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[GotIt_00]

Quick question: Have you ever looked at DF when not in full screen and believed they were running around more quickly? I have always played full screen, and just happened to look at it while lurking on the forum. They don't have beards, and they seem significantly quicker at getting around all the sudden. If a smaller window actually meant faster dwarfs, I'd be all for it.

Anyone else seen this before?

[SpiralDimentia]

My dwarves don't have beard in fullscreen either... o.o

[GotIt_00]

Wha?? No beards in full screen? Uh-oh. I'm seeing stuff that's not even stuff.

[obeliab]

The init file (or d_init, I'm not sure) allows you to set different settings for fullscreen and windowed modes, including which graphics file to use.  The original DF package comes with a number of different graphics images, with the main differences being the spacing (rectangular or squareular) and the faces (bearded or just smiley-faces).  You can change which ones you use in both fullscreen and windowed modes.  Check the \data\art folder.

As far as dwarves moving faster in windowed mode, this is probably perception, or at least I've never seen any significant performance increase from playing in anything other than fullscreen.  If you turn on the FPS display, again in one of the init files, you can tell if you're actually seeing an improvement or not.

[SpiralDimentia]

Oh god, my dwarves MUST have beards. How do I turn this on? Cna I turn on JUST beards? I NEED BEARDS.

GIVE ME BEARDS.

[JmzLost]

Got to ~/data/init/init.txt.  Change the filename under the [FONT:] and/or [FULLFONT:] tags.  The default file is curses_640x300.png, no beards.  Both curses_800x300.png and curses_square_16x16.png have beards.  FONT is the file used for windowed mode, FULLFONT is used for fullscreen mode.  These are all ascii files, other tilesets may or may not have beards (Mayday, Phoebus, etc.).

JMZ

[SpiralDimentia]

You sir, are my hero. My bearded, bearded hero.

Edit: Or maybe not. I didn't like the square him [curse Toady for making my use to this rectangle stuff.] so I tried the other.. it was 640x300, not800x300... but there are two of them... one with beards and one without.. I put in the normal 640x300 [which they're both named] and I got no beards again. I MUST HAVE BEARDED BEARDS.

BEARDED BEARS. OH GOD.

[obeliab]

Using Paint or Photoshop or whatever, copy the bearded dwarf-faces in the 800x600 graphics file over to the appropriate spaces in the 640x300 one.  Don't worry, they fit, just match 'em up right.

[Reelyanoob]

Quick question: Have you ever looked at DF when not in full screen and believed they were running around more quickly? I have always played full screen, and just happened to look at it while lurking on the forum. They don't have beards, and they seem significantly quicker at getting around all the sudden. If a smaller window actually meant faster dwarfs, I'd be all for it.

Anyone else seen this before?

I turn the FPS counter on. It's clearly quite a bit faster in window mode for me. e.g. one map was 24 fps windowed and 17 fps fullscreen. This is on my laptop with the crappy on-board gfx card. On my main box I didn't notice much difference.

[SpiralDimentia]

Using Paint or Photoshop or whatever, copy the bearded dwarf-faces in the 800x600 graphics file over to the appropriate spaces in the 640x300 one.  Don't worry, they fit, just match 'em up right.

Knowing me, I would break it somehow and would spawn beards with goblins in them.

[obeliab]

Using Paint or Photoshop or whatever, copy the bearded dwarf-faces in the 800x600 graphics file over to the appropriate spaces in the 640x300 one.  Don't worry, they fit, just match 'em up right.

Knowing me, I would break it somehow and would spawn beards with goblins in them.

Although the idea of goblin-infested beards may be pleasing enough on its own,



Save to your data\art folder and make sure you change the FONT: tag in your init files (whether you want it for windowed or fullscreen mode) to the proper name, which in this case I think is curses640x300beards.png.

[SpiralDimentia]

Using Paint or Photoshop or whatever, copy the bearded dwarf-faces in the 800x600 graphics file over to the appropriate spaces in the 640x300 one.  Don't worry, they fit, just match 'em up right.

Knowing me, I would break it somehow and would spawn beards with goblins in them.

Although the idea of goblin-infested beards may be pleasing enough on its own,



Save to your data\art folder and make sure you change the FONT: tag in your init files (whether you want it for windowed or fullscreen mode) to the proper name, which in this case I think is curses640x300beards.png.

<3 , though I am curious... why are there two 640x300 with no beards?


Edit2: OOOOHHHH MYYYYY GOOOOOOODDDDDD BEARD EVERYWHERE

-beardgasm-

[obeliab]

Two different image file formats.