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[agatharchides]

I'd already replaced the xml file to no effect.

EDIT: Mcbeers file seemed to work better than the one from the Microsoft website for some reason. You might want to change the 2.1 only sign there, it is rather calculated to confuse if you don't know what you are about. Thank for your time, my good sir/ma'am.

[Dante]

Wow, those engravings are darn fancy.

Could get a bit cluttered in large, completely-engraved forts, though, so are they toggleable on/off in Stonesense? Better yet, is it possible to read which ones are toggled to be displayed within DF, and only display those ones as symbols?

[Ethicalfive]

that's actually possible to do. come to think of it, I'm not sure exactly why it hasn't been done...

I'll look into it.

Cool! I look forward to that addition

Wow, those engravings are darn fancy.

Could get a bit cluttered in large, completely-engraved forts, though, so are they toggleable on/off in Stonesense? Better yet, is it possible to read which ones are toggled to be displayed within DF, and only display those ones as symbols?

Or toggled to a generic engraved pattern? The symbols are awesome! The recent work on grasses and engravings have added a whole new dimension to stonesense, congrats on the hard work!

[SirAaronIII]

You could set all engravings to be obscured in init.txt. You have to manually obscure existing ones, though, and I'm not sure this would even show up differently on Stonesense.

[Rose]

right now, all engravings are shown in stonesense, always, because it's still a work in progress.

[wuphonsreach]

Hey, I'm trying to get the latest version of stonesense to run on a Windows XP sp3 machine and I get this error message:

"This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect.  Reinstalling the application may fix this problem."

Are there any dlls I can copy somewhere in my system directory that might let me run the program?  Or should I change some aspect of the Stonesense files themselves?

The same problem, with the only difference that I have Windows XP sp2. But no problem running at work under Win7 (x86_redist mentioned in the head of the topic is installed in both cases).

Also getting this error with Stonesense_Slate_2.3 on Windows XP SP3.  Is Stonesense no longer compatible with Windows XP?  (The older 2.2 worked fine on XP.)

[Rose]

try the redists in the first post, the ones that say they are only for 2.1

we used a different, more compatible, compiler in 2.2, but that wasn't working for 2.3, so 2.3 had the same compiler as 2.1

[PrimusRibbus]

Wanted to note that I was having a lot of trouble with 2.3 on XP as well. Specifically, it would lock up the computer for a second every 5 seconds or so, and was displaying all the pink transparency of the pngs.

Downloading and installing McBeer's unofficial vcredist_x86.zip (found under the "If stuff's not working spoiler" in the OP) fixed everything for me. Just wanted to post this here in case anyone was having a similar problem (I didn't have any luck finding someone with the same problem via forum or Google searches).

[Rose]

I should note that the png transparency thing happens when you try resizing while loading. I have no idea why this happens, but it does.

[Graebeard]

So, I'm not a graphic designer and I have only the barest idea how y'all sprite and tile designers do your work, but I have seen a few discussions on this page about textures and tiling, so I thought I'd share a link.

It's a very interesting approach to creating  non-repeatability and perceived randomness.  Makes me want to muck around a bit myself.

[Rose]

that is an interesting discussion, and easily done in Stonesense, especially when combined with the existing random functions.

each tile has a random seed.

each layer in the tile can have a given number of variations.

the sprite chosen is given by taking the remainder from seed/variations.

so if you want to have something that never tiles, just have a bottom sprite with only two or three variations, and a top layer with 5 or 7

viola, nothing's repeated.

[monkeyfetus]

Are there any options I can change to improve stonesense's performance? Even on single layer mode it's taking up 60% of my computing power.

I noticed that when I moved to an area that didn't have any tail-wagging dogs or those weird dancing soap-bubbles (flowers?) that appear on 80% of soil/wet stone tiles, Stonesense's CPU usage fell from 60% to 30%, which leads me to believe that the animations are primarily responsible for the atrocious performance. Is there a way to disable the animations? They're probably not helping my performance, and the sea of bouncing flowers is incredibly distracting.

[Kogut]

Code: (init.txt) [Select]

Amount of time, in milliseconds, before the animation swaps to the next frame.
Now independant of map refresh.
[ANIMATION_RATE:150000]
And anyway performance in atrocious.

[Rose]

pretty much all the speed issues we're experiencing can be blamed on one thing.

Me.

I'm a terrible programmer that doesn't know what he's doing and is just monkeying around.

[Siquo]

I'm a terrible programmer that doesn't know what he's doing and is just monkeying around.

We know, but forgive you because you look cool, and blame it on the lack of oxygen in your atmosphere.