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[Guy]

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01/03/2008: Okay, I've sorted out the entity tags now, and I'm ready to get back to civilization placement and the new histories/wars. I won't be able to release tomorrow since civilizations aren't currently placed on the map, but I'll do my best to slip out some releases with a few bug fixes while I'm working on this stuff.

changed how neighboring entities are selected

updated how the invasion flags work together

added entity tag for skulking invasion types

added entity tag to control general grouping

added entity tag to control diplomacy type

added entity tags for season and progress contact conditions

added entity tags to control whether bodyguards are present

made bodyguard types depend on entity

added entity tags for diplomats/merchant nobility

added entity tags for biome support

added entity tags to control leader/lieutenant unit types

01/02/2008: The current entity tags were too general to start the history rewrite, so I've started a process of breaking them apart that will continue tomorrow. This will also allow modders to have quite a bit more control over civilization placement and properties. Tags like "MOUNTAIN_SETTLEMENTS" and "BABYSNATCHER" shouldn't have any hidden or wide-ranging implications when I'm done.

added entity tags for default site type and site preferences for migrants and hist figs

added entity tag to allow use in undead ruins

added entity tag for friendly color

added entity tag to order adventure mode char gen entity site listings

added entity tags for sphere alignments and art modifiers

added entity tags for forest-type trade rejections

added entity tag for body abuse

added entity tags for forest-type target behavior/equipment

added entity tags for nuisance-type skills/equipment

added entity tags to tease apart animal/plant use in place of forest/babysnatcher

 

[Armok]

Indeed, behavioral moding has virtually not been existent before this pont.
*hugs Toady*

[Alfador]

Also means my fox mod will be postponed since I have a vulpine civ as part of it.

On the plus side, this will give me more time to hammer out the language file, which is taking an awfully long time. How did Toady and Armok do their language files (Toady: the normal ones, Armok: hornets), make some syllables and shove it through a random pattern generator? Or do I just have insufficient self-control to work out a unique word for each translation in under a month? >_>

[MyBeardIsOnFire]

Alfador, there are lots of fantasy languages already created, why not base yours on one of them? If not that, then a random syllable generator works fine enough.

Also, sweet, more tags to fiddle with.

[Teldin]

In the Rome Fortress mod I made, I converted every word in the language file to latin.

By hand.

Let's just say that I never want to see another latin word again, ever.

[Impending Doom]

Et tu, Teldin?  

(Sorry, couldn't resist)

[Red Jackard]

Speaking of languages, why do some new words show up blank ingame even though they have been added to the files correctly?

[Armok]

It's not hard at all, i was actually to lazy to even check all the words, I happened to note that all the words was written lowercase and all the code uppercase, so I just opened one of the original files, elven for the hornets I think, in notepad and did some clever use of "replace all".  :p

Now get back on topic.

[Guy]

quote:Originally posted by Armok:
<STRONG>Now get back on topic.</STRONG>

I hope we'll be able to set what kind of settlements our custom civs make.  When I was working on my wizard mod I wanted to have them live in towers, but I didn't want them to be baby snatchers (well, I guess it depends on what kind of wizards we're talking about).