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[LoSboccacc]

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[Max™]

All that would really do is make them blurred.

Hmmm, it stood out against white grey and black backgrounds, but it's just an idea I was tinkering with anyways.

Incidentally I'm glad to hear you're moving more of the interface to the user alterable side of things. How hard would it be to have the creature sprites do the same as the tiles and whatnot are?

I assume if I were to change the blahblah.obj in the various resource folders that it will change accordingly?

[Rose]

Creature sprites are the next to be user-configurable. I just needed something quick so I can at least have some sort of creatures showing.

[Dirst]

Creature sprites are the next to be user-configurable. I just needed something quick so I can at least have some sort of creatures showing.

As a first pass, maybe allow Stonesense assets?  Running them unmodified would make the creatures stare unnervingly at the camera the whole time, but it's a start.  Even having them as "cardboard cutouts" inside their tiles might even look nice until actual 3D assets become available.

For 3D assets, it might make things easier on modders to let them wrap a texture on a primitive shape... with the option for real 3D models further down the line for real artists.

[Rose]

Nah, I don't actually have any current plans on having 3d creatures. Just flat sprites.

[Max™]

I kinda prefer the flat sprites, I can do stuff with them... 3d stuff and I'm in over my head.

[Rose]

Same. It's much easier to make good looking sprites.

[Dirst]

Same. It's much easier to make good looking sprites.

It's not like I can churn out a 3D model for my content either; I would have been living forever at the sprite level no matter what happened to AV.

Do you think it'd be worth the effort to have different sprites for different view angles?  I'm thinking "top-down" "on same level" and "bottom-up", maybe splitting "on same level" into four directions based on creature facing for the truly neurotic content creators out there.  But a single flat sprite gets AV 80% or more toward the goal of an immersive living environment.

[PeridexisErrant]

I know it's unusual, but Armok Vision deals with a far wider range of zoom levels than most games - have you considered supporting vector formats (eg .svg) for sprites, so they look good at any zoom level?

[Max™]

Well, if you want one a bit smaller with the black outline, this is 72x72 and less bumpy than the 96x96, which should help it size down smoother. The larger scaled animals kinda end up chunky looking atm.

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[Timeless Bob]

Just downloaded 7.1 for windows and had an odd result: regardless whether it was the x64 version or not, the fortress rendered onto a starscape and a blue field and started blinking quickly on and off.  What didn't strobe, however, were the dwarf sprites, just the landscape.  The time "P" pause and changing using "[" and "]" didn't seem to have any affect on the time itself, which is remaining at 1 Granite,0,12:00am.  Considering it's the 19th of Timber, year 7 on my map, something screwy is going on with that too.  These two screenshots should help illustrate what I'm talking about

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It almost looks like its reading my fortress as being over water somehow, because when I rotate the view, the side that's not hanging over a starfield has this green island on the horizon, but this fortress is nowhere near an ocean or lake, so I'm not sure what's going on there.  Maybe its a rendering thing for the blinking (Even while the game was paused, the FPS was between '11' and '6', with the "640x480" and "fastest" settings), but the weird surrounding landscape effect?  No clue.

[Rose]

7.1 had a pretty bad bug. Get 7.2

[Timeless Bob]

7.2 has had no change in either the blinking or the weird placement half over an ocean.  The time effects are still frozen at 1 Granite, 12 unfortunately.

[Rose]

Can you give a save?

[Shurikane]

Is there a way to make the software show the entire local area, rather than cut into slices?  I'd like to explore my megaconstruction and take scenic pictures, but the bottom and/or top are always cut off.