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I consider it an essential part of Dwaf Fortress, and can't play without it.

119 (18.4%)

I use it for pretty screenshots, but otherwise don't use it during play.

211 (32.7%)

I only try it occasionally.

174 (27%)

I have no idea why I'm even in this thread, I don't use it.

141 (21.9%)

Total Members Voted: 642

[Rose]

Since Jonask no longer has the time to maintain the thread, I have made a new one. The old thread can be found here

Stonesense is a third party visualizer that lets you view your Dwarf Fortress world in a classic isometric perspective.

This is the official thread for feedback, questions, requests or bug reports.


We are always looking for help on Stonesense, and we are in particular looking for isometric sprite artists.
So if you want to join us in creating the Official Stonesense tileset, let us know by posting in this thread!
Please note however, we must reserve the right to screen contributions.
We do this to preserve a consistent look for the official tileset, hope you understand:)

Latest Version
Stonesense is currently being maintained and distributed as a part of the DFHack package and is compatible with Dwarf Fortress version 0.34.11, for more info, see the DFHack thread.
The following links are provided for convenience, but may not be up to date. Please see the DFHack thread for updated versions if they don't work.
Windows
Linux

Spoiler: Legacy versions (click to show/hide)

Stonesense Slate 2.3:
This is the most recent stand-alone release. It is only compatible with Dwarf Fortress versions 0.31.0 to 0.31.21
For compatibility with the latest version of DF, see above.
Download Stonesense Slate
Other versions
If you want to use stonesense with a pre-0.31 version of DF, you need to pick one from here.

The Stonesense Content Repository
The Stonesense Content Repository is where you will find user made
extension packs to improve and customize your Stonesense installation.
And if you're a modder or artist, this is the place to show people your work!

If stuff's not working

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Stonesense gives an error saying that it can't load creatures/large_256/*.png: Your videocard cannot handle the high detail sprites used. either open creatures/init.txt and remove the line containing that folder, or use this fix: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=6096
If you are unable to connect to DF, Ensure that you are using a version compatible with your version of DF. For any recent version of the game, you must use the version of stonesense that comes with DFHack.

If the application fails to launch (version 2.1 only) ("The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002)"), you might be missing some runtimes. This should really only happen if Windows update hasn't run in ages or for any other reason is many years outdated. You can try downloading the Visual Studio runtimes from Microsoft:
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (2.6MB)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (2.6MB)
NB! Some people have noted that the second package works better from this source, put up by McBeer:
http://www.easy-share.com/1912193426/vcredist_x86.zip (unofficial, but seems to work for A LOT of problems)

Ubuntu 10.10 problems
In Ubuntu 10.10 ("Maverick Meerkat") by default disables the ability of one program to read the memory of another. This is will stop Stonesense and any other DF tool from working. Please see this thread for a suggested workaround. Thank you rmunn for bringing this to our attention.

changelog:

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For version 2.3
* DF31.21 compatible
* Support for multi-threaded rendering
* Support for different grass types
* More animals, chickens, rabbits etc

Known issues:

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* Full-map screenshot is currently broken
* Kidnapped children show up where they were snatched.
* Fullscreen mode shows some stability issues.

Screenshots:

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Videos:
Intro by KaelGotDwarves

Press:
PC Gamer UK
Destructoid
TIGSource
Game Set Watch

Project homepage:
https://github.com/peterix/stonesense (Current)
http://code.google.com/p/stonesense/ (legacy)

On DFWiki:
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Utility:Stonesense

Currently Stonesense is being developed by Japa, Caldfir, and Peterix.
Retired developers are Jonask, Solifuge and Kaypy.

[Rose]

reserved

[vorpal+5]

deleted, must read more carefully what you say, sorry.

[Rose]

Read the sentence right under the words latest version

[Jiri Petru]

Thanks for the new thread, this'll be handy.

Continuing from the old one: there is this problem when Stonesense crashes on load  because of dwarves_256.png (or whatnot). If I delete the line, it works, but it also (obviously) turns off the new dwarf graphics with clothes etc. Is there any way to make the new dwarves work? Or does it simply crash because my computer can't handle it?

In any case, keep up the good work and thanks.

[Rose]

The problem is that those clothed dwarves are ungodly huge, and are using up all your video memory.

The next version will have two different selections, but for now, you can manually scale it down.

in the large_256 directory, there are a bunch of pngs, and a bunch of xml files.

half the size of the pngs one or more times, and in the xml files, do a search/replace for zoom="3", and reduce the 3 by how ever many times you halved the images.

For example, if you half the images once, replace all of zoom="3" with zoom = "2". If you halve them twice, replace it with zoom="1"

You won't get the same amount of zoom, but you will still be able to see the different clothing on them.

[Andir]

I like new threads.  Much cleaner.

[Rushmik]

I am SO posting to follow.

[EmeraldWind]

You might want to make the info on the latest versions of Stonesense being in DF Hack a bit more noticeable in the OP, like increase size, bold it, and make it glow with Armok's fury. Right now, someone new skimming the post might miss that part.

Also you could probably add some more recent screenshots as well. I mean we need to share all of modern Stonesense's sexy new features.

[Kaos]

Stonesense Slate 2.3:
This is the most recent stand-alone release. It is only compatible with Dwarf Fortress versions 0.31.0 to 0.31.21

up to 31.21?? I remeber using the standalone with 31.25...

[Rose]

That was never acually an official release.

[Intrinsic]

PTW

[Siquo]

Woot woot. 

[Caldfir]

Hey, I whipped this up as a quick fix for people having issues loading the large sprites: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=6096

Let me know if that fixes things.  It just rescales all the sprites down to 64x64.  You lose some detail, bit it is still enough to see the clothing I hope. 

[Greiger]

Sad to see the old thread go, happy to see a new one though, might be easier to put common question answers in the op.

In short, I'm posting to watch the new thread.