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Originally posted by Asehujiko:
<STRONG>-Walking across the entire magma flow with only 2 red feet and 4 yellow leg parts in the end and then proceeding to crawl arround, torching bystanders as they go.

-Melachonic dwarves trying to drown themselves, being swept downsteam onto a bridge, climbing out, running to the spot where they jumped, jump again, get swept on bridge again............she got attacked by a frogman doing so, was injured, moved to a bed and lived for another 5 years untill she got burned by the idiot above.</STRONG>

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Ah hah hah! That was hilarious! These idiots can't even commit suicide properly!

DF updates logic and graphics asynchronously. The FPS the meter displays is the logic FPS. You can change the graphics FPS cap in the init file separately but you can't see it.

I never even dreamed of using iron. Thanks for the heads-up!

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Originally posted by Eagle of Fire:
<STRONG>Do you know someone who is a good pixel artist? This is a (or almost) lost art man, and you sure would not take half an hour to make a good quality sprite out of nowhere.</STRONG>

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I know one or two, including myself, they work much faster than 6 hours per sprite. I would say on average maybe from 30 minutes to an hour at the most. (we are talking some 16 x 16 sprites, yes?)

And pixel art is not a lost form of art. The community is quite alive and well. Just look at PixelJoint, for a prime example.

@ Axehilt_VuP: Actually pixel art is quite different from other types of digital art.

[ August 15, 2007: Message edited by: Core Xii ]

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Originally posted by Tamren:
<STRONG>The game is rendered with open GL. What you are seeing is not just spaced out text characters, every single tile on the screen is a seperate image.
The more it has to display the more it has to retrieve and render images.</STRONG>

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For christ's sake, what is this, the '80s? You have a dedicated chip in your computer solely designed for that exact purpose. It doesn't matter if you blit 2000 images or 4000 images.

The only overhead of more tiles is DF having to iterate through more blocks. But I hardly imagine that's a strain.

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Originally posted by Tamren:
<STRONG>So lets say it starts to rain or snow. The game has to decide where and when each dot of snow drops. Thats a lot of calculations! It gets worse and worse the bigger the playing field gets.</STRONG>

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The game will do that whether or not the flakes fall within the view. It's part of the simulation. And 'playing field' != 'view'.

The resolution is what it is because it was based on some curses library or whatever. It'll change in time.

Already implemented, already suggested.