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[Ziusudra]

I would suspect the support for the parameter definition hasn't been removed as I don't see any immediate reason for why it would be affected, but I don't know.

I'm guessing these parameters are how PerfectWorldDF does its thing, which does work with v50+.

[Ziusudra]

Is saving in adventurer mode gonna gain the same options as in fort mode? Such as to save and continue playing or save to a new timeline.

Do you think there's any current features that might not make the initial adventurer mode release? Like the camp building mentioned on Blind's steam.

Are the controls also going to be designed around WASD?

[uristmctinkerer]

Any chance we will have key shortcuts such as "q", "+" and "-" back to fortress mode in the premium version?

Thank you!

[Bumber]

Any chance we will have key shortcuts such as "q", "+" and "-" back to fortress mode in the premium version?

Thank you!

Are you asking for the return of a keyboard cursor, basically?

[Vanzetti]

How hard would it be to make the motion graphics of DF more smooth, interpolating the movement of creature sprites between squares instead of jumping discreetly from one position to the next? Rimworld style, basically.

[Putnam]

How hard would it be to make the motion graphics of DF more smooth, interpolating the movement of creature sprites between squares instead of jumping discreetly from one position to the next? Rimworld style, basically.

The problems here are mostly that:

1. Movement can be interrupted
2. Movement is often faster than the game's frames per second; I like to play the game at 1000 FPS, and at that speed, units move ~1.6 tiles per frame, meaning that ~60% of the time you'll see dwarves move two tiles in a frame

The only really reasonable way to do it is to do a lerp of the sprite's position offset between their current and target destinations based on how far they are into their movement, which, yeah, doable, but might result in really weird visuals, snapbacks and things.

[voliol]

@putnam I don't think most people play at 1000 FPS, but even if we consider the lesser ideal of 100 FPS (the usual max speed), Dwarf Fortress units move fast compared to e.g. Rimworld ones, so they'd be zipping around a lot. It might get less readable? And the interruption issues of course.

[uristmctinkerer]

The only really reasonable way to do it is to do a lerp of the sprite's position offset between their current and target destinations based on how far they are into their movement, which, yeah, doable, but might result in really weird visuals, snapbacks and things.

Not only that, there's a reason why rimworld units don't have legs. Simple interpolating the current sprites will look very weird and will require additional animations (at least something like the steps animation from keeperrl). And lerping the sprite's position between current and target destinations is not that straightforward, you need to chain all the different movements otherwise you will get the sprite in the wrong location if the unit is doing a 90 degrees turn for example.

I personally prefer the game the way it is now and I'd be happy if Putnam and Toad are working on other stuff like UI improvements (searches pls!) or expanding the game. Just my 2c

[TheBeardyMan]

Before the premium version, we could change which font to use for the ASCII graphics by changing the font name in the FONT tag in init.txt. In addition to changing the images used for the ASCII graphics, this would also cause map cells to be rendered with the aspect ratio of the font.

In the premium version, changing the font in the FONT tag still changes the images used for ASCII graphics, but the aspect ratio for map cells remains the same as that of the default font.

Will this feature - the font aspect ratio driving the display aspect ratio - be making a comeback?

[Ziusudra]

Will this feature - the font aspect ratio driving the display aspect ratio - be making a comeback?

It still does that in ASCII mode -- use a square set and you get square tiles -- but how would that even work in graphics mode? What would you expect to happen to the graphics tiles, would they get squished or stretched?

[mikekchar]

Changing the font to anything other than 8x12 or 10x12 in ASCII mode in 0.50.x has significant problems.  16x16 *kind of* works, but only full screen and breaks if you scale it in certain ways.  Other ratios flat out don't work.  Either visual layout is broken or the mouse clicking doesn't work any more, or both.  I *think* Tarn is aware of this and has said that he wants to fix it sometime.

In graphics mode, it will never come up since the tiles work significantly differently.  If I get time, I'm actually going to make a graphics set composed entirely of ASCII glyphs with the character centered in the tile.

[Putnam]

The main problems are actually related to how I did stuff in the SDL2 update--the way SDL2 does things you have to give an explicit height and width to every texture you blit to the screen, so for the sake of expediently making sure the game's, y'know, playable on large resolutions, I just sorta made the decision that ASCII is going to scale assuming the original textures are 8x12 and graphics scale assuming the originals are 32x32. This shouldn't be terribly difficult to fix.

[A_Curious_Cat]

Regarding the recent Steam announcement:  will demigod players be able to select which deity is their divine parent, during character creation?  Also, assuming that “demigod” here is used to refer to the child of a deity and a non-deity, will they also be assigned a non-deity parent?

Also, what about elves?  Will they no longer be able to be demigods (or will it be possible for a “force” to be a demigod parent)?

[voliol]

Getting a chunk of myth stuff is super exciting, however finalized it turns out it, it really is a sign we're entering a new era of feature development, beyond the different kind of goodieness that graphics and reworked UI has and will continue to be.

Tutorialization through deity sounds really fun, though I wonder:
1. In worlds without deities, or civilizations without, how will the demigod tutorial work? Will some other being take that tutor position? Or will it be impossible to play an atheist demigod?
2. Will demigods from goblins/dark fortress civs get guidance from the deified civ leader? Will megabeast-followers get it from their patron roc or dragon? What if this physical deity dies?

[Digganob]

1. Will the graphics layering system be expanded or made more powerful? For instance, will more conditions for quality like in portraits, or will conditions for other layers existing/not existing be added to the regular, small-scale sprites?

2. Will a rework of the combat system, or at least the information displayed, be done at any point soon? A lot of things are somewhat confusing, like how "squareness" affects armor penetration and damage, what the chances of penetration and dismemberment are to begin with, how much skill affects things like dodging, parrying, chance to hit, etc. I think that clarity is more important than actual changes, especially considering the newer players.