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Extract even MORE data - I want to customize what I get.

50 (24.3%)

Megabeasts and semimegabeasts need more work.

15 (7.3%)

Why no vermin? I want to annoy the heck out of myself.

10 (4.9%)

Nothing swims underwater?! How could you? I want aquatic life.

60 (29.1%)

Let's have (rare) random creatures that breathe fire and/or poison you to death.

34 (16.5%)

Forget RandCreatures; work on LangCreate.

17 (8.3%)

Zombie's Toothbrush.

6 (2.9%)

Make birds more birdlike.

12 (5.8%)

I want something else, but I'll suggest it in-thread.

2 (1%)

Total Members Voted: 205

[MasterMorality]

Anyone got any recent version raws with Civs?
I've been playing around with the old files uploaded by Reudh back in February, and it's awesome. 
Unable to actually do it myself, unfortunately.

[Snow Gibbon]

Posting to follow. Great stuff!

[Meph]

Nice to see that you are still working on this, even if you have little free time.

I did find these in an errorlog a while back:

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*** Error(s) found in the file "data/save/crash v3g/raw/objects/creature_random_rc.txt"
CREATURE_1UIHEAXII_RC:Body Token Recognized But Could Not Connect: 3TOES_FQ_REG
CREATURE_1OUGEUAAM_RC:Attack SCRATCH seems to have correct format but could not find proper BPs in any caste, so not added
CREATURE_1VXHUFWOM_RC:Attack BITE seems to have correct format but could not find proper BPs in any caste, so not added
CREATURE_1FZQUUEJA_RC Color Mod Ending With (BLACK,1) Was Not Used
CREATURE_1LBXMNTFA_RC:Attack CLAW seems to have correct format but could not find proper BPs in any caste, so not added
Maybe it helps to narrow down on remaining bugs.

[Talvieno]

I lost access to the forums for a while, but I'm back now.

I actually had that problem myself, the reason why it crashed for me was because I thought the Race generator was a stand alone deal, and not requiring the language generator.


Also, where do you want those raws, Talvieno? Just genned up 1000 race entities, and got a few for you to look at?

It doesn't require the language generator - it just requires you extract the files in the correct place, really. Here's an explanation pic:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

If you put the files in the raws like that, it'll work - provided you aren't using Wine, unfortunately. :\
As to the raws - just stick them in a spoiler here. That's what the thread is for, more or less - questions, comments, suggestions, and bugfixing. And requests on occasion.

I want to try this, but my antivirus insists there's a trojan in it. 
I'd assume a false-positive but it's still a deterrent.

I guarantee no trojans. If you're running it with Meph's Masterwork mod (great stuff, by the way), then I can explain it: Masterwork opens the RandCreatures *.exe by itself, and some antiviruses look at that and go, "TROJAN!!!" - programs don't usually start up on their own, right? Some antiviruses catch that. Others look farther and see that you pushed a button that made it open. And still others don't notice it at all. But there are no trojans here.

@ Meph: Yeah, the FQ_REG and RQ_REG bodyparts have given me a lot of trouble. I was trying to include all the bodyparts to allow for maximum randomization, without inserting any of my own, so it could work with whatever mods a person had installed - maximum compatibility. Unfortunately, FQ_REG and RQ_REG tend to screw things up, as they're toes (or fingers) that are labeled as fingers (or toes), respectively. As my program operates by reading strings, it tends to really, really screw it up. I can work around it, but it'll require hardcoding exceptions, which I didn't really want to do.

@ MasterMorality: Here you go! Eleven randomly-generated civs.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Civilizations (11): Orerre, Meastre, Shesagras, Dronk, Wrolosse, Ettup, Rivounga, Aale, Pletabay, Witargot, Kuissey
Megabeasts (11): onigrosh, ametea, betea, rastram, ovamen, gilve, errabbe, pistrea, crirch, opachakoaw, ottle
Semimegabeasts (5): huvonge, ponene, tarne, leckteea, choal

And thanks for the compliments, guys! Always nice to know it's appreciated, and helps spur me onwards some.

[howitended]

I figured my AV saw that it was capable of making a new file with things it pulled from another file (none of which are signed by a trusted company) and panicked.

I gave it a shot and I really like it, some of the custom races are so good it's hard to believe they're randomized until I notice a couple of random traits that don't fit them. (for example: I had it gen a sentient race of monsters who have huge fangs and like to play dead until a victim gets near that happened to be too small to really hurt anybody)

I've gotta say I wish there was a chance of some things having venom, syndromes, metal skin, etc.

Maybe a 'forgotten beast-trait' button/ checkbox? It'd keep people who don't want a bunch of diamond-skinned, venomous, winged giant frogs roaming their worlds happy; and those of us who'd WANT that kinda thing could have it.

[BoredVirulence]

Maybe a 'forgotten beast-trait' button/ checkbox? It'd keep people who don't want a bunch of diamond-skinned, venomous, winged giant frogs roaming their worlds happy; and those of us who'd WANT that kinda thing could have it.

It would be better if we could force such traits to be limited. Perhaps a max value and min value, forcing "forgotten beast traits" to a certain percentage. Then you could have whole worlds with ridiculous traits, or perhaps only 1%.

[Snow Gibbon]

Is there a limit to the amount of words you can input for the Language creator?

[MasterMorality]

@ MasterMorality: Here you go! Eleven randomly-generated civs.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Civilizations (11): Orerre, Meastre, Shesagras, Dronk, Wrolosse, Ettup, Rivounga, Aale, Pletabay, Witargot, Kuissey
Megabeasts (11): onigrosh, ametea, betea, rastram, ovamen, gilve, errabbe, pistrea, crirch, opachakoaw, ottle
Semimegabeasts (5): huvonge, ponene, tarne, leckteea, choal

You're awesome! Thank you very much!

Edit:
Looking through it, very briefly, I'd suggest you add [active_season] tags to the entities. I know this is mostly for adventure mode, but it can't help to allow them to show up in Fortress mode, too.

[howitended]

It would be better if we could force such traits to be limited. Perhaps a max value and min value, forcing "forgotten beast traits" to a certain percentage. Then you could have whole worlds with ridiculous traits, or perhaps only 1%.

Now that you mention it, a checkbox to open up a gui with sliders for various FB traits would be great.
But he's doing this in his free time and I'd hate to ask that of him. I'm considering doing a clean install and removing just about every animal in the vanilla raws, then genning about 700 things with this and seeing how that goes. I'm just thinking it might do a lot of weird stuff in worldgen.

[Talvieno]

@ MasterMorality: Here you go! Eleven randomly-generated civs.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Civilizations (11): Orerre, Meastre, Shesagras, Dronk, Wrolosse, Ettup, Rivounga, Aale, Pletabay, Witargot, Kuissey
Megabeasts (11): onigrosh, ametea, betea, rastram, ovamen, gilve, errabbe, pistrea, crirch, opachakoaw, ottle
Semimegabeasts (5): huvonge, ponene, tarne, leckteea, choal

You're awesome! Thank you very much!

Edit:
Looking through it, very briefly, I'd suggest you add [active_season] tags to the entities. I know this is mostly for adventure mode, but it can't help to allow them to show up in Fortress mode, too.

Heh, I must've genned it with the wrong version... the previous version was missing the line to insert the seasonal code in the raws. I'll upload a new one.

[howitended]

Any plans for a linux version? Or have you, and I'm just not seeing it?

[Lord_lemonpie]

I really love the idea of the Creature Generator, and i have really enjoyed LangCreate, but for some reason, the creature generator doesn't work for me. Everytime i try to generate creatures, it just stops at the given amount of creatures and does nothing, am I doing something wrong?

[Bralbaard]

You can just close the program when it reached the end, it should have prepared all the files.

[Lord_lemonpie]

You can just close the program when it reached the end, it should have prepared all the files.

I assume that the randomly generated creatures go in the creature_random_rc file
If that is the case it isn't working for me, because it doesn't contain anything. 

[Covenant Ringthane]

PTW.