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[CaptainArchmage]

With the latest work, exactly how much is left on the to-do list? With creatures having their vision fogged, will this affect their behaviour when invading sites?

[WillowLuman]

This next release shall be beautiful...

[King Mir]

Are creatures with good night vision a thing now?

[Eric Blank]

Are creatures with good night vision a thing now?

If not for this release, then I would guess that since creatures will now by default be as blind as the player is, it will open up the possibility of legitimate species or caste-specific night vision and fog-vision. I'd suspect bogeymen, night trolls and cavern beasts to be the first candidates for things like this.
It's going to be awesome either way, and be more balanced for players in adventure mode.

[Putnam]

Vampires have "blood vision" next version, so that seems likelyish.

[King Mir]

Are creatures with good night vision a thing now?

If not for this release, then I would guess that since creatures will now by default be as blind as the player is, it will open up the possibility of legitimate species or caste-specific night vision and fog-vision. I'd suspect bogeymen, night trolls and cavern beasts to be the first candidates for things like this.
It's going to be awesome either way, and be more balanced for players in adventure mode.

I was thinking more of owls. Creatures with magic vision are nice, but realistic normal creatures are more important in this, IMO.

[irdsm]

Are creatures with good night vision a thing now?

If not for this release, then I would guess that since creatures will now by default be as blind as the player is, it will open up the possibility of legitimate species or caste-specific night vision and fog-vision. I'd suspect bogeymen, night trolls and cavern beasts to be the first candidates for things like this.
It's going to be awesome either way, and be more balanced for players in adventure mode.

I was thinking more of owls. Creatures with magic vision are nice, but realistic normal creatures are more important in this, IMO.

Cats should have pretty strong night vision too. It'd be perfect if night vision was a raw-controllable number that you could use to specify how many tiles a creature can see at night

[Mr S]

I am so delighted to see that it was only 6 days between "Time to get re-aquainted with the stealth and vision arc code" to "well, that went well, let's move on to tracking, shall we?"

I'm not frothing at the bit for the next release, only a healthy amount of anticipation.  The joy for me in this is watching development moving along at a satisfying pace, and having the privelidge to share that process with the creators.

[Mesa]

I find it funny how the development is moving so fast and yet the 1.0 is planned for 2038 or so.

[LordBaal]

Will the vision arcs and night/dark impairment and all that apply to Fortress Mode? Will this mean that we are also getting light sources for this release (maybe in some crude form at least)?

[Footkerchief]

Will the vision arcs and night/dark impairment and all that apply to Fortress Mode? Will this mean that we are also getting light sources for this release (maybe in some crude form at least)?

Can't comment on vision arcs, but day/night cycles and light sources in Fortress Mode would be a big deal and we'd have heard.

[LordBaal]

What I mean, is that if fog or other conditions impair your vision, maybe Toady also includes some kind of artificial "light" sources, as in carrying a torch would help seeing in the night/fog. At least on adventurer mode.

An hypothetical example:
Vision on regular sunny day: 20 tiles
Vision on regular night :10 tiles
Vision on regular night carrying a lit torch: 15 tiles

Or maybe for the next release?

[Draco18s]

On creatures with multiple heads and vision:
An artist I watch has a critter where each head has its own personality and outlook on the world (decent description on that page).  While likely out of scope for DF (hydras having one mind per brain rather than one mind total), I was wondering if it would be possible to specify in the RAWs different levels of vision on each head (e.g. one head can see in the dark, the others can't) and how the vision system would handle that.

[tahujdt]

On creatures with multiple heads and vision:
An artist I watch has a critter where each head has its own personality and outlook on the world (decent description on that page).  While likely out of scope for DF (hydras having one mind per brain rather than one mind total), I was wondering if it would be possible to specify in the RAWs different levels of vision on each head (e.g. one head can see in the dark, the others can't) and how the vision system would handle that.

For that matter, which heads would keep watch?

[LordBaal]

All of them?