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[clinodev]

Yeah, yeah, cacti are nice, but hit me with those Tower-cap and Tunnel tube! 

[Meph]

Yeah, yeah, cacti are nice, but hit me with those Tower-cap and Tunnel tube! 

To quote Toady: Feel free to flex your imagination on the underground trees!

Hence I made some weird looking tunnel tubes.



Giant mushrooms are fairly WIP right now. Due to the dots the repetition becomes very obvious.

[voliol]

I’ve always imagined tunnel tubes as particulary hollow, thus ”tunnel” and ”tubes”. Their wood is also described as violet (#0B00FF) in the raws, and I assume that will still hold for wood items made of them, so their interior should be too, if the implication is not that the wood comes from the bark. Not to say these don’t look truly rad.

[ror6ax]

Tubes look nicely weird.

[Manveru Taurënér]

Having a really hard time wrapping my head around what's going on there, the pieces feel a bit too disconnected to make sense to me I guess, the shadows of it looks amazing though so I think I enjoy the idea of it though? (clearly very confused)

[Cruxador]

Tunnel tubes look weird, which is good, but I don't really understand the upper "branch" view.
I think the giant mushroom border isn't quite right because the different levels don't look like one item.

[teh sam]

Today I learned tunnel tubes are a thing in DF.

[Dishmab]

The spotted shroom reminds me of a platform from mario 1. these will definitely give the underground a lot more character.

[Schmaven]

I'm curious how item / creature overlapping might be handled.  Do you think it will end up being a system of layers with the creature on top, and the floor tile/item/workshop visible behind/around them; or a blinking back and forth of different tiles cycling through what is located on that x,y coordinate?  The first way seems harder to accomplish, but might look better.  I suppose another way would be to just display 1 thing, determined by some priority system such as dwarves > creatures > items.  I imagine there are many other options as well.

[Starver]

I understand it'll be the former. Folding in TextWillBeText (or reimplementing). But getting it all overlaid is gonna be fun.

Potentially you'd have ground/constructed-floor, any surface plant-growth, whatever zone/stockpile mat imagery is eventually used, a constructed thing (trap, pillar, lever, etc, if they don't clash with stickpile), contaminants/splashes, items (could be many and varied, esp. if quantum-dumped), gibs, corpses, all of the inumerable creatures currently laying down there, the one creature standing up, any corner infographics/whatever for the creature (mood, need, other statuses), mists/fogs/miasmas, the tint that indicates it's on the layer below, a wash to indicate your current cursor action is painting a selection across this tile... Maybe not all of these at once, maybe some things I've forgotten.

Perhaps there'll continue to be some cycling of visually mutually-exclusive items, or some layers are just so obscuring that you won't get to see what's 'beneath' anyway, short of the usual tile-interogation.


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[Meph]

You see floor, item and creature.

[teh sam]

Has it been confirmed that it will be everything overlaid all at once rather than the classic DF tile-cycle?

[Shonai_Dweller]

Has it been confirmed that it will be everything overlaid all at once rather than the classic DF tile-cycle?

You see floor, item and creature.

(Meph being one of the three people working on it, so presumably would know).

[Starver]

I was just relieved to see it was boiled down to be so simple.

[Meph]

Has it been confirmed that it will be everything overlaid all at once rather than the classic DF tile-cycle?

You see floor, item and creature.

(Meph being one of the three people working on it, so presumably would know).

I looked it up ingame, it's certainly working atm. It shows floors, floor edges, shadows, plants growing on floor, the topmost item, the topmost unit. In that order.