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[Armok]

If you tolerates some unrealism, it's not all that hard.

[zchris13]

Without jumping it should be pretty easy.

[Armok]

I actualy did a description of a good system erlier in this thread. If somone finds it I could provide  more detailed instructions as well.

[corhen]

i would, of corse, love a Walking mode, but im happy to wait for that untill everything else is done.

Go, umm Mr Whats-your-name (bazaboon? baabaa? ba-somthing)

[Innominate]

Actually, a walking mode wouldn't be too hard to implement. Many things make it comparatively simple: all surfaces are planar and orthogonal, actual physics doesn't have to be implemented (just "if in wall put back where it was"), no need for a player model or animations or anything, constant walking speed (no need to model friction and the like), even gravity could be fudged with a constant fall speed. If Baboonanza's got the programming talent to implement the graphics improvements he mentioned then I'm sure he could make a mock up in a day or less.

Only potential difficulty I can think of is problems with refreshing the map: if it remembers your position, it could get blocked out (bridge, for example) or the floor disappear.

[Kishmond]

There's already a walking around mode. Only it's called isometric mode.

[SkyRender]

I couldn't help but notice, visualizing my latest (and desert-bound) fortress, that Saguaro are rendered as trees.  They're actually cacti.  Very, very tall cacti.  Then again, Tower Caps are also shown as trees (as opposed to earth-shatteringly huge mushrooms), so I guess it's just something to note for future releases on the "to model" list.

[zchris13]

More of one of those, "HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO FIGURE OUT WHICH IS WHICH?!?" for Baboonanza.  It is really difficult.

[Deon]

Yeah, I usually have tons of modded trees so a "general" tree is ok. However a possibility to define specific raw objects to have an unique model would be nice.

[Danarca]

I feel sorry for the guy when Toady implement all the biology-related stuff next version...

[SkyRender]

I'm at it again.  This time, I'm working on a desert fortress, as I mentioned before.

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 It's still a work in progress, clearly.  Along with the obvious pyramid, I have a series of houses and apartment buildings in the middle of the city, and a palace in the works on the far right.  The above-ground basement of said palace acts as housing for the military.  The only people who live underground are those haughty nobles, who I have also conveniently assigned a room with a flooding trap.  Enjoy your creature comforts, you adamantium-loving jerk, and know that death will come swiftly as soon as you mandate I build anything out of the metal I can't get.

EDIT: It's pretty much done now.  Done enough to satisfy me, anyway.

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Features include the royal pyramid (where the king lives, dines, and will be buried), the tri-color arena (Bauxite/Gypsum alternating pattern used on the ground floor, Chalk for the outer walls and upper seating area, 8 blood-red gem windows on the second floor just 'cause I could), the grand palace (gem windows of various colors on many floors, basement houses the military), and of course the city proper (6 apartment buildings and about two dozen individual houses; this is the only part of the city that will get any bigger now).  And of course, the outer wall has been there pretty much since the start.

[Shaostoul]

I've read the entire thread, I've tried the fixes and running different maps, the thing just won't load the map and display it. It either crashes after it "loads" the map or after a few seconds and I can dink around with the side bar.

I'm running a quad-core AMD 2.4, Nvidia 9500 G5 (latest drivers), Windows Vista, 8 GB Ram.

I'm stumped, I tried the shading, I tried disabling other stuff, I tried the noise... I'm running 802 VF.

[Shaostoul]

Made sure I had everything, nothing worked.

[Hungry]

If your trying to run a map over 11x11 on embark it wont process, shaostoul.

Us high end users dont get covered.

[Shaostoul]

It's not 11x11 though... =-C It's like 8x8