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[clinodev]

graphics_creatures_layered.txt
Need full information about what kind of token is possible there at all?
Below I will give the lines I am interested in with comments and questions about them.

Spoiler: CONDITION_MATERIAL_FLAG (click to show/hide)

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[CONDITION_MATERIAL_FLAG:token]

Known tokens:
WOVEN_ITEM
ANY_WOOD_MATERIAL
ANY_LEATHER_MATERIAL
ANY_BONE_MATERIAL
ANY_SHELL_MATERIAL
IS_DIVINE_MATERIAL
IS_CRAFTED_ARTIFACT
NOT_ARTIFACT

It is possible something like?
NOT_LEATHER_MATERIAL
ANY_METAL_MATERIAL

What is the full list of tokens for this line?



Spoiler: SHUT_OFF_IF_ITEM_PRESENT (click to show/hide)

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[SHUT_OFF_IF_ITEM_PRESENT:WIELD:WEAPON:ANY]
[SHUT_OFF_IF_ITEM_PRESENT:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD:HELM:ITEM_HELM_HELM] or similar for other clothing or armor

Are there any other tokens?
As I understand, here is possible [SHUT_OFF_IF_ITEM_PRESENT:BY_TOKEN:RH:WEAPON:...]



Spoiler: Colors of clothing (click to show/hide)

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[LAYER:CLOTHING_TORSO_SIMPLE_BLACK:DWARF_CLOTHING:2:14]
[CONDITION_ITEM_WORN:BY_CATEGORY:BODY_UPPER:ARMOR:...]
[CONDITION_PROFESSION_CATEGORY:NONE]
[CONDITION_PROFESSION_CATEGORY:MINER:MERCHANT]
[CONDITION_DYE:BLACK]

How to make the clothing' color to depend by its actual material or dye color, and not by the dwarf profession?
Is it even possible?
I got the impression that the token [CONDITION_DYE:] does not working.



Where to ask such questions at all to get an official answer, and not the thoughts of other fellow modders?

This would be a good Future of the Fortress question.

[Putnam]

Haha I don't know crap about graphics, everything I know is either from reading the existing ones or reverse engineering. I can tell you outright that NOT_X_MATERIAL isn't a thing. ANY_METAL_MATERIAL might just be IS_METAL. It's also possible you might just be able to use any of these, plus the new ones, which are CARTILAGE FEATHER SCALE HAIR NERVOUS_TISSUE HOOF CHITIN ANTLER

I would assume that anywhere BY_CATEGORY works, BY_TYPE and BY_TOKEN work too, honestly.

The color thing I just don't know. I seem to recall discussion suggesting it's not a thing quite yet.

[jecowa]

Why is there a "PAGE_DIM_PIXELS" when there's already a "PAGE_DIM"? Does it matter which we use? Also, why isn't the game able to figure out the dimensions of an image by itself? These are kind of tedious and even the vanilla graphics pack is getting the wrong values down in some of them.

[jecowa]

Is there a guideline for the minimum required things to include to make a stand-alone graphics pack in the new format? We don't need to define graphics for everything that the vanilla pack does, do we?

[jecowa]

I've been trying to see if it's possible to run the game with a 16x16 tileset (by scaling a lot of the vanilla graphics to 50% and changing the dimensions of the associated text files). I'm starting to believe rumors that 32x32 is hardcoded.



I'm guessing the sand looks like that for the tiled pattern feature. I think the other parts of its tilesheet would normally be covered by surrounding tiles. And the sand issue would fix itself if the game could switch to the appropriate tile resolution.

[jecowa]

Is there a way to change the alignment and scale of tiles? By default, if I try to include a 16x16 creature in a 32x32 tileset, it will align the creature to the top-left of the tile. I would like to have an option to center it and an option to scale the tile to fit.

[jecowa]

How do I specify if I want to have a tile recolored to match its dwarf labor / material or if I want to use the tile's colors as-is?

[jecowa]

Is there a way to change a dwarf's graphic based on profession?

[Telgin]

I don't have an example handy but I'm almost sure the answer to the last question is yes.  If you look in the creature graphics files you'll see that clothing layers are sometimes conditionally set by the profession, and since it uses the same system for choosing the base creature graphics I assume you could use the same tokens to swap out any part of the appearance based on profession.

[jecowa]

Thank you! It looks like with the vanilla tileset, undyed cloaks will match the color of the wearer's profession.

[jecowa]

I can't tell if the name of the layers matter. The thing that controls the layers is their position in the text files. The first thing will be on the bottom layer and the last thing will be on the top layer. You can't make graphics for specific professions, just the profession categories. (Eg. "STONEWORKER" works but not "CARPENTER".) I tried shortening the [CONDITION_PROFESSION_CATEGORY] to just [CONDITION_PROFESSION] to try to target something more specific, but it made it target everyone instead.

[jecowa]

Does dead/dry grass still exist in the new graphics format?

Also, what does "CUSTOM_RAMP" control?

Spoiler: "Custom ramp notes from Floor Fungi graphical raws" (click to show/hide)

[PLANT_GRAPHICS:FLOOR FUNGI]
   [GRASS_1:CAVERN_GRASS:0:0]
   [GRASS_2:CAVERN_GRASS:1:0]
   [GRASS_3:CAVERN_GRASS:2:0]
   [GRASS_4:CAVERN_GRASS:3:0]
   [CUSTOM_EDGING:1] can be from 1 to 32, lower number is printed with higher priority, all win out over regular grass
   [CUSTOM_RAMP:1] can be from 1 to 32, uses the plant's GRASS_1 image
   [CUSTOM_EDGE_W:CAVERN_GRASS:4:0]
   [CUSTOM_EDGE_E:CAVERN_GRASS:5:0]
   [CUSTOM_EDGE_S:CAVERN_GRASS:6:0]
   [CUSTOM_EDGE_N:CAVERN_GRASS:7:0]
   [CUSTOM_EDGE_NW:CAVERN_GRASS:8:0]
   [CUSTOM_EDGE_NE:CAVERN_GRASS:9:0]
   [CUSTOM_EDGE_SW:CAVERN_GRASS:10:0]
   [CUSTOM_EDGE_SE:CAVERN_GRASS:11:0]

[waterphage13]

Are resolution bug fixed?

[jecowa]

Are resolution bug fixed?

Yes, since the 2023-06-28 update - Dwarf Fortress v0.50.09, aka the SDL2 update, 16x16 graphics work in the latest version of Dwarf Fortress.

Edit screenshots:

Spoiler: before (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: after (click to show/hide)

[jecowa]

I'm can consistently reproduce a segmentation fault when using a 16x16 tileset. Happens in both 50.13 and 51-beta22. The weird thing is that it even happens in "ASCII" mode. The procedure to cause the crash isn't one a person would perform very often, but the crash doesn't happen with a 32x32 tileset, and I'm worried there could be other more common actions that will also SIGSEGV.