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I like ascii in this and roguelikes cause it forces you to use your imagination :>
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Dec 29, 2015 15:21
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I like ASCII because it never changes, if I start playing after a long break I don't want to have to guess what some 24x24 pixel scribble is supposed to signify Some tilesets do look way better than ASCII though
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Dec 29, 2015 18:52
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I always liked the ASCII so I never changed it.
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Dec 29, 2015 19:15
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Plus all the tilesets had like the fixedsys font but comic sansified a little bit so it was huge and looked stupid.
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Dec 29, 2015 19:15
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The fail font...
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Dec 29, 2015 19:24
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dwarf fortress uses a 3d accelerated surface to draw two-color tiles that look like ascii characters.
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Dec 29, 2015 19:28
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What's the dwarf fortress symbol for a toilet. I need it for a project.
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Dec 29, 2015 19:30
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all the tilesets look like rear end
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Dec 29, 2015 20:04
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Ralp posted:dwarf fortress uses a 3d accelerated surface to draw two-color tiles that look like ascii characters. its a powerful technique and a major upgrade over the old graphics
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Dec 29, 2015 21:23
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Is there an isometric graphics mode yet?
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I think so? There's a couple utilities that hook into the game and produce a graphical interface but I dunno how well they work. Was never interested in that kind of thing. ASCII is perfect if you can handle it. Get a nice crisp font like Bisasam's and a color scheme you like and the readability's gonna be a hundred times better than any graphic set. Personally I prefer 40d16 or so, right when they switched over to Ralp posted:dwarf fortress uses a 3d accelerated surface to draw two-color tiles that look like ascii characters. Before that the game was like a cottage in the woods. It's small and there's not a whole lot to it but it's cozy and everything works. Now it's more like a giant mansion that's only half done. You can tell it'll be sweet as hell some day but right now there's scaffolding everywhere and dust and the wiring's all hosed up and half the walls are just tarps. We're at that growing pains stage where the foundations for future cool poo poo are being laid but those foundations are ugly as hell and mostly don't work.
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Dec 30, 2015 11:14
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Dwarf Fort ASCII looks just insane because of the different symbols and colors for varieties of grass and weeds and poo poo. I played MUDs with ASCII graphics for years... DF is just very unfocused and ununiform. Imo. Good game otherwise though. Shame about to slow down and difficult to use mass management tools that you basically need after about two hours.
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Dec 30, 2015 12:26
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The ini file contains options to clean up clutter, including changing all floor tiles to periods. That one's pretty much a must I think. Hiding boulders also helps in your fort.
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Dec 30, 2015 12:31
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Larry Parrish posted:Dwarf Fort ASCII looks just insane because of the different symbols and colors for varieties of grass and weeds and poo poo. I played MUDs with ASCII graphics for years... DF is just very unfocused and ununiform. Imo. Good game otherwise though. Shame about to slow down and difficult to use mass management tools that you basically need after about two hours. You can turn off the random poo poo for grass and engravings which I have to do or I go insane. Agree about the rest Still it's one of those games that really has its moments
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Dec 30, 2015 13:01
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Yeah absolutely. Toady needs a guy to optimize his code real bad though.
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Dec 30, 2015 15:13
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Mister Bup posted:The ini file contains options to clean up clutter, including changing all floor tiles to periods. That one's pretty much a must I think. Hiding boulders also helps in your fort. Average Bear posted:Yeah absolutely. Toady needs a guy to optimize his code real bad though.
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frankenfreak posted:Does that help with having periods in five different shades of green representing the grass on the surface? yeah because there are only two shades of green in the default palette I started playing this again the other day even though I have a ton of new games to play through after the Christmas sales, this time I decided to just use dfhack to change anything that annoys me and it's pretty fun so far
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