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[SmileyMan]

Would it not be quite easy to make an "UNDEAD_BONE" material, for skeletal creatures, and then just make sure that material is rot-proof.

For added fun, try dropping a bone item in magma for a permanent source of smoke.

[G-Flex]

Hell, you can drop an entire skeleton/zombie in magma for an eternal flame. It'll stay alive, too.

[Baughn]

Truetype support is done, and shipped to Toady. It'll default to off for the next release, as I don't quite trust the code without thorough testing on DF, but you can certainly turn it on (init.txt).

Here's an example of the looks:

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[TheDJ17]

*sniff* It's so beautiful.

[NW_Kohaku]

Sorry if this has been answered before, but how are font sizes handled?  Some fonts need to be larger or smaller than others to fit properly.

[Baughn]

Automatically. It'll pick the largest size that fits vertically in your tileset.

[NW_Kohaku]

Hmm... I know that some fonts have unusually large blank spaces above and below most text, so I guess those fonts will just have to be disqualified.

[Cruxador]

Now I'm going to have to spend like a day trying this out with all my different fonts to find which one I like, and which doesn't get too huge with the auto-sizing. Certainly a good progress.

[Baughn]

Don't worry, the font getting too large isn't a problem. 

[Cruxador]

Don't worry, the font getting too large isn't a problem. 

Hmm. Since it looks like you've got the capacity to post images at the moment, could we maybe get some sort of collage type deal illustrating how it works out in different situation? The single example is perhaps not super revealing.

[Shadowfury333]

What about square tilesets, how will TTF work with that?

[Cruxador]

What about square tilesets, how will TTF work with that?

Baughn explained a few pages back, an area is defined according to where the text would be if it were still tile-based, and the TrueType text is just printed in there, with no regard for tiles. Thus the shape of the tileset doesn't matter.

EDIT: oh hey! So you know how when a DF window is bigger than a certain size, it's common for many menus to only use the top several lines? Will this implementation make use of the otherwise empty space, if necessary, or will it confine itself to the space that was previously occupied? It sounds like it'd be the latter to me, but I figured it would be nice to have confirmation.

[darkflagrance]

Don't worry, the font getting too large isn't a problem. 

Hmm. Since it looks like you've got the capacity to post images at the moment, could we maybe get some sort of collage type deal illustrating how it works out in different situation? The single example is perhaps not super revealing.

If an example like this is posted, it should be one where the allotted space is too small for the text to fit, if such a situation arises.

[MaDeR Levap]

Yeah, posted example was rather... unrepresentative. Better would be screenshot from main game screen after finishing embark and various other, like Z screen, trade screen etc.

[Baughn]

I can't get that until Toady does a recompile, so this will have to do for now (until next release).

The code should be in there, just off by default. I can look at tuning it then.