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[ror6ax]

What about design pass on the menus, will that happen or what we're seeing now is the final product?

[ror6ax]

Anyone?

[Erendir]

Looking at the latest gameplay video - New Desert Fortress in Action! - I noticed when a dwarf is hauling an item that item isn't shown in any way. A suggestion: show the hauled item over the dwarf (with some offset to a side).

[Pillbo]

I noticed in the desert video when you click to add a task to the workshop (the lever) that the task is added where the buttons were and the buttons move down, away from the mouse (as you can see in this kind of crappy gif I made). This UI would be a little friendlier if it put the new task below the buttons and did not move them. It's pretty frequent that you add several identical tasks in a row and the buttons shifting around will likely get frustrating.  Especially since this interface was working unpaused, so you could be clicking at buttons while tasks are being completed, moving those buttons the other direction as well.

[Uthimienure]

When painting zones, stockpiles, or whatever, will we be able to paint shapes other than rectangles & fills?
I'm particularly fond of circular shapes.

[Metruption]

When painting zones, stockpiles, or whatever, will we be able to paint shapes other than rectangles & fills?
I'm particularly fond of circular shapes.

You can paint a rectangle and then remove stockpile designation with d-x to subtractively create the desired non-rectangular shape.

[Uthimienure]

When painting zones, stockpiles, or whatever, will we be able to paint shapes other than rectangles & fills?
I'm particularly fond of circular shapes.

You can paint a rectangle and then remove stockpile designation with d-x to subtractively create the desired non-rectangular shape.

Yeah, I do, but that's pretty tedious work 

[Mr Crabman]

I have a super minor graphical suggestion that may not be relevant if these menu icons are just placeholders:



Use a slightly different icon for bedrooms and dormitories; for example, using the "bed with 2 pillows" sprite instead of "bed with 1 pillow" to emphasize the more communal nature of dorms, or a lower quality level (or both).

And also maybe use a brighter sprite for the dungeon; what's there now doesn't contrast very well with the background and it's hard to make out what it is.

Oh, and maybe it was left out for lack of room, but shouldn't that be changed to "Sand Collection" and "Clay Collection" or something? It's what we have currently sure, but it's still weird to just say "Sand" and "Clay".

[PatrikLundell]

"Gather Sand" and "Gather Clay" would match the pattern of "Gather Fruit", but that conflicts with the active "Fishing" and "Animal Training" as well as "Archery Range" (which would be Archery Training" if described as an activity zone).

I'd probably go for
- "Animal Training Area" (which would probably be cut by the box edge to show "Animal Training"
- Fishing Area (which could be "Fishery")
- Fruit Gathering Area (Again, it would be cut off), although "Orchard" could work
- Sand Gathering Area, but could be "Sand Extraction"
- Clay Gathering Area, but could be "Clay Extraction"

[voliol]

A ”fishery” is already a building.

[PatrikLundell]

I know a fishery is a building, but so is a bedroom, an office, etc. I'm less concerned with the name selected than a somewhat consistent naming scheme (or at least a smaller set of schemes).

[FantasticDorf]

"Gather Sand" and "Gather Clay" would match the pattern of "Gather Fruit", but that conflicts with the active "Fishing" and "Animal Training" as well as "Archery Range" (which would be Archery Training" if described as an activity zone).

I'd probably go for
- "Animal Training Area" (which would probably be cut by the box edge to show "Animal Training"
- Fishing Area (which could be "Fishery")
- Fruit Gathering Area (Again, it would be cut off), although "Orchard" could work
- Sand Gathering Area, but could be "Sand Extraction"
- Clay Gathering Area, but could be "Clay Extraction"

Saying that, explicitly the interaction zones are explicitly dealing with verb-actions rather than generalized names for the real kind of area those activities would happen in.

• On the other hand, places like the new "Dungeon" isn't a "imprisonment zone" because the building precludes the activity, like shrines and temples aren't praying zones

Like saying "Saddling Area" to dock horses and other animals in case of a military alert (theoreticaly) instead of "Stable"

Gathering fruit in Crabman's suggestion could also be mistook for the harvesting designation if someone was playing DF blind (which a good amount of people probably will)

[ror6ax]

Not sure if artists read this thread anymore but I'd like to suggest that shortening names aka "Urist McSometh...." looks really weird given the modern wide screen real estate to stretch on.

[Starver]

Probably not even an artwork issue, though.

And traditional DF shortening isn't that, so I suspect it's a default thing for whatever the newly-imported Window Manager module is. (j.e. text-labels truncated until they (and an ellipsis) fit into the designed in space). Not sure whether there's going to be the option for mouse/widget-interaction methods to resize tabular columns, or more advanced automation to 'try' each label to discover the range of widths needed and piping the largest (sane) requirement into each respective column.


(The gods know I've often spent loads of time at the start of a projet trying to get details like that to work in an aesthetically pleasing manner, then found I still need to work out how to do what the interface was always supposed to be doing, behind the scenes, and I've spent too much time worrying about border-line thicknesses/whatever. Really I should have tidied up the procedual appearance after I showed it actually processed the data like it should. )

[vettlingr]

Vordak, I didn't take the color palette from that image. I'm using the same one I have in my tileset, from the example image I posted earlier.

EDIT: nevermind, you are right. It is almost exactly the same palette. O.o

Spoiler: I used the skeletons in my tileset for the palette (click to show/hide)

Denzis bones.
Galacti-Chrons Palette

Back to open game art we go...

Spoiler: Actual Palette not from meph (click to show/hide)

Words can't describe how disappointed I am

Stop claiming other peoples work as your own