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Originally posted by Eagleon:
<STRONG>Let's see... I do metalworking when I can (i.e, not now, since I'm in dorms D: Boo.), mostly jewelry and sculpture.</STRONG>

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I did metalworking back in high school. I liked it a lot but i never got too serious at it. I suppose making chainmail is another form of metal art and i still make figurines out of wire every now and then. Heh, good times, one project i did for class was a wire figuring dressed in metal mesh, carrying a crossbow. It actually worked too! When i put it up for inspection the crossbow was loaded. Luckily the teacher though it was funny instead of dangerous.

My teacher though? Utter quack. Craziest guy i ever met, but he was good at teaching stuff. Especially safety rules, if only by example. In my second year i was taking first level metalworking, it didnt happen while i was in class but he somehow spot welded his HAND.

Heh, bring on the dwarf dreadnoughts! Armok knows we have enough crippled dwarves.

I have a cat, which is hardly unique here id bet, but her name is Sparkles. Named by an 8 year old girl, the collar reads "Spackles".

Here is some of my work:  . The only problem with such things is that you are wearing a massive and very efficient heat sink/conductor.

Stand in the sun for too long? Youll bake! And even mild windchill turns killer.

[ September 23, 2007: Message edited by: Tamren ]

Someone post a screenie? This is a library computer, i wont be able to dl and use it for a while yet  

I turned off mipmapping for that screenie cause even my 8800gts was having trouble rendering it. It boosted the performance enough for me to take that shot but the "wood grain" effect got a bit worse. Not sure what causes it in the first place.

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Originally posted by FunnyMan:
<STRONG>Actually, it might not be *as* hard as you think.  Remember, Toady's using OpenGL for control reasons.  I seem to recall that OpenGL forces you to draw in a 3D space and then lets you emulate 2D by putting a surface right in front of the camera.  In which case, you could set up a stack of them and move the camera to an isometric view</STRONG>

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I asked him about this a long time ago when we didn't have Z levels. DF graphics currently have only one layer. Meaning that each tile can only display one thing at a time. You can display black sand, or the boulder sitting on it, not both at once. Graphical layering is apparantly very hard to implement, but possible. So its something to look forward to in the future.

It would allow us to do pretty fun stuff. Diagonal walling for one thing. If you made walls with diagonal lines the game would need to "fill in the gaps" because the walls would have a serrated look to them. These filler wedges would need to fit on top of alternating squares. Since they are only visual they would not block movement beside the wall and it would function as normal. If you can imagine what I mean there.

Edit: Changed some misplaced words. I need more sleep.

[ June 13, 2008: Message edited by: Tamren ]

Oh it is already. 3dwarf is a program that takes a screenshot of the memory DF is using while DF is running. It then translates this into a 3d render which you can then view. The thread for it is here:
http://www.bay12games.com/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=001450

Watch the tutorial first.

ASCII is more than capable of doing that. All you need is separate graphical layers. When tiles are one level below you they appear slightly smaller and farther away. When tiles are very very far below you, they appear much smaller and you can see more of them, but it is much harder to make out individual objects.

Essentially it would be adding perspective to the overhead view. Only problem is that this would be a nightmare to code. Maybe in a couple years.

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Originally posted by Lazer Bomb:
<STRONG>Just find pi to the one million million million millionth digit or so.</STRONG>

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Pi to the millionth digit is 1, billionth is 0.