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Froggie

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playing as other stuff?
« on: August 22, 2012, 02:59:38 pm »

While trying to figure out how to disable aquifers in the raws, i thought "while im here i may aswell do something possibly game breaking  :P" so i added the [CIV_CONTROLLABLE] tag to every race in the entity standard file in order to try and play as them... it did not go as planned.I would like to have a step by step (im pretty slow :-[) on:

1.how to completely get rid of aquifers from my game
2.how to make other races playable

Thanks  :D
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i2amroy

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Re: playing as other stuff?
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2012, 03:21:25 pm »

1) Go through stone_mineral, stone_layer, and stone_soil and remove all of the [AQUIFER] tokens. An easy way to do this is just a mass replace where you replace [AQUIFER] with nothing.

2)Adding the [CIV_CONTROLLABLE] to every race (except the animal men I believe, or they work but are rather buggy due to being [LAYER_LINKED]) should allow you to play as them (hit tab and you can choose your civilization before embark, this determines which race you play as). If you want to be able to survive it will take a fair amount more work to do as some of the races lack the ability to farm and most lack the ability to make picks, stopping them from digging.
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Froggie

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Re: playing as other stuff?
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2012, 03:24:46 pm »

thankyou. a simple and effective answer  :)
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