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[Footkerchief]

2. It would be prettier because an entirely different PNG file is used for the 80x25 font, instead of an ugly automatic bitmap-rescale of the small font.

Baughn and some others were discussing TTF/SVG graphics earlier, which are a better solution for this problem than separate fonts.

3. It would automatically snap to 80x25 for worldgen and embark site selection, and then back to the user gridsize for all other scenes.

That's the part that isn't going to happen.  Toady isn't doing extraneous work on the menus as part of 40d## or the upcoming major release.  He also reads the Suggestions forum carefully, so you can be sure he'll see your idea and consider it.

[CobaltKobold]

Found an odd speed thing- looking at an (exposed) bottomless pit at surface causes framerate to go from about 180 (when looking elsewhere) to about 80, with no dwarfs doing anything.

Less of a hit but similarly if higher up. I'm thinking it might be how the "is-this-sky-tile" calculation is, but I dunno. (Nor do I know if it's in your branch.)

[thobal]

I dunno if anyone else has noticed this, but if I start fullscreen and then later hit F11, I get a D3D state where my whole screen is shredded in a similar fashion to the old XCom UFO output glitch. Oddly enough, if I go back to full screen and then hit F11 a third time to return to windowed mode, everything works properly and no screen glitch is apparent. In older versions of the d##, this didnt work, but now its does Everytime. Not really much of a bug(probably just my ancient integrated chipset), but I thought I get it on record.

[kurokikaze]

Whoa, SVG tiles would be simply awesome. I hope it will be implemented in some manner.

[kaypy]

Baughn and some others were discussing TTF/SVG graphics earlier, which are a better solution for this problem than separate fonts.

Separate fonts can have some advantages of its own: I would rather like to see a setup that swaps from graphic to pseudo-ascii as zooming out shrinks the tile size below a certain point.

[Warlord255]

Baughn and some others were discussing TTF/SVG graphics earlier, which are a better solution for this problem than separate fonts.

Separate fonts can have some advantages of its own: I would rather like to see a setup that swaps from graphic to pseudo-ascii as zooming out shrinks the tile size below a certain point.

Personally, I'd be fine with switching between two resolutions of the same tileset, or just between two tilesets with seperate resolutions; I have no use whatsoever for the scratchy mismatched resolutions inbetween.

[CobaltKobold]

Why not just have a "load" option that scans some directory for more interface files?

You could certainly download more from the wiki, but I'd like to make the game as self-contained as possible, and something as universally needed as a laptop interface.txt ought to be bundled with the game.

Say, now that you ha'e it set so you can multibind, why ot just change the interface init so it'll work with either by default?

Spoiler: "Secondary scroll's the only thing that's needed right?" (click to show/hide)

[BIND:SECONDSCROLL_UP]
[KEY:-]
[BIND:SECONDSCROLL_DOWN]
[KEY:+]
[KEY:=]
[BIND:SECONDSCROLL_PAGEUP]
[KEY:/]
[KEY:[]
[BIND:SECONDSCROLL_PAGEDOWN]
[KEY:*]
[KEY:RBracket]

Though I suppose the way hotkeys display, the user won't notice this way.

Spoiler: "LaptopOnly" (click to show/hide)

[BIND:SECONDSCROLL_UP]
[KEY:-]
[BIND:SECONDSCROLL_DOWN]
[KEY:=]
[BIND:SECONDSCROLL_PAGEUP]
[KEY:[]
[BIND:SECONDSCROLL_PAGEDOWN]
[KEY:RBracket]

[Bricks]

Second on the SVG support, saw the bumped post on the mods forum.  Any chance of this being implemented, Baughn?  I know you said you wanted a tile set to justify implementing it.  I probably couldn't produce anything unless large amounts of free time and talent fell on my head, but I am an Inkscape enthusiast, so I'd love to see the option.

[Argonnek]

I notice that my dwarves don't clean up muddy tiles. Has anyone else noticed this? Yes, my tiles are smoothed.

[WJLIII3]

Is there any way to disable the interface options and the resizable windows and zoom and all that? I prefer a fixed window.

[nonobots]

Hi everyone, just want to share this:

I am very pleased to report that this version (40d16) works surprisingly well on an old Mac G4. These days I'm stuck with an old computer at home: a 1.25GHz Mac Mini G4 with 512 MB RAM and just a handful of free gigs on the hard drive. I'm runnng Mac OS X 10.4.

I tried the 40d version and it ran but very very slowly. Took hours to get through the first seasons.

Just for the heck of it I tried the 40d16 - I was pretty sure it would simply not run but OMG! I get decent frame rates! Around 100 FPS with the first batch of 7 dwarves.  I tried with a small World (65x65) and a 4x4 map and I hope keeping the pop under 30 or 50ish will keep the game playable.

Zoom works, mouse works, windows resize works the dwarf are happy (for now) and running around pretty fast (toward their doom probably). I already dug out my first levels, started some industries and exploratory mining and eveything is very smooth.

Sorry if this has been already reported I haven't read all the thread.

[EDIT:BTW to get it to work on Mac OS X 10.4 I couldn't just double click on the df script like in 10.5, I had to "get info" on the df file to tell it to open it with Terminal.app]

[Michael]

3. It would automatically snap to 80x25 for worldgen and embark site selection, and then back to the user gridsize for all other scenes.

That's the part that isn't going to happen.  Toady isn't doing extraneous work on the menus as part of 40d## or the upcoming major release.  He also reads the Suggestions forum carefully, so you can be sure he'll see your idea and consider it.

Really? All that would be needed is for him to add one function call (which would be implemented on the 40d## team's end) on entering a locked-80x25 screen, and one on leaving it.  The fact that the game can cope with zoom changes at any moment indicates the really hard work at his end has already been done.

You might be trying to say that support for exceptional 80x25 screens is redundant with recoding those screens to flexibly use the entire grid -- which is something Toady might get to eventually but not now.  But the screens that most concern me -- worldgen and embark site selection, fit perfectly well in 80x25.  There's no other use for the extra screen real estate, so I'd prefer to consume it with a big font.

[CobaltKobold]

Embark selection with greater viewpanels would be soooo much nicer though.
Worldpainter and worldgen/legends views are about the only things that aren't actually menus atm.

Perhaps when Toady gets around to fixing the "no inter-region-tile forts" artifact.

[tmountain]

For some reason, the graphics are totally corrupted when I try this under Ubuntu Linux 9.04. I welcome suggestions.

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[Sizik]

For some reason, the graphics are totally corrupted when I try this under Ubuntu Linux 9.04. I welcome suggestions.

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All of the characters seem to have been changed to the one two tiles to the right. Check your tileset?