Stonesense v3: Third Party Isometric Visualiser for Dwarf Fortress

Stonesense version 4 is out! get it now:
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=43260.0

UI in Dwarf Fortress too clunky for you? Download Dwarf Therapist for GUI in dwarf professions!
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=39229.0

Don't like ASCII characters? Get Mike Mayday's graphics set!
http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/~mayday/upload/DFG21.zip

Need help learning to play?
video tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/user/captnduck
wiki: http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Main_Page

Watch isometric Dwarf Fortress in 'real time' (see INIT settings to create autoupdate: delay in milliseconds) and as I get incredibly distracted when everyone starts dying and fail English at 2 in the morning.

Stonesense is a Third Party Isometric Visualiser for Dwarf Fortress. This is the first video of it, the version I am showcasing is alpha version 3. It is open source now!
http://code.google.com/p/stonesense/

Cliffnotes: Programmed by Jonask84 and Solifuge, Contributers Peterix, Mithaldu, no doubt others I'm missing, feel free to correct me.
Sprites by multiple contributors.
Some creatures do not have dedicated sprites yet, which are the purple "?" on the screen.
Items are not in Stonesense yet, built constructions are displayed however.
(On Halltraded- 101 dwarves) With FRAPs, and stonesense, my FPS in DF drops to about 45. Without FRAPs and with stonesense on, it's about 100 FPS. Without stonesense on, I recieve 130+ variable FPS
This is on an intel i7 920 overclocked to 4.0 ghz, so regular users may have trouble with almost-real-time updating
Updating can be set to virtually real time in INIT and using numpad + -

The Fortress I am "having fun" in is Halltraded, downloaded off the Dwarf Fortress File Depot. You can read about Halltraded here:
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=22236.0

Thanks to Toady One for one of the best games ever.

You can help Dwarf Fortress develop!
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[KaelGotRice]

DF fluid pathing is particularly bad on your CPU - large amounts of moving water and magma can kill your FPS. Generally when people complain about unplayable FPS on the forums it's because they're draining an ocean or diverting a large river or other stuff. Embarking on a map with pools will save fps if you need it.

[wizofig]

I can't believe I just sat through 5 minutes of ummmmmms.. and 15 seconds of you talking to yourself.

Nice visuals though. Would have been nice if you could have actually talked about stonesense though. Oh well.

[KaelGotRice]

You could have read the notes and the cliffnotes on the side, as ummm... noted in the video ;3

[KaelGotRice]

Dohohoho rage much?

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[THESOLIDTIMOTEI]

Hey manlytears funny seeing you here, oh....I see... :C you dont like dorf fort.

[Lorbera]

Dem Dorfs man dem Dorfs

[MrDeemsMusic]

A Dwarf Fortress player with poor speaking skills! Shocking :P

[Dragoon0403]

What was the name of the succession fortress?

[topdod]

@KrimsinYT

Because swearing at people is mature right?

Having better graphics would get more people to play DF many already do me included but the default way is a huge turn off for people who've probably been playing games way longer than you have.

I want to play DF and have tried on several occasions but the way it looks gets to me and I have no idea wtf is what. The game seems kinda complected and better graphics would only help speed up the learning process.

[snypa514]

omg reaction

[jarblewarble]

@KrimsinYT Minecraft has better graphics, but its gameplay is less detailed. If Dwarf Fortress had graphics like Minecraft, that would make stuff easier for newbies.

[d4rkscourge]

@rovernic46 i did, but i still dont understand whats this about... lol go fuck your mom or something im not going anywhere...

[rovernic46]

@d4rkscourge How about reading the title? or maybe the description

seriously though go troll somewhere else because no one is stupid enough not to notice

[d4rkscourge]

what in the fuck´s name is this shit?!?! hahaha

[Wodey25]

@KaelGotRice Don't listen to that self-fellating monkey. This rules and you're a good narrator/guide.

[Polaf3456]

Shit doesnt work... Whenever I try to run it it says the side by side configuration is incorrect... and quite honestly I want to throw a baby in a boiling hot cauldron