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[HFS Victim]

This is specifically a question about the body transformation syndrome. Is it possible to have a syndrome that selectively transforms dwarves depending on their gender?
The reason I ask is that I'd like to have dwarves transform into a given race while retaining their previous gender, and as the CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION effect has the argument [CE:CREATURE:[Creature name in raws]:[caste]]. I'd like to avoid transforming dwarves all into one gender; what would the caste name need to be?

Is it possible to create two syndromes on a single material? This could be a solution, but it seemed that the tags on the second overwrote the first. I was using the SYN_IMMUNE_CREATURE tag to prevent males from getting the female syndrome and vice versa; the female version was second, and it made it so that the syndrome only affected female dwarves.

An answer to either question would solve my problem.

[Meph]

Yes.

Do a mass replacement for all creatures, adding CREATURE_CLASS:MALE to all male castes, and CREATURE_CLASS:FEMALE to all female castes. Then make the syndrome affect only the fitting class with SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:MALE or FEMALE.

[Dirst]

Meph's solution will work generally across any species of victim.  If you are interested in affecting only one or two species, then it's probably easier to specify them in the syndrome with SYN_AFFECTED_CREATURE tags.

Here's a really silly example of a gender-preserving syndrome.

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interaction_man_bites_dog

[OBJECT:INTERACTION]

[INTERACTION:WEREHUMAN_CURSE]

[I_SOURCE:DEITY]
[IS_USAGE_HINT:MAJOR_CURSE]
[IS_HIST_STRING_1: cursed ]
[IS_HIST_STRING_2: to assume the form of a squishy human every new moon]

[I_TARGET:A:CREATURE]
[IT_LOCATION:CONTEXT_CREATURE]
[IT_AFFECTED_CREATURE:WOLF:ALL]
[IT_FORBIDDEN:NOT_LIVING]
[IT_FORBIDDEN:SUPERNATURAL]
[IT_CANNOT_HAVE_SYNDROME_CLASS:WERECURSE]
[IT_CANNOT_HAVE_SYNDROME_CLASS:VAMPCURSE]
[IT_CANNOT_HAVE_SYNDROME_CLASS:DISTURBANCE_CURSE]

[I_EFFECT:ADD_SYNDROME]
[IE_TARGET:A]
[IE_IMMEDIATE]
[SYNDROME]
[IE_ARENA_NAME:Wereman]
[SYN_AFFECTED_CREATURE:WOLF:MALE]
[SYN_CLASS:WERECURSE]
[CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION:START:0]
[CE:CREATURE:HUMAN:MALE]
[CE:PERIODIC:MOON_PHASE:12:16]
[CE_ADD_TAG:NO_AGING:START:0]

[I_EFFECT:ADD_SYNDROME]
[IE_TARGET:A]
[IE_IMMEDIATE]
[SYNDROME]
[IE_ARENA_NAME:Werewoman]
[SYN_AFFECTED_CREATURE:WOLF:FEMALE]
[SYN_CLASS:WERECURSE]
[CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION:START:0]
[CE:CREATURE:HUMAN:FEMALE]
[CE:PERIODIC:MOON_PHASE:12:16]
[CE_ADD_TAG:NO_AGING:START:0]



[INTERACTION:WEREHUMAN_BITE]

[I_SOURCE:ATTACK]
[IS_HIST_STRING_1: bit ]
[IS_HIST_STRING_2:, passing on the werehuman curse]

[I_TARGET:A:CREATURE]
[IT_LOCATION:CONTEXT_CREATURE]
[IT_AFFECTED_CREATURE:WOLF:ALL]
[IT_FORBIDDEN:NOT_LIVING]
[IT_FORBIDDEN:SUPERNATURAL]
[IT_CANNOT_HAVE_SYNDROME_CLASS:WERECURSE]
[IT_CANNOT_HAVE_SYNDROME_CLASS:VAMPCURSE]
[IT_CANNOT_HAVE_SYNDROME_CLASS:DISTURBANCE_CURSE]


[I_EFFECT:ADD_SYNDROME]
[IE_TARGET:A]
[IE_IMMEDIATE]
[SYNDROME]
[SYN_AFFECTED_CREATURE:WOLF:MALE]
[SYN_CLASS:WERECURSE]
[CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION:START:16800]
[CE:CREATURE:HUMAN:MALE]
[CE:PERIODIC:MOON_PHASE:12:16]

[I_EFFECT:ADD_SYNDROME]
[IE_TARGET:A]
[IE_IMMEDIATE]
[SYNDROME]
[SYN_AFFECTED_CREATURE:WOLF:FEMALE]
[SYN_CLASS:WERECURSE]
[CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION:START:16800]
[CE:CREATURE:HUMAN:FEMALE]
[CE:PERIODIC:MOON_PHASE:12:16]



[HFS Victim]

I plan on using this syndrome applied to a material with a [SYN_INHALED] tag. The werehuman example is excellent, and what I'll emulate to have it spread throughout the fortress, but how can I have the gender preserving option on a simple material definition? Is it possible to use the interaction definitions as listed above in that case?