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Dwarf Fortress => DF General Discussion => Topic started by: DDouble on October 21, 2006, 01:59:00 am

Title: Enlarging the game window and viewing area
Post by: DDouble on October 21, 2006, 01:59:00 am

Does anyone know how to manipulate the curses tileset and init file to get a larger playing area? I dislike fullscreen mode, but I want to be able to see more of the game at once. So a bigger window with the same small resolution. Is this possible?

Title: Re: Enlarging the game window and viewing area
Post by: Mechanoid on October 21, 2006, 02:10:00 am

Fullscreen and windowed have the same display area, and as far as i know there is no way to increase the viewable area; aside from pressing TAB to get rid of the main menu.

Title: Re: Enlarging the game window and viewing area
Post by: Angela Christine on October 21, 2006, 08:02:00 am

Not quite the same thing, but I like to get a "big picture" view using the export BMP function.  I do it in windowed mode, to get the widest possible viewing area.  Then I open it with MS Paint and I can see quite a large area at once.  You can't interact with it, obviously, but it works for getting a sense of the contours of the rivers and the general shape of things.  It is like a map.

[ October 21, 2006: Message edited by: Angela Christine ]

Title: Re: Enlarging the game window and viewing area
Post by: bbb on October 21, 2006, 09:42:00 am

do you reckon i can get better speed running it windowed at even lower resolution

don't suppose i need to shrink the tiles as well?

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down to single digit days per hour..

[ October 21, 2006: Message edited by: bbb ]