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[Prudent Viper]

I am currently adding a new race to my dwarf fortress game, the Oceanids. They are an amphibious race, consisting of five castes, the male Pontae, who are average sized grey skinned humanoids who feel no pain but are otherwise unremarkable, the two rare non-breeding beast castes, the troll like Rahab, the terrifyingly massive serpentine creature, the Leviathan, and two magic using female castes, the Nereids and Naiads. As you probably guessed, I am having severe problems with the magic users.
Everything else has gone 'swimmingly' (Ha!), but I can not seem to get their interactions to work. Can you guys take a look?

The Nereids, intended to have the ability to paralyze enemies with a single touch

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[CAN_DO_INTERACTION:ADD_SYNDROME]
      [CDI:ADV_NAME:Touches her foe gently, rendering the mind and body powerless]
      [CDI:USAGE_HINT:ATTACK]
      [CDI:BP_REQUIRED:BY_CATEGORY:MOUTH]
      [CDI:TARGET:C:TOUCHABLE]
      [CDI:TARGET_RANGE:C:2]
      [CDI:MAX_TARGET_NUMBER:C:1]
      [CDI:WAIT_PERIOD:300]

      [SYNDROME]
         [SYN_NAME:visions of beauty]
         [SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
         [SYN_IMMUNE_CREATURE:OCEANID:ALL]
         [CE_PARALYSIS:SEV:100:PROB:100:RESISTABLE:SIZE_DILUTES:START:5:PEAK:10:END:20]

The Naiads, intended to make up for the Oceanids lack of reanged weapons by throwing ice. (Temperature may become a problem here)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[CAN_DO_INTERACTION:MATERIAL_EMISSION]
      [CDI:ADV_NAME:Uses her mysterious power]
      [CDI:USAGE_HINT:ATTACK]
      [CDI:BP_REQUIRED:BY_CATEGORY:MOUTH]
      [CDI:MATERIAL:ICE]
      [CDI:TARGET:C:LINE_OF_SIGHT]
      [CDI:TARGET_RANGE:C:10]
      [CDI:MAX_TARGET_NUMBER:C:1]
      [CDI:WAIT_PERIOD:100]

Problems:
Nereid interaction shows up as "unknown interaction". It has no effect.
Naiad interaction shows up correctly, but Naiads will not use it, and when attempting to do so manually in the arena, nothing can be targeted.



I only recently learned how to mod df, so bear with me please  .
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

[Putnam]

You need to make a new interaction if you want to add a syndrome; CAN_DO_INTERACTION is not a new interaction.

[CDI:MATERIAL:ICE:NONE]

Check your errorlog.

[Prudent Viper]

Ummm, how?
I looked at the interaction_default file earlier, with both modding guide and interaction tokens in hand... and felt like weeping

[Putnam]

Code: [Select]

[INTERACTION:NEREID_PARALYZE]
      [I_SOURCE:CREATURE_ACTION]
            [I_TARGET:A:CREATURE]
                  [IT_LOCATION:CONTEXT_CREATURE]
                  [IT_CANNOT_TARGET_IF_ALREADY_AFFECTED]
            [I_EFFECT:ADD_SYNDROME]
                  [IE_TARGET:A]
                  [IE_IMMEDIATE]
                  [SYNDROME]
                        [SYN_NAME:visions of beauty]
                        [SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
                        [SYN_IMMUNE_CREATURE:OCEANID:ALL]
                        [CE_PARALYSIS:SEV:100:PROB:100:RESISTABLE:SIZE_DILUTES:START:5:PEAK:10:END:20]
You can literally copy+paste everything above [SYNDROME] for that purpose.

[Prudent Viper]

And, errr then what? I pasted it into interaction_default, do I need to change anything else?  Also changed Naiads to [CDI:MATERIAL:ICE:NONE], still not working. Maybe ICE isn't a material? I thought it would be called that, and didn't really know how to check.

[Knight Otu]

You need to change [CAN_DO_INTERACTION:ADD_SYNDROME] to [CAN_DO_INTERACTION:NEREID_PARALYZE], at least.

ICE is indeed not a material. You want WATER:SOLID_GLOB, I believe. I'll check in a bit.

Ed: Yes, WATER:SOLID_GLOB. That's how I did it for the gerudo ice sorceresses.

[Prudent Viper]

Ah ha! The Naiad works! Thanks Otu.
Some progress with the Nereid, (had already changed it to [CAN_DO_INTERACTION:NEREID_PARALYZE]), added [SYN_CONTACT] and the interaction seems to be working, but the syndrome it applies is having no effect. I copied it from the GCS raws, so it should be fine, (maybe I should remove RESISTABLE, or perhaps I need to add the syndrome to a bodypart?)

[Putnam]

PARALYZE has no BP; it may be too short. Also, the SEV is probably too low.

[Knight Otu]

Looking at the numbers, it may be simply too short to do anything. 20 time units is basically nothing. A day in fortress mode is 1200 time units, for comparison. GCS victims rarely live long enough for the paralysis to be meaningful, anyway. (Pre-post edit - what Putnam said)

[Putnam]

And by "probably", btw, I mean "definitely". SEV is based on amount injected; interactions "inject" the smallest quantum possible of stuff.

[Prudent Viper]

Here's the raws as they look now with proposed changes. Still no result.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[SELECT_CASTE:NEREID]
[CAN_DO_INTERACTION:NEREID_PARALYZE]
      [CDI:ADV_NAME:Touch her foe gently rendering the mind and body powerless]
      [CDI:USAGE_HINT:ATTACK]
      [CDI:BP_REQUIRED:BY_CATEGORY:MOUTH]
      [CDI:TARGET:C:LINE_OF_SIGHT]
      [CDI:TARGET_RANGE:C:2]
      [CDI:MAX_TARGET_NUMBER:C:1]
      [CDI:WAIT_PERIOD:300]
      [SYNDROME]
         [SYN_NAME:visions of beauty]
                        [SYN_CONTACT]
         [SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
         [SYN_IMMUNE_CREATURE:OCEANID:ALL]
         [CE_PARALYSIS:SEV:100000:PROB:100:SIZE_DILUTES:START:5:PEAK:10:END:1000]

As you see, I increased the duration and severity by a hell of a lot.

I'm starting to wonder if it might be a targeting issue. When using the interaction manually, it does not allow me to target anything. Rather, I use the interaction, and then nothing happens. The interaction has been used, because it is now on cooldown. ?

[Putnam]

The syndrome does not go in the CAN_DO_INTERACTION.

[Prudent Viper]

Sorry to sound stupid, but where does it go then?

[Prudent Viper]

After playing around with it, I found that the interaction targets the neried itself. It's pretty hilarious to see.

You fall over.
You are completely paralyzed.
You have suffocated.

[Putnam]

Sorry to sound stupid, but where does it go then?

In the interaction, like I posted above.

Your issue is that it's targeting C instead of A.