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Wanted to share an easy fix to the black screen for anyone using 47.05

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138754.msg8516129#msg8516129

From what I remember, GFPS actually can't drop below FPS, due to how they are synchronized (although the number displayed in the FPS counter is calculated differently and smoothed, so you might sometimes see cases where GFPS is 1 above FPS, for instance).

Anyway, it's good to know that low FPS could be a cause of this. I think a more robust fix would be to detect viewscreen changes with an onStateChange event handler (watching for SC_VIEWSCREEN_CHANGED), because it wouldn't require changing keybindings or using external utilities. Something like this might work, if I'm understanding the issue correctly (it assumes the issue occurs when switching back to the fortress mode screen):

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dfhack.onStateChange.twbt_rerender = function(event)
    if event == SC_VIEWSCREEN_CHANGED and df.viewscreen_dwarfmodest:is_instance(dfhack.gui.getCurViewscreen()) then
        dfhack.timeout(5, 'frames', function()
            dfhack.screen.zoom(df.zoom_commands.zoom_resetgrid)
        end)
    end
end


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Quote from: Fleeting Frames on February 20, 2021, 06:52:12 pm

@lethosor: It is not. I'd have to decide about git one way or another (mainly dithering which name I'd want people to see it under), but that's (basically) why. There's neat xkcd comic about this

I would honestly suggest making a fork of TWBT, then (if you haven't yet) making a new branch off of the right commit and applying your changes there. GitHub has decent support for working with changes from multiple forks, which would make it easier for it to be merged upstream eventually, if desired.

I don't know the status of TWBT
I do know this script works perfectly. Thank you lethosor

I would love to see Legends Viewer in game!!

I've been in discord, reddit and steam forums and not the only person to say this. Exporting the world as a xml file to then import into Legends Viewer was a big part of the gameplay we miss.

It helped connect the dots of events, to tell a story, to give the world itself more meaning. It gave goals for me, one I remember was to build a bridge to connect two islands to allow goblins on one side invade these jerk elves on a tiny island that had killed off the small amount of dwarves that were on their island. Without knowing that story, I wouldn't have cared todo that. Without knowing these stories and easily connecting the dots across a map through time, I can't make sense of the worlds history and it doesn't matter to me.

A few, myself included, say that keeping a persistent world isn't as important or fun, without Legends Viewer.


I hope that part is understandable as I'm sure it's been said a lot before. What I doubt has been said much is incorporating Legends View In game.

What's wrong with Legends Viewer and what should it become? Legends Viewer is this blinding white app that is basically a non-modern web page housed in one of those ancient Microsoft Help CHM applications that doesn't respect the users dark mode preferences. It should be just a web page at this point. I would absolutely love if it was dynamic and accessed my save game whenever the trader arrived to tell me news, so I could see this news on the map and link the information in my brain to my previous stories learned from Legends, all while still remaining in Fortress Mode. I don't know if something like that was planned, is planned or even possible.

So why not incorporate it into the game. The game renders the map. It links the events beautifully. It shows a chronological timeline top to bottom. What's needed is to

• scrub the timeline, ala some horizontal slider, similar to the bottom of a youtube video.
• show a map that's able to be enhanced & resized
• render these events on the map highlighting each one for a bit if it's not clear where the event occurred
• allow easy filtering all events for any event category and make it easy to go back to the previous view

Of course there's more that Legends Viewer does. I feel just the MVP to get the end result of telling a story and bettering the players connection to the world could be done.

One MASSIVE benefit of this is Legends mode can be incorporated into world gen. See world gen sort of does a bit of those bullets above. It has a scrolling text box of events on one side and you see things happen on the right. The issue is not being able to interact with the map or the stories being told during world gen. Players could find themselves lost in this Legends Viewer that's built into the game which they play with the moment world gen starts and not even realize that world gen is finished.

Quote from: blitz4 on July 04, 2022, 12:29:42 am

I'm interested in a borderless fullscreen method for Linux.

That'll depend on the window manager. I use i3 with default_border none and hide_edge_borders both in the config - that makes most apps open borderless fullscreen maximized (assuming the work space was empty to begin with).

Makes sense. Done at the WM level.

lol. making sure the work space was empty to begin with. *nods head* I don't use i3 atm, but checked and there'sold hack's, but nothing official it seems.

Think I found a good list of solutions for many popular WM's. (answer for i3 even shows you need a new work space)

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Glossary:Borderless_fullscreen_windowed#Linux

I'm curious. How many not only use the site finder, but also check neighbors to make sure you get each possible civ?

For example: https://i.imgur.com/ae3DnUU.png

I've tried creating a site using lots of civs & sites and it seems over time most dwindle. Are default WorldGen Settings the best mix to get each neighbor listed in the pic?

atm I'm using EmbarkAssistant, not to cheat, but to help find the neighbors I want.

Hi. Here's the wiki link: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Tileset_repository

At the very bottom, a font by DragonDePlatino. In the forum thread it states, take your horizontal resolution / 5 = tileset width / 16 = tilesize
In the wiki page, it seems there's quite a bit of tilesets not listed, not each version is listed, it's not clear as I mentioned, in the wiki about the resolution either, plus if the tile is measured HxW or WxH isn't clear either. Just things to consider is all. These details you learn over time right?

16x = 720p
24x = 1080p
32x = 1440p
48x = 4k

What I don't understand. Why the need for square tilesets? Is there some monitor resolution that makes them look better than non-square?

Also. TWBT doesn't support TTF. That means, must use a fixed-width font. Cool, easily done with one image file for the font tileset. But I'm confused why many of the images listed fonts in the wiki use Serif's. When typing this post, I'm using a sans-serif font. Per the webpage it states I'm using "verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" and since I have Verdana installed on this computer, it is likely that. For example, in the wiki for 1080p, or 24x tilesets, there's Terminus24, Curses and    Kyzsmooth. That doesn't list for example, Vector_square below that which on the forum page does list a 24x font, but is based on Curses. Anyway, the 3 fonts, one is sans-serif, two are serif fonts. Why is that? Why are 2/3 of the options a serif font? Is it just a matter of not all font's being listed in the wiki or listed properly or is it something else?

I'm looking to create a font for Ubuntu Mono 1080p, I don't see one listed on the wiki and didn't find one via searching. I'd want it listed in the wiki as an option alongside the others. How many 24x (or larger) fonts & 24x font variations aren't listed on that wiki page but are in these forums? (Over 85% of computers use a 1080p+ monitor per Steam HW Survey)

I don't know why. I was watching this part of survivorman and this entire scene from 15:35 - 17:15 reminded me of df. I don't know why.

Taro, that's in the game and the wiki reads exactly as Les describes it: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Taro
Farming, yes there's not enough to gather or hunt to satisfy, thus farming is needed.
But when he said seed dispersal, how the birds eat the fruits and then disperse the seeds, thus most of the food is 200 ft up in the air. That is what drove me here to share.

15:35 - 17:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4IsFmjpvmA&t=15m35s