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[Button]

I'm doing some testing before I upload the Modest Mod version - focusing, naturally, on plants. I'm using the version I downloaded a few hours ago, before you uploaded v1.31, so while these may be out of date I don't think so.

My embark has bamboo, and while two of the variations are working fine, the other two are showing up as ASCII. I have varied grass on, so it's probably unrelated to the other bug.



The vertical strokes, the scripty fancy fs, and the lowercase I-forget-what-Greek-character are all arrow bamboo.

I've also noticed that plants (and presumably other items?) revert to their ASCII forms when being hauled.

P.S. your wild boars look adorably grumpy <3

P.P.S. The shrubs are starting to bloom and their overrides don't seem to be working either.



That's a celery plant, a lettuce, and a bilberry bush in flower all in a row. Flowering trees are doing aight though.

P.P.P.S. My domesticated blackberry bushes are reaching maturity, and they're colons. I suspect since they're in a farm plot that this counts as a building though.



P.P.P.P.S. It's fruit season, and the fruit is coming in in ASCII for the ground shrubs:



And on the trees, it's just changing the color of the leaves.



Those are not fallen cherries, coloring what they'd fallen on red. Those are cherries ready for picking, but instead of fruit, they're leafy flowery things.

I don't think that's intended? If it is then please ignore me .



This is a log sitting on a square with fallen cherry blossoms on. You can see that on some nearby grass squares the grass has been colored white by the fallen blossoms, but on the log the background is. Looks kind of weird, not sure what you want to do with that.



This is a stepladder while there's a dwarf standing on it.

P.P.P.P.P.S. Now this is interesting.



That icon in the center, that looks like bamboo? That's rat weed, being hauled by a dwarf. I guess hauled items are overridable after all?

I've definitely seen rat weed hauled and looking like ASCII though, which is weird. Yes, the same plant, I triple-checked.

P.P.P.P.P.P.S. Last thing, I'm going to bed now. Tree trunk completely surrounded by tree trunks!

[PeridexisErrant]

Quick feedback from Reddit:  it would be good to include data/art/mouse.png

My upload script fixed that automatically, but it's the last thing preventing drop-in installation.

[Richard Von Veger]

This looks awesome, posting to watch...

[DragonDePlatino]

I'm doing some testing before I upload the Modest Mod version - focusing, naturally, on plants. I'm using the version I downloaded a few hours ago, before you uploaded v1.31, so while these may be out of date I don't think so.

Good grief. The plant overrides are a mess, aren't they? I can't spawn in plants with like creatures or items, so a lot of them have remained untested.

Could you please PM me a copy of your save file so I can give everything a look? I've been meaning to overhaul the plant overrides anyways.

Quick feedback from Reddit:  it would be good to include data/art/mouse.png

My upload script fixed that automatically, but it's the last thing preventing drop-in installation.

Sure thing. I don't know nor care if there are any 3rd-party utilities that actually use it, but I went ahead and drew a custom one anyways.

[Kromtec]

I was finally able to play for a short time. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Critique:

As Button already documented, the plants are a little buggy. Bamboo, Raspberry Bushes, Radish Plants, ... all had ASCII tiles.
Built beds, thrones, tables, doors were all ASCII as well as the workshops of course.

The curses_24_text.png tileset for the text is too big in my opinion. 16x16 tiles or even 12x16 tiles look a lot better on a 1080p screen.
Because of TWBT there is no need to have the tileset for the text in the same resolution than the tileset for the graphics.

The dark blue in your custom color schema was very hard to read on the black background.
(some mods in lazy newb pack write infos in this blue color, for example the one that shows whats under the mouse cursor)
So I reverted back to the ASCII default colors and I have to say that I like it a lot.
With your colors a lot of the soil types are bright red compared to the brownish more earthy colors of the default ASCII colors.

Conclusion:

These minor things aside, Gemset is definitely my new default tileset. I like every other aspect!
I love everything that falls on the ground during mining, the stones and gems look awesome!
The categorisation of the stone/ore/soil types are extremly cool.

I can't imagine how awesome it will be when the next version has working plants and soon buildings.

[DragonDePlatino]

Thanks for the feedback and compliments! I've got some fixes underway right now.

I'll be starting ASAP on the plant growths once Button sends me that save. Fixing the floor overrides like bamboo is a very trial-and-error process, and I'll need to bounce between my overrides.txt and the game to get those working.

I'll also be adding a smaller text tileset for the next update. I want to keep the text nice and big, but I don't want to waste too much horizontal space. As a compromise, I'll be upscaling curses_640x300 and making a 16x24 tileset instead of a 24x24 tileset. Here's my progress on that:



Yeah, I scrapped the custom colors scheme in v1.3 for a lot of reasons. I'll leave the color scheme stuff to guys like Vherid who know what they're doing.

[Button]

Unfortunately my save is at home, so it'll be a few hours.

The way I usually test plants is to mod them to appear in any biome, remove all aboveground plants except the ones I'm testing, and gen a pocket world with minimum settings. That makes it very easy to control what plants appear on embark. The error log doesn't like it very much, but it doesn't actually break anything.

[Kromtec]

I saw an animated lungfish! Very nice, I hope you expand that technique to other creatures.
Special praise also for that stone-breaking animation during mining.

What bothers me a little after playing for a while now is the lack of size differences between the more common creatures.
A cat or hen the same size as the water buffalo next to it looks slightly weird. 
How time consuming is it to go through at least domestic and maybe small_mammal and alter the size of some of these to roughly their child version?
The child version should shrink for a few pixel too and could in some cases get another color (hen/poult).

[DragonDePlatino]

When you're working with low-resolution pixel art, you have two choices from a design standpoint. You can make all of the creatures proportional (sacrificing visibility) or you can make them all the same size (impacting immersion). I experimented with both ideas heavily, and decided the latter would be best. For GemSet, visibility takes priority over realism. People are welcome to move some of the child sprites into the adult ones, though.

Anyways, I've made some heavy edits to both the map and text tileset. The map tileset received some small tweaks and the text tileset is now 16x24. Essentially, it's now a 2x version of curses_640x300 so you only need 1280px of horizontal resolution to view it. Here are both of the new tilesets along with an init.txt. If someone could give these a test run for me, that would be great.

Spoiler: curses_1280x600 (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: gemset_map (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: init.txt (click to show/hide)

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WARNING: Do NOT copy over the init.txt from an earlier version of DF.
Always read the file carefully, including the comments.

In general, you can copy savegames and tilesets from older DF
versions, but you should not copy anything else.  You should not, under any
circumstances, unpack a new DF on top of an older one.


Change this to turn sound off.

[SOUND:NO]

The sound volume runs from 0 (off) to 255 (full).  You can set the volume from the ESC options menu as well.

[VOLUME:255]

Change this to skip the wonderful intro movies.

[INTRO:NO]

This lets you set the starting windowed/fullscreen setting.  Can be YES, NO or PROMPT.

[WINDOWED:YES]

This is the size and font for windowed mode.  Changing to the 800x600 font might make you happier.
If set below 256x256 it specifies the grid size instead, with a minimum of 80x25.

[WINDOWEDX:80]
[WINDOWEDY:25]
[FONT:curses_1280x600.png]

You may disable window resizing if you wish.
[RESIZABLE:YES]

Full screen info.  The 0s below mean that the game will choose a resolution for you, but you can set it yourself as well.

[FULLSCREENX:0]
[FULLSCREENY:0]
[FULLFONT:curses_1280x600.png]

If this is set to NO, tiles will be stretched to fit the screen if there is a resolution mismatch.
If this is set to YES, the tiles will not be stretched, but rather the game view will be centralized, surrounded by black space.  Tiles that are too large will always be compressed rather than running off the screen.

[BLACK_SPACE:YES]

Graphics info, most of it as above.  Set GRAPHICS to YES to turn it all on.  This will use the "raw/graphics" folder for tile information.  Currently this is limited to whatever creature graphics you have downloaded.  The game comes with a few pictures to demonstrate.  As of December 2014, the Dwarf Fortress Wiki has custom tilesets available at http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tileset_repository and creature graphics at http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Graphics_set_repository.

[GRAPHICS:YES]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDX:0]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDY:0]
[GRAPHICS_FONT:gemset_map.png]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENX:0]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENY:0]
[GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:gemset_map.png]
[GRAPHICS_BLACK_SPACE:YES]

These settings can have a significant impact on frame rate, especially for people that have slow frame rates on the title screen.  Available modes are 2D, 2DSW, 2DASYNC, STANDARD, PARTIAL:<number>, ACCUM_BUFFER, FRAME_BUFFER and VBO. The number after PARTIAL refers to how many frames it will redo a printed tile before skipping it, so you might try increasing it a bit if you have flickering when PARTIAL is set.  Please note that any of these combinations might cause frame rates to drop significantly or cause unpleasant side effects like flickering.

By and large, 2D should be the most reliable, while STANDARD has a good combination of speed and reliability. However, all 2D modes are normally far slower than even STANDARD, which may be the slowest OpenGL mode.

On a multi-core machine none of this is very likely to matter; stick to 2D.

2DASYNC may be slightly more responsive than 2D on a multi-core machine, but this has recently become doubtful due to improvements to the other modes.

Linux/OS X users may also use PRINT_MODE:TEXT for primitive ncurses output.

[PRINT_MODE:TWBT]
Mode examples:
PRINT_MODE:2D
PRINT_MODE:TEXT
PRINT_MODE:FRAME_BUFFER
PRINT_MODE:PARTIAL:0
[SINGLE_BUFFER:NO]

Switches truetype on whenever the vertical tile size is this many pixels or larger.  You may also use YES/NO to force it on/off.  Turning it off may provide a minor speed boost (using font small enough that it doesn't activate won't).

[TRUETYPE:NO]

Change this to YES to keep the DF window on top of your other windows.

[TOPMOST:NO]

Change this to YES if you want to see an FPS counter at the top left.

[FPS:YES]

Use this to set the maximum frame rate during play.  The movies are always capped at 100.  A frame in this case is not graphical but related to the movement speed of a creature.  A healthy, unencumbered dwarven peasant takes one step every 10 frames.

You may set FPS_CAP to 0 to make it uncapped.

[FPS_CAP:100]

Use this to set the maximum graphical frame refresh rate during play.

[G_FPS_CAP:50]

On cards that support the OpenGL ARB_sync extension, turning this on can improve framerates in GPU overload conditions. It defaults to NO, as many cards that claim to support this will crash if asked to do so.

[ARB_SYNC:NO]

This sets the applications vertical synchronization behavior.  Changing this to YES can impact your FPS if your G_FPS is high. ARB_SYNC is a better option, if your system supports it.

[VSYNC:NO]

Change this to NEAREST if you want the texture values to use the nearest pixel without averaging.
Change this to LINEAR if you want the texture values to be averaged over the adjacent pixels.

[TEXTURE_PARAM:LINEAR]

Change this to make the dwarfort.exe process have a different priority.  From highest to lowest, the options are REALTIME, HIGH, ABOVE_NORMAL, NORMAL, BELOW_NORMAL and IDLE.

[PRIORITY:NORMAL]

Use this to set how fast the game zooms.  The default corresponds to
increasing grid size by 10 units each time you zoom.

[ZOOM_SPEED:10]

Change this to NO if you don't want to have the mouse involved at all.

[MOUSE:NO]

Change this to YES if you'd like to use a BMP for the mouse cursor.  The image currently lags when the game is lagging however.

[MOUSE_PICTURE:NO]

This controls the number of milliseconds that must pass before a held key sends an initial repeat press to the game.  You might need to adjust this.

[KEY_HOLD_MS:250]

This controls the number of milliseconds that must pass before a held key sends a repeat press to the game after the repeat process has begun.

[KEY_REPEAT_MS:150]

If you set KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_LIMIT above one, then after KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_START repetitions the repetition delay will smoothly decrease until repetition is this number of times faster than at the start.

[KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_LIMIT:8]
[KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_START:10]

This controls the number of milliseconds between macro instructions.

[MACRO_MS:15]

This controls the number of milliseconds that must pass before input works again after the view recenters on an event in dwarf mode.

[RECENTER_INTERFACE_SHUTDOWN_MS:0]

Change this to NO if you want to leave save uncompressed (you might want to do this if you are experience save corruption).

[COMPRESSED_SAVES:YES]

Unfortunately my save is at home, so it'll be a few hours.

The way I usually test plants is to mod them to appear in any biome, remove all aboveground plants except the ones I'm testing, and gen a pocket world with minimum settings. That makes it very easy to control what plants appear on embark. The error log doesn't like it very much, but it doesn't actually break anything.

Sorry, but beyond the graphical stuff, I'm not really familiar with raw modding. I'm OK waiting a while for a test save, though. I've got other things I can tweak until then.

[Button]

Save is here.

I could put together a set of plant testing raws for you if you like.

[DragonDePlatino]

Nah, it'll be just fine. Once I get the hang of doing the growth overrides of a single plant, everything else will be easy. Thanks for sending me that.

EDIT:

Spoiler: Hurraaaaay! (click to show/hide)

Turns out, I only had GrassDarkFloor (actually light) overrides for bamboo. All bamboo is bright, so I assumed those were the only overrides I needed. I made some overrides for GrassLightFloor (actually dark) bamboo and it fixed it right up. I also separated soil and plants into their own tile sheets in a vain attempt to make GemSet more organized.

Now I'll direct my attention to overhauling the plant growths. I'm not going to be a crazy person and give each growth a unique sprite (which isn't possible), but I would like to make the plant graphics a lot more granular like the stone tiles. Just for fun, I would like to make leaves a visible growth while they are on plants and have the [PICKED_TILE] be a leafless plant. I'll be taking any suggestions now if you have them, Button.

[Kromtec]

When you're working with low-resolution pixel art, you have two choices from a design standpoint. You can make all of the creatures proportional (sacrificing visibility) or you can make them all the same size (impacting immersion). I experimented with both ideas heavily, and decided the latter would be best. For GemSet, visibility takes priority over realism. People are welcome to move some of the child sprites into the adult ones, though.

Understood! 

Anyways, I've made some heavy edits to both the map and text tileset. The map tileset received some small tweaks and the text tileset is now 16x24. Essentially, it's now a 2x version of curses_640x300 so you only need 1280px of horizontal resolution to view it. Here are both of the new tilesets along with an init.txt. If someone could give these a test run for me, that would be great.

Spoiler: curses_1280x600 (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: gemset_map (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: init.txt (click to show/hide)

Code: [Select]

WARNING: Do NOT copy over the init.txt from an earlier version of DF.
Always read the file carefully, including the comments.

In general, you can copy savegames and tilesets from older DF
versions, but you should not copy anything else.  You should not, under any
circumstances, unpack a new DF on top of an older one.


Change this to turn sound off.

[SOUND:NO]

The sound volume runs from 0 (off) to 255 (full).  You can set the volume from the ESC options menu as well.

[VOLUME:255]

Change this to skip the wonderful intro movies.

[INTRO:NO]

This lets you set the starting windowed/fullscreen setting.  Can be YES, NO or PROMPT.

[WINDOWED:YES]

This is the size and font for windowed mode.  Changing to the 800x600 font might make you happier.
If set below 256x256 it specifies the grid size instead, with a minimum of 80x25.

[WINDOWEDX:80]
[WINDOWEDY:25]
[FONT:curses_1280x600.png]

You may disable window resizing if you wish.
[RESIZABLE:YES]

Full screen info.  The 0s below mean that the game will choose a resolution for you, but you can set it yourself as well.

[FULLSCREENX:0]
[FULLSCREENY:0]
[FULLFONT:curses_1280x600.png]

If this is set to NO, tiles will be stretched to fit the screen if there is a resolution mismatch.
If this is set to YES, the tiles will not be stretched, but rather the game view will be centralized, surrounded by black space.  Tiles that are too large will always be compressed rather than running off the screen.

[BLACK_SPACE:YES]

Graphics info, most of it as above.  Set GRAPHICS to YES to turn it all on.  This will use the "raw/graphics" folder for tile information.  Currently this is limited to whatever creature graphics you have downloaded.  The game comes with a few pictures to demonstrate.  As of December 2014, the Dwarf Fortress Wiki has custom tilesets available at http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tileset_repository and creature graphics at http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Graphics_set_repository.

[GRAPHICS:YES]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDX:0]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDY:0]
[GRAPHICS_FONT:gemset_map.png]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENX:0]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENY:0]
[GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:gemset_map.png]
[GRAPHICS_BLACK_SPACE:YES]

These settings can have a significant impact on frame rate, especially for people that have slow frame rates on the title screen.  Available modes are 2D, 2DSW, 2DASYNC, STANDARD, PARTIAL:<number>, ACCUM_BUFFER, FRAME_BUFFER and VBO. The number after PARTIAL refers to how many frames it will redo a printed tile before skipping it, so you might try increasing it a bit if you have flickering when PARTIAL is set.  Please note that any of these combinations might cause frame rates to drop significantly or cause unpleasant side effects like flickering.

By and large, 2D should be the most reliable, while STANDARD has a good combination of speed and reliability. However, all 2D modes are normally far slower than even STANDARD, which may be the slowest OpenGL mode.

On a multi-core machine none of this is very likely to matter; stick to 2D.

2DASYNC may be slightly more responsive than 2D on a multi-core machine, but this has recently become doubtful due to improvements to the other modes.

Linux/OS X users may also use PRINT_MODE:TEXT for primitive ncurses output.

[PRINT_MODE:TWBT]
Mode examples:
PRINT_MODE:2D
PRINT_MODE:TEXT
PRINT_MODE:FRAME_BUFFER
PRINT_MODE:PARTIAL:0
[SINGLE_BUFFER:NO]

Switches truetype on whenever the vertical tile size is this many pixels or larger.  You may also use YES/NO to force it on/off.  Turning it off may provide a minor speed boost (using font small enough that it doesn't activate won't).

[TRUETYPE:NO]

Change this to YES to keep the DF window on top of your other windows.

[TOPMOST:NO]

Change this to YES if you want to see an FPS counter at the top left.

[FPS:YES]

Use this to set the maximum frame rate during play.  The movies are always capped at 100.  A frame in this case is not graphical but related to the movement speed of a creature.  A healthy, unencumbered dwarven peasant takes one step every 10 frames.

You may set FPS_CAP to 0 to make it uncapped.

[FPS_CAP:100]

Use this to set the maximum graphical frame refresh rate during play.

[G_FPS_CAP:50]

On cards that support the OpenGL ARB_sync extension, turning this on can improve framerates in GPU overload conditions. It defaults to NO, as many cards that claim to support this will crash if asked to do so.

[ARB_SYNC:NO]

This sets the applications vertical synchronization behavior.  Changing this to YES can impact your FPS if your G_FPS is high. ARB_SYNC is a better option, if your system supports it.

[VSYNC:NO]

Change this to NEAREST if you want the texture values to use the nearest pixel without averaging.
Change this to LINEAR if you want the texture values to be averaged over the adjacent pixels.

[TEXTURE_PARAM:LINEAR]

Change this to make the dwarfort.exe process have a different priority.  From highest to lowest, the options are REALTIME, HIGH, ABOVE_NORMAL, NORMAL, BELOW_NORMAL and IDLE.

[PRIORITY:NORMAL]

Use this to set how fast the game zooms.  The default corresponds to
increasing grid size by 10 units each time you zoom.

[ZOOM_SPEED:10]

Change this to NO if you don't want to have the mouse involved at all.

[MOUSE:NO]

Change this to YES if you'd like to use a BMP for the mouse cursor.  The image currently lags when the game is lagging however.

[MOUSE_PICTURE:NO]

This controls the number of milliseconds that must pass before a held key sends an initial repeat press to the game.  You might need to adjust this.

[KEY_HOLD_MS:250]

This controls the number of milliseconds that must pass before a held key sends a repeat press to the game after the repeat process has begun.

[KEY_REPEAT_MS:150]

If you set KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_LIMIT above one, then after KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_START repetitions the repetition delay will smoothly decrease until repetition is this number of times faster than at the start.

[KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_LIMIT:8]
[KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_START:10]

This controls the number of milliseconds between macro instructions.

[MACRO_MS:15]

This controls the number of milliseconds that must pass before input works again after the view recenters on an event in dwarf mode.

[RECENTER_INTERFACE_SHUTDOWN_MS:0]

Change this to NO if you want to leave save uncompressed (you might want to do this if you are experience save corruption).

[COMPRESSED_SAVES:YES]

I tested your new font tileset and I like it a lot:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Meph]

Curse you Dragondeplatino, because usually I like the realistic style of the Obsidian set more, but I might very well make this my and by extension, MasterworkDFs, default tileset.

[Kromtec]

I've breached the caverns!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

On the cavern floor there is a lot of floor fungus, young tower-caps, plump helmets, etc. but they all look like colored grass/plants.
Can you give mushrooms and fungus separate tiles or is this impossible?


Edit: Why did you remove the fish animation? They now switch between the letters "y" and "z" instead of the animation.

[DragonDePlatino]

I've breached the caverns!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

On the cavern floor there is a lot of floor fungus, young tower-caps, plump helmets, etc. but they all look like colored grass/plants.
Can you give mushrooms and fungus separate tiles or is this impossible?


Edit: Why did you remove the fish animation? They now switch between the letters "y" and "z" instead of the animation.

Hmm...I didn't want to give unique tiles to the underground grasses because they share the same ASCII tiles as the aboveground grasses. However...I'm currently in the process of overhauling the plants so I'll make them some tiny mushrooms or something.

Thanks for catching the missing fish tiles. This is why I send my stuff out for people to test. :U Until then, you might wanna use an older version of the map tileset.

Curse you Dragondeplatino, because usually I like the realistic style of the Obsidian set more, but I might very well make this my and by extension, MasterworkDFs, default tileset.

You know, after bumping around on the forums for a bit, I've started to notice that a lot. Most people on these forums grew up with roguelikes, WRPGs and older PC games, so they tend to gravitate towards more gritty or realistic graphics. I was a Gamecube-era Nintendo kid, so I've always been fond of a more cartoony look. With that in mind, I can understand your hesitation in adopting GemSet. :/

Oh, but I haven't forgotten about the promise I made to you back in Janauary. So if you're gonna be adding GemSet support to Masterwork, you might wanna hold off until I start on that, mmmkay?