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DF Modding / Re: Shizzle 16x20 ASCII - Now with wider text
« on: December 20, 2012, 08:11:38 pm »
New player here. Spent some time mucking about with Phoebus/Ironhand/Mayday and came to the conclusion that modding my own version of the game ends up being a less than pleasant experience what with all the raw edits those packs sometimes need that conflict with the mods. Figured out it'd be best to get used to ascii and stick with it. For the past week and a half or so I've been mostly getting used to ascii and by now I think I got it and can "read the matrix code" recognizing what's what on the screen.

I've tried a few tilesets on the wiki since on a 24" Full HD monitor 800x600 curses tends to be less than ideal but I've always found some things I didn't like. Be it the font, the way a certain tile is depicted, etc..so I ended up going back to 800x600 till my eyes politely requested something a bit less painful.

I saw this post a while ago and figured I'd give it a go and so far I can say it's pretty much the only tileset I haven't found anything to make me dislike it. Tried both normal and wide font and I'm yet to decide which one I like the most. I instantly recognized everything on screen since it's basically the same as vanilla, I like the way text is displayed on both versions, I like pretty much everything on them possibly except the faded background on characters like ":" "." but that's just me being /extremely/ picky. The smoothed/engraved tiles looks particularly pretty.

In conclusion, a job well done. Thank you for this!

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Mod Releases / Re: Accelerated DF merged with Modest Mod - Bugfixes, Balancing and FPS
« on: December 18, 2012, 11:55:14 am »
Ah! It exists!

I'm a new player of DF and though I tried Masterwork for a bit I found it to be too overwhelming for me while still on the process of learning basic stuff. I figured it'd be best if I started small with vanilla content and then expand into other content like the new workshops and !FUN! stuff in Masterwork DF so I went back to vanilla.

I /really/ missed the simplification of materials and FPS improvements from Masterwork though. One of the fortresses I had to dump was due to FPS issues and this is coming from a new player who still does pretty much simple stuff. I think it was all the old clothing everywhere stacked with a bunch of rocks on the ground that killed it for me. Tried fixing it with dfhack 'cleanowned' but then everyone started moaning and groaning about being exposed and I then tried to get started on making clothes but...to hell with it! It just wasn't being fun for me. Still didn't know about dwarven atom smashers at the time or I could have tried dumping all the stone there and see if it got better.

Found out about Modest, sounded like a solid mod that I would try. While downloading it's zip I continued browsing the forum and found this. My mind was blown, just what I was looking for.

Unpacked Accelerated Modest and currently generating a new world! All I replaced was the tileset png with one that makes it a bit easier for me to look at the matrix code and know what's going on. Not a big fan of big graphics packages, I like being able to spot a flashing 'k' in a second or two instead of squinting and zooming trying to find the kobold graphic in the middle of my 20 wardogs at the door.

Anyway, thanks for this!

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