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[Shonai_Dweller]

Looking forward to trying this. Great to see a nice big, stylish set that'll Just Work in vanilla DF. How does the text look? (Sorry if I missed a screenshot somewhere).

Well, it looks pretty! That's all that matters, right? 

It's about as easy to read as a 14th century manuscript. So, not very. I plan to include a version without the glass effect for twbt users, it's what I've been using in testing. I may have to make one with just the text cleaned up for vanilla users, but that still depends on how readable you find the olde english font in the first place, and will leave creatures without backgrounds.

Ha. Will give it a try and let you know. Olde English fonts don't trouble me too much.

[monkeyfritz]

Version 1.0 !!!!!

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13693

[Llamageddon]

I'm just trying it now, but I thought I should mention, your DFFD description for TWBT could be a bit misleading. It doesn't seem clear that you should make the font manuscript.png and the graphics font StainedGlass. So far I only have good things to say but I will reserve that after having played a bit more. Great work.

[monkeyfritz]

I'm just trying it now, but I thought I should mention, your DFFD description for TWBT could be a bit misleading. It doesn't seem clear that you should make the font manuscript.png and the graphics font StainedGlass. So far I only have good things to say but I will reserve that after having played a bit more. Great work.

I added a couple more lines, hopefully that helps prevent any missunderstanding.

[Llamageddon]

Well I am loving it. Those dwarves are still so wonderful, I love their faces. The mapgen looks really pretty with your tileset too and you colour choices are a really refreshing change. I like how the table and chairs have evolved.

I also really like the font. It looks great but I would love to see a thinner typeset. The text takes up huge ammounts of screen space and is harder to read because it is all so spaced out. Do you think you could make a less square font?

For instance, workshop text goes off the edge of the widest tab available.

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You can see how big the spacing is on the embark blurb.

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And how it can take up over a third of the screen.

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I do love it though, the text spacing is my only real gripe. The font goes really well with the theme. Plus there might be some simple init/twbt setting I am missing that could help with the character spacing.

Cats also seem somehow cuter with your olde English font. I'm enjoying playing it closer to it's ascii roots. I could tell horses, dogs and cats straight away. Though if you wanted to make them more pictographic yet abstract in the style of you dwarves, chairs, stairs etc. I reckon that could work also.

Anyway, I decided to have a break when summer came. This is my very quickly built ad-hoc fort so far.

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I'm looking forward to playing more and seeing how you choose to develop it further. Great work.

[monkeyfritz]

Well the spacing I can partially fix, because the text was designed to be center of it's glass tile, there is a lot of excess spacing that doesn't need to be there. Manuscript is just a straight copy at the moment, so I can get that cleaned up better.

The rest of those issues, I think, is just because it's a square tileset. I might try out a non-square version of Manuscript. Actual fonts aren't square outside of DF tilesets because of spacing, and DF's menus are made with non square ascii in mind.

I'll see what I can do with the next version.

[Meph]

I'm sure you are aware, but TWBT can help with that. Use the 32x32 for the game and a ... 12x24 or so for the text. That's how several tilesets save some space.

[Pvt. Pirate]

I'm sure you are aware, but TWBT can help with that. Use the 32x32 for the game and a ... 12x24 or so for the text. That's how several tilesets save some space.

yes, i do so. i use mephs for the game and 800x600curse for the font.

[monkeyfritz]

1.1 Changelog:
 

•    Increased the contrast on lower case characters, so creatures are a bit easier to see.
•    Slightly adjusted military dwarf contrast
•    Manuscript is now non-square (the square versions are still included)
•    Clean text version added for non-twbt users.

[Kraiger]

EDIT: Figured it out, I did not rename the colors_stanedglass file.

I can't seem to get it to work. I am running DFhack, and have changed the lines where I need to, but the games loads to a blank screen. I have pasted in the copy of the init file. The manuscript (science) is being used for the first to lines and is located in the art folder with the other. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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WARNING: Do NOT copy over the init.txt from an earlier version of DF.
Always read the file carefully, including the comments.

In general, you can copy savegames and tilesets from older DF
versions, but you should not copy anything else.  You should not, under any
circumstances, unpack a new DF on top of an older one.
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Change this to turn sound off.

[SOUND:NO]

The sound volume runs from 0 (off) to 255 (full).  You can set the volume from the ESC options menu as well.

[VOLUME:255]

Change this to skip the wonderful intro movies.

[INTRO:NO]

This lets you set the starting windowed/fullscreen setting.  Can be YES, NO or PROMPT.

[WINDOWED:YES]

This is the size and font for windowed mode.  Changing to the 800x600 font might make you happier.
If set below 256x256 it specifies the grid size instead, with a minimum of 80x25.

[WINDOWEDX:80]
[WINDOWEDY:25]
[FONT:Manuscript_32x32.png]

You may disable window resizing if you wish.
[RESIZABLE:YES]

Full screen info.  The 0s below mean that the game will choose a resolution for you, but you can set it yourself as well.

[FULLSCREENX:0]
[FULLSCREENY:0]
[FULLFONT:Manuscript_32x32.png]

If this is set to NO, tiles will be stretched to fit the screen if there is a resolution mismatch.
If this is set to YES, the tiles will not be stretched, but rather the game view will be centralized, surrounded by black space.  Tiles that are too large will always be compressed rather than running off the screen.

[BLACK_SPACE:YES]

Graphics info, most of it as above.  Set GRAPHICS to YES to turn it all on.  This will use the "raw/graphics" folder for tile information.  Currently this is limited to whatever creature graphics you have downloaded.  The game comes with a few pictures to demonstrate.  As of April 2018, the Dwarf Fortress Wiki has custom tilesets available at http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tileset_repository and creature graphics at http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Graphics_set_repository.

[GRAPHICS:NO]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDX:0]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDY:0]
[GRAPHICS_FONT:StainedGlass_32x32.png]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENX:0]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENY:0]
[GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:StainedGlass_32x32.png]
[GRAPHICS_BLACK_SPACE:YES]

These settings can have a significant impact on frame rate, especially for people that have slow frame rates on the title screen.  Available modes are 2D, 2DSW, 2DASYNC, STANDARD, PARTIAL:<number>, ACCUM_BUFFER, FRAME_BUFFER and VBO. The number after PARTIAL refers to how many frames it will redo a printed tile before skipping it, so you might try increasing it a bit if you have flickering when PARTIAL is set.  Please note that any of these combinations might cause frame rates to drop significantly or cause unpleasant side effects like flickering.

By and large, 2D should be the most reliable, while STANDARD has a good combination of speed and reliability. However, all 2D modes are normally far slower than even STANDARD, which may be the slowest OpenGL mode.

On a multi-core machine none of this is very likely to matter; stick to 2D.

2DASYNC may be slightly more responsive than 2D on a multi-core machine, but this has recently become doubtful due to improvements to the other modes.

Linux/OS X users may also use PRINT_MODE:TEXT for primitive ncurses output.

[PRINT_MODE:2D]
Mode examples:
PRINT_MODE:2D
PRINT_MODE:TEXT
PRINT_MODE:FRAME_BUFFER
PRINT_MODE:PARTIAL:0
[SINGLE_BUFFER:NO]

Switches truetype on whenever the vertical tile size is this many pixels or larger.  You may also use YES/NO to force it on/off.  Turning it off may provide a minor speed boost (using font small enough that it doesn't activate won't).

[TRUETYPE:24]

Change this to YES to keep the DF window on top of your other windows.

[TOPMOST:NO]

Change this to YES if you want to see an FPS counter at the top left.

[FPS:YES]

Use this to set the maximum frame rate during play.  The movies are always capped at 100.  A frame in this case is not graphical but related to the movement speed of a creature.  A healthy, unencumbered dwarven peasant takes one step every 10 frames.

You may set FPS_CAP to 0 to make it uncapped.

[FPS_CAP:1000]

Use this to set the maximum graphical frame refresh rate during play.

[G_FPS_CAP:100]

On cards that support the OpenGL ARB_sync extension, turning this on can improve framerates in GPU overload conditions. It defaults to NO, as many cards that claim to support this will crash if asked to do so.

[ARB_SYNC:NO]

This sets the applications vertical synchronization behavior.  Changing this to YES can impact your FPS if your G_FPS is high. ARB_SYNC is a better option, if your system supports it.

[VSYNC:NO]

Change this to NEAREST if you want the texture values to use the nearest pixel without averaging.
Change this to LINEAR if you want the texture values to be averaged over the adjacent pixels.

[TEXTURE_PARAM:LINEAR]

Change this to make the dwarfort.exe process have a different priority.  From highest to lowest, the options are REALTIME, HIGH, ABOVE_NORMAL, NORMAL, BELOW_NORMAL and IDLE.

[PRIORITY:NORMAL]

Use this to set how fast the game zooms.  The default corresponds to
increasing grid size by 10 units each time you zoom.

[ZOOM_SPEED:10]

Change this to NO if you don't want to have the mouse involved at all.

[MOUSE:YES]

Change this to YES if you'd like to use a BMP for the mouse cursor.  The image currently lags when the game is lagging however.

[MOUSE_PICTURE:NO]

This controls the number of milliseconds that must pass before a held key sends an initial repeat press to the game.  You might need to adjust this.

[KEY_HOLD_MS:250]

This controls the number of milliseconds that must pass before a held key sends a repeat press to the game after the repeat process has begun.

[KEY_REPEAT_MS:150]

If you set KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_LIMIT above one, then after KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_START repetitions the repetition delay will smoothly decrease until repetition is this number of times faster than at the start.

[KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_LIMIT:8]
[KEY_REPEAT_ACCEL_START:10]

This controls the number of milliseconds between macro instructions.

[MACRO_MS:15]

This controls the number of milliseconds that must pass before input works again after the view recenters on an event in dwarf mode.

[RECENTER_INTERFACE_SHUTDOWN_MS:0]

Change this to NO if you want to leave save uncompressed (you might want to do this if you are experience save corruption).

[COMPRESSED_SAVES:YES]

[Llamageddon]

Thanks for the update for the font monkey. It is looking a lot more pleasant to read and the right menu in the main view now takes up a lot less space.

The font looks so good but I must admit it is a bit cryptic at times. Takes a bit of concentration to read compared to more mundane fonts. Won't stop me using it though as it is part of the whole theme/atmoshere for me. It might be a bit of a hastle whilst you are still tweaking other elements of the tileset but I wonder if there is any middle ground between the 'hardcore' manuscript font and the conventional but mundane, typical fonts. I'm not sure if it is really possible without loosing a lot of what makes the font so interesting.

Certainly don't change it for any objects/creatures you are planning on representing just using letters, they are really great, especially as it is not so important that you are using literal a 'c' for a cat as much as it is that you are using a conceptual 'c' for a cat.

This is completely unrelated but when I was checking out the new font I discovered my dwarf  likes 'wagon' wood particularly. Imagine if he made a mandate with it. 

@Kraiger, only thing I can think of off the top of my head is, are you using TWB plugin for DFhack? I am not sure but I don't think the manuscript font will work properly without it. Even so, loading to a blank screen sounds wrong. Do you know if it is not displaying or actually frozen? Could be a problem with DFhack initialising if it is the latter.

You could always try the vanilla font that monkeyfritz included in the 1.1 update, that should work with or without TWBT.

If you are using TWBT then I notice you still have [PRINT_MODE:2D] try [PRINT_MODE:TWBT] also I notice you have [GRAPHICS:NO] I am not certain about that one, as this is a tileset rather than a graphics pack but I have mine set to YES and it seems to be working.

[Kraiger]

Hello @Llamageddon

I figured it out, I did not rename the colors_stanedglass file to colors.txt. Thanks!

[Garfink]

Do the gem floors and carpets have a effect on room quality?  If so how much compared to the other room improvements?  (For me your tileset have replaced my long loved spacefox tileset (the first set I learnt how to play DF on, watching Dastactic's videos.)

[monkeyfritz]

Do the gem floors and carpets have a effect on room quality?  If so how much compared to the other room improvements?  (For me your tileset have replaced my long loved spacefox tileset (the first set I learnt how to play DF on, watching Dastactic's videos.)

Glad you like it.

I'm not actually sure about that one myself. If you mean in my screens, any gems on the floor are just lazy dwarfs (or lack of stockpiles). I do use them as walls, but mostly because I don't want to redesign my rooms after they have been mined.

[monkeyfritz]

I've done some twbt transparency tests, and I'm not really sure about it. While it makes a few details better, like cats, dogs, and dwarfs standing out a bit better on average, it kinda loses the glass effect. In most cases, the effect just disappears. It still looks okay, and doesn't exactly clash with the rest of the tiles, but it feels like a pretty weighty style loss.

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It's kinda there on unsmoothed stone or outdoor tiles, and looks decent with livestock running around. But I'm not sure it's really much of an improvement over them having their own background. Especially compared to the loss indoors.

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You really see the loss with stockpiles, it doesn't even look like the glass anymore, and any dwarves or creatures just get lost in the mess.

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I also did a mockup of some creature graphics (Borrowing Meph's domesticated animals) to try out a simple style idea, they at least worked well with transparency.

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Idk if I like that style or not, I have another in mind that I'm not even sure I can pull off. If it even works, I'll do some comparisons before moving forward with creature graphics.