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[Solifuge]

I really like that windmill! It looks quite Dwarven.

I bring you gifts:


Spirit of Fire, and a dear, sweet, mischievous Fire Imp.

[IDreamOfGiniCoefficient]

Well, you could go the cute and cuddly route. But the threatening beast angle seems more appropriate for the Dwarf Fortress universe. The players have an undeniable penchant for the dangerous.

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The fearsome pigtail macaque.

[jonask84]

Well, you could go the cute and cuddly route. But the threatening beast angle seems more appropriate for the Dwarf Fortress universe. The players have an undeniable penchant for the dangerous.

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The fearsome pigtail macaque.

Alright, good point. I was just joking around anyway. But we do have one little problem, he's too big:
http://www.uploadgeek.com/share-D123_4AE87024.html

See how his little legs are poking into the ground?
Because of the isometric perspective...

[IDreamOfGiniCoefficient]

I'll take a shot at chopping him down tonight.

Edit: I found the time now. These are fun.

[frumpton]

I added a new bear to my original post but will make new posts for any others I make.

Also, are those sweet windows going to be in the next version? I made a castle with tons of them just so I could see it in stonesense 

[DennyTom]

Personally, I love the those sprites. But ... the monkeys are SCARY AS HELL ... and for unknown reason the new bear reminds me pedobear.

[Voligne]

Could this be bound to the Fortress viewer in the database? That way we could look at OTHER peoples awesome constructions in this isometric utility.

[The13thRonin]

When's the next update  ?

[tefalo]

CARP


Batman

Win win!?

By the way, this is how snake men should look:

: D

[LegoLord]

So, 7cents, how does this translucency tweak to your windows look?  (.jpg at the moment -easily fixed later)

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I not sure if they show quite enough of the other side the way I did it, but I can change that easily.
They look a bit lighter if you right-click to view the image by itself, with a white background.  The frames should look the same, though.

[timmeh]

Might I suggest having some sort of external file that tells the program what graphic to use for what creature?  While I'm not using any mods at the moment, I'm watching several that I may try soon, and I'd really like to be able to see the creatures in them, even if I have to create my own graphics.

[CobaltKobold]

Might I suggest having some sort of external file that tells the program what graphic to use for what creature?  While I'm not using any mods at the moment, I'm watching several that I may try soon, and I'd really like to be able to see the creatures in them, even if I have to create my own graphics.

I'm scrambling to make Stonesense more mod-friendly, so you can add the sprites to the game without having to wait for a rebuild.

Sounds like it's partly planned.

So, for one, I think that being able to parse DF's own init and graphics files (for its creature graphics) would work well as a fallback, and having them in the same format would GREATLY help porting mods (and graphics packs associated) into Stonesense.

[Impaler[WrG]]

jonask84:  You should post a png the height and width you want and with a diamond shaped magenta area at the bottom showing ware the floor tile will line up with the graphic.  Artists can then use this as a template and reference as they will know not to put any part of the creature graphic below that diamond, its also handy for making sure the creature appears centered in the tile.  SimCity 2000 used a similar system in an editor that allowed you to pixel paint new buildings.

[CobaltKobold]

linking isotopic for own reference

jonask84:  You should post a png the height and width you want and with a diamond shaped magenta area at the bottom showing ware the floor tile will line up with the graphic.  Artists can then use this as a template and reference as they will know not to put any part of the creature graphic below that diamond, its also handy for making sure the creature appears centered in the tile.  SimCity 2000 used a similar system in an editor that allowed you to pixel paint new buildings.

ah, SCURK.

It's easy to do yourself. Center four pixels on the bottom row, expand by four per row you move up.

Anyway, just take a floortile from Sol's sample tileset.

I like it how that looks a fair bit, actually.

If it would be of any use, I would happily donate a set of Isometric tiles I made at that perspective:

[kaypy]

Might I suggest having some sort of external file that tells the program what graphic to use for what creature?  While I'm not using any mods at the moment, I'm watching several that I may try soon, and I'd really like to be able to see the creatures in them, even if I have to create my own graphics.

Thats a pretty good description for whats going on. You currently [in the svn build] have to paste everything into the one png file, but the configuration is just xml tweaking.

http://code.google.com/p/stonesense/wiki/AddingCreatures

jonask84:  You should post a png the height and width you want and with a diamond shaped magenta area at the bottom showing ware the floor tile will line up with the graphic.

It's easy to do yourself. Center four pixels on the bottom row, expand by four per row you move up.

Anyway, just take a floortile from Sol's sample tileset.

I'm pretty sure Sol's set is where stonesense started off from- those look awfully familiar 8-)

That multicoloured wireframe on the right would make a pretty exact reference

Oh, by the way, even without svn software or building your own version of the app, you can see where things are up to by heading to the google code browser and pulling out image and xml files. (they wont run in the a2 stonesense, but they still give you an idea of whats going in)

http://code.google.com/p/stonesense/source/browse/

When's the next update  ?

If you're desperate enough you can try to follow some of the 'build it yourself' guides, but if you wait a bit longer, jonask mentioned hoping for a weekend update