anode and moreover it would be obscured by 25 other guys. And if I want to make them consistent with numbered tubes, then there would be no room for the offset feature that I love.Anyway it's not a big deal. I can make a Sixteen-segment display , a Dot-matrix display or a Split-flap display , although they don't have a such romantic aura as the Nixie tubes have. With the Split-flap display it would be possible to encode basically any charachter and even in-game icons. With some effort I belive it would be even possible to make the flipping animation. Like this