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[Crossroads Inc.]

Very nice! And FINALLY someone else is using" Dwarf Heaven" thought i was the only one who had a megaFortres there.

[SkyRender]

Very nice! And FINALLY someone else is using" Dwarf Heaven" thought i was the only one who had a megaFortres there.

 I couldn't resist, really.  Dwarf Heaven's great for mega-fortresses.  It has a reasonable 32 Z-level limit starting from the valley floor, and so many resources of every color and description.  My only regret is that it lacks any iron-producing ore (as far as I've found; I've smelted TONS of malachite, tetrahedrite, and gold, but not one bit of magnetite, limonite, or hematite).

 Incidentally, I had another (semi-)mega-fortress built there too in a different game.

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That one flooded itself into oblivion when my pump tower leaked, sadly.

 I also built another semi-mega-fortress in the Ramul Rabin world, but not at Dwarf Heaven.

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The "wickerman" statue didn't really turn out that great.  Neither did the central tower, for that matter.

 So yeah, I have a bit of a history with Dwarf Heaven and its surrounding world.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Very very nice, Much more impressive then what I currently have, though the biggest part of my fort is underground since in my Current "Dwarf heaven" map Im doing a massive underground city.

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[Danarca]

Erm, are you supposed to insert the models into the game yourself or are Baboonanza waiting until he have everything to do it?

[Hungry]

....I think you can do it yourself, if you have the time to rifle through to replace models manually your own self....but I dont know...

Also I've seen no noteworthy update on why my problem is even happening....oh well....I'll just have to accept not being able to use the damn thing...

And thats on topic...not flame, just upset.

/sigh

[Beanchubbs]

I can't get this to work. The screenies other people have posted look beautiful, but whenver I try to run it, this error pops up "This application has failed to start because it's side-by-side configuration is incorrect, please see the application event log for more detail". I will look more on this thread to see if anyone else has posted this and gotten it solved. Thanks in advance.

[KillHour]

I can't get this to work. The screenies other people have posted look beautiful, but whenver I try to run it, this error pops up "This application has failed to start because it's side-by-side configuration is incorrect, please see the application event log for more detail". I will look more on this thread to see if anyone else has posted this and gotten it solved. Thanks in advance.

That's a Visual C++ error.  It means you don't have this installed: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B2DA534-3E03-4391-8A4D-074B9F2BC1BF&displaylang=en

[Beanchubbs]

Thanks alot, it works now.

[Bloogonis]

is there a model for supports? I like to use them a lot just for show. i always picture them as Greek columns.

any word on a possible update to the program? (not trying to be pushy just realy interested in the progress)

[Lairian]

So, any word on an update?

I can get all the models to work (from way back, not optimized ones), but they're bright pink.  Obviously I need to link textures to the object somehow, but I'm not sure how to correlate the .jpgs provided to the .obj files.

[Baboonanza]

There is an update coming. I've been working on it, but I've also being playing lots of Fallout 3 which is kind of a distraction

I might release something next week, but no promises. I don't think I'll be able to get everything I want into the release but there is already plenty of new stuff.

[smjjames]

Maybe you can tell us whats in the next release? We already know that most of the building models will probably be in.

[Baboonanza]

Well, I was going to suprise you

Texture revamp with additonal material support. Ie. sandstone has a proper sandstone texture instead of a coloured generic texture.
Bump-mapping, specular lighting. Improved water. (Shader support required)
Blades of grass (the same way its done in games)
Variable time-of-day sky dome. Clouds will have to wait I think
All the building models that have been posted
New slice tool
New interior view
Smooth interiors (ie random noise is only applied outside)
Advanced screenshot capabalility
Many bug-fixes.

All of this is finished/partially complete and my gf is away next week so I should be able to get a lot done.

EDIT: Oh, and camera clipping, forgot about that.

[Mordae]

Sounds amazing!
How about a mode where you can walk around your fortress?

[Danarca]

Sounds amazing!
How about a mode where you can walk around your fortress?

Auch, that'd be heavy.
He'd have to convert everything into actual 3D with collision detection, and make some primitive physics for moving around =/

Not gonna happen /methinks