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[KoboldWarmonger]

I was tired of mucking about with winmerge every time a new version came out, and possibly undoing changes to the raws from patches, so I wrote a simple little tool in python to look for animal men in your raws and remove them. I call it.. CULLMENS.

GET IT HERE -> http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=6305

INSTRUCTIONS:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

IF YOU HAVE PYTHON:

-move cullmens.py into your raw/objects folder
-double-click it
-review and MOVE OR DELETE CULLINGLOG.txt (may cause hilarious duplicated raw errors if you don't!)
-you can throw away cullmens.py now if you want.
-enjoy!

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE PYTHON (AND I PRESUME YOU ARE ON WINDOWS):

-copy the CONTENTS of your raw/objects folder into the CULLMENS/WINDOWS folder.
-double-click cullmens.exe
-review and MOVE OR DELETE CULLINGLOG.txt (may cause hilarious duplicated raw errors if you don't!)
-move your raw files back into your raw/objects folder.
-enjoy!

COMPLETE PYTHON SOURCE FOR YOUR PERUSAL:

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import re
import os

creatureraw = re.compile(r"creature_.+\.txt", re.DOTALL)
mantag = re.compile(r"\[CREATURE:.+MAN\]\n", re.DOTALL)
indentedtag = re.compile(r"\t+\[.*\]\n")
newline = re.compile(r"\n")

visiblefiles = os.listdir(os.getcwd())

targetraws = []
logfile = open("CULLINGLOG.txt", "w")

for currentfile in visiblefiles:
    if (creatureraw.match(currentfile)):
        logfile.write("file " + currentfile + " <--CREATURE RAW FOUND\n")
        targetraws.append(currentfile)
    else:
        logfile.write("file " + currentfile + "\n")

logfile.write("\nBEGINNING CULL..\n")       


for currentrawname in targetraws:
    logfile.write("SEARCHING FILE: " + currentrawname + "\n")
    rawfile = open(currentrawname, "r")
    lines = rawfile.readlines()
    prunedlines = []
    culling = False
   
    for line in lines:
        if (not culling):
            if (mantag.match(line)):
                logfile.write("CULLING:\n")
                logfile.write(line)
                culling = True
            else:
                prunedlines.append(line)
        else:
            if (indentedtag.match(line)):
                logfile.write(line)
            elif (newline.match(line)):
                culling = False
   
    rawfile = open(currentrawname, "w")
   
    for line in prunedlines:
        rawfile.write(line)

It will record all the changes it makes in a file called CULLINGLOG.txt, which you should review after the tool runs, and probably delete or move it out of the folder, lest it create unintentional fun times.

It's really simple at this point, and it would be easy for me to program it to be interactive- (do you want to keep penguin men? swallow men? hippo men?), or just move all the animal men entries to their own raw file, or whatever, if there's interest. All feedback and suggestions are welcome!

Also, as someone who's never put code on the internet before, what should I put at the top of source files? I see people put big blocks of legit-looking copyright claim and stuff at the top of their files, but how does that work? Do I need to do anything special to claim copyright for source files? What should I put up there? Would the GPL be better?

THANKS.

[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

Nice.

I'M IN YOUR RAWS. CULLING YOUR MANS.

[aantn]

You don't need to put anything. But if you do add a license, you probably want a license that encourages participation rather than restricts it. I would recommend using the BSD license and adding a one-line reference at the top of the file.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

That cleans them out nice, You can also add DOES_NOT_EXSIST to their variation too, altho they still show up as undead

[Mrhappyface]

Oh. I just used a find and delete tool on my raws. I feel silly.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

I would have too if someone hadn't mentioned the C-VARIANT solution

[Blakmane]

you can also just add them all to a non-spawning entity... although you will still get animalman blood raining in evil biomes this way

[KoboldWarmonger]

Well, one person downloaded it. 

Are there other very common RAW modifications I could build in that you'd want? I think I'm going to write an interactive tool to look for creatures without the tags necessary for reproduction, and put them in after prompting the user for the desired values there. (clutch size, things like that)

Setting elves and dwarves to build human settlements? I'm trying to think of the things people do immediately after a new release or on a fresh install. What do you do, or what do you want to do that would be too much of a pain in the butt to do by hand? I WANT TO DO WORK FOR YOU PYTHON IS FUN.

[Captain Crazy]

If you made a program to add babies to usually non-baby-having things, that'd be wondrous. A hearty jug of sunshine for you and your efforts!

[Jake]

How about making the different kinds of animal-men into separate castes of one of more over-arching creature entries? Separated by biome, perhaps, so that those inclined to do so can create some proper animal-man civilisations.

[bluefox]

Just wanted to reply and say that I think this little script is awesome.

Every time a release comes out, I'm a little annoyed at the animal men for taking up space in my world. I want meat I can butcher, and don't want to have to mark all sentients as fair game (one less thing in common with the elves).

If we can't influence the animal men rarity, then at least we can wipe them out entirely. Thank you for providing a quick and easy way to commit total genocide against multiple species.

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[caddybear]

Animal men are annoying, smelly and dirty. I approve this effort to automagically get rid of the primitive bastards.