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[LeoCean]

You're using dfhackr1? And set printmode in the init file?  Solved.

[Deon]

I am loving you man.

Thanks a lot!

P.S. Absolutely amazing, just what I wanted.



Could you tell me if there is a possible way to discard the foreground color enforced by the game?

[LeoCean]

The black? You'd have to edit the tiles themselves and then I still don't know much about that stuff.

[mifki]

Could you tell me if there is a possible way to discard the foreground color enforced by the game?

What do you mean, discard?

[Deon]

Well curently we replace the tile itself, but there is still foreground/background color forced, so if I wanted a colorful specific item most likely some dark material color would screw it up. So I guess it is impossible to overwrite specific items with white/black tile only (without tile colors)?

[UristWoodie]

Has anyone built any sort of utilities for manipulating the Overwrites.txt?

Something like INCLUDE statements?
I'm almost thinking of a batch file that can concatenate multiple text files into the Overwrites file..

So I can pick:
Workshops_v1
Stairs
Workshops_v2
Trees
Numbers_v3
or any combination of those, as I'm working trying to build up the tile-set. 
I'm borrowing from several different sets, trying to get something with the "right" feel for it...and it's awkward having to remember to update one master override file.

[Dirst]

Has anyone built any sort of utilities for manipulating the Overwrites.txt?

Something like INCLUDE statements?
I'm almost thinking of a batch file that can concatenate multiple text files into the Overwrites file..

So I can pick:
Workshops_v1
Stairs
Workshops_v2
Trees
Numbers_v3
or any combination of those, as I'm working trying to build up the tile-set. 
I'm borrowing from several different sets, trying to get something with the "right" feel for it...and it's awkward having to remember to update one master override file.

I think it might be easier to rope in all the files in a particular directory, the way raws are processed.  Then you just have to decide on what to do with repeated entries (my vote would be for last-in wins).

[mifki]

Well curently we replace the tile itself, but there is still foreground/background color forced, so if I wanted a colorful specific item most likely some dark material color would screw it up. So I guess it is impossible to overwrite specific items with white/black tile only (without tile colors)?

Why don't you change material colour then? I mean that's the idea (in df, not mine) - tile colour is determined by its material.

Something like INCLUDE statements?

It's planned https://github.com/mifki/df-twbt/issues/5

[Deon]

Why don't you change material colour then? I mean that's the idea (in df, not mine) - tile colour is determined by its material.

For example if I wanted a color of material still show up on the bars, that's why I asked .

[LeoCean]

Then the color in the tile has to be whitish or light grey/grey.

[mifki]

Why don't you change material colour then? I mean that's the idea (in df, not mine) - tile colour is determined by its material.

For example if I wanted a color of material still show up on the bars, that's why I asked .

Technically it's not a problem to replace colour as well. I'm still not sure it's good to allow to change tile colour freely. I'll think about this, maybe some possible use cases will convince me)

[Meph]

possible use case: The surface grass is green. It contains pebbles and single tiles of brown, grey or black rock, or yellow sand. It looks very out of place. If you could color those patches of single tile soils green, the surface would look much nicer.

Example:

Spoiler: Deons fallout mod (click to show/hide)

The brown is the grass, the floor tiles are soil. If they could be brown as well, it would fit better. Even better than that, if they could be overriden with a tile that contains both floor tiles and grass, they could blend into it.

Another example: All constructed walls are of one color. Make that an option, and people will no longer go crazy of that microcline-orthoclase-obsidian-marble wall, but make their buildings and can toggle them to either show the original color, or a pre-set color for all walls, for a uniform look.

[Deon]

That can be accomodated by modding as well. I am mostly depressed that my nicely colored laser rifles look brown when made from copper .

[mifki]

@Meph Yep but then we'll "lose" material information. Some time ago I wanted all walls/beds/etc. to look uniform, but then I got used to it because it makes more sense this way - well, again because they indeed have different materials and colours in reality.

But ok, since I think it's quite easy to do, I'll add it to my todo list with an option to turn colour overrides on and off in runtime.

[Meph]

That can be accomodated by modding as well. I am mostly depressed that my nicely colored laser rifles look brown when made from copper .

Ah yeah, the weapons. Yeah, it might be best if they are mostly using white as ingame color, so that the sprites retain their original color. Or at least keep a secondary color, like brown/wood for the handles.