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[EmperorJon]

Is it possible to make custom ones? Or are we stuck with the ones given.

[IT 000]

Yes you can. It's around somewhere. First off, do you want a different bodytype, description, or physical modifier? Body types are stuff like Humanoid and Quadruped. Descriptions are the 'v' 'z' descs and the physical modifier is stuff like blonde hair and green eyes.

[EmperorJon]

I want to add actual physical descriptions like in VZ which aren't just the broadness, height, etc.

[3]

As recently mentioned in the Modders Workshop thread:

You can sort of fudge this with using colors. Take a look at descriptor_color_standard.txt . You could make a descriptor_color_custom.txt something like this:

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descriptor_color_custom

[OBJECT:DESCRIPTOR_COLOR]

[COLOR:WIGGLY]
  [NAME:wiggly]
  [RGB:255:255:255] Unknown if needed

[COLOR:BOUNCY]
  [NAME:bouncy]
  [RGB:255:255:255]

etc
Then in your creature:

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[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:SKIN] Have to select a tissue layer, can't select bodypart...
  [TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:WIGGLY:1:BOUNCY:1]
  [TLCM_NOUN:body:SINGLUAR] ...But you can call it whatever you want!
That should give you something like "Its body is wiggly." or "Its body is bouncy." in the description.

[EmperorJon]

I must admit, cheating and using colours is one thing I was going to try, but surely I'll have a problem if I want the body to be an actual colour too?

[3]

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[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:BODY_UPPER:CHITIN]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:SPIKED:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:chitin:SINGULAR]
[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:BODY_LOWER:CHITIN]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:GREEN:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:chitin:SINGULAR]
"Its chitin is spiked. Its chitin is green."

[EmperorJon]

That's good enough. Might not be spiked and green, but it'll do. To the raws!

[Knight Otu]

Of course the color workaround has the effect that these "descriptors" are used as colors. At the very least, they can turn up in dwarven likes (Urist likes the color wiggly). I'm not certain of it, but I'm pretty sure they can also turn up for random demons, titans, and forgotten beasts (dreadlocked devils - their smooth scales are dreadlocked), though I think night creatures are more limited in their color repertoire.

[Random_Physics_Nerd]

Code: [Select]

[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:BODY_UPPER:CHITIN]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:SPIKED:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:chitin:SINGULAR]
[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:BODY_LOWER:CHITIN]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:GREEN:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:chitin:SINGULAR]
"Its chitin is spiked. Its chitin is green."

Could you create a color called "green and spikey" to mash the two into the same sentence?

[Knight Otu]

Sure. It's just a string that you tell DF to treat as a color. But then you'd have to create a new color for each descriptor/color combination you want to show up this way.