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[s20dan]

The resolution doesn't matter too much because you can zoom in or out with the mouse wheel. I play at anywhere from 1280 x 800 to 2560 x 1600 and theres no difference between them with the zoom.

[Robsoie]

In the init.txt , if you see
[PRINT_MODE:2D]
change it to
[PRINT_MODE:STANDARD]
It will allow you to zoom more, so even in a lower resolution you can get (though slightly deformed as after a specific level of zoom, the tiles are not square anymore but become rectangular) a bigger view.

By example i have set my windowed DF
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDX:1024]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDY:600]

And if i zoom in at its maximum, here the window i have :

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[Sean Mirrsen]

Uh, what? Just set it to 80x25, and then resize the window to fill the screen. No stretching, largest space available.

[HeliumFreak]

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Hey Ironhand,

This is the first time I've sat down to use your tileset. It's great, but there are some readability issues for me. I don't know if it's been mentioned before but...

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9217/ironhand.jpg

It's really hard to distinguish what's selected with that color. Might just be my monitor settings.

Similarly, the glow effect on the lettering makes it look fuzzy to me, but that's down to taste I guess.

And, as others have said, I think doors could use some more love. In that same screen shot, the detail on those mudstone doors is nearly invisible (again, on my monitor anyways.) Some hard dark lines just picking out the edge and some simple details on the inside would do a lot for those.

Great work though. I find it all a little noisy at times (on the surface), but I'm sure that gets less as you learn the tiles.

Similarly the stockpiles menu, for example Food and "u" for prepared food, visibly no difference between it being selected or not

[Ironhand]

Yeah, that's all the color scheme.
I'm aware of the problem. Thanks.

Also, if you leave the init at 0x0,
it'll choose the best resolution for you.
And it'll update when you resize or
move or fullscreen the window, too.

If your monitor is less than 1440 pixels
horizontally, you get squished a little bit.
But it still works and everything.


100 pages!

[WormSlayer]

I've been playing with these coloured rocks all day and I quite like them:

[soul4hdwn]

that is better than phebius's version which was smaller and was hard to tell the colors of first two gem levels.

[Wavecutter]

I like it.

[Daywalkah]

Those rocks are pretty good.

[Igfig]

The four-gem tile looks a little too regular, but other than that I like.

[WormSlayer]

So many little tweaks today, some so subtle you may not even notice if they make it in!

Highlights include cages that should look pretty good no matter what they are made from, metal ones even look thinner and more wire-like?


New Cave Wheat / Pig Tail / various other plant tile with TileMagic(tm)?


Figurines that are not cyclops?

[xDarkz]

WormSlayer, Ironhand, you guys are amazingly graphic artists.
You guys must really love Dwarf Fortress to go through all this trouble, and man, am I thankful .

[Thundrim]

I'm a bit late, the green stones now high above us looks very good indeed. The new wheat/plants looks good. Can't see the cage bars on the darkest cage, well I can see them at the very edge of eyesight. But the frame comes with a good visibility compared to the dark parts and/or the background. Sometimes hard to see what things will do in the "live" environment though. Screenies might convey the individual design, but not always the larger picture. And believe me, the thing that makes this set so good is how it all comes together. 

On another note, the background looks pretty sweet on my monitor, I don't find the ground patterns disturbing or especially "noisy" compared to the roughness they try to emulate? The contrast between rough stone and smooth "treated" stone would suffer if the background is toned down further?     

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[WormSlayer]

A quick mock-up to see what rounded corners would look like:


And messing about with tables and chairs some more:

[flatlander]

In the init.txt , if you see
[PRINT_MODE:2D]
change it to
[PRINT_MODE:STANDARD]
It will allow you to zoom more, so even in a lower resolution you can get (though slightly deformed as after a specific level of zoom, the tiles are not square anymore but become rectangular) a bigger view.

Thank you for this useful information. I have been looking for how to increase my zoom for my netbook mode.