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[Kriby]

Uh, maybe you should refrain from making snide comments in a thread about discussing the future development of DF instead of remarking on what isn't in the upcoming build. Thanks.

[NobodyPro]

Uh, maybe you should refrain from making snide comments in a thread about discussing the future development of DF instead of remarking on what isn't in the upcoming build. Thanks.

To be fair, it does sound pseudo-suggestiony. Like asking if lying will invove facial muscles being intact.

[Cerol Lenslens]

Consider any weapon used for so much slaughter that it earns its own name. Would it gain sentience D&D style over time?

Dunno, but IIRC, Toady discussed sentient artifacts a while back, as part of the revisions to the Dwarven Soul system. This allowed for souls to exist outside their body, and presumably for the transfer of souls into other objects.

Whether they can be spontaneously generated by objects might be a different matter, but I believe it was mentioned as a possibility for the random magic effects an artifact could have generated when it was created. It seems likely that the same would occur for name-earned artifacts as well. In either case, however, you'd likely just see the personality appear whole-cloth, instead of the gradual effect you mention.

[Dae]

Uh, maybe you should refrain from making snide comments in a thread about discussing the future development of DF instead of remarking on what isn't in the upcoming build. Thanks.

To be fair, it does sound pseudo-suggestiony. Like asking if lying will invove facial muscles being intact.

Well, every question asking precision about how things work or will work imply that you see the things working that way. So they're suggestions if it happens that things don't or are not planned as working this way.
The only way to refrain yourself from going there is by asking "how do you plan on..." which are usually not precise enough to generate a correct answer. Plus, most questions have been asked and it's such a long and ongoing process that Toady himself can't be sure. Asking an open question requires him to put time and thought into that subject when most of the time it's too early to know. On the other hand, if you ask him about a particular implementation he can say "nah, don't quite feel like I'll do it this way."

[Neonivek]

There is a very fine line between suggestions and legitimate questions. It is why people rarely call others on it even if it is obviously a suggestion.

[Cruxador]

Do we know how extensive the SDL fixes are? Should we expect TrueType fonts to work perfectly in all situations now?

Not sure if this information is known to the general forum population, so I'll leave it un-green now and change it if nobody knows.

[Footkerchief]

Do we know how extensive the SDL fixes are? Should we expect TrueType fonts to work perfectly in all situations now?

Not sure if this information is known to the general forum population, so I'll leave it un-green now and change it if nobody knows.

By "work perfectly in all situations" do you mean "be usable for all text in the game," or "not cause the game to crash"?

[Rose]

Are you also making more text use sdl than before?

[MrWiggles]

Are you also making more text use sdl than before?

Gonna go with No on this. The Dev log suggests, that he's just included the SDL fixes, and that Braugn or ToadyOne have yet to expand upon it.

[Jacob/Lee]

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Can someone tell me what SDL is?

[Putnam]

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Can someone tell me what SDL is?

http://www.libsdl.org/

Footkerchief would smite you for your inability to google search

[monk12]

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Can someone tell me what SDL is?

Or Wiki

Short answer, it abstracts aspects of the code so that people can play DF on Linux and Mac, and I gather it is necessary for some fancy things like the TrueType stuff.

[Cruxador]

Do we know how extensive the SDL fixes are? Should we expect TrueType fonts to work perfectly in all situations now?

Not sure if this information is known to the general forum population, so I'll leave it un-green now and change it if nobody knows.

By "work perfectly in all situations" do you mean "be usable for all text in the game," or "not cause the game to crash"?

Well, "perfectly" would entail both of those. I'm somewhat hoping that tilesets won't need to support text rendering in the nearish future.

[Putnam]

Do we know how extensive the SDL fixes are? Should we expect TrueType fonts to work perfectly in all situations now?

Not sure if this information is known to the general forum population, so I'll leave it un-green now and change it if nobody knows.

By "work perfectly in all situations" do you mean "be usable for all text in the game," or "not cause the game to crash"?

Well, "perfectly" would entail both of those. I'm somewhat hoping that tilesets won't need to support text rendering in the nearish future.

That should be what it means, yes.

Praise Baughn The Haruhiist!

[Doomshifter]

Can't seem to get onto the devlog/download page

:O Is he uploading it? Right now? It's not just down for me. I asked the internet, guys. I asked the internet. It told me it was down, guys. IS IT HAPPENING?

I'm going mad here.

Is the new version being posted, or am I just freaking out over server issues?