Hi y'all,
I just wanted to let you know that earlier today I released v1.5.4 of Moebiusý for your ANSI creation pleasure.
Here are some of the recent features and fixes to have gone into it since v1.4.0;
On 06 Jun 2026, MeaTLoTioN said the following...
Hi y'all,
I just wanted to let you know that earlier today I released v1.5.4 of Moebiusý for your ANSI creation pleasure.
Here are some of the recent features and fixes to have gone into it s v1.4.0;
1. Is there any documentation for using the new additions such as adding TheDraw fonts or implementing the animations? I've not been able to find anything on the github site. Nor have I been successful just "playing" around.
2. Since I'm new to doing ansi works, are there any web sites or ???
that you can recommend for tutorials?
On 05 Jun 2026, ogg said the following...
On 06 Jun 2026, MeaTLoTioN said the following...
Hi y'all,
I just wanted to let you know that earlier today I released v1.5.
Moebiusý for your ANSI creation pleasure.
Here are some of the recent features and fixes to have gone into
v1.4.0;
1. Is there any documentation for using the new additions such as addi
TheDraw fonts or implementing the animations? I've not been able to fi
anything on the github site. Nor have I been successful just "playing"
around.
There isn't any documentation yet, however I can tell you that to use TheDraw fonts is straight forward enough.
To use TDF Fonts:
First you need to have a list of the fonts somewhere on your disk, then click the Aa button in the left tool panel, this opens up the TDF font chooser, at the top of that popup is a button to pick the dir where the TDF fonts are located, once you have chosen that dir, you will see the font names appear on the left of that popup, and you can scroll through with the up/down arrows or scroll with the mouse to find the font you
wish to use, once you select the font to use, click the x button at the top-right of the popup, and then click somewhere on the canvas, when you do a flashing cursor appears there, then just type.
To use the animations:
With a blank canvas or loaded ANS file, click View->Animation Mode (or press CTRL+SHIFT+M), then you will see a panel appear at the bottom of
the main window. This is your animation tool bar. From here, you will
see it has 1 frame, and some controls. Make the first frame show the "beginning" of whatever you want to be animated, then click "+ Clone",
you will now have 2 frames and the new frame will be selected (blue).
Now you can do a slight change in this new frame, and then click "+
Clone" again to make a 3rd frame, make another change, and so on.
If you want to make a new scene, click "+ Scene" and it will create a blank frame. From here you can set the "Reveal" to one of the
transitions so that whatever you draw on this new "Scene" will be transitioned in from the last frame of the previous scene.
Once you've finished your animation or you want to play it to see what it's like, choose the speed (2400 I recommend as it allows you to see it better), then click the 4th button with a hover text of "Play as ANSImation (streaming)". The button to the left is also a play button
but it just cylces through each frame, useful just to see quick changes.
Once you're happy with the file, or you want to stop and continue
another time, click save and make sure the file type is "Moebius
Layered" with the extention .mob - that will allow all the animation frames to be saved as you've made them.
To export the ANSImation to be used on a BBS, click File->Export As ANSImation, the filetype will be fixed, the extension will be .ans and
you should then be able to view the new file on a BBS.
2. Since I'm new to doing ansi works, are there any web sites or ??? that you can recommend for tutorials?
If you want tutorials on drawing ANSI art, in the help menu is a "ANSI
Art Tutorials at 16Colors" and if you click that, it will open a browser and show you how to ANSI =)
I don't know if there are any ANSImation specific tutorials, but you
might be able to find some using TheDraw which should be fairly easy to translate into Moebiusý.
I hope that this helps =)
Thank You!! Very detailed explanations. I'll get going on this today.
Thank You!! Very detailed explanations. I'll get going on this today.
You're welcome, thank you for pointing out that it needed documenting better. I have since created this page in my wiki for it;
https://wiki.erb.pw/mw/index.php?title=Moebiusý_Animations
It's much more detailed and hopefully covers everything.
I just wanted to let you know that earlier today I released v1.5.4 of Moebiusý for your ANSI creation pleasure.
If you haven't yet tried the latest version, go grab the latest binaries here; https://github.com/christiansacks/moebius/releases/tag/v1.5.4
I want to make a shout out to xbit who has given me so much of his spare time for testing all of the fixes and features, I really do appreciate
you my dude.
Thank You!! Very detailed explanations. I'll get going on this today.
You're welcome, thank you for pointing out that it needed documenting better. I have since created this page in my wiki for it;
https://wiki.erb.pw/mw/index.php?title=Moebiusý_Animations
It's much more detailed and hopefully covers everything.
Great job on the wiki! One thing I noticed while using the animation section, there is no 2400/9600 baud selection under the speed option.
The 4 slow..max are there.
I'll continue my explorations! I do have a use that is driving me.
On 06 Jun 2026, ogg said the following...
Thank You!! Very detailed explanations. I'll get going on t
today.
You're welcome, thank you for pointing out that it needed documen
better. I have since created this page in my wiki for it;
https://wiki.erb.pw/mw/index.php?title=Moebiusý_Animations
It's much more detailed and hopefully covers everything.
Great job on the wiki! One thing I noticed while using the animation section, there is no 2400/9600 baud selection under the speed option. The 4 slow..max are there.
Ah it should be, grab the latest version, v1.5.5, I thought I'd put that in a previous version but maybe that didn't exist until v1.5.5, hard to tell, I've made so many improvements over the last few weeks lol =)
I'll continue my explorations! I do have a use that is driving me.
keep going, and keep me posted as to what you make of it.
here; https://github.com/christiansacks/moebius/releases/tag/v1.5.4
Dude - what you've added to Moebius over the past months is freaking awesome - ansimation back in a modern ANSi editor?!?! Also, .TDF font support - RAD for new artists and sysOps.
One of my favorite things you added was simply ANSi previews when yer opening a file - that is SiCK. Thanks for all the movement on such an important piece of software in our community - you really have breathed new life into Moebius and I think the work should be championed.
Thank you, mL - for ALL you do for this community.
Wow thank you for your kind words, I'm stoked that people are finding
the extra goodness I've squeezed into it useful. I always wanted Moebius to be the best damn ANSI creation tool out there, and now I really think it might be heading that way.
Feel free to post about it on Reddit and/or your own videos, you always have a much better reach than I do.
I cannot wait to see what people create with it, and hopefully we'll see
a lot more ANSImations making a comeback to the scene.
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