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[Elu]

NO!
for the sake of Armok, someone stop him!
he's drinking WATER!!!

[Aklyon]

NO!
for the sake of Armok, someone stop him!
he's drinking WATER!!!

Well, then we must be out of booze!
Go make some, you! We must save him fastly!

[Sinnyil]

It's TrueType Font again. No, it's not Ironhand's fault. No, we can't fix it until Toady or Baughn does.

It's come up a lot. Please don't post it again. :v

Its pretty easy to answer a question without being a jerk!  There's a lot of thread here and it was a simple question.  Again, given that this was my first experience with any sort of graphics pack, I had literally no idea what could be causing it. 

Ironhand, as a suggestion could you put something about this in the initial post?  Then people will be less likely to post about it, as reading 210 pages of a thread to get the answer to a very simple question seems sort of onerous. 

[forsaken1111]

We just get the question a lot, so some people react negatively. Those people are awful, socially inept human beings.

[Trouserman]

Its pretty easy to answer a question without being a jerk!

Yeah, but it's even easier to be a jerk!

[ungulateman]

We just get the question a lot, so some people react negatively. Those people are awful, socially inept human beings.

I don't even see how I was being a jerk. :v

[Trouserman]

I don't even see how I was being a jerk. :v

To be fair, I don't think you were really being a jerk.  You did come off cross and unfriendly.  I know I didn't like the tone I perceived in your post.  The repeated pattern of sentences beginning in "No," despite not addressing questions actually in the post you were responding to are partly to blame.  "Please don't post it again" carries the implicit suggestion that future posters should be familiar with the entire history of the thread, putting the blame on them for asking what is really a pretty reasonable question.  Sinnyil's suggestion to put something about it at the start is a good one.  An FAQ section is quite appropriate when a topic spans thousands of posts, such as this one.

[Sinnyil]

I'm glad my opinion isn't alone.  I am...on the internet a lot, including the forums, so I understand the frustration when "Random Poster #1312387" asks the same question answered a dozen times prior.

Its just this thread is huge, and the tileset is fantastic, and a simple question like the one I had could possibly be greeted with less scorn =\.

But really.  The tileset is amazing.  Amazing!

Also, I'm really drunk.

[beridel]

So no one has any idea whats happening with my problem?

I've tried to skim through all of this post, but its just really REALLY long, heh.  I also posted something in the modding forum (because I imagine my problem stems from the graphics pack, since vanilla seems to work fine), but I never got an answer.

So to start from the beginning, I'm on x64 Arch Linux and I have the dwarffortress package from multilib installed.  I then downloaded Ironhand's pack (the latest version, .495 I believe) and just unzipped all of it into the folder, of course overwriting the init from the vanilla installation and using Ironhand's init.  I then generate a large region and embark and everything seems peachy.  However, after several sessions, I'll eventually run into the problem (this can happen the first time after I come back to a new game, or the fifth time, it eventually happens every time I've made a new game).  The problem is that whenever I use 'k' to look around, it crashes with a segmentation fault tell me that there is a texture that can't be found (can't remember the exact wording), I can get it for you guys if you really need it.  This also happens when I try and build a workshop, or if I sometimes try and use 'q' to manage a workshop (that was already built before this starts).  Basically any variety of actions can cause a crash and it almost always says missing texture or something like that.

The only way it seems I can fix this is if I reinstall the multilib dwarffortress vanilla package and then re-install Ironhand's graphics pack.  But then the same problem crops up of course some time afterwards.

So not quite sure what to do and any help would be appreciated!

Also, for what it matters, I've changed the keybindings and so the interface.txt isn't really out of the box, but I imagine that shouldn't change anything.

[connard]

Greeting dear partners,

I know there's a problem with fonts in descriptions, but there's also a problem on truncated dwarf names in the users lists, it's because of special chars like ö,ê, etc. Do you know how to fix that ?

[rephikul]

download a "plain" language pack somewhere I think. If you use true type font which IH has one built in, you shouldnt have issues with this also.

[connard]

Thanks for the answer. But I have no idea of what you are saying! 

[rephikul]

Thanks for the answer. But I have no idea of what you are saying! 

Well there are 2 ways to render text, one is using the artset, the same one used to draw ground and water and stuff. The newer way is to use the truetype font. Since there are many extended characters used in the artset to visualize other objects it can get confusing. So there're 2 ways, one is to convert the characters to plain ASCII characters which's properly rendered with just the art set, the second way is to tell the game to render with truetype font. Ironhand assume the latter so it's more elaborate on artset use then some other tilesets like say, phoebus or mayday.

To make sure your game is rendering using provided tileset, go to data\init\init.txt, scroll down and make sure it read [PRINT_MODE:2D] and [TRUETYPE:YES] somewhere. Now go to data\art and make sure there's a file called font.ttf there.

It should look like this when properly configured:

[connard]

Thanks! Actually I have it already looking that way, but some of my dwarves have a "square" instead of a special letter, then on reports message it is truncated at this square.

For example: Alät created a masterpiece; I just get: Al

Edit: I checked all you said and it is ok.

Look how it is:

[rephikul]

I've looked at my ironhand installation and it seem to have all the language plain-ed and truetype font correctly displayed.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Go to raw\objects\language_DWARF.txt and see if the words have special characters. Then compare this raw with the one in your save folder at data\save. You probably misplaced ironhand's raw somewhere...