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[Nolimit]

Is there any way in lua to get description name of a unit in adventure mode, e.g., 'recessed-chin', 'tall-ears' etc. I made a script that sort of simulates a custom dialogs between units. To get their professions and names I use dfhack.units.getProfessionName() and dfhack.units.getVisibleName(). And while getVisibleName takes into account impersonations, it doesn't take into account the fact that adventurer doesn't know npc's name yet.

And is there any flag that determines if name of a unit (histfig?) has been revealed. Also, how is appearance feature chosen to describe unit with a hidden name?

There is small problem with getProfessionName too - it returns profession with capitalized first letter, and normal dialogs use professions with only lowercase letters. But that's not such a big problem, if there is no simple solution to this, I'll just make decapitalizing function. The real question for me is how to return 'appearance' name of the unit.

[Atkana]

If the unit has a descriptor, it'll be stored as their adjective (unit.adjective). I can't help with the other things, though I am now intrigued about how the game stores known names...

[Nolimit]

Thanks a lot. I saw adjectives before, but for some reason totally forgot about them. With this I could check for adjective field, if it's empty - it will use real name and profession, if it has something - use adjective and profession. It would be good to know what flag reveals name, but because game clears adjective field as soon as name is revealed I could use it as some sort of a flag.