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[PatrikLundell]

Wonderful pack, used for years.

Question: are the bugs with graphics packs not allowing pedestals/display cases resolved as of latest release?  Last download was... 44.01.

The graphics packs have been updated to support pedestals for a fair while (can only really speak for Phoebus, but the very early *experimental* LNP versions did state graphics packs were still not updated). Given the way PeridexisErrant runs things, I would expect a graphics pack that hadn't been updated to be excluded from the stable pack versions until the pack is updated.

[jecowa]

All graphics packs except Dungeon Set are updated for Dwarf Fortress v0.44.05 in the latest v0.44.05 release. Using Dungeon Set won't prevent you from being able to use pedestals and display cases, though. But it uses old stats for most of the trees and I think it will have some effect on kobolds milking animals.

[Zydramir]

Ahhh, dungeonset is the one I'm planning on using too.

As long as it won't prevent using them anymore I can accept this!

[Leonidas]

Thanks for your work!
I "cannot play without it"" too.

+1

[Purdurabo]

Never forget, you can always Frankenstein the modpack and try to splice in updates if you want to take them for a whirl.

I can probably figure out the df hack and twbt part but what do I need to add to the 44.05 LNP to update the base game to 44.07?

[jecowa]

I can probably figure out the df hack and twbt part but what do I need to add to the 44.05 LNP to update the base game to 44.07?

Checkout the Baselines folder.

[strainer]

Could the value of [ZOOM_SPEED:n] in init.txt be reconsidered?
 
This setting limits control of the size of the fort view and text screens independently. The default value of 10 is a big jump per keypress, and there is no way to achieve a substep of that large jump.
I found a value of 1 works pleasantly smoothly, just perhaps a little slow perhaps. 5 is still quite a big minimum step size. 3 seems a happy medium enabling accurate adjustment of font size and fairly quick zooming in/out.

[jecowa]

I forget what zoom does. Does this mean like zooming in with the scroll wheel? I kind of thought it might have to do with scrolling around the map or maybe mining designations.

[lethosor]

It's the first thing you said. Neither of the other things are zooming.

[strainer]

Yup, in Peridexis' keyboard set the square brackets adjust the magnification - it changes the column width of the display so you can zoom in and out during play, for eg. a wide angle strategic view. Zooming in the fort view doesnt change the text areas, but you can zoom in the text screens and it changes the text size (without changing the fort view).

Its a nicely implemented zoom feature but the default value of 10 (characters per zoom step) seems un-ergonomic to me.

[jecowa]

it changes the column width of the display

Oh, now I think I understand what this setting changes. It changes the values of the "80" on the 80x25-tile window and tries to change the 25 to proportionally match.

Zooming in the fort view doesnt change the text areas, but you can zoom in the text screens and it changes the text size (without changing the fort view).

I'm surprised that it is possible to change the sizes of these screens independently of each other. Maybe this is a DFHack feature?

the default value of 10 (characters per zoom step) seems un-ergonomic to me.

5 seems like an ideal number for a 16x16 tileset on a 1280 display. But running a 16x16 tileset on a 2560 display would make 10 a pretty good number. The implementation of it having to do with the number of characters wide the window is seems kind of silly. I think it makes more sense if the zoom adjusted the tilesize instead of the number of columns.

[strainer]

Id say it does in effect change the tilesize, but in increments that create an integer number of characters on screen. Thats pretty appropriate and isn't complicated by different resolutions and tilesizes (at this configuration level). Sometimes the resulting pixel ratio looks a bit messy, but having smaller available stepsize helps with sidestepping that.

Ive perked up the repeat key acceleration values a bit too, so maybe 3 is too small but the default stepsize of 10 characters seems like its obscuring a nice feature.

[Rose]

One thing that works much better for a smooth zooming experience is, rather than just adding or subtracting x lines from the width and height, just keep track of the original, non-zoomed size, and a multiplier, which is increased or decreased by a percentage each time. That way, the zoom sizes seem visually consistent, otherwise once you zoom out more, the zoom step becomes apparently less and less.

[lethosor]

Zooming in the fort view doesnt change the text areas, but you can zoom in the text screens and it changes the text size (without changing the fort view).

I'm surprised that it is possible to change the sizes of these screens independently of each other. Maybe this is a DFHack feature?

It's a TWBT feature.

Strainer, I'm not sure when you could have something that isn't an integer number of characters on the screen. If you're referring to just map tiles, that might be a TWBT feature, but otherwise, vanilla DF's zoom logic is restricted to integer grid sizes too. The exact behavior when tiles need to be stretched can vary depending on init.txt settings, like BLACK_SPACE.

[se05239]

Any news upon when the starter pack for 44.07 comes?