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[Taffer]

-= Taffer's Tilesets =-
Goblin tested, Armok approved.

More screenshots are below, ensconced in a spoiler tag:

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Sharp looking, vanilla styled tilesets that strives to strike a good balance between nice, attractive graphics, while avoiding the odd graphical oddities that occur with many otherwise wonderful tilesets. I have positioned many tiles carefully and put a lot of thought into each one, often obsessively so. I find the cumulative differences from the ASCII add quite a bit to the game. I'm a bit of a perfectionist and the update log attests to that, but the result is pleasing and well-polished. This will work fine with any mods, unless the mod relies on graphic sets. I highly recommend Tocky's colours, as a new colour scheme also goes a long way to improve the aesthetic of the game. Installation instructions are below.

Four wall options! Solid or hollow, with diagonal or the traditional straight versions of each. Diagonal walls allow for beautiful fractal fortress designs and give a more organic look, while the straight options look make for more attractive "traditional" fortresses. The hollow walls make for nicer fortifications, while the solid wall option is a cleaner look. Screenshots of each are provided. If you dislike the font, there are alternates below. As mentioned, a change of the colour scheme is highly recommended. More colour schemes can be found on the wiki, if Tocky doesn't appeal to you. Another addition that I highly recommend is Soundsense, to provide your game with some more atmosphere. If for some strange reason you're running an ancient DF version then pink, non-transparent versions can be found on my wiki page.

Many good, stout dwarves died making these tilesets. Also a few elves, and possibly a spider monkey.

 
 

Save one of the above into the data/art folder of your Dwarf Fortress installation, remember what you saved it as, and modify your settings as below. The four images are identical save for the wall/river/cart track tiles. Change the following in data/init/init.txt: [FONT:curses_640x300.png] to [FONT:taffer.png], or whatever you saved the tileset image as. You should also change [FULLFONT:curses_800x600.png] to [FULLFONT:taffer.png]. Change the colour scheme by replacing the contents of data/init/colors.txt with your chosen colour scheme. Links to various colour schemes are above.

This tileset will continue to work with new versions unless Toady changes the graphics engine. The tilesets will look fine with any mods, unless the mods comes with a graphics set. Do not swap this tileset into an installation with Mayday, Phoebus, Ironhand, CLA, or other graphic sets unless you know what you're doing, as graphic sets tend to change the game's raws, and this will need to be undone.

-= Sans-serif font =-

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For anyone who dislikes the default serif font. Think the default font too busy? Too fancy? Prefer something simpler? Never fear, I've created alternates for you below.

 
 

-= Double-sized =-

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20x20 versions of my older tilesets, scaled using scale2x and then fixed up and redrawn by hand. Installation instructions are the same as above. CLA addon here.

   

[Deon]

It looks very clean and readable, a great ASCII set. Those fancy trees are nice as well.

[Vherid]

That's a nice font, and the double lined walls are interesting but are you sure he doesn't mean that with a single wall, when inverted it becomes double lined? 1+1=3.

[Taffer]

That's a nice font, and the double lined walls are interesting but are you sure he doesn't mean that with a single wall, when inverted it becomes double lined? 1+1=3.

Don't I feel silly? Of course that might be the case. He does mention specifically that they'll cause problems with the hidden engraving walls, which implies inverted double lines, not single. Either way, once I started going with the double lines I found I preferred it, once the corners were rounded off. The fortifications in particular just seem to make more sense. Knowing me though, if you're right, then I might switch back over eventually. The single line tiles inverted would have really wide tracks, so I'm not entirely sure that's what he's up to. Thanks for pointing it out. We'll have to see!

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Is the new route system based off or related to military patrols, or is it all new?
Are we getting diagonals mine tracks?
Are rails tiles the single lines or something else?
Toady, do rails work like other stone carvings? If not, how do they work?
Will wheelbarrows and carts all have their own tiles adjacent to the dwarves or beasts that pull them, or what's the deal there?

I had considered the old routes, but I decided to just make it new, so there wouldn't be fussing with points.

There are no diagonal mine tracks.  It looks bad, and as people said, it causes rotation issues with larger objects.  Hopefully there will be objects larger than one tile on tracks in the future.

I'm using inverted double lines for rails.  Those'll either be distinguished from the hidden engravings walls through a color convention, or hidden engraving walls will be altered entirely.  I don't like single line rails.

They work like stone carvings, but you have to do them in 1-wide/high rectangular sections to get the connections established between tiles.

I'm not sure how wheelbarrows and beasts will work out.  The minecart pushing job isn't done either, but I'm pretty sure the dwarf will be walking behind the cart there.
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[Taffer]

It looks very clean and readable, a great ASCII set. Those fancy trees are nice as well.

Thanks for the compliment! I didn't want the trees too "3d", as they'd clash with the rest of the aesthetic, so I took my time fiddling with them.

[RabblerouserGT]

Oh... I do like what I see.
This might just be the set that lets me stick with ASCII

[Urist McDonalds]

Where is the download link?

[Taffer]

Oh... I do like what I see.
This might just be the set that lets me stick with ASCII

Thanks! Glad you like it!

Where is the download link?

The image at the bottom of the post. This has no creature graphics, so it's just that pink image, same as the default ASCII game. Save it into data/art as taffer.png, then in data/init/init.txt, change the .png references to taffer.png. Specifically, [FONT:taffer.png] and [FULLFONT:taffer.png]. To change the color scheme, copy the desired colours into data/colors.txt.

[ObeseHelmet]

Many thanks. You have finally given me the reason to switch away from Markavian, which was getting a bit old anyway. Very clean and well designed.

[RabblerouserGT]

What's the color scheme in the image, if I may ask.

Pardon if I may not now much about colorschemes. I'm not very well-versed in ASCII.

[Deon]

It looks like the "natural", you can get it on the wiki.

[Taffer]

Many thanks. You have finally given me the reason to switch away from Markavian, which was getting a bit old anyway. Very clean and well designed.

Glad you like it! Markavian definitely has a different look. The walls remind me of cart tracks as it is, with the stripes in there.

What's the color scheme in the image, if I may ask.

Pardon if I may not now much about colorschemes. I'm not very well-versed in ASCII.

Vherid's Natural. I also love Tocky's set. Haven't you heard? Real is brown.

 I vary between them. Considered putting up my own version halfway between the two, but it would be close enough to Vherid's as to make the release pointless. I spent a day or two tooling around with colours, but never made a satisfactory colour scheme, and ended up just throwing in the towel.

[Taffer]

Would there be much interest in a TTF version? I attempted to convert it, but it doesn't appear to display properly, so I'm thinking I've mucked things up along the way. I'll see if I can fix things up if there's any interest.

[Nighthawk]

This tileset looks a hell of a lot like Vherid's. And yes, I read the OP and I know the color scheme is the same. But it's not just that... it... just... exactly like Vherid's. 

[Taffer]

This tileset looks a hell of a lot like Vherid's. And yes, I read the OP and I know the color scheme is the same. But it's not just that... it... just... exactly like Vherid's. 

How so? Compare them side by side, you'll find differences in almost all of the tiles. Different fonts, different tiles for many things. The similarities largely stem from the use of Anikki's 10x10 tiles, which predate both of us. I find his tileset looks similar to Anikki's. Compare them yourself. The credit to Vherid was for the floor hatch, as far as I can tell the rest of the tiles came from Anikki.

Short of not using ASCII-like tiles at all, I'm not quite sure what I can do about that. Most notably, the space/border tiles and the default dwarf are the same, thanks to Anikki, but much of the rest isn't. Perhaps it's because they're both 10x10? Even the floors, walls, bed, barrel tiles are different, which to me at least are some of the most distinguishing features of a tileset.

Vherid's moved in a different direction with his new Plague set, and this tileset isn't using any of it. I'll update the OP with Tocky's colour scheme in a day or two.