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[Raufgar]

Now that's interesting, wonder how if it'll work indoors, or better yet, find a way to have the [OUTSIDE] & [SUNLIGHT] tags changed on something subterranean (not talking about the cave-in method, I do that quite frequently)

Good Job Halnoth

[Halnoth]

Updated!

[Bererez]

Would you mind doing some shots with Fortress Overseer?

This is really cool.

[Halnoth]

I certainly can, my only qualm is that overseer doesn't show much of the detail (statues, windows, etc).

[Bererez]

I like Stonesense a lot, but it doesn't do justice to the scale of most projects. With both of them my imagination can meet somewhere in the middle.

Thanks!

[Halnoth]

I like Stonesense a lot, but it doesn't do justice to the scale of most projects. With both of them my imagination can meet somewhere in the middle.

Thanks!

huh, forgive me but overseer doesnt have a readme that I could see how do I take an ss? Just printscreen or is there something in the program?

[Zrk2]

This is awesome. We need to make all the castle is ASOIAF, the Eyrie would be sick. My only qualm is that in the books, Winterfell is described as having hills throughout it, but it would be hard to find a sight with hills in that fashion. But great job!

[Double A]

This is awesome. We need to make all the castle is ASOIAF, the Eyrie would be sick. My only qualm is that in the books, Winterfell is described as having hills throughout it, but it would be hard to find a sight with hills in that fashion. But great job!

One day, I plan on building a Winterfell inspired fortress. I'll start a building somewhere and give no regard to its surroundings. Just wish I could find a suitably hilly area.

I'll probably post pictures somewhere.

[Halnoth]

This is awesome. We need to make all the castle is ASOIAF, the Eyrie would be sick. My only qualm is that in the books, Winterfell is described as having hills throughout it, but it would be hard to find a sight with hills in that fashion. But great job!

I built hills where I needed them tbh, trying to find the correct number of hills would have been a giant pita considering the size of the castle. Ill get around to overseer shots soon, been busy.

[MarcAFK]

Nice fort

[Double A]

This is awesome. We need to make all the castle is ASOIAF, the Eyrie would be sick. My only qualm is that in the books, Winterfell is described as having hills throughout it, but it would be hard to find a sight with hills in that fashion. But great job!

I built hills where I needed them tbh, trying to find the correct number of hills would have been a giant pita considering the size of the castle. Ill get around to overseer shots soon, been busy.

Honestly, just any bumps in the ground would be fine.

[MarcAFK]

could have started in a flat embark with lots of soil layers and just dug out the spaces around the hills...

[Halnoth]

could have started in a flat embark with lots of soil layers and just dug out the spaces around the hills...

Well sure but I created that soil mod just for this project.

[MarcAFK]

Considering how well this fort looks in stonesense has inspired me to do something similar, a medieval styled fortress spanning a large area, probably 8x8 (sadly stonesense can't take complete screenshots this big, i'll have to paste several screens together)
Described in greater detail in another thread :

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besides 16x16 is just too big, i started a few 14/14 embarks and my mind just boggled at the amount of space i had at my disposal, i balked just deciding where to put my initial settlement... also stonesense won't let me screenshot entire embarks over 5x5 so i'm on the fence about if i should make it so big, however i'm planning a human fort inspired by post Norman London , the town sorrounded half by wall, half by river, divided into 4 sectors, each containing it's own meeting area and megaprojects and it's own industries.
A military area containing a tower/fortress with most military related induistries, the meeting area being a theatre in the round.
A port containing a massive ship and most mercantile industries, meeting area being a marketplace.
A royal quarter containing the royal palatial residence, nobles, prison, legal stuff, hammerer, etc meeting area being the law courts.
And finally the main residential part of town containing a huge cathedral as well most primary industries (carpenters, masons, bakery, etc) meeting area of course being within the cathedral itself.
Farms, forests, quarries, mines will be outside the walls, quarries must be open pits for authenticity, no construction underground allowed except for basements, ore/coal  mines and the digging for the docks.
Use of magma not allowed, except i may spawn some with DF hack for mood lighting or various superficial uses. Humans will be modded to allow steel and other industries nessicary for a complete fort, and some items will be removed.
Anyway back on topic, the space needed for the megaprojects is significant, an embark square just for the cathedral or the ship, and each resident will be given a tudor style wood and plaster house with internal space 6x3 and 2 stories (as humans each story will be 2 zlevels which will make the houses look better also) bottom floor containing whichever workshop the resident works at.
For this i should need a big embark area, 16x16 would be nice so i still have space for forests. Also i may mod plants to produce less food so i need more space for farms, shorter growing seasons also wouldn't be remiss.
er yeah good luck with your embark, on my 14x14 i had great fps but ram usage was at 1.8gb which i imagine would probably hit the limit and crash by the time i had started construction.. however i did leave the bottom layer on. i imagine your cpu use for a huge embark should be the same as a smaller embark as long as there isn't lots of extra creatures or flowing water

[Halnoth]

So I found the perfect map for the Eyrie, but there is no way I am starting the Eyrie without a 3d visualizer I can use. Overseer won't work for me (apparently because it doesn't like GeForce) and stonesense doesn't have a full map screenshot or anyway to see the entire fort sooooooo does anyone know of another visualizer knockin about these parts?