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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
« Reply #1785 on: April 10, 2013, 08:38:22 am »

Downloaded .4 release, walk outside, find 3 power armor helmets.

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« Reply #1786 on: April 10, 2013, 12:27:59 pm »

So what is the current state of tile support? I am looking forward to getting back into this game some day.

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« Reply #1787 on: April 10, 2013, 12:35:50 pm »

So what is the current state of tile support? I am looking forward to getting back into this game some day.

There are about 6 colors and maybe a dozen letters. Unless you are color blind this should not be difficult to deal with. I typically resist ASCII games but Cata is really light on the ASCII usage. There just isn't enough content to use it all.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
« Reply #1788 on: April 10, 2013, 12:57:17 pm »

We have an awesome few tilesets, and a couple older versions that support them.

Unfortunately, keeping the tileset code stuff up to date is /extremely hard/. We're hoping to get a proper implementation one of these days, hopefully soon

Until then, you can either use:
Tase's somewhat kind of recent not 100% complete version, here:
https://github.com/tasetase/DDAtase/tree/tiles

Or Deon or Fat Dogs old 1.6 tilesets.
Deons:

Fat Dogs:

http://www.mediafire.com/?jdws2wefasd94rc
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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
« Reply #1789 on: April 10, 2013, 09:57:46 pm »

   Just realized I had uploaded some v0.4 videos yesterday and forgot to post it here. Anyone thats interested can find them here and here.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
« Reply #1790 on: April 11, 2013, 01:35:37 am »

Proper Multi-Z levels are planned right? I want to smash out a window on the 11th floor and judo throw a hulk to it's pavement-cracking doom.

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Even if we get tilesets, I won't use it. I think it would help the average new player a little bit, but honestly I never cared for them. Minor extended tileset support is great for the short-term, but if there's going to be a massive re-write for multi-Z levels I think there should also be a re-write of the tile system.

This game needs isometric perspective. Nothing fancy. I'm imagining something like the original X-COM. However, multi-Z levels and destructible terrain in a city-like environment absolutely demands an isometric presentation.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
« Reply #1791 on: April 11, 2013, 03:04:42 am »

I agree that tilesets are needed when new players start their adventures in games like DF, but Cataclysm is so simple and intuitive, it really doesn't need a tileset.
And if it does, it has to be a bloody good one.

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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
« Reply #1792 on: April 11, 2013, 03:07:47 am »

Zyxl: Tiles to isometric tiles is a huge leap o_O An entire different library for graphics has to be used, maybe smfl or Allegro, or some other graphics library out there.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
« Reply #1793 on: April 11, 2013, 07:56:20 am »

I don't see why isometric view would be necessary. DF manages just fine without it.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
« Reply #1794 on: April 11, 2013, 08:00:38 am »

For me personally, tilesets take away from the imagination but to each his own I suppose.
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« Reply #1795 on: April 11, 2013, 09:48:25 am »

Maybe we'll adopt an isometric view but also leave everything as ASCII symbols.

You know, make everyone happy.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
« Reply #1796 on: April 11, 2013, 10:08:55 am »

Sideways crooked ascii symbols would be amusing, and it would be a great Late April fools thing if you guys somehow made an optional 'isometric' mode that just rotated the font 45 degrees.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
« Reply #1797 on: April 11, 2013, 05:09:37 pm »

Jefmajor has uploaded a 0.4 Cataclysm video Here. Seems good so far at the halfway point.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
« Reply #1798 on: April 11, 2013, 06:13:27 pm »

Jefmajor has uploaded a 0.4 Cataclysm video Here. Seems good so far at the halfway point.

Awesome.
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Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
« Reply #1799 on: April 11, 2013, 06:22:05 pm »

Jefmajor has uploaded a 0.4 Cataclysm video Here. Seems good so far at the halfway point.

He covers the most useful buttons fairly well.
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