I got a human diplomat visiting the fort. For some reasons, it uses the default or standard human zombie tile I defined. I've looked at the creature details and it only says that it is "human"
I've double checked my custom gfx tile stuff and found only 2 reference to that particular tile:
[DEFAULT:HUMANS:0:19:AS_IS:ZOMBIE]
[STANDARD:HUMANS:0:19:AS_IS:ZOMBIE]I DO have the tile for human diplomat declared somewhere
[DIPLOMAT:HUMANS:8:3:AS_IS:DEFAULT]I figured that either DEFAULT ignores modifier tags or there's something in the tile resolution that is either misunderstood by me or bugged?
What I did was I removed the line for [DEFAULT:HUMANS:0:19:AS_IS:ZOMBIE] and reloaded the game.
Now I see the diplomat as .... a Skeleton.
After fiddling and reloading the game many times, I realised that DEFAULT/STANDARD has special processing rules that I am not sure I understand. So next I do, I removed all other DEFAULT/STANDARD tiles specifications for ZOMBIE and SKELETON. Now, the DEFAULT:HUMANS tile is shown instead. Still not the DIPLOMAT tile...
Anyways, the main question is : despite all the mess up with DEFAULT/STANDARD tile with subtype specified, why is DF not using the DIPLOMAT tile I defined? could there be a possible spelling error (I rem copying the tag from the graphics_example.txt in the raw). There are no reports in error log of an unrecognized tile token, so I guess DIPLOMAT is recognized.
In addition to the possible bug, will appreciate if anybody can clarify on the tile selection resolution scheme (based on Race,SkillType,SpecialAppointment,Subtype[guards, royal guards, zombie, skeleton) ? (well, best will be if Toady One has some free time to clarify). this should be a nice addition to the wiki.
Links:
image on map archive :
http://mkv25.net/dfma/poi-6585human tilepage and tile text data I'm using :
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Image:Sphr_humans.png
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Topic: [39e] DIPLOMAT gfx tile problem (Read 446 times)