This article includes details on how to make piecepack game diagrams using just Unicode. There is another article full of tables of useful piecepack Unicode symbols.
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Unicode Piecepack Symbols
This article includes tables of potentially useful Unicode symbols for making piecepack graphics. There is another article with more info on making piecepack Unicode diagrams.
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Portable Piecepack Notation
Version: 0.11.0
Portable Piecepack Notation (PPN) is a human-readable plaintext file format for storing board games. The default Movetext parser is designed to be provide a fairly flexible notation system out of the box for playing a large variety of games but the structure is designed allow support …
read more3D Projections
piecepackr has some basic support to project 3D board games (like the hundreds of piecepack games) onto a 2D diagram. It can make diagrams with an orthographic or oblique projection using R's grid graphics library. Beginning with piecepackr 1.3 it can also make diagrams using the rgl or rayrender …
read moreCustom grob functions
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The custom grob functions in this article use the function pp_shape() which was introduced in piecepackr v1.5.1
Although using piecepackr's configuration lists provide a powerful high-level way to alter the appearance …
Configuration lists
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piecepackr allows one to alter the appearance of one's board game pieces through the use of configuration lists. Here is an example:
library("grid") library("piecepackr") dark_colorscheme <- list(suit_color="darkred,black,darkgreen …
Intro to piecepackr's API
piecepackr is an R package to easily make piecepack graphics. It can be used to make piecepack game diagrams and animations as well as Print & Play layouts so you can make your own piecepack.
The core function is grid.piece which can be used to draw any piecepack component:
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read moreDirectly using the 'animations' package
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Besides the animation package you may find gifski and tweenr helpful.
Here is a simple example of using the saveGIF function from the animation package and piecepackr::grid.piece directly to make a GIF …