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[TheOnlySolitaire]

Ah okay I see, so what Quietust posted was a reference, to show us what it can do, rather than posting so we could test/use it. That makes sense. My bad on misunderstanding I guess.

[Quietust]

The reason I wrote the plugin was that the original poster was suggesting that you could use gm-editor (which is really just a simple structure editor) to start a strange mood and I wanted to show what was actually necessary to properly start a mood. That, and I also wanted to know exactly what happened during strange mood creation in version 0.34.11 (I've only studied the logic in detail for 23a and 40d) so the information on the wiki can be made more accurate.

In order to run the plugin, you'll need to grab the latest version from my repository (I just updated it to allow overriding the mood skill and to use a better RNG) and the latest XML from my df-structures fork and then compile DFHack. Alternatively, you can download a copy here (rev 7f14e109fa239c0919a150d6ab28964a774fc24d).

[TortuousAugur]

Well, I'm not able to make any permanent changes to my character's curse settings. Every time I change something, it changes back to what it was to begin with... I imagine that there is a setting somewhere else that writes all the curse settings, but I don't know what or where it is. 

[Quietust]

I imagine that there is a setting somewhere else that writes all the curse settings, but I don't know what or where it is. 

It is for this reason that gm-editor isn't really a useful tool for non-experts - if you want to use it to modify something complicated, you have to know ALL of the things that need to be changed and then change each of them correctly (and possibly also in the correct order), just like with my previous example of strange moods. Modifying a curse would require not only changing the fields in unit.curse but likely also editing the active syndrome so that it doesn't simply reapply its original modifications.

[Meph]

Quietust: Can I ask you a favor? Could you please have a look at warmists spawnunit script, and see what can be done about historical figures?

At the moment there is a pretty big issue with the spawned units: They can neither become nobles, nor be drafted into the military. But as soon as they make a masterwork item, or kill a unit, or become historical figures some other way, it works.

Warmist tried to fix it at some point, but it resulted in crashes. Maybe you can figure out how to do so, since you dont seem to have a problem writing something as complex as that mood-plugin.

[TortuousAugur]

I imagine that there is a setting somewhere else that writes all the curse settings, but I don't know what or where it is. 

It is for this reason that gm-editor isn't really a useful tool for non-experts *snip*

Yeah, I figured as much after stuff wasn't staying like I set it. I'm not educated enough in this curriculum to do anything other then wait for someone to create a dfhack plugin or script that is a little more user friendly then the base interface I'm trying to deal with now. 


Edit:

After poking around in the editor some more, I found something a little quirky. Maybe my pointing this out, it can help someone else figure the curse/syndrome relationship out, or at least I hope so.

I have a unit_wound in my body tab with syndrome_id 179. I'm thinking this is my "lamia" vampire curse. While I can't find that number anywhere in my curse tab, I did find it under the syndrome tab, under "syndromes -> active -> unit_syndrome" as the "type" entry. It's also the only number in the "unk_7d4" tab, located directly under "active" inside syndromes.

I'm fairly certain that deleting the top entries inside syndromes and body/wounds would probably clean a unit of vampirism or lycanthropy.
This was not the case. Deleted entries repopulated after sleeping. Guess curses are stored elsewhere? 

[Uzu Bash]

How do I use "Find a value by entering a predicate"? I'm trying to narrow down the units list by race, for example, but entering "race,572" doesn't do anything, not even feedback telling me what that didn't do. Is there some non self-evident format required?

[Warmist]

predicate is a function that returns "true" on some values. Imagine that you have "function(v) return <your text here> end". So if i remember correctly you would need to type in v.race==572

[Warmist]

Quietust: Can I ask you a favor? Could you please have a look at warmists spawnunit script, and see what can be done about historical figures?

At the moment there is a pretty big issue with the spawned units: They can neither become nobles, nor be drafted into the military. But as soon as they make a masterwork item, or kill a unit, or become historical figures some other way, it works.

Warmist tried to fix it at some point, but it resulted in crashes. Maybe you can figure out how to do so, since you dont seem to have a problem writing something as complex as that mood-plugin.

Afaik it's not a problem of unit, it's that it's not added to the civ/group etc... Though that might be not enough. I remember having problems with multirace fort. It really did not want some units in places of power.

[Uzu Bash]

predicate is a function that returns "true" on some values. Imagine that you have "function(v) return <your text here> end". So if i remember correctly you would need to type in v.race==572

That gives the first one that meets the condition. But how would I get an inclusive list of all of them?


EDIT: Also, when searching for the player's army, v.flags is a bit array, and I'm not sure how to reference the members. v.flags.player==true or v.flags[player] or

• doesn't find anything. I am on the fast travel screen when I attempt this.

[Warmist]

predicate is a function that returns "true" on some values. Imagine that you have "function(v) return <your text here> end". So if i remember correctly you would need to type in v.race==572

That gives the first one that meets the condition. But how would I get an inclusive list of all of them?


EDIT: Also, when searching for the player's army, v.flags is a bit array, and I'm not sure how to reference the members. v.flags.player==true or v.flags[player] or

• doesn't find anything. I am on the fast travel screen when I attempt this.

Afaik there is no way to filter with predicate. Somebody should write that function in :P

You need to travel one step to create player army. But the correct way is either "v.flags.player" or "v.flags.player==true" or "v.flags[0]" or v.flags["player"] (not sure about that last one) but not v.flags[player] (i.e. player would be nil and then you would index flags with nil which is always an error afaik)

[Altaree]

Try out 'gui/gm-editor world'

I really wanted to get rid of seed but a noble really likes bags.  This command let me get to the mandates and set them to expire.

I would like to add that I REALLY LOVE this script!  It really helps when I need to figure out where something is set when writing my other scripts.  My previous method was using 'print' and 'printall' to explore the data structures one element at a time.
THANK YOU!