Use wall and floor tiles but also ascii monsters??

[kurie2000]

Could someone tell me how to set up my angband so that I get all of the beautiful wall and floor tiles etc... but also have letters for monsters instead of tiles? Thanks!

[Nick]

Probably the simplest way is to go into the preference file for your preferred tileset - if it's Shockbolt dark, for example, that's lib/tiles/shockbolt/graf-shb-dark.prf - and then delete all the monster lines, like

monster:Filthy street urchin:0x8B:0x80

Note that if you want other things to be ascii - objects, spell effects or whatever - just do the same for that sort of line.

[kurie2000]

Thanks! I did that, and it "sort of" worked. But now the monsters are represented by a black square with a very tiny letter at the top left of the square. Not sure what is going on there. I tried to go into the menu in game to change the tile multiplier values but it doesn't make the letters take up more or less of the black square.

[Nick]

OK, this is due to the fact that tiles have a settable height and width as multiples of the font size. The main solution I can see is to set these multiples (under the graphics menu, assuming you're in windows or macos) both to 1, but this will mean the tiles are now the same size as your font; this may or may not be acceptable depending on your setup. I can imagine better solutions, but I think they all need significantly more work (and probably changes to the display code).