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Quote from: Anathema on May 02, 2012, 09:53:56 pm

Close, but DF is even worse: designed, built, and marketed by a mathematician

Really? You'd think a mathematician would make you enter commands as equations.

Well, many people hope for that ability:

Σ{Booze} < n => Tasks = {Brew Booze, Tasks}

Ouch:



Way to go:

Zwei, I'm getting a download speed from your site (FTP, not HTTP) of 671bytes/sec. I normally get into the early 200s of kB/s. Could you check if something is wrong?

It overloaded a bit, should be fine.

Anyhow: connard kindly provided alternative hosting. So far I have set up auto update site, so if you edit autoUpdateURL element in configuration.xml to this:

<autoUpdateURL path="http://www.armedassault.info/_hosted/soundsense/au"/>
You should get much more realiable downloads. Shout if auto update complains about some files :-).

I've added the file to the autoupdater (but I don't know how to get a proper checksum or size), what else should I do?

If you want to set up you own autoupdate site, there is ant task for it which will generate proper autoUpdate.xml file: http://df.zweistein.cz/soundsense/ant.zip - edit build.xml to point to correct directories, run with with apache ant.

You can do it by hand, you need to include size and hash and simply add entry for your file:

size is size of file in bytes.
sha1 checksum is plain sha1 hash, total commander can do it.

Quote from: Deon on April 16, 2012, 01:06:59 pm

Is it some kind of a setting? I am playing adv. mode and attack sounds are amazing, but they work like 5% of the time.

I literally do no testing with adv mode so I couldn't say.

The text events are different in adv mode I think. It's something which will be worked on eventually.

Yes, there are three types of messages:

You (do something).
(someone) (does something).
The (someone) (does something).

Since only last one appears in dwarf mode, most of pack is tuned to that. Adventurer mode will sometimes catch combat actions of your enemies, but that is mostly accidental.

Adv mode support leaves a lot to be desired.

Arena uses same message system as adventurer, so it is also not that great.

If you need a fast and reliable host I rent two dedicated servers in a datacenter, I can set you a ftp/http access... keep me in touch.

That would be much appreciated.

All I need to deploy auto update site is dumb http server (just unpacked sounndpack.zip with autoUpdater.xml definition in root - http://df.zweistein.cz/soundsense/soundpack/autoUpdater.xml ).

I haven't had any issues with the experimental version.

Okay, experimental version is no longer experimental, but main release :-)

r33 required java 7, r34 once again requires only java 6, which should fix class version problems.

Is there any place for custom additions for things that are not currently making sounds?
I looked around quite a bit but couldn't find anything for this.  I obviously have the sound pack, but I know that there is more actions from the packskeleton.zip that are not currently using sounds, anyone?

I am not sure what you mean - lines that are not used to play sounds? It is all in skeleton pack.

Got a really great soundfile for death, but where do I upload it?

Any file hosting service i guess.

Since your host doesn't seem all that reliable, maybe you should consider setting up a bittorrent download for the soundpack & updates or something.  I'd offer to host a mirror but I don't even know of a good file host since megaupload went bye-bye.

I explored torrent a bit, but it seems that i would need tracker (any non-hassle tracker service?) and one reliable seed (would http be enough?)

Well, "Jon Arbuckle: serial killer" is now official.

He really is a serial killer. Creepy one at that.

anyone interested in a designing side program for designator? if yes, I'll try to whip up a proof of concept.
Features:
- using the same colors as specified in dfdesignator ini-file
- save in .zip or .bmp
- pixel-by-pixel drawing(as in, you have some rectangles, ratio = DF default ratio or square. 1 rectangle = 1 position in DF)

input always welcome, but I'll probably not start unless there are people waiting for this.

Greetings

To be honest, existing drawing programs are more than suitable already.

What I want from such software is copy/pasting sections and rotating them/mirroring them, basic brush/rectangle/circle works.

paintbrush does that perfectly and more advanced software does more (layers and export of layers to ordered pngs for example)

I suppose gimp-plugin for color management and reading form ini would be nice, but not required: Simply creating image with palete from ini file, possibly custom color picker with designation names next to each colors.