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Transparent (Glass) Floors
   
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Transparent (Glass) Floors

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Makes glass floors more transparent!

Had a thonk about graphics and the vanilla glass floors being slightly transparent and realized the game is fine with you using transparent png's on the sprites and tiles themselves.
So I figured, why not make the glass floors more like glass floors?

By default this will replace the vanilla glass floor tiles with one that's 50% more transparent, but I've also made a custom seamless borderless version of the three tiles as an alternative, as well as different levels of transparency to use if you think the default is too transparent/not transparent enough.

You can find instructions for that in the readme file, don't worry though, it's an easy change.
Steam ID for this mod is 2978122014, but it'll show up under Dwarf Fortress/data/installed_mods as transparent_floors (1) if you activate it once in the ingame mod menu during world gen.

The load order for this doesn't really matter as long as it's AFTER anything that changes the glass floors specifically.

Oh also, remember that the transparency of the glass floors isn't the only thing that affects the visibility through them.
You also have a "fog" when you look down into lower levels, and iirc that "fog" is also a transparent png, so if you still think glass floors look iffy you could try looking into adjusting the fog as well.
5 Comments
상자 18 Sep, 2024 @ 11:04pm 
Borderless version is truly attractive
Horse 15 Dec, 2023 @ 10:45pm 
Does this work for glass doors or just floors?
TOAST 4 Jul, 2023 @ 12:50pm 
Would it be fine if it's, like Minecraft, just a couple pixels of opacity otherwise full transparent? I#d also be fine if it's a non-seamless with just the outlines you can guess it's glass by the outline alone.
Jesus The Astronaut! 7 Jun, 2023 @ 9:10am 
Can't test this right away, but I love the idea, and based on the screenshots you implemented your idea well. Subd
Tekkud 25 May, 2023 @ 7:57am 
Been thinking about doing this myself, definitely something the new graphics needed. Nice work!