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[Mike Mayday]

Wow, different projections are still supported? You're a pretty okay dude, Japa.
I think I might get back to toying with Stonesense...

[Rose]

I've toyed multiple times with trimetric projections, but they never got anywhere because of lack of art assets.

anything other than iso still requires some work, and would partially break some things like occlusion culling.

Right now, I got this.

Spoiler: Sir, We got some satellite footage of the area. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Blow it up. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Zoom and enhance. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Got him. (click to show/hide)

[Dub]

X-COM? 

[Rose]

Spoiler: Sir, there's something up with these elephants, and it's not the handstands! (click to show/hide)

[Andir]

Spoiler: Sir, there's something up with these elephants, and it's not the handstands! (click to show/hide)

It's not covered in dirt like every elephant I've ever seen... therefore, I call it a Photoshop!

[Intrinsic]

Awesome looking updates Japa!

[Maklak]

Trimetric looks great, because it is aligned with DF tiles. Isometric is OK. Trimetric is desirable, but would require changing a lot of sprites.

That zoom, does it have 'fog of war'? There is a light circle around that Dwarf, and everything else is shaded.
z3 or maybe z5 is close enough. z20 has so much interpolation, that it is a blur.

[Rose]

I've actually re-done the zoom steps, and while there's still no limit, what was 20 is now something between 4 and 5. If somebody wants to draw a dwarf that's 1024px across, (current zoom 5, was zoom 32) I won't stop them.

The fog of war has been there a while in adventure mode. It's just the same stuff you see in DF.

[Weaselcake]

Any word of whether this works with the new DF update?

[Caldfir]

Stonesense will probably be up and running again whenever DFHack gets updated.  From what I understand, this process is going to be rather involved, what with all the changes to the game and how DFHack is structured. 

So yeah, it isn't working yet, but look out for updates to DFHack.

In other news, I've been scribbling dwarves in the back of class all week.  Here are the current top contenders:

The challenge is in making something that looks decent at a variety of scales, but I think they are coming alomg nicely.  Once the primary line-art is done, filling it in should be a snap, and I have things well-structured for subsprite layering. 

[Rose]

Once you start the actual sprites, keep in mind that only powers of 2 scales are available. things like 1/4x, 1/2x, 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, etc.

otherwise looks good so far.

[Crossroads Inc.]

As someone who has not kept up with the Thread recently I need to ask...

Is it possible again to take "Panaromic" shots of embarks?
As in, Zoom out to take a picture of an embark all in one shot without bits graying out?

I have a few MASSIVE forts I would love to see, but can't use Stonesense, I have some friends that do use it, but don't want to send them the files untill I know it will work.

[Rose]

the greyed out bits are only in adventure mode. they show what you can't actually see.

otherwise CTRL+F5 takes your entire fortress, not zoomed.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Danka, just need to send the files to my friends
Unless Stonesense is for Mac now ;P

[Aeon Blue]

In other news, I've been scribbling dwarves in the back of class all week.  Here are the current top contenders:

I like this very much.