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Re: Text Will Be Text - dfhack plugin
« Reply #240 on: June 23, 2014, 04:35:36 am »

Just as a resource for others that might try their hands on override tilesets, here a list of multi-used tiles that previously could not be changed, and would benefit greatly from some new graphics. They are certainly on my todo list. :)

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Re: Text Will Be Text - dfhack plugin
« Reply #241 on: June 23, 2014, 04:44:47 am »

Is there an ETA for the new version with multi-Z view?

All other dfhack scripts and plugins need a line in the dfhack init to work. "Rendermax light" or "something enable" or just the scripts name. But TwbT loads all the time, as long as the .dll is active.

Could you add an on/off switch? When the .dll is added it doesnt automatically start, but needs a "TwbT enable" in the dfhack init or dfhack command window, and a "TwbT disable" would turn it off?
Seconded.  The conflict with the Stonesense overlay makes this particularly painful, as I'm committed to using isometric graphics to bring in new players.  Once TwbT can be toggled it's going in the Starter Pack, but until then I can't leave newbies to crash.
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« Reply #242 on: June 23, 2014, 04:59:12 am »

a golden cookie for the first person to put out a fully icon-ized default/ASCII type variant tileset using this. I tried myself, but very quickly got overwhelmed / realized that I'm not actually a good pixel artist.
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Re: Text Will Be Text - dfhack plugin
« Reply #243 on: June 23, 2014, 05:09:34 am »

a golden cookie for the first person to put out a fully icon-ized default/ASCII type variant tileset using this. I tried myself, but very quickly got overwhelmed / realized that I'm not actually a good pixel artist.

Milo's MLC tileset is quite a step in that direction.

All other dfhack scripts and plugins need a line in the dfhack init to work. "Rendermax light" or "something enable" or just the scripts name. But TwbT loads all the time, as long as the .dll is active.
Could you add an on/off switch? When the .dll is added it doesnt automatically start, but needs a "TwbT enable" in the dfhack init or dfhack command window, and a "TwbT disable" would turn it off?

Seconded, plus please add a check for the plugin, so it doesn't crash the game when it detects a non-opengl printmode. Until that I'm unable to include the plugin.

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Re: Text Will Be Text - dfhack plugin
« Reply #244 on: June 23, 2014, 05:31:00 am »

a golden cookie for the first person to put out a fully icon-ized default/ASCII type variant tileset using this. I tried myself, but very quickly got overwhelmed / realized that I'm not actually a good pixel artist.
I'm already working on it, though I won't have icons for every little thing. I want to keep it simple. I don't think the female sign and the amulet need separate icons, and '≈' is enough for all the things it currently represents, too.
But the worst offenders (punctuation/text, bins/u-d-stairs/cursor, status indicators) and some useful ones (weapon types, armor) will get their own symbols. Most is already done, I'm just waiting for the new version of twbt and DF. Probably will do something with the new trees, too.
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Re: Text Will Be Text - dfhack plugin
« Reply #245 on: June 23, 2014, 05:59:55 am »

I'm now finishing setting up an automatic build server that will produce binaries for all platforms when I make changes. Spent several days on choosing the best software for this, but I really don't like the part of development process where I need to write change logs, make packages, upload them... And it was good to learn about all this software.

Once it's done, there will be packages available for the current version, and for multilevel rendering (ok for testing/playing, but without guarantee of not being broken sometimes). I possibly will fix some things in the current version, like error checks and a command to enable/disable the plugin while I'm making multilevel stuff ready for a release.

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« Reply #246 on: June 23, 2014, 06:03:16 am »

I'm now finishing setting up an automatic build server that will produce binaries for all platforms when I make changes. Spent several days on choosing the best software for this, but I really don't like the part of development process where I need to write change logs, make packages, upload them... And it was good to learn about all this software.

Once it's done, there will be packages available for the current version, and for multilevel rendering (ok for testing/playing, but without guarantee of not being broken sometimes). I possibly will fix some things in the current version, like error checks and a command to enable/disable the plugin while I'm making multilevel stuff ready for a release.
Are you planning to add your code to dfhack repository?

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« Reply #247 on: June 23, 2014, 06:29:28 am »

Are you planning to add your code to dfhack repository?
Please do this!
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Re: Text Will Be Text - dfhack plugin
« Reply #248 on: June 23, 2014, 06:31:04 am »

I'm now finishing setting up an automatic build server that will produce binaries for all platforms when I make changes. Spent several days on choosing the best software for this, but I really don't like the part of development process where I need to write change logs, make packages, upload them... And it was good to learn about all this software.

Once it's done, there will be packages available for the current version, and for multilevel rendering (ok for testing/playing, but without guarantee of not being broken sometimes). I possibly will fix some things in the current version, like error checks and a command to enable/disable the plugin while I'm making multilevel stuff ready for a release.
Are you planning to add your code to dfhack repository?

I don't know. I'll make my repository public, and then it can be added to wherever you want, but I possibly prefer to work and mess with things in my own place.

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« Reply #249 on: June 23, 2014, 06:40:16 am »

Well mostly i'm asking for the "planning" part. I think it would need changes e.g. currently it does not work if anything else overwrites renderer (afaik crashes with rendermax plugin).

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Re: Text Will Be Text - dfhack plugin
« Reply #250 on: June 23, 2014, 06:51:31 am »

Well mostly i'm asking for the "planning" part. I think it would need changes e.g. currently it does not work if anything else overwrites renderer (afaik crashes with rendermax plugin).

Btw, I wrote some time ago, it doesn't crash with rendermax trippy and other modes except light, so maybe it's not about overriding renderer. I'll try to investigate later.

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« Reply #251 on: June 23, 2014, 07:06:00 am »

Well mostly i'm asking for the "planning" part. I think it would need changes e.g. currently it does not work if anything else overwrites renderer (afaik crashes with rendermax plugin).

Btw, I wrote some time ago, it doesn't crash with rendermax trippy and other modes except light, so maybe it's not about overriding renderer. I'll try to investigate later.
Hmm that is strange. Sounds like it could be on rendermax's side...

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« Reply #252 on: June 23, 2014, 08:27:30 am »

This thread contains some of the most exciting developments since I started playing DF. Amazing work, mifki.
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« Reply #253 on: June 23, 2014, 08:30:55 am »

Are you planning to add your code to dfhack repository?

I don't know. I'll make my repository public, and then it can be added to wherever you want, but I possibly prefer to work and mess with things in my own place.

Just a note -- you could maintain a personal fork of the DFHack repo to work in, and use pull requests to submit your changes to DFHack.  This is a common collaboration pattern.
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« Reply #254 on: June 23, 2014, 08:41:14 am »

mifki, will this feature make it into the release?



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