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verdigriss

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removing bird leather
« on: March 23, 2012, 11:14:53 am »
Guys,
   Does anyone know a way to take bird leather out of the game?  I'm tired of seeing chicken leather goods.  You can buy ostrich leather but AFAICT that's it.  I see that the new birds lack anything like BUTCHERING_YIELDS, but I've seen a [REMOVE_LEATHER] tag around.  How does that work, or if it doesn't, do I have to delete skin from the birds, and if I do that, will there be any repercussions?  Thanks for any help.
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Re: removing bird leather
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2012, 12:21:16 pm »
There's a couple of mods that do this, one is Masterwork, another is Fortress Defense. There's also a utitlity that changes the raws to do this http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=5190 can be used on mods as well.
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verdigriss

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Re: removing bird leather
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2012, 01:30:56 pm »
Looking at the code to see how it works, that last utilty is... awesome  :o  ...awesomely complex.
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Re: removing bird leather
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2012, 02:21:24 pm »
Quote from: verdigriss on March 23, 2012, 01:30:56 pm
Looking at the code to see how it works, that last utilty is... awesome  :o  ...awesomely complex.

It's also out of date, and probably won't work with the current version.

To remove the existence of leather from a creature, you start by adding the line [REMOVE_MATERIAL:LEATHER] after the [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:<whatever>_MATERIALS] line in the creature raw.  That will cause the creature to not have a leather material defined.  This will result in an undefined material being created if the creature is butchered and its skin tanned.  To fix that you also need to mod in a new material template.  Call it [MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:NOLEATHER_SKIN_TEMPLATE], and make it identical to [MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SKIN_TEMPLATE] but missing the [MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:TAN_MAT:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:LEATHER] line.  You then add to your creature the lines [REMOVE_MATERIAL:SKIN] and [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SKIN:NOLEATHER_SKIN_TEMPLATE].  That should do it.
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Re: removing bird leather
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2012, 02:26:22 pm »
Awesome, thanks.
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