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[Kagus]

Orthoclause

Ah yes, Ortho Clause.  A small, bearded man wearing seven pig tail cloaks colored a lovely crimson with red root dye, who travels around the world on Moonstone Eve with his chariot of flying cats and delivers stone mugs to all the good boys and girls. 

Well, he gives them to the bad boys and girls too.  Honestly, he's just trying to get rid of the damn things now.

[Jackrabbit]

You know what? Sod it, I'm sigging that due to comedic genius.

[Killas[SiN]]

Progress? What's going on? Lost focus?

[Hungry]

I got got a small movie planned out, to showcase an imagining of it, if I ever get it to be playable, although for now I'm working on the tri layer swich through, and makeing ACII graphics by hand....and multi layer cuts of acii dwarven ships are pounding my deadline to bits...

Progress into ACII main mixed graphics presentation of artifical game features:~37% as of Sep 4th.
Estamated date of completion of ACIIMGP: Expect oct as the soonest of viable clips.

[Zironic]

Make it as complex as possible. Have it so people can actively track oxygen levels - with control rooms necessary to keep it flowing smoothly. Oxygen would need to be produced. I once had an idea for a DF mod involving making a desert world - and having you pretend to be on mars. However, it wouldn't work until I can make the dwarves wear space suits as an excess skin. I planned to have plants grow and be turned into oxygen (booze).

[Hungry]

I'm making controling ship systems one of the main features of the game, and haven't we all tryed to emulate space on DF at least once, I worked out the space suit problems with temps but brought up water issues...and frozen/molten world actually work sometimes...

A basic rundown of how the game will function in tri-layer...and that dont mean three z levels.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The first tri-layer is the entire game universe, like how in DF there is a global map where you generally see what a block of map contains by its figure, this is probably the most important to whole game world and will track all the stars.

The second tri-layer is a solar system and veiwed by what is around a star/star cluster, this layer tracks planets, asteroids, meteors, and ships as individual units (being controlled by player, or ai), much like when you travel around in adventure mode in DF.

The last is of course individual ships, planets, asteroids, ect... this veiw is the only z layered part of the game, and in is like most DF fortress mode in the exemption that things outside move around as the ship moves, and this layer is the only one where actual dwarven entities can be seen in game.

Of course I'm thinking of adding a lower layer in controlling an individual, flying shuttle pods, and going off alone to do things most dwarven, but this is for the game a frill, that will come later in its life.

[Killas[SiN]]

Sounds good.

You should contract Beefmo or Mayday to make a graphical tileset, primarily because I can't stand ASCII.

Other than that, keep on workin'!

[Jackrabbit]

Sounds good.

You should contract Beefmo or Mayday to make a graphical tileset, primarily because I can't stand ASCII.

Other than that, keep on workin'!

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE.

Not that I'm angry or anything. That'd be silly.

[Vester]

Surprisingly, I actually prefer DF in ASCII mode.

Same for Nethack.

ASCII has charm.

[Jackrabbit]

I know what you mean. Not that I don't use tilesets from time to time.

[Hungry]

I'm going to build the game with base ACII and accept Graphical tilesets, although my handleing of them might differ...

Spoiler: Said the eater to the first toad... (click to show/hide)

On the topic of tilesets, some questions that I've come across.
How does DF handle its graphics tables to place ACII or graphic tiles in its predesignated configuration?
Also what kind of configuration does the DF program use when it puts the game window display together?
Is the DF program based of an earlier ACII handling program, like kobold quest's build, or its own standing build?

Also I will hope to have my graphical setup for working the screen by either this week or next.