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[Dunamisdeos]

I have the new starter pack, and this doesn't seem to connect with my fortress.

I guess it does require DFhack! I think this is the feature I miss the most.

[Poldon]

There's a difference between someone I can see and get to know collecting my information and a big company with who-knows-what other goals and motives in mind, especially a big company I don't trust. In this case, I'm completely fine with the collection. If nothing else, we know who to blame if things go badly. =P

(That's a tease, not really serious. XD)

Edit: By the way, I am very eagerly looking forward to playing Dwarf Fortress entirely through this! That is really amazing and awesome! Just as soon as we begin the big DF release cycle I might play. XD

This will also make showing people stuff so much easier!

[Rose]

https://github.com/JapaMala/armok-vision/releases/tag/v0.9.0

New release!

Now you can play Dwarf Fortress directly from Armok Vision.

It's very barebones, but it mostly works.

Also, I took out any analytics info that I have control over, as per popular request.

I mention the control part because the Unity3D company collects their own stuff from every Unity game, mostly just hardware info, as far as I know, but I don't do any collection of my own.

[lethosor]

I have the new starter pack, and this doesn't seem to connect with my fortress.

I guess it does require DFhack! I think this is the feature I miss the most.

I don't know what version the "new starter pack" is, but if you're referring to PeridexisErrant's, I don't believe he's shipped a pack without DFHack since around 0.40.15. It's disabled by default in some newer packs, but you can still enable it.

@PvtPirate - That might be my fault; the starter pack tends to bundle 64bit only due to file size limits.

how many of the other files in there are 64bit? maybe that explains the many crashes i experience

DF only uses 32-bit libraries, so any 64-bit libraries (or anything else that's 64-bit only) can't crash DF. If DF could only find, say, a 64-bit version of SDL.dll, it wouldn't start at all.

[perkel]

So since you actually got it working (playing df from AV) how do you see progress on this in future ?
I mean are there any technical probless you won't be able to jump above ?
currently downloading.

Imo best way to handle gameplay would be to point camera down like in DF when you pop up gameplay menu or you want to play game. Once you done camera then changes position to your previous used.

Also have you ever though about implementing real isometric camera ? I mean AV looks good but with proper isometric mode it would look a lot better due to how isometric camera works and what type of DF game is.

edit: if you don't know it proper isometric camera is different than camera just pointing like isometric one. Isometric uses superwide fov which means that objects close to camera are same size or almost same size as objects very far from camera.

here is what difference looks like done on another unity project game called City Skylines by modder (so it should be possible to implement it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThO9hT_CNNE

[Rose]

I haven't tried an isometric camera in a while, actually.

Let me give it a go real quick.

...Aw shit, oops.

I broke the tree shader.

[perkel]

new update doesn't seem to work properly for me. using LNP r20 with DFhack you pointed out but AV doesn't seem to talk to df. Just receives commands from it.

Only mouse works.

[Rose]

Yeah, there's some bugs. I'm putting together a fix now.

[Rose]

This is what isometric mode looks like.



Honestly, I prefer Stonesense.

[perkel]

DAMN looks amazing imho. Would be awesome if this was mode that would lock your camera to setting like this by pressing F5 or something like that.

[SalmonGod]

Seriously.  That looks incredible.

[Dunamisdeos]

Wowwww that looks amazing!!!

Hey I have a small feature request! What about sprites/models for humans? I see we have something in place for dwarves.

[Max™]

Those are just the tileset included with the viewer atm.

Also: TOWAH CHIKKEN!

Having the functionality of stonesense and isoworld replaced by AV is technically doable, and seems like a logical progression doesn't it?

[Dirst]

Those are just the tileset included with the viewer atm.

I was hoping it'd be relatively easy to use Stonesense sprites as a placeholder before real 3D models (in that same stare-at-the-camera pose as the current creature tiles), but it seems like it would be quite a bit of work.

[Rose]

Yeah, I've also been planning on using stonesense sprites, but it's quite a bit of work, so I've been putting it off.