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[mifki]

Most recent spawn-unit as far as I know: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=139553.msg6197007#msg6197007

If you can make a fully-automated version of spawn-unit with viewscreen_layer_arena_creaturest which works in all cases I would jump up and down with joy.

What are "all cases"?
The most basic version that creates dwarves is just several lines of code https://gist.github.com/pronvit/f665d13e5eb70f5da1e3
I'm not sure I'll have time to improve it, but I was thinking it doesn't need to be fully-automated because viewscreen_layer_arena_creaturest also gives us a free UI to choose a race, skills, effects.

[expwnent]

Sorry, I have only been able to loosely follow what has been going on with the spawn unit script, so these questions may have already been answered.

1. Does it allow for spawning of both friendly and hostile animals?
2. Does it allow for spawning of hostile entity creatures (they don't have to be entity members, but just CAN_SPEAK or CAN_LEARN invaders?)
3. Does it allow for spawning of friendly civ members? (from what I have read this is still a no)
4. Does the friendly and hostile animals extend to semi and megabeasts?

I would add:

5. Do pets work?

6. Can new dwarves join the military / take on noble roles?

Before and after saving and reloading of course, in each case.

[expwnent]

PS: For scripts it will need to be fully-automated, since when the mod requires many evil goblins to show up out of nowhere you don't want the user to be consulted and spawn fluffy wamblers instead.

[mifki]

I'll try, but again, I wasn't saying it would solve all the problems. You'll need to configure the unit afterwards to get the behaviour you want. But at least no need to deal with body/appearance/personality/next_ids and to worry about some of the data being uninitialised and thus causing problems.

[expwnent]

Oh, sure. It would be great if it works for all cases though. That way we won't have to work out how to fix the script every time there's a new significant DF release.

[expwnent]

I think you need to add "links" to the proper population for them to truly be a member. See the spawn-unit version I linked for details.

[Putnam]

Also, about configuring after: just make sure it's usable with script_environment if it's a lua script (make the primary spawn unit function global, make it so that it doesn't actually do anything if zero arguments are presented)

[expwnent]

I can manage that bit myself once the core functionality is there. That part's easy.

[Meph]

There was a fairly recent version in the DFHack thread somewhere. I seem to remember that friendly creatures turn hostile after save/load with that version. I don't have a link, sorry.

I've created a dwarf and an aardvark with viewscreen_layer_arena_creaturest, the aardvark is still friendly after save/load, and the dwarf is still working in a workshop. Free workforce, yay!

I've been waiting for this about a year now. You truly are a wizard.

[expwnent]

I can confirm it doesn't add the unit to civs properly. I'll try stitching this together with the old version and see if it works.

[mifki]

I can confirm it doesn't add the unit to civs properly. I'll try stitching this together with the old version and see if it works.

What do you mean? Obviously it doesn't create histfig, so you can't assign to noble positions, etc. I'll look into histfig/nemesis later, maybe there's some code somewhere in the game that we can use.

[expwnent]

I haven't done much work on it myself but I'm told that nemesis/histfig stuff is the hardest part to get working properly. As for code in the game you can use, there's always transformation + pregnancy, but that only works on races that can reproduce, it requires a unit to start with who isn't otherwise occupied with anything important, it can only be done across 3-4 frames, and if the game exits halfway through it might do horrible things to the save file.

Still, this helps. I'll keep trying tonight. I might be able to get spawn-unit working from this and the old version.

[mifki]

I haven't done much work on it myself but I'm told that nemesis/histfig stuff is the hardest part to get working properly. As for code in the game you can use, there's always transformation + pregnancy, but that only works on races that can reproduce, it requires a unit to start with who isn't otherwise occupied with anything important, it can only be done across 3-4 frames, and if the game exits halfway through it might do horrible things to the save file.

Frames are just calls of viewscreen_dwarfmodest:logic(), we could call that from Lua.

[Putnam]

I haven't done much work on it myself but I'm told that nemesis/histfig stuff is the hardest part to get working properly. As for code in the game you can use, there's always transformation + pregnancy, but that only works on races that can reproduce, it requires a unit to start with who isn't otherwise occupied with anything important, it can only be done across 3-4 frames, and if the game exits halfway through it might do horrible things to the save file.

Frames are just calls of viewscreen_dwarfmodest:logic(), we could call that from Lua.

[expwnent]

Results are promising. I'll try and post a beta version today after some tinkering.