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[PeridexisErrant]

Thanks, going to bed now, I will make sure to test it tomorrow. I cannot explain how happy I am that this exists.

Same here

Its perfect for Peridexis beginner pack too. More player info is always nice.

Wow, yeah. This is awesomely helpful for new players  - and like TwbT item tiles, easy to set up for vanilla.  This is going to be awesome.

[Dirst]

You can put URLs in it, and if the player presses ENTER then DF will minimize and the link will open in the default browser. I tested that.

That's in WTF text. Since I don't know how complicated it would be to render WTF on the item description screen, I was asking if it's possible to launch a URL from DFHack (from an alt-h command or something).

Of course, if WTF is trivial then it's a moot point.

Edit: Link to the WTF editor.  Still don't know what it takes to render WTF text to the screen.

[Bloax]

Item descriptions are like the one thing that have been missing since forever because how are you even supposed to know that a Kisre is a tiny dagger and a Kisraee is a huge two-handed sword and a Bisbeth is actually a spear.

jesus fuck finally
thanks

[Raidau]

You can put URLs in it, and if the player presses ENTER then DF will minimize and the link will open in the default browser. I tested that.

That's in WTF text. Since I don't know how complicated it would be to render WTF on the item description screen, I was asking if it's possible to launch a URL from DFHack (from an alt-h command or something).

Of course, if WTF is trivial then it's a moot point.

Edit: Link to the WTF editor.  Still don't know what it takes to render WTF text to the screen.

Thanks for the link. I perfectly understand the format of text in text viewer screen and my script could do anything with default DF description page, but i have no idea how to make text screen update after it has been loaded. It seems that only source text can be easilty changed (i use gm-editor), not the one already on the screen... If anyone knows how to make game refresh text viewscreen, i could make the script that lets you alter it, with colors and all the cool stuff.

[Putnam]

The main problem is that Lua interacts with the text viewscreen really weirdly. AFAIK it's a char[], but it just treats it as a char or something so it displays wrongly.

[Raidau]

The main problem is that Lua interacts with the text viewscreen really weirdly. AFAIK it's a char[], but it just treats it as a char or something so it displays wrongly.

The text on the screen does not change when I alter source_text fields in gm-editor. BUT if i change indents, the changes can be seen.

[Putnam]

I meant formatted_text, sorry.

[Raidau]

I meant formatted_text, sorry.

Anyway, do you have any ideas how to make the screen actually update itself?

[Grimlocke]

My rantings prayers have been answered! Can't believe I didn't see this earlier.

I will be using the hell out of this.

[Raidau]

Good news. Seems that now I understand how I can add ASCII images for EVERYTHING in game (visible once you open its text description)

Does anyone know what runtime data should i alter to change zoom level? Or is it possible to give different size to popup characters?

[Meph]

 

Omg, that will be such a fun project. Large ascii item and creature graphics for vanilla, I think I might do that.

Once you release this, please make sure to include an idiot-proof manual plus example for people to work with.

[Raidau]

Omg, that will be such a fun project. Large ascii item and creature graphics for vanilla, I think I might do that.

Once you release this, please make sure to include an idiot-proof manual plus example for people to work with.

Sure i think i will use same filename algorythm as with extended item view, so people dont confuse so much if they are familiar with raw tokens

[Raidau]

Quite easy, to be honest.

Now there can be an ASCII image for every item type (and subtype), and every creature/caste pair.

They are quite large and tend to occupy most of screen space, but that problem is to be solved in the future. I need some advice on how to make popup window stick to the bottom of the screen and how to dinamically change game's zoom level.

A good ASCII artist could make small images that look cool, but I just used avaliable image converter to make some examples.

I did not add any fancy things like different quality images or different images for different professions yet, but its quite possible.

[Meph]

I think black and white ascii is perfectly fine.

Is the size affected by the tileset you use? Did you try this out with Twbt? It looks like you got a pretty high screen resolution, I'm just wondering what happens to people that play on a netbook/laptop.

[Raidau]

I think black and white ascii is perfectly fine.

Is the size affected by the tileset you use? Did you try this out with Twbt? It looks like you got a pretty high screen resolution, I'm just wondering what happens to people that play on a netbook/laptop.

Its twbt. ASCII is not compatible with traditional tileset mode, most  it looks like rubbish . I tried that earlier. Yeah, I m ising 1920x1080 monitor, ASCII with fullscreen but in small window its not enough screen space to show whole large image (like example ones).