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It'll do bump mapping before too long, it's definitely in the plans. I will probably only implement it in shaders though, so it needs to look decent without it for the basic rendering mode.

Great work by the way, they look fabulous! I'd better start figuring out how to make multi-tile buildings work, they cause problems with the culling at the moment as they can be in multiple map blocks. Hmmm...

As for the engravings, it somewhat depends on how it's structured. I assume there is a vector somewhere that stores engravings sorted by position. If this vector stores the ascii code of the display char (which I consider fairly likely) then it's not too difficult. If tracking a more complicated set of linkages is required then forget about it, it's not worth the effort.

The easiest solution would be to have a list of possible textures/bump maps and to pick one at random. This could then be made more specific later.

This may be jumping the gun, but a while back I ran a 3D dwarf fortress on the Something Awful forums, - Glodsaga - and I still have all my max files from that. (the only time DF has crashed to an unrecoverable file for me, goddamit.)

Which means I have a model for most of the different workshops, here's an example, the carpenters shop - its 4600 polys, down to 3800 if you take out the sawdust. the only problem is its not properly textured, - all the different colours are different objects with a separate texture applied.



No sure if they would be of any use to you or not, but I thought I could offer the files if you can use them.

Yes please, that looks awesome! 4600 poly isn't too bad, but it would be better if it could be halved. Having different objects with different textures is no problem at all. Needs to be .obj format though.

I've uploaded a new verison with bug fixes (v0.801).

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1272

- Fortifications are fixed
- Missing floor under up/down stair fixed
- Some building orientation/placement issues fixed
- Ceiling thickness can be now be changed (not tested)
- Fixed wood color, improved color determination (copper may be fixed too). This is also fairly untested, I only had a couple of hours to work on this update.
- Size of table/stool increased so that tables are contiguous. You can also set this yourself in Data/Buildings.csv. The last column is a scale percentage (ie. 500 is 500%, which for tables scales them to fit exactly in a 5.0 wide cell).
- Green glass walls/floor should now be opaque
- Properly fixed the Ctrl-R issue. My apologies to smjjames as his woes were entirely my fault for undoing an earlier fix.

Other issues:
- Setting USE_SHADERS=NO makes everything transparent. Tricky one this, and I've only been able to partially fix it so far. It's caused by the multisample anti-aliasing so disabling that will fix the problem. I'd be interested to know if this happens on Nvidia cards that use coverage-sampled anti-aliasing (it will say which is used in the .log file).
- I haven't been able to fix the wonky bridge/noise issue. I've put in code that I'm confident should fix it and it makes no different . Setting XY Noise min/max both to 0.0 will mainly fix the issue until I do it properly

And let this be a lesson to all prospective developers about the importance of testing your shit properly

Watch and learn baby! 

Love the new fortifications! But to reiterate what several others posted:

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Statues look great as well. Is their direction simply random though?

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Bridges don't quite line up right...but otherwise they look great!
Here is a retracting-bridge trap I built to trap goblins in a pit:

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Beds look nice also. Here is my throne room, with bedrooms for nobles in the back and legendary dwarves off to the sides. It may not look like much, but they love it =]

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Bloody fortifications.
Statues are supposed to face away from the walls. I have no idea why that one statues decided to face the other way, personally I'd be pretty freaked out about that statue looking at me while I slept!
I think the bridge being off is caused by the random noise applied to the terrain (it does XY and Z noise). I should be able to disable it on the tiles around bridges.
EDIT: I see you also get those black polygons  It does look as if it's related to normals/lighting in some way...

And I would always recommend updating graphics drivers if you get random 3D crashes. Otherwise I need to see the VisualFortress.log file. The crashwindow info just tells me it crashed in the graphics driver, but there may have been things that failed earlier in the setup to cause it.

I like the second picture, it looks like some sort of industrial facility.

NEW VERSION RELEASED!(only three weeks late)
Get it here:http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1272
Changes:
- Pixel shaders no longer required, plus other fixes. If you had problems running it before please try again now. Shaders can also be disabled in the .ini file if you experience visual anomalies.
- 40d-14 support
- Now displays buildings. Currently this is limited to chairs, tables, windows, bridges (these only appear lowered) and statues. Paved roads are in but I discovered they caused a crash so I've disabled them in the config files. I'll fix this next update.
 More buildings can be added very easily, all I need is the models!
- Material colors are now read from DF memory, so it should work with any modded versions. Some materials may still appear in slightly odd colors, this is because I only use one colour but DF uses two and sometimes I pick the wrong one. If you find any report them.
- Fortifications with stuff above them are rendered as walls with arrow slits. Looks much better this way.
- Added basic lighting controls.
- Many other minor fixes.

Known issues:
- When running without shaders windows don't appear transparent, and glass windows don't appear at all. Sorry, I'll see if I can fix this.
- I've broken the preset cameras somehow.

Thanks to Japa, LordZorintrhox and EvilTwin for contributing models to this release!

I'm away from tonight until Monday but there'll be a bugfix release sometime next week.

Enjoy

Try again with the next version (after it's released). I think I've fixed the problem, plus I've added in more debugging info.

It's not really a 'manual' process, I just run an app and it dumps them for me. But I guess that's what you meant.

I don't think there is an alternative since buildings are clearly defined by a class heirarchy, with sub-types within that. Even the text to name/decribe them is returned by a virtual function.