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[AzyWng]

Say, Dear Max (TM), I've just got a question about Tilesets and Graphics in General. It's got to do with a problem with sidebars and the size of the text in the sidebars.

When I try to use Tilesets like the CLA graphic set or the Phoebus graphics set, the text for the sidebars is always as big as the other tiles, and the sidebars always wind up taking up half of the screen or more, leaving me very little space with which to see the forces of darkness killing my fort the untimely deaths of the forces of darkness at my fort. I don't have this problem using the default ASCII, but it appears whenever I use a non-default Graphic set or tileset.

I'm using the Lazynewb pack on a Windows OS, if that helps. My screen resolution is 1366*700something.

Any ideas on how I can fix this problem?

[Max™]

Ok I went in and rescaled it and then cleaned up the noise and everything, used the un-modified as a guide in areas where the unsharp mask obliterated some details.

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=11230

I use a great big 30x45 duerer tileset I cleaned up and figured since I got better at doing it I'd go ahead and try to rescale this.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I don't have the CLA dorfs active but I rescaled them too, I've just been tinkering with the ones I drew, so yeah... there ya go. Went with 18x27 since it eliminated horizontal distortion, leaving just vertical artifacts to clean up.

[Max™]

Oh my.

[CLA]

Thank You for this. Can I link it in the OP?

[Max™]

*blushes and stammers nervously*

...s-s-sure CLA-senpai-sama!

[Max™]

If you have an idea for what to rename it as, btw. I'm probably just gonna go with CLAnonSquare and CLAnonSquare2x unless you've got a better suggestion.

I had to fiddle with the edges a bit to get the 2x to look right... and I made some of the predator/aggressive/dangerous creature eyes distinct from the non-aggro ones in the 2x pages I've got done so far.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A lot of really clever little visual tricks you did with this btw, I've been trying to preserve the letter-ness as always, and trying to make sure I'm interpreting the animal features to preserve them properly. If you see any that I obliterated unintentionally lemme know.

[CLA]

If you have an idea for what to rename it as, btw. I'm probably just gonna go with CLAnonSquare and CLAnonSquare2x unless you've got a better suggestion.

I'd have called it CLA18x27, but any name is fine really.

A lot of really clever little visual tricks you did with this btw, I've been trying to preserve the letter-ness as always, and trying to make sure I'm interpreting the animal features to preserve them properly. If you see any that I obliterated unintentionally lemme know.

Thanks, They look fine to me from a quick glance.

[Max™]

True, CLA18x27/CLA36x54 is nice and short huh. I've got a couple pages of the 2x set to finish and then I'll load up the pack with the graphics.txt and such fixed.

Wonder if I should go ahead and redo the names to add on the 18x27.png/.txt and 36x54.png/txt or just label the folders appropriately.

[CLA]

I wouldn't even rename the folders, as you'd have to change the text files accordingly, which would make it harder to maintain, I'd imagine. Maybe there's some error somewhere, or more creatures will be added in the future, so you'd only add another maintenance point in the text files.

In the end, it's a question of whether people would have several variants (say, 18x18 and the 18x27) in their install at the same time. If we assume that's a common occurrence, both the files as well as the folders should have different names. I can't imagine that though.
Your choice in either case.

[Max™]

Well, it would be a bit faster to just go in and replace the 18x27 and 36x54 as necessary. Also finished up the last few pages just now, gonna redo the .txt bits necessary and upload it. I'll drop it in the same zip with a CLA18x27 and CLA36x54 folder inside so people can just drop the appropriate graphics folder in and it'll work.

There we go!

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=11230

Zip has the relevant subfolders with the graphics set inside, I left the names as is since you are right about it being easier for maintenance, and generally people would either use the square or nonsquare rather than both.

[Max™]

Was poking around cleaning up the racial graphics some and seeing how they looked with smoothing since I just scaled them and cleaned up any artifacts and called it a day yesterday. Figured I'd whip up a comparison image of the scales while I was at it.



Suffice to say 36x54 is HUGE!

The crosshatch ones are a personal thing I use since I've got a rescaled 30x45 duerer tileset I've been playing with, just included it for the heck of it mostly.

[CLA]

Updated to the new version. dffd links are the same, mediafire here(yeah, I know file name still says v19):
www.mediafire.com/download/9lbz22ti7j8kkq7/CLAxMyne_42_01_v19.zip

www.mediafire.com/download/eue145j0g9gwvqf/CLA_graphic_set_42.01-v19-STANDALONE.zip


I'll take a look at all the new objects/professions. Most likely won't add any new graphics but who knows. In either case, I'll update the wiki first.

Wait, so I just realized, sheets use the same tile as minecarts (only the way I set it up, not by default). I'll fix it tomorrow.

[PeridexisErrant]

Wow, nice work!

[CLA]

Updated dffd links for 42.02, fixed minecart. didn't update mediafire mirrors yet. Maybe next version.

[Tempto]

The current version (21) is completely broken. The graphics aren't working properly. Version 19 was working fine.