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[Greiger]

Yea I'll miss Visual fortress.  But who knows, maybe somebody else will pick it up.  At any rate I always built my forts to look good in stonesense more than Visual fortress.  So while I'll miss it, if I could only have one or the other, I woulda picked stonesense.  Or you know, somebody could resurrect 3Dwarf.  Or maybe that K one, that one had potential.

Anyway, keep up the good work! Can't wait to view the caverns in glorious isometric glory.

[atomfullerene]

yeah, stonesense is great, esp for showing what is actually happening, but some of the others are better for large scale long distance views.  And I want to see caverns in full glory!  that will be awesome.

[GFXiNXS]

GENTLEMEN!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Slate.

it is coming soon.

Are you trying to tell us it is slated for release?

[soul4hdwn]

GENTLEMEN!

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Slate.

it is coming soon.

Are you trying to tell us it is slated for release?

*PUNishes the bad joke with a flood of magma*

[thvaz]

Wow, very cool! The professions are represented in the graphics?

[buckets]

GENTLEMEN!

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Slate.

it is coming soon.

Are you trying to tell us it is slated for release?

*PUNishes the bad joke with a flood of magma*

Hey stop picking on GFXiNXS.

[Komdour]

(because I don't feel like searching 190 pages, even though I'm sure it's been asked before) Is there any plan to implement a GUI into this?

[Eagle0600]

No, and there is a search function.

[Gauphastus]

Looking good, guys. Aside from DF itself, Stonesense is something I really enjoy checking in on.
Keep it up.

[James.Denholm]

wow, just wow.

But are those items or floor tiles?

nah, just stockpile markers. It is still cool however!

But wait! Yes, there are stockpile markers, as represented by the black lines, but look! LOOK!

Not at me, you fool, the picture! Gaze upon the... the... CORNERS OF THE TILES!

Cast your eyes upon the big rooms, and then the upper-left main corridor! THE CORRIDOR!

Could it be... Could it be?

Do my eyes deceive me?

Is this even a possibility?

Burrows?

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I'm just guessing. I was, of course, mainly tipped-off by the colour difference. This would suggest that the big rooms have been set up as one, and the corridor as another.

[Greiger]

Ok, a stonesense creature sprite question;

Will the new version of stonesense identify castes other than just male and female?  Say if somebody has a creature that has different coloration based on caste, would it be possible to make a sprite swap that has a different scale color for each caste?  Like say Red, Green, Blue, White and Black as an example totally pulled out of thin air that has absolutely nothing to do with what I may or may not have done.

[KillHour]

Ok, a stonesense creature sprite question;

Will the new version of stonesense identify castes other than just male and female?  Say if somebody has a creature that has different coloration based on caste, would it be possible to make a sprite swap that has a different scale color for each caste?  Like say Red, Green, Blue, White and Black as an example totally pulled out of thin air that has absolutely nothing to do with what I may or may not have done.

Somebody's playing around with dragons....

[Solifuge]

(because I don't feel like searching 190 pages, even though I'm sure it's been asked before) Is there any plan to implement a GUI into this?

I myself always thought that simple user commands wouldn't be that hard to pass back to DF. However, the first and formost thought in my mind is of how that would affect Tarn's project in the larger sense. I don't want this to become something that people wont play DF without, because the development of Stonesense can't keep pace with the development of the new versions of DF, and all the contriubtors to Stonesense can't guarantee continual work on this project the way Tarn does for DF.

My fear is that, in the long run, too much dependance on Visualizers as a GUI could damage Tarn's income, or his drive to work on DF, when suddenly the visualizer won't work on the newest version. Moreover, DF is still in active development, and this visualizer will require continual work to keep pace with new developments. Already, I've seen a number of posts that people are sticking with old versions just so they can continue to use Stonesense, which is highly worrying to me.

I'd personally love to see this as a full GUI some day, because I know it would improve my experience... but only if Tarn is comfortable with it, and willing to let it happen.

[Footkerchief]

Incidentally, has the Stonesense team come up with any clever way of handling Z-level cutaways vs. irregular cavern ceilings?  I think it's going to end up being a major annoyance in both the isometric and overhead perspective.

[KillHour]

Incidentally, has the Stonesense team come up with any clever way of handling Z-level cutaways vs. irregular cavern ceilings?  I think it's going to end up being a major annoyance in both the isometric and overhead perspective.

You could always make 'unimportant' layers transparent.  Determining what is unimportant would be the difficult task.