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quinnr

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Language Prefs
« on: November 08, 2009, 03:28:55 am »

How would I go about making my dwarfs name things more often from a certain sphere? I would find it greatly amusing if my artifacts came out as 'agak' (look it up), all the time.
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Re: Language Prefs
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2009, 12:23:46 pm »

I'm not too certain, but I think whatever dictates that entity's spheres in the raws controls how they name things.  If not... well, then I doubt it can be controlled at all.
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Re: Language Prefs
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2009, 02:01:26 pm »

Ayup, there's a handful of tags in the entity file that determine what spheres dwarves are most likely to draw names from, and what spheres dwarves generally won't draw names from.

The default:

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The [SELECT_SYMBOL:REMAINING:xxxx] tags are what they use for general stuff, like names and stuff.

Note that language spheres are different from standard spheres; there's a list of them here, and you can see exactly what each language sphere consists of in the language_SYM.txt raw file.
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