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Whenever I zoom with my scroll wheel it zooms in on my fortress but it also changes the resolution of my window. On the closest zoom the map and options tab become huge and cramp up the screen, when I'm zoomed out as far as possible the text is unreadable. Im using the Lazy Newb Pack and this only happens when I use the base ascii tileset rather than any of the others e.g Spacefox. Is this normal? Is there any way I can stop it changing the resolution?

TWBT allows to zoom map independently from menus. I guess when you choose Spacefox, TWBT is enabled, and for default ASCII tileset it's not. I don't know exactly how LNP launcher works, maybe someone else will tell the easiest way to enable independent zooming with ASCII (if that's what you're after).

Bug report: I'm designing a tileset and I want to use some graphics from the default text tileset as placeholders for a release. If I create an override that uses the default 'text' tileset, DF silently crashes whenever these overridden tiles come into view.

Will be fixed in the next build.

I'm sure it was already offered, but none the less.

What if add support of different sizes of creatures sprites?

No this hasn't been proposed before (or I don't remember), but I was thinking about it - not only for creatures - and I'd like to do it.

The main problem is that before starting to work on it I'd want to be sure it 1. will get artists' support (I guess no problem with this), 2. will look good/won't hurt gameplay/will be accepted by players. It looks ok on bare ground in your examples, but can you make an example image with a real map/other objects around?

Also, remember/seen this? http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138754.msg7390751#msg7390751

On the off chance that it isn't reproducible on your end (with 68 and above as the vertical screen size), I'm happy to test things you suggest.

It doesn't crash so far, I'll test more. But why do you need to specify the exact size in init.txt? What if you just leave the default zeroes and resize the window as you want it afterwards?

Quote from: mifki on July 18, 2018, 04:48:09 pm

Sorry can you sum up how I need to configure settings and tilesets to reproduce the crash?

crashing config sample:
https://imgur.com/KpyPDuY
game opens, menu works, savegame loads -> crash when loading completes

This should be fixed in the new version https://github.com/mifki/df-twbt/releases/tag/v6.54

When using meph tileset and TWBT get error message GPUunable to accommodate texture catalog. Retry without graphical tiles, update your driver's, or better yet update your gpu

Yeah, Meph's tileset is very big. But I thought it should be fine on all modern GPUs. What graphics card do you have?

Nice necro. Anyways, the magic update will make the game more challenging.

Yeah those times when ThreeToe was active on forums and there was no TWBT to make graphics not the first thing everyone mentions...

Quote from: mifki on July 17, 2018, 07:29:46 pm

Quote from: PatrikLundell on July 17, 2018, 10:59:14 am

I've failed to see anything indicating which mid level tile the volcano would appear in, though.

What?

Mid level tile = the 16 * 16 tiles that make up a world tile. The term "mid level tile" is the one Toady used when asked in a FotF about what he called the different levels a year or two ago. Thus, a default embark covers 4*4 mid level tiles. (I assume that's what the rather terse "What?" was asking).

Yep, thanks. I've never heard that and was rather confused thinking about z-levels or I don't know what. Don't we usually call them embark tiles?