🔒 Displaying Dice for a Discord Bot

[wanton horizon]

As of late, I've been working on a Discord bot that includes functionality for rolling dice, and I want to display the results of all the dice rolls in an embed. For example, rolling 2d4 + d6 will display two images of four-sided dice and one image of a six-sided die. At the moment, the Discord bot supports d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20, and d100. Additionally, the maximum number of dice that can be rolled at once is fifteen.

Because I want to support my current variety of dice, does that mean that I need to make 160 images of dice to account for every outcome of an individual roll for all die sizes? What do you all think is the most efficient way to make embeds for my Discord bot that show the result of each dice roll as images?

[crimson flint]

@wanton horizon

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[foggy coral]

I would say yes, you have to make the images

[slow flax]

i agree, pick the simple option when you can

[foggy coral]

You could easily generated them with some automation. For each die, select a shape, then for each possible number, write it inside the shape

[slow flax]

and making a few images is very simple

[foggy coral]

Something like (pseudocode)

for shape in dice:
   for n in range(dice.max()):
     Image = new_empty_image()
     image.draw(dice.shape())
     Image.write(str(n))
     Image.save(dice.name+str(n)+".png")
   

[crimson flint]

Hey @foggy coral!

Please edit your message to use a code block

Add a py after the three backticks.

```py
print('Hello, world!')
```

This will result in the following:

print('Hello, world!')```

[wanton horizon]

Thank you so much! When I was thinking about how to solve this problem, I didn't consider this approach. I think that this approach will make creating assets much more efficient! 😄

[wanton horizon]

@foggy coral, what Python library do you think is the best for manipulating images to do something like this?

[foggy coral]

PIL would be more than enough

[crimson flint]

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