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elf-fondling human

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General window size?
« on: July 20, 2011, 08:52:49 pm »
I need some good opinions: does DF generally look better with the default window size, fullscreen, or somewhere in between the two?
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Re: General window size?
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2011, 08:53:56 pm »
Assuming you have it set so characters do not stretch, the bigger the better
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Re: General window size?
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2011, 09:33:32 pm »
Bigger so you can see more, and not have to move around to see everything.
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Re: General window size?
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2011, 09:34:06 pm »
Sounds good to me.
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Re: General window size?
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2011, 09:45:50 pm »
Quote from: Twitch on July 20, 2011, 08:53:56 pm
Assuming you have it set so characters do not stretch,

How do we prevent them from stretching?
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Re: General window size?
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2011, 09:52:03 pm »
It's in the init, something like [ALLOW_BLANK_SPACE:YES] or something like that.  If it's off, then tiles will stretch to fill the screen, if it's on, you'll get a slim black border if they don't sit flush in the window.  I find the tiny edge to be insignificant at best.
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Re: General window size?
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2011, 10:11:22 pm »
If you're using Phoebus's tileset black space is off by default. Also for a 1680 wide resolution set the zoom speed value to 14 and zoom in one level for optimal zoom without stretching.
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Re: General window size?
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2011, 10:27:43 pm »
Quote from: Girlinhat on July 20, 2011, 09:52:03 pm
It's in the init, something like [ALLOW_BLANK_SPACE:YES] or something like that.  If it's off, then tiles will stretch to fill the screen, if it's on, you'll get a slim black border if they don't sit flush in the window.  I find the tiny edge to be insignificant at best.

Neither of them worked. I think my tiles are being shrunk instead of stretched, anyway I can prevent this from happening?
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Re: General window size?
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2011, 11:22:39 pm »
Use a larger tileset?
I like Haowan's 18x18
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Tileset_repository#Haowan
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