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[higgypig]

I know engraving improves the quality of the fort, but I only engrave the walls, it just makes sense to me,plus it looks cluttered when the floor is also engraved..Anyone else think this way too?

[toomanysecrets]

I use Phoebus tileset, engravings look pretty decent.  If you need incentive, then it will increase the quality of bedrooms and dining rooms etc, thereby boosting happy thoughts.

[Megaman3321]

I've taken to engraving huge floor sections when I am training up my engravers so that I can floor over them later.

And you do realize that you can d>v the engravings away, right?

[WealthyRadish]

Having solid colors on the ground when there are workshops and furniture around is eyemeltingly bad. I usually just leave floors smoothed as a result. It's easy enough to raise value without engraving the floors anyway, and you can also leave aesthetic pillars around and engrave those.

I do, however, always smooth and engrave areas that will later be flooded with water/magma. Kind of OCD, but I hate to think of wasted structural wealth and training material under there.

[Loud Whispers]

I know engraving improves the quality of the fort, but I only engrave the walls, it just makes sense to me,plus it looks cluttered when the floor is also engraved..Anyone else think this way too?

The only engravings I have are the bugged engraved metal walls. And they're a novelty. Truthfully I rarely go beyond smoothing, the cluttered images are just too chaotic. Unless I'm going for a chaotic theme.
Plus it makes it more noticeable when you actually do include engravings.

I do, however, always smooth and engrave areas that will later be flooded with water/magma. Kind of OCD, but I hate to think of wasted structural wealth and training material under there.

Aren't you worried about accidentally driving a weak minded engraver to insanity?

[WealthyRadish]

Well, with magma areas I only engrave the walls. They don't seem to melt off like the floors do. I haven't actually checked if the floors remain smoothed, though... not that it really matters.

[Seraphim342]

Designating large areas to smooth before you start engraving is a good way to train up your engravers.  Also, engraving less important areas.  I usually do things like bedrooms and dining rooms last unless I get lucky with a legendary migrant.  If you engrave your high-traffic areas with low-skilled dwarves, the engravings won't be worth nearly as much and won't generate as many happy thoughts.  So, it could be worth engraving the floors in areas you don't look at much if you don't like the look of it. 

[keyreper]

if you dont like the different looks of all the random tiles from engraving you can turn it off in the int or somthing

[wuphonsreach]

I use Phoebus tileset, engravings look pretty decent.  If you need incentive, then it will increase the quality of bedrooms and dining rooms etc, thereby boosting happy thoughts.

Same, Phoebus/Mayday tilesets make engravings look decent without being cluttered.

At the start, the only thing that gets smoothed is the noble areas and the dining hall.  If I'm in a hurry to boost the noble's room value, I'll let an accomplished engraver do it (mostly superior/exceptional engravings at that point).  Bedrooms for regular dwarves get smoothed after that's taken care of.

Once I have 2 legendary engravers, I add 2 more and start smoothing everything, then engraving in bits after they skill up.

I actually prefer to smooth/engrave floors first as those get covered up with furniture.