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wall sprites are composed of 8 possible sprites total (2 horizontal, 2 vertical and 4 corners). Some notes about the sprites you can see below: So the display is rather symbolic in this regard. As long as everything is only slightly top-down, I'm satisfied - unfortunately you can put much more information in a side-view sprite, while the game itself is obviously viewed from above. Likewise, I'm not aiming for a very consistent view angle. The game will feature advanced tactical situations so it's important for the symbols to be readable. Due to the size constraint, I'm not concerned with scale very much, trying to make good use of the available space instead. Currently I'm trying to make one sprite for every function because there's a lot to cover, but variation is possible. The game uses 32x32 sprites for almost everything. I'm working on sprites for Dwarf Fortress and I'm interested in your critique. When rendering things like plants and buildings and objects, the game still uses the glyphs from it's character set, so typically, you would have both a graphics set and a character set, from the same third-party source, in use at the same time.I'm not sure what the etiquette is on cross posting between Pilejoint and Pixelation, but I remember getting valuable input in both places simultaneously, so I hope those of you who frequent both places don't mind. It's important to note that graphics sets can only replace the tokens used for creatures.
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For example, the popular Phoebus graphics set has a 12x21 table (not entirely full) just for humans:Īnd similarly dense tables for goblins and dwarfs, plus a few extra ones for other creatures/monsters/animals/etc. In this case, the creator of the graphics set provides one or more tables of graphics tiles, plus a set of index files that tells the game where to find a tile for any given "raw element". In this mode, the game no longer just picks one of 256 glyphs to display things with, but rather, uses a much broader set of tiles that reflect more of the characteristics of a given creature. (This is a problem with some character sets that replace lower-case letters with other things, making it sometimes hard to read the text.)Īlternatively, you can switch the game into graphics mode by telling it to use a graphics set, but only for creatures. In places where the game prints strings of text, those changes will show up. Note, in this image, some of the punctuation, plus the upper-case X, look different than you'd expect. They don't need to look like the CP437 glyphs, but the position in the table still corresponds to the ASCII value used by the game, meaning even the rendered text will change if you do this: However, you can replace these with your own character sets, by swapping out cells in the image table with your own. Rather, it's drawing glyphs from a "character set" file, in which the default glyphs exactly match the IBM CP 437 set:
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Technically, in its current form, it's not really an "ASCII" game - it's not printing text to the screen based on the system's code page.
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The original, default display mode for Dwarf Fortress is to emulate the look and feel of a traditional ASCII rogue-like, by using only the 128 standard characters from the ASCII character set plus 128 "extended" characters added by IBM to their Code, which most MS-DOS-based PCs used (and most English-Language Windows PC's still have as their "OEM code page"). The difference between the two is that they are used in two different "modes" of the game, with a graphics set having much finer-grained control over the visual display.
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