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[Ironhand]

I might still be able to do something creative with the pillars. We'll see.

[WormSlayer]

I've been thinking about the finished walls, and it seems to me that if you sliced a cross-section through such a thing, you would see nice polished stone on the outside and rough stone on the inside, kind of like this?

[Prastary]

I think usually there are a lot more rough than smoothed tiles visible so the rough background is going to match more often?

Yes, exactly.

And my pillars look like this, hehe:



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I forgot to add that I played much time yesterday and I love new smooth walls, they're great!

[Acanthus117]

Haha swastikas

Aside from that, I am so happy with this, Ironhand.

YOU ARE GOOD SON OF RED NATION

[Ironhand]

Thanks! ...I think. = P

As for the cross-section of walls; yeah, it does look kinda cool.
But smoothed walls all use the same tile, so you wouldn't be able to specify
which type of stone was used for the inside of the walls. So when you smoothed,
say, limonite, not only would the edges smooth out, but the part inside would change.

[Acanthus117]

I was joking about the Swastika part.

This is awesome. I swear this is awesome.

[neverknown]

And my pillars look like this, hehe:

you know what that symbol stands for?
i dont think thats funny.

[Acanthus117]

The swastika (from Sanskrit svástika स्वस्तिक) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing (卐) form or its mirrored left-facing (卍) form. Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates from the Neolithic period in Ancient India. It occurs mainly in the modern day culture of India, sometimes as a geometrical motif and sometimes as a religious symbol. It remains widely used in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Though once commonly used all over much of the world without stigma, because of its iconic usage as Hakenkreuz in Nazi Germany the symbol has become stigmatized in the Western world, notably even outlawed in Germany.

From Wikipedia.

[Prastary]

you know what that symbol stands for?
i dont think thats funny.

Uh, those ugly 'nazi' ancient people, hehe...



Educate yourself.

Now stop the offtop and go back to praising Ironhand work.

[keda]

Check out those transitions from smooth to rough walls.
Pretty freaking epic, right? I am enormously pleased with them.

That's pretty amazing stuff, cool idea Iranhand... I just wonder how that will look like blending with other kinds of rock.

[Hippoman]

Also even america has a swastika almost exactly like that one too. For military.

[Wavecutter]

Found a minor problem with the trade screen. Some numbers are not visible, here's a screenshot to illustrate.

(spoilered for huge)
 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

As you can see from this image, the totals listed at the bottom of the screenshot do not display properly for numbers above 10. 1-9 is OK.

[Ironhand]

It's just zeros, because they have a background. Somebody's already mentioned it, and it'll be fixed in 0.42.

[Kazang]

Could I have a favour? 

Make a tileset that just uses the same font that Phoebus uses?

Phoebus's doesn't suit DF at all imo, it's too wide and sci-fi looking, I think and Ironhand's is better in terms of looking dwarfy and good.  Personally I just use a standard Vera Sans Monospace font and think it looks great.  Editing in a new font is pretty easy.  Just edit it in photoshop or gimp and use grid size that leaves the letters in the right place with the right spacing, turn snap to grid on and replace the letters.  It's a bit fiddly to line them up right but it only takes a few minutes.


Anyway great work Ironhand, it really is coming along beautifully.  Are you going to do diagonal or squared corner tiles for the non 90 degree corners? 

[Ironhand]

Squared. Just the way they are.

There are not separate tiles for those kinds of corners,
so either you have nice square corners that zig-zag when you make diagonal walls,
or you have nice diagonal walls that don't square up nicely on the corners of square rooms.

This also looks way better in conjunction with my floors; there's no black gaps between walls and floors.
If you go for a diagonal wall set, you run into problems with that.