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so ifllowed the wiki guide to the letter, but now my DF won't run in fullscreen mode. does anyone know why this would happen?

[DR]

quote:Originally posted by beholder:
<STRONG>so ifllowed the wiki guide to the letter, but now my DF won't run in fullscreen mode. does anyone know why this would happen?</STRONG>

Probably, yeah. If I remember correctly, the default fullscreen resolution in the init.txt is a resolution that the game will accept. Up it to 1280x960 and it should work.

[Haedrian]

Some tilesets don't support fullscreen...

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Thanks DR. your'e not The DR, whos tileset i just downloaded?

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Ok, so i did as you said. (i'm using Dystopian rhetoric's btw) but when i load it up, the only proper picture is the miner model. the other dwarves look like msn models, and the animals are still acsii characters. has anyone encountered this?

[DR]

quote:Originally posted by beholder:
<STRONG>Thanks DR. your'e not The DR, whos tileset i just downloaded?</STRONG>

Yep, that's me.

quote:Reply With Quote Ok, so i did as you said. (i'm using Dystopian rhetoric's btw) but when i load it up, the only proper picture is the miner model. the other dwarves look like msn models, and the animals are still acsii characters. has anyone encountered this?

Now this, this is odd. You seem to somehow be using the default tileset that Toady included. Are you sure the new graphics_example.txt and dwarves.bmp files have overwritten the old ones?

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first of all, thanks for being so patient. i'm a total noob  :p
i followed the wiki, so all ive done
is download your file
put it in the raw folder, and turned graphics to YES in the init file. i also changed all the resolution to what you suggested. apart from that i have done nothing

[DR]

quote:Originally posted by beholder:
<STRONG>first of all, thanks for being so patient. i'm a total noob   :p
i followed the wiki, so all ive done
is download your file
put it in the raw folder, and turned graphics to YES in the init file. i also changed all the resolution to what you suggested. apart from that i have done nothing</STRONG>

Umm... you did extract the files from the .rar right?

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as i said, noob. but if i didnt extract them, how could the miner show up?
and can you extract a rar using winzip?

[puke]

quote:Originally posted by beholder:
<STRONG>first of all, thanks for being so patient. i'm a total noob   :p
i followed the wiki, so all ive done
is download your file
put it in the raw folder, and turned graphics to YES in the init file. i also changed all the resolution to what you suggested. apart from that i have done nothing</STRONG>

that might not be enough, depending on how you extracted the files.  this is problaby the instruction page you read, but you can get a deeper uderstanding of whats going on by looking at the parts regarding "other tilesets may need..." rather than just the one-liner instructions that go with the DR set.
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Object_Tileset_Installation

you also need to edit or replace the \raw\graphics\example_text.txt file to tell the game to use the images.

admitedly, extracting the .rar into the \raw directory should overwrite all those files... but if you dont extract all the subdirectories and overwrite, it might not work perfectly.

Also, what self-righteous zealot wrote that wiki article with all the unix style slashes, for a game that is only published under 'doze?  seriously.

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I got them! thanks for your help!
while youre here, i also tried to add the winterwing font, with the dark blue river and gray mountain, but that didnt work. i put it in the art folder, then changed the names for all font and fullfont to its file name. its a bmp. is there anything i missed?
(and thanks again for the patience. i must seem practically illiterate)

[DR]

quote:Originally posted by puke:
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Also, what self-righteous zealot wrote that wiki article with all the unix style slashes, for a game that is only published under 'doze?  seriously.</STRONG>

Heh, I wrote it, but quickly and not very helpfully. I didn't notice I'd put the slashes backwards.

 

quote:<STRONG>I got them! thanks for your help!
while youre here, i also tried to add the winterwing font, with the dark blue river and gray mountain, but that didnt work. i put it in the art folder, then changed the names for all font and fullfont to its file name. its a bmp. is there anything i missed?
(and thanks again for the patience. i must seem practically illiterate)</STRONG>

I've heard a lot of people say Winterwing's font simply doesn't work. Try one of the others. Alternatively: are you certain that it's a 24 bit .bmp? You can save it as one in paint.

[ August 10, 2007: Message edited by: DR ]

[puke]

quote:Originally posted by DR:
<STRONG>Heh, I wrote it, but quickly and not very helpfully. I didn't notice I'd put the slashes backwards.</STRONG>

i hope people realize that my silly comments are intended to be just that, and not actually snarky pissing on other peoples hard work.  not only is it an incredibly instructive article, but even the WORST wiki articles are infinitly better than mine.  since i never contributed anything.  at all.

also, please dont take this clarification as any sort of retraction of my mockery  

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i've got everything perfect now, and am looking forward to watching elephants masacre my dwarves.  thanks for your help guys, and being patient.