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AdeleneDawner

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Body part colors
« on: March 25, 2011, 04:50:45 pm »
So I'm working on my first modded critter: A domesticated, vermin-catching lizard with a bit more of a dwarfy flavor than cats. I'm calling them frill lizards, and I'm trying to give them colorful frills on their heads. I have the body part made, and apparently attached correctly since it shows up on the critter's wound screen, but it doesn't show up in the description. What am I doing wrong?

Partial raw (several cosmetic castes left out for clarity):
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ETA: "Fin" does refer to the frill; I didn't see any standard body part that was quite right, so I copied the standard dorsal fin and changed where it attached and what it was called, but I left it as a fin-type body part because I wasn't sure if it was okay to change that.
« Last Edit: March 25, 2011, 04:54:15 pm by AdeleneDawner »
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Re: Body part colors
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2011, 05:18:14 pm »
Well off the bat the error log gives
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I'll look into fixing it.

Edit: including your head frill raws would be helpful to see if the problem is with how you defined that.
« Last Edit: March 25, 2011, 05:22:20 pm by arzzult »
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AdeleneDawner

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Re: Body part colors
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2011, 05:22:19 pm »
That's odd. I would have expected the body part to not show up at all if the game didn't recognize it.

Here's the head frill body part; I just added it to the end of my body_default file.
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[BODY:HEAD_FRILL]
[BP:HEAD_FRILL:frill:STP][CONTYPE:HEAD][CATEGORY:FIN]
[DEFAULT_RELSIZE:100]
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Re: Body part colors
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2011, 05:24:40 pm »
The color modifiers color Tissue Layers, not body parts, and there is no FIN tissue layer. It should work with changing
     [SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:FIN]
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     [SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:FIN:SCALE]
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Re: Body part colors
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2011, 05:27:18 pm »
Quote from: Knight Otu on March 25, 2011, 05:24:40 pm
The color modifiers color Tissue Layers, not body parts, and there is no FIN tissue layer. It should work with changing
     [SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:FIN]
to
     [SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:FIN:SCALE]

That did it, thanks!
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Re: Body part colors
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2011, 05:28:53 pm »
Yeah, what Knight Otu said. I usually do the semi-lazy thing and look to the error log to point out my mistakes instead proofreading it myself, so I might have been able to point that out sooner if I had actually read the raws...  :-\
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