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[CyberUrist]

You know how dwarves will have things like "likes plump helmets for their roundness" and "has long hair and blue eyes"? How can you do that with something else?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

PREFSTRING

and then look at Dwarves

you will notice SET_BP or SET_TISSUE_LAYER_GROUP stuff. those are your tickets.

[CyberUrist]

What? Now, I fully understand [PREFSTRING], but I'm talking about how to make a creature actually mention that prefstring and have a description. Also, what do body tags have to do with it?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Then I don't fully understand your question

[PREFSTRING:roundness] makes a dwarf that like that plant/creature like it for it's roundness

Long hair and Blue eyes are this:

      [SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:HAIR]
         [TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:GRAY:1]
            [TLCM_NOUN:fur:SINGULAR]
         [TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:WHITE:1]
            [TLCM_NOUN:fur:SINGULAR]
            [TLCM_TIMING:ROOT:700:0:900:0]
         [TISSUE_LAYER_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:LENGTH:0:0:0:0:0:0:0]
            [APP_MOD_NOUN:fur:SINGULAR]
            [APP_MOD_RATE:1:DAILY:0:300:0:0:NO_END]
            [APP_MOD_DESC_RANGE:10:50:100:150:200:300]

this colors the hair and at the end determins growth and what it will say, after 201 days the creature will have exstreamly long hair

      [SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:EYE:EYE]
         [TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:BLACK:1]
            [TLCM_NOUN:eyes:PLURAL]

black eyes.

I had thought [SET_BP_GROUP] controlled hiar length because you can have a body part be long to "His fingers are long and hooked"

Did I answer your question? or do you just want to hardcode that into the [DESCRIPTION]?

[CyberUrist]

What I want to know is how to make a custom creature that I modded in, such as a slime, have a description, like this:
"A living blob of slime.

It's slime is red."
And in another, it's slime would be blue, or purple.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

[CASTE:RED_SLIME]
      [SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:SLIME] --- targets SLIME on all bodyparts
         [TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:RED:1]
            [TLCM_NOUN:slime:SINGULAR] --- "it's slime is red"
[CASTE:BLUE_SLIME]
      [SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:SLIME] --- targets SLIME on all bodyparts
         [TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:BLUE:1]
            [TLCM_NOUN:slime:SINGULAR] --- "it's slime is blue"

etc
etc
etc...

and if you don't have tissues and stuff defined before the castes you can use SELECT_CASTE

[CyberUrist]

So that's how you do colors? A caste with color modifiers? Then how do you make a custom sentient race have likes and dislikes (preferences and detests)?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

can't all likes and dislikes are picked at random for every creatures.
only way is to limit what creatures have a PREFSTRING and what vermin have VERIM_HATEABLE

[IT 000]

can't all likes and dislikes are picked at random for every creatures.
only way is to limit what creatures have a PREFSTRING and what vermin have VERIM_HATEABLE

Actually, creatures without a PREFSTRING will receive "he/she likes nonexistent creatures for their ." when a creature likes them*.

Also VERMIN_HATEABLE.

But yeah, every creature will randomly choose what they like/dislike out of all the creatures.

* This happened to me in 31.10, some things might have changed.

[Igfig]

You really don't need separate castes for each colour. The TL_COLOR_MODIFIER token can take as many arguments as you like.

For instance, this snippet would give you a creature with equal chances of having red, blue, or purple slime:

Code: [Select]

[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:SLIME]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:RED:1:BLUE:1:PURPLE:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:slime:SINGULAR]

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

true Igfig, but with what CU was saying it sounded like CU wanted the slimes as castes. and easiest way to make sure a caste is one color and one color only is to force it as such. But a generic slime just says "slime blob" then you have to 'v'iew it to see it's color. Of course there are too many ways to do things that anyway is right.

[CyberUrist]

This is all very nice to know, and thank you, but my question is:

If I have a sentient custom race, say, lizardmen, how do I give them personalities? How do I make them ABLE to like and dislike OTHER things?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

This is all very nice to know, and thank you, but my question is:

If I have a sentient custom race, say, lizardmen, how do I give them personalities?

[PERSONALITY:ATTRIBUTE:lowest:median:highest] Wiki the trait tokens

How do I make them ABLE to like and dislike OTHER things?

answered twice

can't all likes and dislikes are picked at random for every creatures.
-snip-

-snip-
But yeah, every creature will randomly choose what they like/dislike out of all the creatures.
-snip-

[CyberUrist]

This is all very nice to know, and thank you, but my question is:

If I have a sentient custom race, say, lizardmen, how do I give them personalities?

[PERSONALITY:ATTRIBUTE:lowest:median:highest] Wiki the trait tokens

How do I make them ABLE to like and dislike OTHER things?

answered twice

can't all likes and dislikes are picked at random for every creatures.
-snip-

-snip-
But yeah, every creature will randomly choose what they like/dislike out of all the creatures.
-snip-

I don't mean personality attributes, and I said what makes it possible for them to have prefs, not how to force certain prefs. I'm sort of a newb in both modding and playing, so this is the kind of result I want:

"*creature details*
*wounds*
He prefers to eat *food* when possible. He likes *material*. He likes *something* for their *whatever*. He absolutely detests *creature*. *Name* has been content recently. He has admired a fine *item* recently."
I want them to have happy/sad thoughts.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

The answers to Questions have been struck down!

Hugo gestures and mumbles some words under his breath

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Hmm... Seems they arn't being received too well. I suggest going to the wiki Dwarf Fortress Wiki
there is a little search box in the upper right
search these:
Personality traits
Creature Tokens (look for PREFSTRING, PERSONALITY)
Thoughts

It seems Me, IT000 can't explain the answers. Even when we said there is NO way of Forcing or Suggesting a creature to like a certain thing or hate a certain thing. as they are all Randomly choosen.

PERSONALITY if used right can make a creature get happy thoughts with *certain* things. But not all personality traits affect Happiness

really what I should just say is:

Nope Happy/sad thoughts are hardcoded
since you can't set what a creature *likes* means you can't make them get *happy* thoughts from a certain *Item/material/creature*