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[Ironhand]

Hey, I didn't make the current trees.
Blame WormSlayer.

[Deon]

So I've reworked them but I've made it quickly so they are not as fine-tuned as yours. I still can upload it for others to play with, it's still 100 times better than "white leaves" instead of snowy trees .

[WormSlayer]

I did the new trees like that because it's how the old ones worked!

I'll swap them for the next release.

[Baughn]

Integrating graphics-mode well is an issue, but one I think will get handled. Which is to say, it might end up nonexistent.

How's "humanoid.dwarf.carpenter" sound for a tile ID? Better than "dwarves:2:5"? You'll have to map the former to the latter in your tileset, though, since it still has a physical location of some sort in a .PNG..

[Still Standing]

How would that handle non-standard profs, such as Dwarf Lashers etc?

[Baughn]

I'm not sure. How are those handled now?

If the game can somehow get "humanoid.dwarf.lasher" from it, and there's no actual such tile, the "humanoid.dwarf" tile would be used instead.

[WormSlayer]

I think I would personally prefer row/column numbers for ID but I'm easy

Here you go Deon

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[Deon]

Great, I remade all trees by myself but the tile 255 and that fat tree at 10:11. Thank you, it was fast .

[Tormy]

Integrating graphics-mode well is an issue, but one I think will get handled. Which is to say, it might end up nonexistent.

How's "humanoid.dwarf.carpenter" sound for a tile ID? Better than "dwarves:2:5"? You'll have to map the former to the latter in your tileset, though, since it still has a physical location of some sort in a .PNG..

I'd vote for  "humanoid.dwarf.carpenter"

[Deon]

Another problem with humanoid.dwarf.carpenter is that when you add custom positions you have to edit the settings of the last parameter as well.

I mean, if you map a humanoid.dwarf.monarch to MONARCH then it's fine, but what if I want to make a PSYCHIATRIST noble? Will I have to dig a code somewhere or do you plan to make it an easily configurable setting?

[Baughn]

It would make sense to make a deeper hierarchy to avoid that sort of thing.

So, humanoid.dwarf.noble.psychiatrist.. since there won't be a psychiatrist tile, the generic noble tile should get used.

[Deon]

The main question is why won't there be a psychiatrist tile? Currently graphic sets are pretty much customizable for any profession, it would be sad to lose that customizability.

[Baughn]

Why shouldn't there be?

I'm pretty sure that for customized titles, you should be able to define a customized tile name.

Well, this all depends on Toady deciding it's a good idea anyway.

[Deon]

Well, as I said right now it works, so I just wanted to know how is this "a.b.c." naming set up.

[Baughn]

Yeeah.. I really don't know how it'd work. Whichever way works best, really, which is why I'm posting this here. It's very much at the request for comments stage.

The basic idea, I guess.. creatures (from the raws) have a tile tag in that hierarchical form, such as "humanoid.elf.carpenter".. tilesets contain tiles, specified somehow, which have fully qualified names such as "humanoid", "humanoid.elf" or "humanoid.elf.carpenter". The exact way tilesets specify this has not been defined yet, but is reasonably trivial; I'll come up with something simple.

Conceptually, when trying to display this carpenter, it'd first look for a "humanoid.elf.carpenter" tile. If that's missing, it'd look for a humanoid.elf tile; if that's missing, humanoid... if that's missing too, I guess displaying a question mark would be better than picking some other humanoid or an entirely unrelated tile.

Naturally, this would be optimized by doing the lookups/mappings at load time, but that's beyond the scope of what affects you.

Any questions? Comments? Please comment.