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Author Topic: A Hello, And Couple questions about the LNP, Dwarf Therapist & DFHack  (Read 1408 times)

Reyajh

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First of all hello well met travelers of the realms. I've been playing video games since Pong & the days of Ultima Online, although at that time I was playing a less known game called LastKingdom. Must say, no surprise, I've never experienced near the challenge that DF is, just to play. But ne'er the depth as well... I've been reading, watching videos and dabbling for the last couple weeks and am slowly beginning to grasp the basics... a few things in particular have been bugging me tho...

In the LNP under Graphics --> Choose, I accidentally clicked 'Simplify Graphic Folders'. Is this something I should be concerned about & if so, can I somehow just dl the LNP itself or should I dl the whole package again and then perhaps just delete the old LNP & move the new one into that folder so I don't loose my saves? I'm not sure how to proceed if I should undo that mistake:p

Also, I noticed before that happened, that I had gotten an
stderr:
Running PyLNP 0.12a (OS: win, Compiled: True)
WARNING: JSONConfiguration: File PyLNP.user does not exist

That is still in my folder. Is this something I should address as well, or just ignore...

Besides those things I've used Dwarf Therapist & DFHack but I find I like the latter more as it fits, for me, more aesthetically into the game (The colors & all) like for changing jobs/skills. Would be nice if there was a way to darken the background colors of DT but I assume that will be a maddeningly unmet moot fey mood :p

Unfortunately I find more than a few of the DFHack commands to be a bit over my head and was wondering if there was perhaps a good thread or 2 here I might read or something else to help me along...I have read the manual but, as I said I find it's not clear enough or, a bit over my head.
That's it. Really looking forward to the amazing things planned for DF. -Cheers
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Re: A Hello, And Couple questions about the LNP, Dwarf Therapist & DFHack
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2016, 04:01:24 pm »

From what I could find, "Simplify Graphics Folders" is the second step to adding graphics that don't come with the LNP (I think? . . . I'm not sure).

From: https://github.com/splintermind/Starter-Pack-Launcher/blob/master/README.rst

./LNP/Graphics/

Extract any graphics packs you want to be able to use into a subfolder of "LNPGraphics" LOOKS LIKE: "GraphicsMayday[files]" NOT LIKE: "GraphicsMaydayMayday[files]" Once placed you can press the "Simplify Graphic Folder" button in the Lazy Newb Pack program to delete all the extra files the pack may contain - effictively extracting the graphics from a full install of Dwarf Fortress. This is useful to save space or to re-pack to a friend


I'm not sure what constitutes "extra files" in this case. From my experience, the LNP handles graphic sets in a very non-vanilla way.

To be clear, I've never used the LNP and the like, so I'm not sure how helpful any of this is. I do know that you might have better luck in their respective threads.

LNP thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=126076.0
Dwarf Therapist thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=122968.0
DFHack thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=139553.0

Of course, the wiki is where all the important stuff is ;]




edit: Sorry. I originally linked to the entire "Utilities and 3rd Party Applications" board rather than the specific thread for DFHack. Oops. =X!

« Last Edit: December 23, 2016, 10:16:44 pm by burned »
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Re: A Hello, And Couple questions about the LNP, Dwarf Therapist & DFHack
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2016, 09:29:35 pm »

Ahh. Thanks for the reply burned and the links especially. After a lot of jumping around from video tuts to the wiki & then here I was suffering from information overload & really in need of direction. I was unable to find the threads dedicated to those addons. I appreciate the help.. -Cheers.
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