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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

[Caldfir]

Good news all round! Any chance that this could mean an interface breakthrough?

Well, I think the main "breakthrough" was made months ago when I worked out how to hijack the image buffer of the DF window.  From here on out making it actually useable in that form is just a lot of little stuff.  For example I started on designations today:

Spoiler: placeholder graphics (click to show/hide)

So far I have smoothing, engraving, digging/trees/plants and all the stairs/ramps sorted out, but track engraving designations are different.  Also need to test if fortification carving is in the same place as the other engraving/smoothing stuff.  Then we need to come up with a good way to display the information (the image above is the simplest placeholder to do, but is ugly). 

Anyway, it's a process. 

[PeridexisErrant]

So excited. This is going to open DF up for so many new players!

[Maklak]

I don't find your current designation images clear. By just looking at stonesense I can't pinpoint exactly the rhomboid where they are in. So I suggest that for any designation you add a perimeter around the rhomboid and have no part of any designation sprite outside that. See how it looks.

[EmeraldWind]

I don't find your current designation images clear. By just looking at stonesense I can't pinpoint exactly the rhomboid where they are in. So I suggest that for any designation you add a perimeter around the rhomboid and have no part of any designation sprite outside that. See how it looks.

Placeholder means something to hold a place until better stuff can be made. The stuff you see is placeholders, most likely thrown in to test whether or not the code was working.

[alphawolf29]

How do I increase the amount of viewable tiles in stonesense? I want to be able to see my entire fortress. I can zoom out, but the tiles that reach the side just get cut off.

[Rose]

There's a stonesense init.txt file, though by now I've forgotten where it is.

[PeridexisErrant]

Posting to let people know I'm still alive.  It has been a hectic few months, but it looks like maybe I'll get some time to come back to get some work done for stonesense in the coming weeks.

Excited bump / progress query: how's it going? Anything that we could help with (eg designation sprites)?

[WillowLuman]

I recommend a yellow border around the "floor space" of a dig-designated square.

[PeridexisErrant]

I recommend a yellow border around the "floor space" of a dig-designated square.

I was thinking more around a yellowish/brownish (and semitransparent?) version of whatever you were designating, much like the way designations in DF itself look similar to the final result.  You could also superimpose a small version of the relevant tool (pick or axe) over the tiles the designation applies to, which would make it extra-clear.  Traffic designations could be a colour overlay.  For items, something similar could work for dump/forbid/reclaim (garbage can/small red X/nothing ?). 

Eventually it's probably doing a test release for feedback... (blatant hinting)

[PeridexisErrant]

... some work done for stonesense in the coming weeks.

*bump*  Any news on the interface, or am I just way too excited? It would be really nice to get a working version out before DF updates... so no particular hurry 

[mobucks]

What are these fences made out of I'm seeing in the OP screenshots?

Theres a fence around a pasture and some really sexy looking railings along the sides of a bridge. Are they floodgates?

[Rose]

Likely vertical grates.

[Adventurer]

Finally on a computer that can use stonesense again

Just wanted to post i love this program thanks for making it. During downtime i just like to watch a busy area in my fort with this its great.

[Imofexios]

Wait!
Do i misunderstand or would it maybe be possible to play DF in stonesense?? o.O ?

[Raul]

Wait!
Do i misunderstand or would it maybe be possible to play DF in stonesense?? o.O ?

In the future, yes. Caldfir is working on it.