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DF General Discussion / Re: Has it been a week yet?
« on: March 28, 2010, 09:42:57 am »
If you don't stop screaming "are we there yet" I swear we will take this forum and drive stright back to the 2d version. 
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DF General Discussion / Re: Future of the Fortress: List of Remaining Items
« on: March 27, 2010, 01:32:42 pm »
It's torture. I am moving on the 1st of April. And probably won't have internet for atleast 1-2 weeks.
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DF General Discussion / Re: Future of the Fortress: List of Remaining Items
« on: March 26, 2010, 07:52:06 am »
To be honest, setting a release date even a aprox./guess date is dangerous.
I mean if someone in the forums make an aproximation and say it will be about The 37:th of Rocktober and it's not, no one will care.
But if god himself put his finger to the ground and say "It might be this date!" and it pass, people will have hearth attacks and other stress related dissorders over it. ^^
I mean if someone in the forums make an aproximation and say it will be about The 37:th of Rocktober and it's not, no one will care.
But if god himself put his finger to the ground and say "It might be this date!" and it pass, people will have hearth attacks and other stress related dissorders over it. ^^
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DF General Discussion / Re: Future of the Fortress: List of Remaining Items
« on: March 25, 2010, 10:41:29 am »
So tell me.
How do you feel?
How do you feel?
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DF General Discussion / Re: Future of the Fortress: List of Remaining Items
« on: March 25, 2010, 03:30:17 am »Well dwarves (and elves) traditionally have pretty low birth rates in classic fantasy, if only to balance out living longer than a human. which is why elves, with a relatively high birth rate, can zerg rush in DF.
And others explain this by the majority of elves turning gay thus not producing any offspring even if they technicaly could.
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DF General Discussion / Re: Future of the Fortress: List of Remaining Items
« on: March 24, 2010, 03:48:41 pm »
I wonder if most of the losses during my first fort will be due to accidents/war or bad doctors...
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DF General Discussion / Re: What's the first thing you'll do in the new version of Dwarf Fortress?
« on: March 11, 2010, 04:13:54 pm »
Caverns will be awesome.
I am considering having the hospital with grated floors straight over the main dining hall, so even non combat dwarves can shower in the glorious blood of warriors after a great battle.
I am considering having the hospital with grated floors straight over the main dining hall, so even non combat dwarves can shower in the glorious blood of warriors after a great battle.
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DF General Discussion / Re: FotF: Dwarf Fortress 40d19
« on: March 05, 2010, 01:10:27 pm »
I have not replied for posts on the forum for ages. But seeing some of the lack of knowledge in the forum I just feel that I need to do a short post.
No excuse my language for a bit good folks.
First of all sdl is slow as FUCK, this is one of the main problems today, it's not about how big area you draw, if it's just "2d" etc. The costly part is the number of draw calls and what handles the actual drawing.
I am taking some of this data from my memory so stay with me. A non size changed Dwarf fortress screen is 80*25 units. Thats 2000 objects. In a simple SDL layout that would be roughly 2000 blit calls per frame with access to diffrent part of different textures containing the data needed. To keep a frame rate of 30 fps. thats 60 000 blits per second.
With sdl most of this is handled on cpu level, the logic is also handled on the cpu, if the rendering takes to long it will affect the logic and wise versa.
A modern computer in this day of age has a Graphical Processing Unit. This is called a GPU, in most cases it got it's own memory and this card is a master of floating point math operations. The card is built mostly for 3d operations, but it also got registers for 2d textures.
With something like OpenGL, you can transfer the workload of rendering, from the cpu to the gpu. We still need to know what we want to render where but the actual process of getting all our 2000 tiles on screen is now more of gpu issue.
I would like to try to do a full focused window version using the gpu as the workhorse as well. But i don't know if I have the time with current projects going on.
I am impressed and know the amount of work people have put in to this.
Quite simply, just doing it trough SDL won't cut it.
Sorry for my rambeling, and have a great weekend all you dwarf lovers out there.
By now someone have probably posted more things regarding this.
//TheSpaceMan
No excuse my language for a bit good folks.
First of all sdl is slow as FUCK, this is one of the main problems today, it's not about how big area you draw, if it's just "2d" etc. The costly part is the number of draw calls and what handles the actual drawing.
I am taking some of this data from my memory so stay with me. A non size changed Dwarf fortress screen is 80*25 units. Thats 2000 objects. In a simple SDL layout that would be roughly 2000 blit calls per frame with access to diffrent part of different textures containing the data needed. To keep a frame rate of 30 fps. thats 60 000 blits per second.
With sdl most of this is handled on cpu level, the logic is also handled on the cpu, if the rendering takes to long it will affect the logic and wise versa.
A modern computer in this day of age has a Graphical Processing Unit. This is called a GPU, in most cases it got it's own memory and this card is a master of floating point math operations. The card is built mostly for 3d operations, but it also got registers for 2d textures.
With something like OpenGL, you can transfer the workload of rendering, from the cpu to the gpu. We still need to know what we want to render where but the actual process of getting all our 2000 tiles on screen is now more of gpu issue.
I would like to try to do a full focused window version using the gpu as the workhorse as well. But i don't know if I have the time with current projects going on.
I am impressed and know the amount of work people have put in to this.
Quite simply, just doing it trough SDL won't cut it.
Sorry for my rambeling, and have a great weekend all you dwarf lovers out there.
By now someone have probably posted more things regarding this.
//TheSpaceMan
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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Eternal Halls - An Endless Succession Game
« on: December 21, 2008, 08:15:31 am »Really? Three months and you haven't switched over to 40d?
I have, but not on the laptop i brought with me... :S
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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Eternal Halls - An Endless Succession Game
« on: December 18, 2008, 02:56:41 pm »
Sorry for being a hold up guys specialy since there are many people burning for playing (not counting the ones who droped out). Christmas requires more time then predicted. Skip me but re add me to the list please.
Ones again, sorry.
Some of the playing i had planed didn't happen because I got the save but didn't check versions of DF.
Ones again, sorry.
Some of the playing i had planed didn't happen because I got the save but didn't check versions of DF.
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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Eternal Halls - An Endless Succession Game
« on: December 16, 2008, 08:26:40 pm »
Work is finaly done vecation awaits i'll give a status update in 3 days latest or you can skip my turn. Don't won't to hold up the game.
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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Eternal Halls - An Endless Succession Game
« on: December 09, 2008, 10:15:02 am »Eh, this fort isn't timed, but of course it'd be good if you could get it done sooner rather than later.
Great. I will work as fast as I can, i'll bring the game with me to Sweden, and finnish it there if worse comes to worse.
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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Eternal Halls - An Endless Succession Game
« on: December 09, 2008, 06:24:15 am »
Had a look around in the save yesterday, still trying to find everything. Getting a good feel of the game.
How long time do I have left to finnish my turn?
Knowing how to balance it with other stuff during my week?
With "game" i mean fort....
How long time do I have left to finnish my turn?
Knowing how to balance it with other stuff during my week?
With "game" i mean fort....
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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Eternal Halls - An Endless Succession Game
« on: December 05, 2008, 08:27:37 am »
To bring me up to speed. The important dwarves to keep most check on will be.
Sizik the miner.
Dadam the Engraver
Marineking the Director
Kishmond the OCD Armorsmith
Likot the Planter
PTTH the Siege Operator
Aqizzar the Captain of the Guard.
iluogo the Minerldier.
Did I miss any one?
Since we need more barrels I am considering taking the role of the manager, or an Alien consciousness occuping the mentioned dwarf trying to bring order to the mess.
If no one think it will mess up the flow or break the spirit of the game. It's the only way I can think of resonabliy bring in my nickname into the game. ^^
Sizik the miner.
Dadam the Engraver
Marineking the Director
Kishmond the OCD Armorsmith
Likot the Planter
PTTH the Siege Operator
Aqizzar the Captain of the Guard.
iluogo the Minerldier.
Did I miss any one?
Since we need more barrels I am considering taking the role of the manager, or an Alien consciousness occuping the mentioned dwarf trying to bring order to the mess.
If no one think it will mess up the flow or break the spirit of the game. It's the only way I can think of resonabliy bring in my nickname into the game. ^^
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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Eternal Halls - An Endless Succession Game
« on: December 05, 2008, 06:59:48 am »
I'll start tonight. Still haven't had the time to read up on the past events.
I might even start read up on some of the events during my lunch break... I think the last time i had a look was on page 20 something...
I might even start read up on some of the events during my lunch break... I think the last time i had a look was on page 20 something...