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[thfrgi]

So, coming back to Df after a long time away from it, i was looking forward to enjoying the many improvements of MDF (as I had done in the past) while retaining the original DF look, which I find to be infintely more pleasing than any tileset.
However: MDF simply refuses to look like Vanilla DF.
Here are my settings (also note that these are the settings after first unpacking MDF, no other world generated previously):

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and here is a side-by-side comparison of what I get with vanilla DF:

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The colors are all wrong, and it has nothing of the crispness of the original, everything is kind of fuzzy.

Also note that "creature sprites" is ticked in: this is not because I want the sprites, but because if i leave it ticked off, the game then uses some tileset, and not the ASCII
See for yourself:

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Is there any way for me to fix this so that I can play with nice, clean, crisp ASCII? I am pretty damn close to just giving up and sticking to vanilla, if this mod insists on forcing some tilesets upon me :c

[ANickel]

All of your settings look perfectly normal.  No idea why it looks so...  off. 
Try setting the colors to "defaultplus" and see if those look more accurate.

[Amostubal]

I think the color issue maybe the new color scheme for seasons option... I'm not sure how to turn that off. Think Meph posted a quick how too somewhere in theach last few posts here.

Yes. Its the seasonal color from the new update.

From the release thread I made today:

Thanks to Milo Christiansens season-palette script, the colors (hue) ingame will change depending on the current season. You can disable this feature by opening the dfhack.init and deleting the line "season-palette start" at the very top.

I thought it was a bug because it seemed to coincide with my pressing of the buttons. tnx for the tip il go check it out.

The creature sprite thing is new this version, so expect there's some error in the script. 


Try those instructions for the color issues... maybe that will fix the reat.

[ANickel]

I think the color issue maybe the new color scheme for seasons option... I'm not sure how to turn that off. Think Meph posted a quick how too somewhere in theach last few posts here.

Yes. Its the seasonal color from the new update.

From the release thread I made today:

Thanks to Milo Christiansens season-palette script, the colors (hue) ingame will change depending on the current season. You can disable this feature by opening the dfhack.init and deleting the line "season-palette start" at the very top.

I thought it was a bug because it seemed to coincide with my pressing of the buttons. tnx for the tip il go check it out.

The creature sprite thing is new this version, so expect there's some error in the script. 


Try those instructions for the color issues... maybe that will fix the reat.

You're totally right.  I think this is the issue.  To fix it just delete the season-palette start line in the dfhack.ini file.

[Dustin]

ok guys quick question, how would i go about updating masterwork? would i just pull my saves from the old version, and then move them to the new installed one?

[Nightcore Angel]

ok guys quick question, how would i go about updating masterwork? would i just pull my saves from the old version, and then move them to the new installed one?

That would only work with hotfix updates, if there was new features implemented, you wont be able to see it until a new world is generated.

[lethosor]

I'm fairly certain that the seasonal color schemes have nothing at all to do with the fuzziness. Maybe your window is too narrow - have you tried making it a bit wider? The MDF one appears to be about 25 pixels narrower.

[redivider]

Just got an "undead" siege with all lightning man. They all died almost as soon as they showed up on the map. http://imgur.com/17h8YwI http://imgur.com/T9JNCx2

[Dustin]

Just got an "undead" siege with all lightning man. They all died almost as soon as they showed up on the map. http://imgur.com/17h8YwI http://imgur.com/T9JNCx2

what mods? also how?

[thfrgi]

I deleted the graphics folder in the save folder, that took care of the creature sprites issue, the game reverts to ascii if it can't find the graphics i guess.
Thanks for the tips about the colors, although in the meantime i have decided i am okay with the colors changing with the season (even if it makes no sense for stone to change colors...), this way i always know what season it is.
The fuzziness was also resolved for the most part by finding an appropriate zoom setting and changing print mode to 2D.

I would however suggest the GUI and mod be set up in such a way that the default would be pretty much vanilla DF and you have to choose which graphics you want. It seems to me that would make more sense than some non-vanilla graphical setup being arbitrarily chosen as the default.

In other news, i have received my first undead siege, but since i have decaying undead ticked on, the have all become dead again for good, but the SIEGE tag is still on my screen. Will that ever go away or am I stuck in a perpetual siege with no besiegers now?
Edit:

Just got an "undead" siege with all lightning man. They all died almost as soon as they showed up on the map. http://imgur.com/17h8YwI http://imgur.com/T9JNCx2

If your SIEGE tag isn't going away either, this is the same issue I have.

[redivider]

My siege tag went away pretty fast, only mod is the latest MW package, nothing else.

[Putnam]

My siege tag went away pretty fast, only mod is the latest MW package, nothing else.

MW is a mod pack that includes a variety of mods; when people ask "what mods", usually you'll want to post your settings.

[blapnk]

Sounds like it's the *mancers option, part of the Mythical Monsters Mod. Enabled by default. Depends a lot on the RNG putting those secrets into the world. One of my worlds had a tower dedicated to the secret of legendary cheese making and another tower of oinomancers; the magic of wine and eternal inebriation. I was going to send an adventurer to take some study notes from these fine gentlemen but I got distracted and never saw them in action.

[redivider]

I was just wondering why they were all insta-gibbed 

[Dustin]

Sounds like it's the *mancers option, part of the Mythical Monsters Mod. Enabled by default. Depends a lot on the RNG putting those secrets into the world. One of my worlds had a tower dedicated to the secret of legendary cheese making and another tower of oinomancers; the magic of wine and eternal inebriation. I was going to send an adventurer to take some study notes from these fine gentlemen but I got distracted and never saw them in action.

#FAILEDAMAZINGLY