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[Goran]

Make it so, Number One!

[Draco18s]

I kinda hope someone will post screen shots, because where I am Youtube is blocked. Along with Imageshack.

Have you tried youtube proxies?
Or "download youtube videos as AVI" sites?

[zchris13]

It looks beautiful.

[TurnpikeLad]

Could it fade into blue instead of black?  I like the daytime-feel of the outside with blue denoting height.

[darkflagrance]

I kinda hope someone will post screen shots, because where I am Youtube is blocked. Along with Imageshack.

Have you tried youtube proxies?
Or "download youtube videos as AVI" sites?

The proxy sites I know of are blocked where I am. I can access download youtube sites, but can't download from them. In case you're wondering, the party doing the blocking is the government.

[DennyTom]

I kinda hope someone will post screen shots, because where I am Youtube is blocked. Along with Imageshack.

Have you tried youtube proxies?
Or "download youtube videos as AVI" sites?

The proxy sites I know of are blocked where I am. I can access download youtube sites, but can't download from them. In case you're wondering, the party doing the blocking is the government.

Sweet liberty, eh? Where do you want me to upload the *. flv file for you?

 EDIT: Wrong punctuation

[SirPenguin]

This is gorgeous. Simply gorgeous. And when compared to other methods to better simulate a 3D world...this has got to be the easiest to implement. I do hope Toady takes this into very serious consideration

[hermes]

This is gorgeous. Simply gorgeous. And when compared to other methods to better simulate a 3D world...this has got to be the easiest to implement. I do hope Toady takes this into very serious consideration

Agreed, this is a great way to make the UI *much* more intuitive + cool without reworking everything into iso/3D.  And it keeps the asci which I wouldn't want to lose.

[nodule]

Could it fade into blue instead of black?  I like the daytime-feel of the outside with blue denoting height.

It's certainly possible.  It isn't trivial with the technique I'm using (tinting a texture with more and more black), since the black texture cannot be made lighter with this technique. 

I'm not sure there is tons to be gained in an underground fortress with this visualization.  You'll be able to see down shafts, though, which would be cool.

(also, updated OP with screenshot)

[Spreggo]

I know when I played around with blurring it became really hardware intensive and killed my game's speed. I guess that depends on how it is implemented. I've also wondered why there isn't a zoom function yet, since that's the first thing I was able to add when I switched to openGL.

[Sizik]

I've also wondered why there isn't a zoom function yet, since that's the first thing I was able to add when I switched to openGL.

There is in 40d16.

[nodule]

I know when I played around with blurring it became really hardware intensive and killed my game's speed. I guess that depends on how it is implemented. I've also wondered why there isn't a zoom function yet, since that's the first thing I was able to add when I switched to openGL.

Yeah, real-time blurring needs to be done cleverly to be performant (e.g., do two linear blurs sequentially instead of a box blur).  Of course, something like DF could just blur the individual tiles...

[Footkerchief]

Yeah, real-time blurring needs to be done cleverly to be performant (e.g., do two linear blurs sequentially instead of a box blur).  Of course, something like DF could just blur the individual tiles...

Yeah, pre-blurring and caching all the titles would be the way to do it, I think.

[CobaltKobold]

I think this would be really cool if it was somehow integrated into DFMA.

I'm pretty sure it's been doing that for quite some time already, actually. You just need to look at a particular layer to load it, so it won't if you just look at one Z-level.

And tinting is waay easier, since you should just be able to do some clever colormask/scaling like the tile drawing routines already do.

[Warlord255]

This is doable, but it'd require a rewrite of the color-related code, to allow a third ultradark color specifically for the sub-level.

Also, the existing method for showing the lower level should be used for the third sub-level, instead of getting progressively darker. Not sure what you do below that.