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[dyze]

I'm guessing that LordNightmare's and Zarasutra's 4x6 character sets will rise in popularity soon.

was that irony? 
im on 1680 and i have to press my face to the screen to read those..

my guess is that it's larger than 16x16 tilesets that will rise in popularity.

[penguinofhonor]

I'm guessing that LordNightmare's and Zarasutra's 4x6 character sets will rise in popularity soon.

was that irony? 
im on 1680 and i have to press my face to the screen to read those..

my guess is that it's larger than 16x16 tilesets that will rise in popularity.

It all depends. Some people will want to use smaller tilesets so they can expand the view and fit a ton more on their screen.

Some people will want to use bigger tilesets once they can decrease the size of their screen, so they can have big tiles.

I say that both extremes will rise in popularity.

[Glaughdram]

The size of tile and graphic sets are not directly related to output display resolution; Dwarf Fortress already scales tiles to fit the display size it is directed to use. The TEXTURE_PARAM setting in the init dictates what kind of scaling to employ: LINEAR scales smoothly while NEAREST is comparably sharper.

I have long used my own 128x128 tileset (a 12MB 2048x2048 bmp), and with it I use a 16x16 graphics set. The game flawlessly scales both sets to the appropriate dimensions according to the output resolition in init.txt, and it displays perfectly at any resolution.

As well I get no penalty to performance, although some graphics hardware may incur a speed hit if it's not up to the task. Display fidelity will also vary among graphics hardware.

[Keldor]

Heh, I'll probably revert to using 16x16 - at my screen resolution of 2048x1536, that's a nice 128x96 tiles - and if I went any smaller, I'd need a microscope to play...  16x16 is already pretty small at 2048x1536!  After all, with 128x96 tiles, the vertical direction is already bigger than the old horizontal direction was!

[dyze]

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I have long used my own 128x128 tileset (a 12MB 2048x2048 bmp), and with it I use a 16x16 graphics set. The game flawlessly scales both sets to the appropriate dimensions according to the output resolition in init.txt, and it displays perfectly at any resolution.

128x128, damn. im interested in how well it scales, care to post a screen?
would be nice to see what your tileset looks like too.

[Mr.Person]

The size of tile and graphic sets are not directly related to output display resolution; Dwarf Fortress already scales tiles to fit the display size it is directed to use. The TEXTURE_PARAM setting in the init dictates what kind of scaling to employ: LINEAR scales smoothly while NEAREST is comparably sharper.

I have long used my own 128x128 tileset (a 12MB 2048x2048 bmp), and with it I use a 16x16 graphics set. The game flawlessly scales both sets to the appropriate dimensions according to the output resolition in init.txt, and it displays perfectly at any resolution.

As well I get no penalty to performance, although some graphics hardware may incur a speed hit if it's not up to the task. Display fidelity will also vary among graphics hardware.

You're the only person who I've seen explain that for me. Even the wiki didn't help. Thank you!

[Keldor]

Just a random thought - Poor Markavian will have to bump up his max filesize for movies on the map and movie archive by quite a bit, since no doubt everyone will be using at least 2-4x as many tiles per frame!

[kein]

Fantastic news, something to motiviate me to release my 12x12 and updated 8x12. Since I'm happy with those since this update is just about out I may give a 5x5 a shot since there doesnt seem to be one yet... and I like the number 5.

Praise the mighty Toady One

[Sean Mirrsen]

I'm thinking that another kind of tileset may surface - the "wider than high" variant, so that more tiles can be packed in the limited vertical resolution of the widescreen LCDs.

[Tahin]

Something tells me movies are going to be broken for a release or two, just because it will require some massive changes. I mean, how will it handle playing a movie that was recorded in a resolution bigger or smaller than the current resolution? I guess it could just shrink it, but that kind of goes against the whole ASCII thing.

And this is amazing. I am very happy... !!!

[Sean Mirrsen]

I think Toady said recording movies is broken for nonstandard res. If they do work right now, I'd expect them to only record the old 80x25 area of the screen - which is still nice, you can have full-size movies without the menu panel in the way.

[Glaughdram]

128sq. tileset, displayed at 1280 horiz.

Spoiler: title (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: gameplay (click to show/hide)

[dyze]

128sq. tileset, displayed at 1280 horiz.

Spoiler: title (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: gameplay (click to show/hide)

title screen looks real nice!
in the gameplay screen the tiles looks fairly ascii-like, is the font the reason you use such large size?

[Glaughdram]

Indeed, that is the reason. But I also prefer the ASCII look to a graphic representation. The tileset is unfinished, so all the characters other than alpha-numerical remain blocky.

[Hyndis]

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