PorkyThePaladin
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So DF2014 is coming out soon, probably this or next week, with over two years of stuff in it. That is reason enough to be excited, but if you are not hardcore enough to play it in ASCII (like me), some excellent news on that front as well. First, there is a very beautiful (relatively) new tileset available called Obsidian, which for me, has replaced Phoebus as the best looking one so far:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=126934.0
And then, some of you might have seen the StoneSense utility for DF before. It used to be a graphic visualizer, which ran in a separate window and showed whatever was happening in DF in an isometric 2D perspective. Well, recently some guy developed a tool to hook the whole thing into the game itself, and they've come up with an overlay version of StoneSense now that actually serves as an isometric graphical interface to the game, that you can use to control everything as well, at least according to this article:
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/dwarf-fortress-3d/
The StoneSense thread on DF forums makes it seem like this thing is currently buggy as all hell, so it might require some time to really be functional, but holy shit, we could finally have a real graphical interface to DF if this works out, and the controls are bearable. I am excited!
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=126934.0
And then, some of you might have seen the StoneSense utility for DF before. It used to be a graphic visualizer, which ran in a separate window and showed whatever was happening in DF in an isometric 2D perspective. Well, recently some guy developed a tool to hook the whole thing into the game itself, and they've come up with an overlay version of StoneSense now that actually serves as an isometric graphical interface to the game, that you can use to control everything as well, at least according to this article:
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/dwarf-fortress-3d/
The StoneSense thread on DF forums makes it seem like this thing is currently buggy as all hell, so it might require some time to really be functional, but holy shit, we could finally have a real graphical interface to DF if this works out, and the controls are bearable. I am excited!