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Wagon concept


Will still be 'fun' breaking this into building chunks (for the starting wagon) and ***absolutely no idea*** how to make it work as a merchant wagon

Might I suggest having some sort of external file that tells the program what graphic to use for what creature?  While I'm not using any mods at the moment, I'm watching several that I may try soon, and I'd really like to be able to see the creatures in them, even if I have to create my own graphics.

Thats a pretty good description for whats going on. You currently [in the svn build] have to paste everything into the one png file, but the configuration is just xml tweaking.

http://code.google.com/p/stonesense/wiki/AddingCreatures

Quote from: Impaler[WrG] on October 28, 2009, 05:22:18 pm

jonask84:  You should post a png the height and width you want and with a diamond shaped magenta area at the bottom showing ware the floor tile will line up with the graphic.

It's easy to do yourself. Center four pixels on the bottom row, expand by four per row you move up.

Anyway, just take a floortile from Sol's sample tileset.

I'm pretty sure Sol's set is where stonesense started off from- those look awfully familiar 8-)

That multicoloured wireframe on the right would make a pretty exact reference

Oh, by the way, even without svn software or building your own version of the app, you can see where things are up to by heading to the google code browser and pulling out image and xml files. (they wont run in the a2 stonesense, but they still give you an idea of whats going in)

http://code.google.com/p/stonesense/source/browse/

When's the next update  ?

If you're desperate enough you can try to follow some of the 'build it yourself' guides, but if you wait a bit longer, jonask mentioned hoping for a weekend update

Ok, I now have a working process for building with MinGW

Spoilered for tl;dr

Can I ask why we're still using ultra low-res tiles?

There's a trade off between detail and number of sprites you can pack on the screen. Same reason all the DF ingame tilesets are on the small side.

Add in that stonesense really needs to have the df window running as well and there's really not much room for detail.

If someone wants a challenge, I could use an itsy bitsy vise attached to the upper left side of a bench (for jewellers, craftsdwarfs etc workshops - it has to be upper left because of the layout of the jewellers)

And a tannery

Oh I completely agree its not an issue of feasibility or technology, rather that don't NEED a serrated disc to build the workshop so it's inaccurate to show it.

Although *actual* circular saws are about 1700's tech, there's something about a giant saw blade trap that just seems thematically right.