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[mifki]

the anatomy looks strange, but it's a great sight nonetheless (as always!)

What to read on dwarven anatomy? 

[Pvt. Pirate]

the anatomy looks strange, but it's a great sight nonetheless (as always!)

What to read on dwarven anatomy? 

"Considering the Dwarf" it is a Forgotten Beast sheet bound codex with cover out of conglomerate bound codex. It concerns the anatomy of Dwarves. It meanders and loses track of the topic ending up on discussing why elves are evil. its prose is passable.

[Roses]

Your sprites, are they generated based off of appearance information? and if so, how do you read it? I'm trying to figure out how to recreate the appearance string from the unit description screen, but I can't figure out how that information is stored

[Rose]

The appearance info is stored in a bunch of different places, but primarily, there's modifiers  stored for each body part, and for the creature as a whole. It's a bit involved to get it all together, but you can look through the source for my other app, dwarf portrait, to get a better idea how it all is pulled together.

[Roses]

Oy vey, that is a lot more complicated than I was hoping for. I think I figured out the colors, but am still having trouble figuring out things like "her quite dense hair is curly", "her nose is broad". I know it has to do with the bp_appearance_modifiers and body_appearance_modifiers, but I can't seem to find where I can tell that the appearance modifier type is "dense" or "broad". I'm guessing that's what the casteRaws.bp_appearance_modifiers.modifier.type is referencing though?

[Rose]

There's two classes you need to look at, there's the creature and cast raw classes, and then there's the creature itself. The raw class has a list of every modifier a creature can have, while the creature class has the actual values, in an array of the same length.

[Roses]

Alright, I think I got it all figured out, thanks for your help. Now I just need to convert the numbers to strings (e.g. very long hair vs long hair). But that shouldn't be too hard, just time consuming. Thanks very much for your help.

[Rose]

https://www.patreon.com/posts/clothing-23643144

[Bumber]

Not sure if this is possible, but what if we could take .fdf-map files from the DFMA and render them in a visualizer like Armok Vision?

The most fundamental problem with this is that the file is a bunch of compressed .png images. However, if the compression involves an array of indices to images of the individual tiles, there is at least a possibility that one could construct a rudimentary version of the map. (DFFD gives a link to the creator's homepage. I haven't bothered to log into Google to check if there's any documentation on how it works.)

We would most likely have to ask the player to manually assign what each tile image represents (barring image recognition software.) We can't know anything about tiles that creatures or items are covering, and would have to fall back to a default gray floor (even if it's supposed to be stairs) under those objects.

This is probably just a pipe dream. I don't expect to waste their time and effort, but I thought I'd put my thoughts out there just in case it turned out to be doable.
Worst case scenario, we could have a program that lets the user paint solid tiles using a grid overlay of each z-level image. Then it could render a 3D view of the painted cubes for a general idea of what the fort looks like. Not sure who'd be interested in that, but it sounds simple enough. Thoughts?

[Pvt. Pirate]

i sometimes wonder if ALL squares of the map are existant in such detail as the sites with historical value to the player.

[Rose]

It'd be far easier to save a snapshot of the fortress in the same binary format that Armok Vision uses.

[Bumber]

It'd be far easier to save a snapshot of the fortress in the same binary format that Armok Vision uses.

As long as you have access to the save file, yeah.

[Rose]

Which would be an interesting way of sharing forts, like a web viewer.

There's just not enough info in the screenshots.

[Rose]

I felt we needed a chibi slider.

[Bumber]

Am I seeing nothing but beard from the two in the center, or are they just lying down face first like the guy on the right?

*Bumber ponders a new sub-race of dwarves*