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It's funny that you ask.
I actually came back to this post because I couldn't recall the place where I used to hear these songs. (no link)

Actually... just yesterday I had the tune from Em Nish Tathak playing in my head in the middle of the day.
I wasn't sure at first where I first heard it. Played it very clearly in my head 4-5 times. Gave up as I couldn't remember if it was a game/movie/random youtube song.

Next day when I woke up, I replayed the tune and it instantly came to me that it was your song.
Yes, I would be interested in your music to be honest.

I think I'd enjoy recording it on some tapes and listen them analogue/walkman style while doing a forest walk. What's furthermore interesting is that I like most of the songs. They all have a certain style I like.

Just tested this! Fantastic work.. I LOVE this!

Glad to hear it went well on first try (hopefully!...)
You can leave more feedback either here or on the Discord

First off, this is absolutely amazing. Thank you for bringing us this work of art so that we can better enjoy the dwarfiness that we all love.

Besides that, I just have one comment perhaps induced by my unusually early rise this morning. I was looking at the WIP mock-up for the upcoming interface and you see, in the dwarf info area, the little box with the dwarf right above the relations tab? By Armok, that is the perfect spot for where an in-game unit portrait should be. I can't help but imagine a future release of Dwarf Fortress where procedural portraits of Dwarf Vision's caliber - just slightly pixelated - exist within the game and on that spot. Maybe it's something that became possible because the right people talked to the other right people and perhaps a beautiful cooperation then occurred. I don't know how within grasp that might truly be, but I can't help but look at that interface and have some amount of yearning due to the opportunity presented there.

Anyhow, thank you again for this wonderful contribution, Dwarf Vision team! This project is fantastic and I'm grateful for its existence.

Hey Mountain_King,
I'm very happy to read your thoughts on this. Yes, there are a lot of places where one could place portraits.
While I didn't think about this right now, I imagine there will be a Dwarf Vision for the steam version as well.
It would be trivial to shrink and place portraits exactly over that spot. Pixelation of portraits is also achievable, thou that would be something different than making pixel portraits from scratch. We'll see.

What I'm really excited and thankful is that you actually took the time to register and share these thoughts with us!
We thank you for this intervention and made notes of what you recommended.
When steam-DF will come out, we'll give it a go and see how it works 

How does this interact with custom races, and if it doesn't, how would one add them to this? I have this race called 'dark dwarves' in my game that are basically just like Dark Iron Dwarves from WOW, and I was wondering if I patched that into this if it would work and/or how it would be possible.

Also this is super amazing. Sometimes I draw out my dwarves, but I generally like getting a sense of what my dwarves look like, and this is amazing for that!

In its current state Dwarf Vision can only supply portraits for vanilla Dwarf Fortress.
Making this work with mods isn't hard, but making DV display modded items/races graphically is.
I'll have to make it a bit more accessible to pair vanilla races with modded races, so that at least you can use the regular portraits in modded games.
I am aware that a lot of players use mods, so it's definitely something on the to-do list.

Thank you for the praise! It's something we'll be doing for a lot of time from now.

Ah, ok I see how this works now. Thank you!
A bit weird that before moving the topic, it says I should leave the link of the new one, but the new link is only known after completing the topic migration...?

EDIT: There was indeed a "... moved to [LINK]" . Would that [LINK] get replaced with the actual new topic address?

Ok that's reassuring.
Any idea who would I have to write to in order to move the topic?

I made a post and I sort of realized it was in the wrong place. It should have been better placed in "Utilities and 3rd Party Applications" rather than "Mod Releases".
The problem is, I made a lot of linking directly to the actual post.

Would moving the post, also change it's address, thus rendering the links useless? Or will it automatically redirect to the new address, when clicking the old links?



PS: I gave a go for the "Life Advice" board, based on its description: Have a question for your friends here? We can help! - I was oscillating between this and General Discussion.

Holy smokes. I have another post on the exact problem that I was having with 'seeing' my dwarves and being able to remember who they were. Not sure how long ago I posted it, but this is very welcome. I'm really happy to be able to see my dwarves faces, now. It helps them to become stronger characters in the story. Tremendous appreciation, mate.

This is quite funny - when we embarked on making this project happen, we mostly wanted to have this visualizer for things you have in Dwarf Fortress. It later became aware to me that this is indeed more than just eye-candy, so it's now shifting a bit more to an actual tool.
We're really happy to know you like it! Cheers! 

OMG totally posting to watch and support!

Any help is most welcomed! Delighted to see people hyping 

Quote from: Iklistkel on December 26, 2020, 03:14:04 pm

i only play without dfhack 
... just this. i don't like play DF with dfhack. So, for me, no beautiful portraits.. 

And this why author must create non-dfhack version.

This can be achieved, but not without a considerable effort - the good part is, the artist doesn't have to stop and wait while the programming side is working on other tasks.
This being said, it would be wise to focus on adding Adventure Mode and porting Dwarf Vision to Mac and Linux (which by the way, I'm wondering how many people are in those boats... )
before embarking on more daring quests.

It's Therapist, not a rapist, and it works by duplicating all of the work that DFHack already does. The only reason it's doing it that was is because it's actually older than DFHack.

I actually didn't know that - actually wondered why Dwarf Therapist went parallel with the Dfhack technology, instead of using it.
Thanks for clearing out the technicalities, Rose! 





In OTHER NEWS:

0.2 update has now been released. Main feature is the Fabulation options and some fixes regarding freezes/crashes.
Do tell if you run into further problems and any other observations and recommendations you might have.

Second post from page 1 will now pertain updates...
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=177615.msg8218599#msg8218599