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I consider it an essential part of Dwaf Fortress, and can't play without it.

119 (18.4%)

I use it for pretty screenshots, but otherwise don't use it during play.

211 (32.7%)

I only try it occasionally.

174 (27%)

I have no idea why I'm even in this thread, I don't use it.

141 (21.9%)

Total Members Voted: 642

[CapnUrist]

It's a 6-year old Dell laptop that I'm using while I build a new desktop; ati x1200 video card. didn't think it was too bad.

Switched to Software and brings up a nice picture. Will upload later when I have time.

[Rose]

I forget what the default is, but if it's opengl, switching to directx, or vice versa, may make it work and still be fast.

[Caldfir]

Well, finally had some time to put towards hair styles.  Long-length is pretty much finished.  I want to do a short version of most of the styles as well. 

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[Rose]

The fuck man, what is wrong with this guy? what the hell? Where's his moustache? Is this some kind of elf?

[EmeraldWind]

The fuck man, what is wrong with this guy? what the hell? Where's his moustache? Is this some kind of elf?

He's an Amish Dwarf.

[Greiger]

The followers of Pippip The Blaze of Bodice see hair above the lip as a unholy beard aberration that must be destroyed.

Those beards look awesome by the way.

[Caldfir]

Considering this as another alternative to profession display:

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thoughts?

[Rose]

Looks okay. Are you making that toggleable, or is it just a different tileset?

[Caldfir]

Looks okay. Are you making that toggleable, or is it just a different tileset?

Trying it out toggleable.  Redirects the equipment coloring to the profession coloring when turned on. 

[Jiri Petru]

Can soldiers keep the material colours even if civilians are toggled to professions? I don't see much sense in seeing all soldiers the same colour - and even if they show material colours, they'll still be very distinct from civilian dwarves.

[Caldfir]

Hmm, well that would be pretty straightforward to do for a graphics set, however the toggleable code I have just redirects equipment coloring, so there isn't a straightforward way to select who to apply it to. 

If you want that particular setup, you can go into dwarves.xml, find the male and female civilian entries, and find-replace color="equipment" with color="profession".  It wouldn't be toggleable, but the existing sprite drawing framework has a lot of power to do extremely specific draw operations like that in a straightforward manner. 

hmm... that actually gives me an idea...

[WillowLuman]

I must say, profession colors for soldiers keeps making me thing the spearmen have all copper gear.

[Caldfir]

Short hairstyles are done.  I keep generating worlds where nobody styles their hair at all so screenshots aren't too good.  Just about everything has two variants based on length now.  I'm considering a length of 500 200 or less to be "short" since that seems to divide things pretty evenly.  That might change depending on how stuff ends up looking. 

Also I fixed turbans. 

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I think that's going to be the state of dwarves for a while.  Overall they are looking very good.  The different-length hair makes enogh variation that you can start recognizing the male dwarves by their beards. 

Not sure what I want to focus on next.  Leaning towards getting a set of child sprites drawn, since those could be reused easily for pretty much every race, and there don't need to be significant gender differences.  I might in stead work on hair styles for humans.  Another possibility is getting some animal-people sprited up (only need to do heads - they can use the human sprite sheet).  Then again, maybe elves and/or goblins should get attention, or maybe I should just try to get the domestic animals done with large sprites before anything else.  Damn there's a lot to do. 

edit: fixed some problems, now have many stylish dwarves:

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[Rose]

Oh my god those look fantastic.

[WillowLuman]

A thought occurs: the next release will have creatures facing different directions...