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Byakugan01

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Re: Wow. Just wow.
« Reply #15 on: June 07, 2009, 07:46:47 am »

My game went from somewhere around 20-30 FPS max WHEN STARTING A FORT in 40d10 to 100FPS in 40d11. That's quite a difference. By far though, the biggest load seems to be pathing.
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« Reply #16 on: June 13, 2009, 12:57:25 am »

But I don't know whether we could make one, or real-3D one, for that matter, w/o the game source code.

I think Toady has some reservations on people making their own front-ends and what not. I'm just happy we have a graphically accelerated version, now. The difference is extremely dramatic for me.
I'm...pretty sure there are already some 3d df frontends that're done codewise and just need filling in of graphics.
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« Reply #17 on: July 09, 2009, 04:06:08 am »

This game had potential a lot more then some people are making it sound.

However you know how people complain that Dwarf Fortress is unplayable and Toady should focus on the playable aspects of the game instead of long term goals?

Well this game was that x100, it was entirely future based (the 3d likely aggrivated problems).

Though there is a lot more to this story but I cannot remember the full explanation.
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« Reply #18 on: July 15, 2009, 04:56:46 am »

But I don't know whether we could make one, or real-3D one, for that matter, w/o the game source code.

I think Toady has some reservations on people making their own front-ends and what not. I'm just happy we have a graphically accelerated version, now. The difference is extremely dramatic for me.
I'm...pretty sure there are already some 3d df frontends that're done codewise and just need filling in of graphics.
Uuh... Like. Lifevis?
That's just a hack, IIRC.

This game had potential a lot more then some people are making it sound.

However you know how people complain that Dwarf Fortress is unplayable and Toady should focus on the playable aspects of the game instead of long term goals?

Well this game was that x100, it was entirely future based (the 3d likely aggrivated problems).

Though there is a lot more to this story but I cannot remember the full explanation.
Yeah, it is :D
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Re: Wow. Just wow.
« Reply #19 on: July 11, 2010, 03:03:50 pm »

I wound't like to see DF with 3d graphics, not only it woudn't look as good as ASCII (in my opinion) but it'd also slow down the development of other stuff. I do look forward to isometric graphics or something similar, but no 3d graphics for me.

Got to leave something for the mind :P
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« Reply #20 on: July 25, 2010, 02:53:45 am »

Eventually the code just got so cluttered and unreadable Toady just couldn't add any more to this.

I'm so glad he learned from his (only) mistake with DF.
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« Reply #21 on: July 27, 2010, 01:45:00 pm »

Topic necro = bad :(

Aside from that, I don't think DF would be possible in 3D. Some people are struggling as it is trying to get forts with enough FPS to be playable, and adding 3D into the mix would just kill what little FPS they have.
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« Reply #22 on: July 27, 2010, 01:58:51 pm »

As if the game actually puts any real pressure on your GPU right now. The code for 3D is all already there.
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« Reply #23 on: July 27, 2010, 08:21:32 pm »

Topic necro = bad :(

Is it?

Here, of all places, bumping an old topic has no effect, as long as it is an isolated incident(in my opinion only. Posting everywhere would probably simply be classified as spam...), simply because nobody else is discussing anything, and it is rare to see more than two topics with activity in one day.
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« Reply #24 on: July 29, 2010, 09:43:12 pm »

it's impossible to post anything in this subforum without dabbling in the dark arts of thread necromancy
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« Reply #25 on: July 30, 2010, 12:25:10 pm »

Topic necro = bad :(

Aside from that, I don't think DF would be possible in 3D. Some people are struggling as it is trying to get forts with enough FPS to be playable, and adding 3D into the mix would just kill what little FPS they have.

Necro my ass. First page = fair game, even here.
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