Animated Movement planned or possible to mod in later?

[Tocs13]

While really excited for the release, I was wondering whether it will be possible to somehow get smoother movement.
Currently, Sprites "teleport"from one Grid cell to another and I guess this comes naturally from the ASCII nature/origin of dwarf fortress. I find this a little irritating and desorienting at times, especially with multiple entities close to each other.
just a simple hopping instead of teleporting goes a long way for comfort and visibility in my opinion. Similar to movement in KeeperRL for example.
So my question is:
Is this planned as a (maybe) future thing or might it be possible, to mod this functionality in ourselfs?

[Maltavius]

The game is cellular, either the entity is in location X or it's in location X+-1.

Yeah it can be a bit hard to follow a dwarf when they run through the dining room full with other dwarves, but that's why you have Follow-mode.

[War-A-Tron]

Perhaps movement could be modded in based on time...... perhaps a mod workshop will be made available so users can do this.

[Just_a_Bob]

Originally posted by Maltavius:

The game is cellular, either the entity is in location X or it's in location X+-1.

Yeah it can be a bit hard to follow a dwarf when they run through the dining room full with other dwarves, but that's why you have Follow-mode.

Rimworld has the same cellular core, but has an animation for transitions between cells (although in fact the entities is in location X or in location X+/-1, with no intermediate values)

[Tronchi]

schrödinger's cat disapproves cells theory

[Cruxador]

Yeah, I also said as much early in the graphical version development. They didn't do it because it wouldn't accurately display what's going on and also because predicting where a dwarf is going for the animation to start is hard/expensive if they're in a fight and have to dodge, apparently. I think it would still be worth it to implement even if it was sometimes wrong or had teleports in cases like that, but of course I'm just a guy with an opinion.

[Koles]

Originally posted by Maltavius:

The game is cellular, either the entity is in location X or it's in location X+-1.

Yeah it can be a bit hard to follow a dwarf when they run through the dining room full with other dwarves, but that's why you have Follow-mode.

I think the question is if it can be faked. For example D2R runs old Diablo 2 underneath, but the overlay fakes high frame 3D animation, instead of sprite one original has.

[Ginebro]

I have to agree, there's little sense in replicating the already existing sprite injection, might as well go a step further, increase the price and add animations.