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[Baboonanza]

Soon, by Armok I hope it's finished soon

A combination of making more changes than I expected, some of them taking a long time and me not having much free time (I've been reduced to getting up early before work to get some debugging in) means it's quite late. It's close though.

[zxcvmnb]

On the subject of fortifications, I think the best solution would be

if square above = empty space then draw crenellations; if not then draw arrow slits.

Ramps already change according to the surrounding squares.

Arrow slits with nothing above them would look just as bad as crenellations supporting walls.

[EvilTwin]

about that fortification-with-no-walls-around thingy... same problem with statues and the like. i think it's espacially a problem with statues, but how about this:
1. a statue that has other statues on the tiles around shall never face them
2. a statue with walls on adjacent tiles shall face away from them
3. a statue that stands freely shall always face south direction

if those rules are worked through in that order all statues should be facing the right way, or at least nearly all.

free standing fortifications, who uses those??

[Baboonanza]

about that fortification-with-no-walls-around thingy... same problem with statues and the like. i think it's espacially a problem with statues, but how about this:
1. a statue that has other statues on the tiles around shall never face them
2. a statue with walls on adjacent tiles shall face away from them
3. a statue that stands freely shall always face south direction

if those rules are worked through in that order all statues should be facing the right way, or at least nearly all.

free standing fortifications, who uses those??

Indeed.

I fixed fortifications some time ago, in line with what most people are suggesting, so that's a bit of a pointless debate. You get crenulations when there is open space above, otherwise you get arrow slits.

Statues should hopefully work as you descrbe also, I haven't tested them fully yet though so we'll see.

[Anamabir]

So. When will the d14 version be released, circa?

[Footkerchief]

So. When will the d14 version be released, circa?

Please don't nag Baboonanza like this.  Keeping up with these projects takes a ton of dedication.

[Anamabir]

So. When will the d14 version be released, circa?

Please don't nag Baboonanza like this.  Keeping up with these projects takes a ton of dedication.

English is my second language, so I'm sorry if it came across as a bit whiny, but I just wanted an estimate of some sort, even if it's inaccurate as all hells.

[Footkerchief]

Soon, by Armok I hope it's finished soon

[MMad]

Soon, by Armok I hope it's finished soon

A combination of making more changes than I expected, some of them taking a long time and me not having much free time (I've been reduced to getting up early before work to get some debugging in) means it's quite late. It's close though.

You rock.

[Anamabir]

Soon, by Armok I hope it's finished soon

Right. That works.

[bartavelle]

I might have skipped a few messages, but as there is that BSD license thingie in the zip, are you sharing the source ? I'm interested in reading it.

[Baboonanza]

Not publicly until now:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/visualfortress/

All the source is BSD licensed except for the very few places where I have used other peoples source, where the source is noted and the applicable licence is given.

[bartavelle]

Ah too bad, I thought you might had a better idea for identifying buildings than checking the vtable, but turns out you still have to extract this "manually" for each df version

[Baboonanza]

It's not really a 'manual' process, I just run an app and it dumps them for me. But I guess that's what you meant.

I don't think there is an alternative since buildings are clearly defined by a class heirarchy, with sub-types within that. Even the text to name/decribe them is returned by a virtual function.

[bartavelle]

I don't think there is an alternative since buildings are clearly defined by a class heirarchy, with sub-types within that. Even the text to name/decribe them is returned by a virtual function.

Well you still can parse the class data youself (I suppose you use an IDC script), check the content of the proper virtual function (pattern matching could be sufficient if they are all built the same), or do it the other way around :
* finding the pattern " Armor Stand" (with leading space)
* find "push offset string"
* find the beginning of this function
* find the pointer to this function, you have the vtable

I guess I'm the only one wanting to find a way to automagically find offsets and stuff like that