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[Kyselina]

So, it would be really good if you could somehow color walls and floor, and with that make mosaic. It could increae wealth of your fotress,happines of dwarwes and so.

[Fieari]

You can already do this by building bridges out of differing materials.

[Eagle of Fire]

It been done before, by bulding the hell of a lot of one tile bridges. I saw a picture once of a big axe, was it in the great copperblaze fortress? I can't really remember, I'm too new to this community to know such details well. Someone ought to step in and correct me, so just wait a little while.  :p

[Dreamer]

Yeah, it was Copperblazes.

I think he was referring to more of on a single tile scale, though.  Painting individual objects, inlaying the pictures with certain materials (Obsidian beards, for example), dyeing that engraving of the goblin being struck down red with his blood, etc.  I think it'd be fun; might be in the bloats, somewhere.  Dunno.

[mickel]

I've been suggesting this a couple of times, and others have as well. Paint mosaics would be good for a lot of things. Colour coding those damn levers, for example.  

[Tarrasque]

Good way to see fortresses colored with tiles is indeed Copperblazes

[ September 04, 2007: Message edited by: Tarrasque ]

[puke]

yeah, this has been done in many forts.  Copperblazes has an axe, Orbinches has a VERY cool dragon.  Others that i cant think of the names of.. God i suck with names There was a cool one with a tree.

You can color one tile at a time with bridges.  you can make them out of any color stone, metal, or glass.  You can also color one tile at a time with ropes.  you can make them out of any metal or fiber (silk, ropereed, pigtail), and you can dye the fiber at a dye workshop.

this gives you a lot of colors and textures to work with.  The above-mentioned nameless fort with the tree also made use of various traps and pressureplates to create additional colors and shapes.  you can actually do some very creative and beautifle stuff with the existing system.

but yeah.  formal mosaics might be a nice bloat too.

edit: walls can be colored by replacing them with windows, doors, floodgates, etc.  you can use any color of stone, metal, or glass - depending on what type of structure you are building.  most of these things block room boundries, so are fine for interior fortress walls or specifically designed decoration areas.  dont forget to intersperse actual supports.

also, you can even engineer flashing neon-signs with carefully built gem windows.

[ September 04, 2007: Message edited by: puke ]

[mickel]

All of those things take a lot of space though. Colour coding with windows is one idea, but that requires you to have the correct gems... It's not the same thing as designating a lever to be painted red. And it's definitely not the same thing as designating a yellow stripe in the middle of the road.

[Kyselina]

Yeah, and who wanna bridges? Seriously, coloring is way better.