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[mifki]

Lot of bugs have been fixed recently in nextgen branch, it should be usable now. Basic multilevel rendering is supported for adventure mode, but there may be many issues still, as adv. mode rendering is much more complicated than fortress mode. Overrides by tile type added also.

Next plans are to fix mapshot command, more colours, better support for overrides by tile type, rendering of levels "above" in adv. mode,  commands to manage overrides and tilesets from console, and 0.40.x support of course. That's apart from some OS X-specific things and thinking about web-based management console.

[scamtank]

Overrides by tile type added also.

Good news, all of it, but uh what's this about? What do you mean by a tile "type"?

[Meph]

I think he means by more than just building and item type.

Keep on doing what you are doing. The plugin is great, and I have gotten very good feedback on it. And thanks for including the init settings.

[mifki]

Overrides by tile type added also.

Good news, all of it, but uh what's this about? What do you mean by a tile "type"?

List at the bottom here - pretty much everything.
Next step could be complete custom rendering instead of overriding half of tiles, but I'm still unsure.

[Meph]

That is a long list...

Did you see my suggestion about material-specific overrides, or checked if something like it is possible? A different tile for rock walls, metal walls, wood walls and glass walls for example.

[scamtank]

Stone, ore, ice, smooth variants of the first three and constructed stuff are what I'm seeing in that list. Combined with the floors and the grasses and other typically hardcoded things, this is still a big step forward in eliminating the niggling discrepancies.

[heydude6]

is it possible to make it so that for the multi z-level viewing when you make it past 15 z-levels you can make it switch to the default vanilla tile rather than the black one.

[mifki]

That is a long list...

Did you see my suggestion about material-specific overrides, or checked if something like it is possible? A different tile for rock walls, metal walls, wood walls and glass walls for example.

That's the thing - if it will access / allow to override basing on almost all object properties, it will be too close to implementing my own rendering (object type and material is what needed to determine tile symbol and colour). I mean it's not optimal (and therefore I don't like it ) if the game first renders screen and then plugin checks all the same properties of tiles/objects and re-renders them.
On the other hand it's still the easiest way, so I'll think about materials.

[Meph]

Yeah.

[mifki]

is it possible to make it so that for the multi z-level viewing when you make it past 15 z-levels you can make it switch to the default vanilla tile rather than the black one.

Hm, that's what it should be doing actually. I'll check it. Can you post a screenshot?

[mifki]

One big plus of completely replacing game rendering is ability to render floor and objects independently, so you would see real tiles behind them. It would greatly improve graphics I think.

[Rose]

If only Toady would open-source the rendering of the game. :/

[mifki]

If only Toady would open-source the rendering of the game. :/

But why?
First, rendering involves accessing all internal data (tiles, objects, materials, ...), and he won't open all these internal structures.
Second, we have access to all of them via dfhack anyway, so how would making it "officially" open help?

[Vattic]

Tiletypes will be so useful, nice work mifki!

[Clownmite]

One big plus of completely replacing game rendering is ability to render floor and objects independently, so you would see real tiles behind them. It would greatly improve graphics I think.

That would be amazing.