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[Midboss]

It would be nice if there was a unit from the race showing as the civilization icon in embark mode like a lowly peasant for a village and a king for the capital or an option to customize this in the phoebus tileset assembler. I had no idea the cabinets represented goblin settlements until I started doing some research for this post.

Version 40 of dwarf fortress seems to choose dwarven icons in the legends historical map for dwarven races and so on but I would like to be able to tell on embark rather than remembering where everyone extends their power when switching to embark mode. It also seems that on world generation it describes what race inhabits which settlements but then the historical map no longer describes which race is in the settlement.

Please implement this suggestion.

[Phoebus]

It would be nice if there was a unit from the race showing as the civilization icon in embark mode like a lowly peasant for a village and a king for the capital or an option to customize this in the phoebus tileset assembler. I had no idea the cabinets represented goblin settlements until I started doing some research for this post.

Version 40 of dwarf fortress seems to choose dwarven icons in the legends historical map for dwarven races and so on but I would like to be able to tell on embark rather than remembering where everyone extends their power when switching to embark mode. It also seems that on world generation it describes what race inhabits which settlements but then the historical map no longer describes which race is in the settlement.

Please implement this suggestion.

No.

[Meph]

Maybe another suggestion?

All tilesets except Ironhand have some duplicate wall tiles. Literally the same graphics, although they are used differently in the game. Some of the are wall-to-wall and other are wall-to-natural-rock. Your set has 4 tiles that exist 3 times, looking the same, although they could look different and would improve the look of a fort.

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I did a quick mock-up with paint to show exactly what I mean:

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Suggestion: Make 8 new tiles for the ones I mentioned, and blur the most common inorganic/rock tile you have into these walls, so that you have a natural, flowing progress from smoothed wall to natural rock wall.

[King Mir]

Is there any reason why the graphics set could not be used on versions 40.05 through 40.08? It's labeled as 40.07 only, but is that really the case?

[LeoCean]

You could probably use it on those versions. Idk why you'd want to as it was more buggy in previous versions and dwarf therapist has been updated now to the 0_40_07 version. If you really wanted it to be compatible though you'd just add everything but the raws/objects folder.

[thistleknot]

well... to answer the question about whether it could be used from 40_05 to 40_08 depends on if anything was changed in data or raw between those versions that affect creature tiles.

at least with 40_07 and 40_08 nope.  So the 40_07 phoebus data/init folder can be copied over a 40_08 installation

[mnjiman]

The only thing that needs to be updated then is the title of this thread?

[GoldenShadow]

Is there any reason why the graphics set could not be used on versions 40.05 through 40.08? It's labeled as 40.07 only, but is that really the case?

Some of Toady's bug fixes include changes to the raws. If you use raws from an older version, you don't benefit from the bug fixes.  However, the latest release from .40.07 to .40.08 only has a new binary exe. the raws were not changed.

[thistleknot]

Is there any reason why the graphics set could not be used on versions 40.05 through 40.08? It's labeled as 40.07 only, but is that really the case?

Some of Toady's bug fixes include changes to the raws. If you use raws from an older version, you don't benefit from the bug fixes.  However, the latest release from .40.07 to .40.08 only has a new binary exe. the raws were not changed.

yes, exactly.   My point was I hit up on a winmerge comparison between the two folders before my post.

It's entirely trivial.  Open up winmerge (free app), and compare two folders.  If nothing in creature*.txt or plant*.txt or .\data changed, you're good.

But it makes more sense after a while, because Toady documents his file changes apparently.

[Phoebus]

Correct, the 40.07 graphic set is compatible with 40.08.

[Phoebus]

*Updated* 0.40.08v00
Updated to Dwarf Fortress 0.40.08.

[Lemunde]

*Updated* 0.40.08v00
Updated to Dwarf Fortress 0.40.08.

Good job! 

[billw]

Thanks for the tile set, it is my favorite. Just one question, is there some trick to stop strings from overwriting parts of the UI? i.e. the blank area that sometimes extends out further than the end of the string.

[Meph]

Thanks for the tile set, it is my favorite. Just one question, is there some trick to stop strings from overwriting parts of the UI? i.e. the blank area that sometimes extends out further than the end of the string.

No. TrueType helps a bit, try pressing F12 ingame.

[LeoCean]

Is there anyway to make the swarm of flies show up as anything but tile 177? In creature_insects they are tile:250 but they don't show up as it, and if you add them to the graphics, graphics_nwkohaku_bugs for example they still don't show up as anything different. Not that it really matters.  I think they probably carry the miasma around with them maybe which gives them the tile 177.