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[Zaranthan]

Really?  Wow.  Apple are supposed to be the kings of user friendliness.  I'll add a note when I do the next update.

You're not supposed to do anything to the files directly. Remember that Macs these days are marketed to people who can't find the power button.

[bombcar]

Do you have a suggestion for a good way to integrate a mod on a mac?

Let me see what I can come up with - I just manually copied all the files over.

[dbfuru]

I can't get this to work. I copied the contents of /mod-main to my DF folder, said yes to everything, and in game the tilesets don't show up. What is causing this?

[bombcar]

Did you copy the init file? Or at least edit yours to match it?

[dbfuru]

When I copied the init file the screen just kept flashing, making it unplayable. So I brought back the backup init and changed graphics to yes and only the dwarf gfx are used, everything else is the ASCII or whatever it is.

edit: Think I figured it out. I just took parts of the mod init and changed my slightly so it works now.. so far.

 A little problem, some letters are replaced with some of the tiles. I have a dwarf named Rig(lever tile)st. It's a little nuance but I can live with it.. Some things are just hard to read.

[Zomadan]

OK on page 10 I have a inti file thing you just copy and past into your inti file I have one for wide screen and normal some people might have smaller screens some people have bigger screens just mess around with the Inti size till it works or the same as your screens and if that does not work try messing with this part of the inti file its how I fixed mine to work on 2 dif comps with 2 completly dif screen sizes,and this is part of the inti file for my lap top,

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is the size and font for windowed mode.  Changing to 800x600 and the 800x600 font might make you happier.

[WINDOWEDX:960]
[WINDOWEDY:600]
[FONT:font.bmp]

Full screen info.

[FULLSCREENX:1366]
[FULLSCREENY:768]
[FULLFONT:font.bmp]

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:NO]

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 September 2008, the Dwarf Fortress Wiki has graphical tilesets available at http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/List_of_user_graphics_sets.

[GRAPHICS:YES]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDX:960]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDY:600]
[GRAPHICS_FONT:font.bmp]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENX:1366]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENY:768]
[GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:font.bmp]
[GRAPHICS_BLACK_SPACE:NO]

This is the dimensions in tiles of the display grid.  Minimum x is 80.  Minimum y is 25.  Maximums are 200.  Make sure the window size or full screen resolution matches the grid/tile size if you don't want the display to be squashed or stretched.  The default windowed font has tiles that are 8x12 pixels, for instance, so for a 80x25 grid, you use a 640x300 window, and for a 125x50 grid, you'd use a 1000x600 window.  FULLGRID is used in full screen mode, whether graphics is on or not.

[GRID:80:25]
[FULLGRID:80:25]

sometimes the real problem is this right here^^^ the grid what ever how it says 80:25 cause if that is not correct to what ever it will flicker and the other ones are for fitting the screen and not going off or to but what ever,one more thing change the PARTIAL_PRINT value in the init.txt file to NO will stop flickering.

Edit:actualy I forgot what I did to fix the flickering but I got 2 Inti files for wide screen and normal on page 10 both no flickering and size seems fine besides the normal one still big but not off the screen.

[Spinewire]

Is there away to stop the text displaying the gfx tiles? Have i done something wrong or is in unavoidable?

[Maverick]

Looks to be unavoidable at the moment. I'm having to play hieroglyphs when I look at the quality levels for my items. =P

[Footkerchief]

Is there away to stop the text displaying the gfx tiles? Have i done something wrong or is in unavoidable?

Unavoidable with this tileset.  Due to limitations of the current tileset system, it's very hard to create a good-looking tileset that doesn't make some graphical tiles show up in the text.

[jryan]

I packaged this awesome graphics set into an easy to use pre-built!

RantingRodent's Graphics Overhaul

Thanks RR, this is excellent!

A few notes:  I turned off "partial print" for max compatibility, and set the resolution at 1280x800... other than that, you shouldn't need to change anything.


Enjoy!!

[RantingRodent]

Hey, thanks for the assist. Sorry I haven't been keeping this up to date. Life is crazy sometimes. I'll be back at some point, promise.

[HoppyDragon]

I'm not sure if this is a mistake in a setting of some sort, because I unzipped this on top of Dwarf Fortress with the Mayday graphics pack (I removed it's remaining files afterwards) but ingame I noticed that goblin drunks don't have any sort of graphic.  Heck, they were just big black squares to me.  I looked at the tileset and figured out where there should be a goblin drunk, there was nothing at all.

Not wanting to fiddle with a boring text file and assign a basic goblin spirte for a goblin drunk, I just went in to the tileset and made my own goblin drunk.

[RantingRodent]

Do you mind if I add him into the tileset whenever I get around to making another release?

[Spinewire]

I packaged this awesome graphics set into an easy to use pre-built!

RantingRodent's Graphics Overhaul

Thanks RR, this is excellent!

A few notes:  I turned off "partial print" for max compatibility, and set the resolution at 1280x800... other than that, you shouldn't need to change anything.


Enjoy!!

You need to set the Grid sizes to 80:50 not 80:25 other than that all good.

[HoppyDragon]

Do you mind if I add him into the tileset whenever I get around to making another release?

That's pretty much why I posted him here.
If you need help with any others, I'd be willing to help.

I know the little goblin drunk isn't a great example of work because it's mostly copy, change a few pixels, copy again, etc,
but I've done quite a bit of sprite work over the years. Nothing amazing..
but I can emulate the style already in the tilesets and modify/create new ones.

I whipped this up real quick.  I haven't played Dwarf Fortress so much that I'm familiar with what a lot of the professions in each tileset are,
but I think I have a vague idea.  I was looking at the human tileset and this one stuck out, so I made one that fit in with the rest.
I'm not sure if I'm 100% done with this one..  I might tweak it a bit more.