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DrKillPatient

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What tilesets do you use?
« on: May 19, 2011, 08:24:06 pm »
I'm browsing about for a tileset besides the default one, now that I've got DF working on a computer with a decently-sized screen. I can't stand a stretched/uneven tileset, since I'm terribly OCD about symmetry. At the same time, I like highly readable text and prefer ASCII. What do you guys use, and do you have any recommendations?
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Re: What tilesets do you use?
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2011, 08:25:17 pm »
I personally use the Mayday set.
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Re: What tilesets do you use?
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2011, 08:27:39 pm »
Check the tileset page on the wiki. Or just open the init file and change the tileset to the square version that comes with the game.
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Re: What tilesets do you use?
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2011, 08:38:15 pm »
I like the Phoebus set
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Re: What tilesets do you use?
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2011, 08:46:20 pm »
I use only vanilla now, but in the past I've used Guybrush Tileset/Dystopian Rhetoric Objects.
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Re: What tilesets do you use?
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2011, 08:53:58 pm »
Ironhands....really like it...
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Re: What tilesets do you use?
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2011, 10:08:23 pm »
Quote from: Khenal on May 19, 2011, 08:38:15 pm
I like the Phoebus set
... due to the readability of the tiles and the new handy tileset assembler utility he added (even if it does fail to run on my XP system ;)).
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Re: What tilesets do you use?
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2011, 10:09:25 pm »
Ironhand.
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Re: What tilesets do you use?
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2011, 10:13:05 pm »
Quote from: evileeyore on May 19, 2011, 08:46:20 pm
I use only vanilla now, but in the past I've used Guybrush Tileset/Dystopian Rhetoric Objects.
Same as me.
Guybrush and Dystopian were a great combination that worked well together.
However in the end I went back to curses, the text in ascii is just so much easier to read. Which is important for a game with so much reading.
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Re: What tilesets do you use?
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2011, 10:44:07 pm »
Mayday all the way.

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Re: What tilesets do you use?
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2011, 12:03:03 am »
Mayday
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Re: What tilesets do you use?
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2011, 01:38:02 am »
I prefer dorten, because it's small, square, almost ascii, and has excellent rounding of smoothed walls.
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Re: What tilesets do you use?
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2011, 02:43:37 am »
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Very nice and clear ASCII.
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Re: What tilesets do you use?
« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2011, 02:51:43 am »
I used to play with Coaldiamond's tileset, which I really liked because it gave the game a Colonization-like feel. You can find a link to it on the DF wiki. Nowadays I am too lazy to install it and just go with the default.
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Re: What tilesets do you use?
« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2011, 02:55:49 am »
Vanilla all the way now. Before it was Mayday but the vanilla tileset is always good to know. I might switch back if the wait between updates rivals that of 40d to 2010.
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