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Yeah, I don't think I can really relate to all this old people talk.  = P
When I came into the world, there were already three Final Fantasies.

Anyway, check this out:... it's a gazelle! 

very gazelly

So my wife asked me last night to show her Dwarf Fortress.
After checking her for fever and/or demonic posession, I downloaded Ironhand's graphics set, knowing nothing less would do.

I went to sleep around 11 p.m. after showing her a few basics and pointing her to the complete and utter newby tutorial.
When I woke again at about 4:30 a.m., she was still playing, laughing about how she couldn't get a farm properly irrigated so her dwarves were going to die.

Her callous overlord mentality brought a tear of joy to my eye.

Thanks, Ironhand and WormSlayer. I couldn't have warped her fragile psyche without you.

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On the subject of the tileset, I'm partial to the Ore icon that comes out of the Phoebus tileset. It serves its function well of looking like a rock while being different enough to tell apart. Don't get too deep into the look of some things, Keep It Simple and all that.

Create a reaction and tack it onto the soap makers workshop that allows for the creation of wax tablets. Since wax is highly malleable it would work well as a writing tablet that can be used over and over again. Just set the return rate at 90% for the studying reaction which allows you to simulate when the wax tablet is no longer usable. And wax is just a tallow product so it would fit. Just a suggestion.

I'm calling it. Martin is mysteriously quiet and the extended deadline was two weeks ago and since then not a single person has piped up to say that they've finished. DF2010 has been out for three months now with half of that being the merge version for our Linux/Max brothers. Should give it a few more months and then retry. Maybe in October after school is in full swing but before the holidays.

Winners: None. Two people finished. Not enough to call a true winner.

Copy the index file from the data directory from a vanilla copy of .06. He probably did a copy from an .05 version or earlier and overwrote it.

I was thinking cheetahs were smaller, with leopards being the middle ground. Well, the only difference is their size, so it's just a matter of assigning the correct sprite to each one. I also changed the skin tones a bit, as suggested, and added a cougar while I was at it (just removed the spots from the leopard, actually).

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The generic colors are enough for me, color variants are too much trouble. if anyone else wants to add them, go ahead.

Also, that blood looks amazing. The corridors of my fortress shall run red. Blood for the blood god!

Only quibble: Head on Cheetah is same size as the others and with the smaller body it just looks weird. Other than that, awesome awesome awesome.

Either jaguar or leopard can be all black/dark. I forget. And the cheetah doesn't need spots it can just be light tan color.

Other than that, great work.

Well, if you're going for something resembling authenticity, then the truth is with such a small surface to work on, the three are virtually indistinguishable. Jaguars are the bigger of the three with spots that kind of look like this (-), while the Leopard is the smallest with spots that look like this ( ). The Cheetah is sort of in between, a bit leaner and has even spots spread across the body.

My suggestion would be to leave the Jaguar as is, resize the Leopard to be a bit smaller, and then thin out the body of the Cheetah a little bit. Even without the changes it looks great.

WTB: Cougar sprite.