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Question.  Is there a way to only colorize part of an image?  Like being able to apply a color to everything in an image that is pure grayscale and leave everything else that already has color information alone?  I think that would be the ideal setup.

Certainly its doable, just check if the RGB values at a pixel are all equal and if so color it while leaving other pixels alone.  The downside is that you only get to use one color on it which I don't think is enough diversity to show the myriad materials people expect, though more layers might compensate.

I think he means that instead of hacking DF, DF actively sends data to stonesense.  I think I can sort of see how it could work - each stonesense tile has an associated variable, and it is these variables that DF sends to stonesense, along with their arrangement along the grid.  From that stonesense organizes it.

What your describing is an API and Toady has steadfastly refused every appeal to add it to DF (which I personally find unconscionable, either provide a real UI or an API, refusing to do either is simply an insult).  soul4hdwn was clearly indicating something else, that DFHack should do all retrieval too and writing too DF and I pointed out that he dose not understand the technical limitations involved which make our current hacking approach extremely limited and why it will never be a true API no matter how much work is put into it.

Hey guys congrats on all the publicity, I've always felt DF would be at least 10 times as popular if it had a decent UI and my Khazad project has been my own attempt at demonstrating that, I've also focused a lot on having a good button based UI and mouse controls for the camera.  The latest version is now available and it demonstrates what I think is the best possible 3D interpretation of DF and while I liked a lot of the things that Khazad dose I'm now convinced that 3D models of tree, buildings and creatures aren't going to work, they are too slow to render and artists are in too short a supply to produce whats needed, so I'm planning to switch gears and try 2D sprites on billboards in place of models.  I was wondering if the StoneSense team would be willing to share their art assets with the Khazad project, we would in turn share our nice UI elements and extensive XML files, after all were both open source and should borrow what works from each other rather then re-invent the wheel as were already doing with DFHack.

Value based sorting/grouping option, now is everyone happy?

I think for once no news is good news, I'm quite happy with the military interface, I'll try to come up with some nit-picks you you really must have them.

First nit-pick - I don't see any point to including a limited group of Traits on the Military page, most Traits don't DO anything (which is typical of DF) and none of them affect military in any way (sad isn't it, the idea of selecting your soldiers based on bravery or intelligence and having this affect how they fight would be awesome).

AlienChickenPie: This is likely DF fault, Glaciers are coded in a very weird way in DF and most visualizers have trouble with them.

Its already on Eternal Suggestions and is the #2 most requested feature, go vote for it and please check their or do a search before posting, practically every idea has already been thought of in the last year (unfortunately the developers only give a tiny penitence is ever addressing these issues and people constantly point out the simple fixes to the games glaring flaws over and over to no avail)

The solution is to have a new level of intermediate detail between the current ones, a level that groups by material category (leather, plant fiber, silk) then everyone's happy.