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[Maklak]

> Are there Pony sprites
The problem is that to get pony sprites, you'd need to get a lot of them, by profession and race. Other creatures generally only get one or two sprites each. So no one did the ponies. With stonesense it's different, there are psrites for body, mane and tail, eyes, horns and wings and they get coloured and combined, so it is less work, especially with a script to do it.

[Chimerat]

Well, I've never used Stonesense before (I only started playing Dwarf Fortress in November or December 2013). Is it difficult to use? Does it just need the second monitor? Because I do have one of those.

[Telgin]

I've never used it either, but I think it just opens in another window.  So, you could just put it beside the regular DF window even on a single monitor.

[Chimerat]

Okay. So I found the StoneSense folder for this mod. Where do I get the images to put into it?

[Chimerat]

Never mind, I think I found it!

> I finally got around to picking a place to embark but when I started Stonesense it's just the default sprites. How do I change them to the pony ones?
Stonesense is not a part of this mod, so you have to install the pony sprite pack separately. Basically just download https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/71287918/Mlp/MLP_creatures.zip extract it in some directory and put it's index.txt into some index.txt in stonesesne. It's probably easiest to keep MLP stuff in stonesense/creatures/MLP, then add line "MLP/index.txt" to index.txt in stonesense/creatures

EDIT: Seems I still can't make heads or tails of what's what with StoneSense working. (I think mainly because it doesn't show the same view as DF.) There also seems to be an issue with the defaults, as they didn't have access to all the items and one even game be only females (which would make population growth difficult, I would think...

[vjmdhzgr]

> Are there Pony sprites
The problem is that to get pony sprites, you'd need to get a lot of them, by profession and race. Other creatures generally only get one or two sprites each. So no one did the ponies. With stonesense it's different, there are psrites for body, mane and tail, eyes, horns and wings and they get coloured and combined, so it is less work, especially with a script to do it.

Well actually you can only assign sprites to jobs and nobles, which is why no tilesets have female dwarves or anything like that in them. So it would either be quite a bit simpler to make a tileset, or impossible depending on your requirements.

[Chimerat]

> Are there Pony sprites
The problem is that to get pony sprites, you'd need to get a lot of them, by profession and race. Other creatures generally only get one or two sprites each. So no one did the ponies. With stonesense it's different, there are psrites for body, mane and tail, eyes, horns and wings and they get coloured and combined, so it is less work, especially with a script to do it.

Well actually you can only assign sprites to jobs and nobles, which is why no tilesets have female dwarves or anything like that in them. So it would either be quite a bit simpler to make a tileset, or impossible depending on your requirements.

You know... I'd never considered the "no female Dwarves" thing... I'd just thought DF went with the "female Dwarves have beards" trope.

Well... That likely means I'll never be able to make heads or tails of a Pony mod. Darn. *sighs*

Thanks for pointing that out, vjmdhzgr.

[Putnam]

Female dwarves actually don't have beards by default in DF, believe it or not.

[vjmdhzgr]

Female dwarves actually don't have beards by default in DF, believe it or not.

However in the raws the dwarves have a tutorial for creature modding and you're told to give female dwarves beards.

[Tecknojock]

> Are there Pony sprites
The problem is that to get pony sprites, you'd need to get a lot of them, by profession and race. Other creatures generally only get one or two sprites each. So no one did the ponies. With stonesense it's different, there are psrites for body, mane and tail, eyes, horns and wings and they get coloured and combined, so it is less work, especially with a script to do it.

Well actually you can only assign sprites to jobs and nobles, which is why no tilesets have female dwarves or anything like that in them. So it would either be quite a bit simpler to make a tileset, or impossible depending on your requirements.

Back on the first thread, I actually did create a set of sprites...well rather I just took a bunch of vectors, shrunk em down and made them a little more clear, though I do seem to remember someone else making a better set, though I don't know if they ever got em out.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=117374.msg4077905#msg4077905

[taliakirana]

You know, I'm worried the author's abandoned us. I don't think he's made a post in this thread since last year.

[Putnam]

You know, I'm worried the author's abandoned us. I don't think he's made a post in this thread since last year.

Half a year exactly, last date active was last month.

[the1337doofus]

You know, I'm worried the author's abandoned us. I don't think he's made a post in this thread since last year.

Half a year exactly, last date active was last month.

At least we know we probably haven't suffered author existence failure. I do hope he'll come back whenever real life isn't getting in the way.

[Telgin]

I half expect renewed interest once the new version of DF comes out (which I honestly believe will be within two months).  If Sorcerer doesn't return and update his mod for the new version someone will likely release a functional version soon after.

I don't use his mod directly, but have incorporated some of its features into an updated version of Nidokoenig's mod that I've been using since 0.31.25.  At the very least I'll be updating my personal version to work in the next DF release, and I'll try to remember to make that public when it's functional.

[Valikdu]

It's all according to my plan. I've sent mutant cyborg alicorn OC assassins to the authors of every other MLP mod, so that mine is the only one left! *thunderclap* Mwahahaha! *thunderclap*x2

Seriously though, I hope Sorcerer comes back.