Text

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ZZT-OOP name	N/A
Internal ID	Multiple
Character	Any (determined by tile's color byte)
Default color	White foreground; background determined by ID
Stats?	no
Other traits
Effect on movement	{{{effect on movement}}}
Uses ZZT-OOP color names?	{{{uses zzt-oop color}}}

Text is a terrain type that can have any of the 256 characters. Its intended use is for putting text labels on a board's terrain.

Text is a unique element in several ways:

• Its display character is determined by color: Internally, ZZT stores character data where color bytes would normally go, presumably to reduce the number of stats that a long run of text would otherwise require.
• It has more than one ID: Because the color byte is occupied, ZZT encodes the text's background color by having multiple different IDs.
• Its foreground color cannot be changed.
• It cannot be referenced in ZZT-OOP: e.g., there is no way to change all text tiles to another element type.