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[Roses]

Absolutely. blahblah() always has access to its containing environment regardless of where it's called from.
Note that in the example you gave, re-running functions.lua (e.g. if you ran it at the command prompt) would reset somevalue to 0 ("somevalue = somevalue or 0" would avoid that). script_environment() usually won't reset that, but it might if the script file is modified. run_script() is what the DFHack console actually uses to run Lua scripts, I think, so it should always reset that.

I was planning on just using somevalue as a static/parameter (C/Fortran) value so no functions would ever change it, but if I do decide to make it a changing value I'll make sure to keep in mind that it will reset under certain circumstances.

EDIT: Looking through the currently written scripts I see there is full-heal which can heal and resurrect units (and it seems regrow limbs and such). Are there any scripts that replicate the animation of units and unit corpse pieces? I am going over some of the stuff I wrote which allows for more complex resurrections and reanimations, but it would be nice to have other working examples to go off of.

EDIT2: Or other wound heal scripts that aren't quite so full? Particularly ones that heal but don't necessary regrow lost limbs.

[fortunawhisk]

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve the default belief values for a civilization, but I'm having a hard time determining how to get to them.
I can see them with gm-editor here: "gui/gm-editor world.cultural_identities.all". Unfortunately, I can't seem to get LUA to recognize the same location, and all my attempts fail with "attempt to index a nil value".
I've seen Atkana's script on setting them, but the location used there doesn't seem to work either (df.cultural_identity.find(upers.cultural_identity).values[beliefId]).
Can anyone throw out a lua print statement that dumps out the contents of "world.cultural_identities.all[0].values"?

[lethosor]

EDIT: Looking through the currently written scripts I see there is full-heal which can heal and resurrect units (and it seems regrow limbs and such). Are there any scripts that replicate the animation of units and unit corpse pieces? I am going over some of the stuff I wrote which allows for more complex resurrections and reanimations, but it would be nice to have other working examples to go off of.

EDIT2: Or other wound heal scripts that aren't quite so full? Particularly ones that heal but don't necessary regrow lost limbs.

If you mean in DFHack, no. We almost never make duplicate copies of tools just to remove features from one copy. If you want to modify full-heal to take more options to skip certain steps (I think there are some already), feel free, and feel free to submit a pull request as well.

I can see them with gm-editor here: "gui/gm-editor world.cultural_identities.all". Unfortunately, I can't seem to get LUA to recognize the same location, and all my attempts fail with "attempt to index a nil value".

Can you specify where exactly you're using this and what you've attempted? If you're literally using "world.cultural_identities.all" in a Lua script ("Lua" isn't an acronym, by the way), that won't work - you'll need to replace "world" with "df.global.world". A few scripts, such as the Lua interpreter (run "lua") and gui/gm-editor search for undefined variables in other places, including fields in df.global (so the "df.global." part can be dropped), but in normal scripts that won't work.

I've seen Atkana's script on setting them, but the location used there doesn't seem to work either (df.cultural_identity.find(upers.cultural_identity).values[beliefId]).

That looks like it should work to me. What exactly is the issue? Obviously "upers" needs to be defined as well, and I'm not sure what it's supposed to be (it's not an English word, at least).

Minor nitpick, but that's also just an expression - there's no location in there.

Can anyone throw out a lua print statement that dumps out the contents of "world.cultural_identities.all[0].values"?

(In case you're unaware, printall() might produce more useful output - it's also available as the "~" prefix in the Lua interpreter.)

[Atkana]

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve the default belief values for a civilization, but I'm having a hard time determining how to get to them.
I can see them with gm-editor here: "gui/gm-editor world.cultural_identities.all". Unfortunately, I can't seem to get LUA to recognize the same location, and all my attempts fail with "attempt to index a nil value".
I've seen Atkana's script on setting them, but the location used there doesn't seem to work either (df.cultural_identity.find(upers.cultural_identity).values[beliefId]).
Can anyone throw out a lua print statement that dumps out the contents of "world.cultural_identities.all[0].values"?

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for k, v in pairs(df.global.world.cultural_identities.all[0].values) do
print(k .. " = " .. v)
end

Or yeah, just use printall(df.global.world.cultural_identities.all[0].values). Plus I think you can use df.cultural_identity.find(0).values as a slightly shorter way of writing out df.global.world.cultural_identities.all[0].values... I never really did learn how the find()s actually worked :b

I've seen Atkana's script on setting them, but the location used there doesn't seem to work either (df.cultural_identity.find(upers.cultural_identity).values[beliefId]).

That looks like it should work to me. What exactly is the issue? Obviously "upers" needs to be defined as well, and I'm not sure what it's supposed to be (it's not an English word, at least).

Minor nitpick, but that's also just an expression - there's no location in there.

I used upers as a shorthand for unit personality because if I'm going to be too lazy to type out unit.status.current_soul.personality every time, I figured I might as well go full shorthand

[Putnam]

find() gets the object with that particular ID, which (esp. in the case of historical figures) may not line up with the array placement.

[fortunawhisk]

Excellent, exactly what I needed. Thanks!

[BassDwarf]

Unsure if there is a specific board for this or thread but a suggestion for a utility (which would most likely use DFHack), something similar to the RCT2 thoughts tab.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/rct/images/2/26/Rct-vandalism2.png/revision/latest?cb=20140121104704

I know that recently someone published the Sentient Dwarf Fortress/It was inevitable bot on twitter, but having something like that as a utility/window would be interesting, especially if it could tally up common thoughts like said RCT thoughts monitor, so the player could know the common issues of the fort and avoid mass negative thoughts.

[Putnam]

I made something like that in 0.34.11, before I knew how to write UIs (or, indeed, before I was any good at programming at all), but it only showed the most common. An in-game UI for this wouldn't be too difficult.

[Bumber]

"I want to get off Mr. Urist's Wild Ride!"

[Rumrusher]

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function flymode()
local flyuser = df.global.world.units.active[0]
flyuser.enemy.unk_4406_1[4]=true -- dont know what these do
flyuser.enemy.unk_4406_1[10]=true --dont know what these do
flyuser.enemy.unk_4406_1[19]=true --this unlocks flymode
endok so broke down and figured out how to just Fly with out needing flier, so uhh now I guess the whole turning on ghostly flag being bugged is fixed with this.
also bonus silly things with testing with flying is the drag script causes the draggee to float up 1 tile if you drag them up there.

[Atomic Chicken]

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function flymode()
local flyuser = df.global.world.units.active[0]
flyuser.enemy.unk_4406_1[4]=true -- dont know what these do
flyuser.enemy.unk_4406_1[10]=true --dont know what these do
flyuser.enemy.unk_4406_1[19]=true --this unlocks flymode
endok so broke down and figured out how to just Fly with out needing flier, so uhh now I guess the whole turning on ghostly flag being bugged is fixed with this.
also bonus silly things with testing with flying is the drag script causes the draggee to float up 1 tile if you drag them up there.

It's just become apparent to me that the bit array in

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unit.enemy.unk_4406_1 corresponds to the creature token flags for the unit's caste, as found in

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df.creature_raw.find(unit.race).caste[unit.caste].flags
Assuming this is correct, in Rumrusher's segment above:
flyuser.enemy.unk_4406_1[4] would be 'PATTERNFLIER'
flyuser.enemy.unk_4406_1[10] would be 'SWIMS_LEARNED'
flyuser.enemy.unk_4406_1[19] would be 'FLIER'

So I suppose it's possible to modify and set creature tokens for a single unit without affecting the entire race (though I imagine they'd be reset upon reloading).

[Putnam]

I tested every unit on a map with this one-liner to corroborate this:

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for _,unit in ipairs(df.global.world.units.all) do for k,v in ipairs(df.creature_raw.find(unit.race).caste[unit.caste].flags) do if unit.enemy.unk_4406_1[k]~=v then print(unit.id,k,v) end end end
Nothing printed at all, so that checks out.

I also checked if it saves with the world; it does not.

[Rumrusher]

I tested every unit on a map with this one-liner to corroborate this:

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for _,unit in ipairs(df.global.world.units.all) do for k,v in ipairs(df.creature_raw.find(unit.race).caste[unit.caste].flags) do if unit.enemy.unk_4406_1[k]~=v then print(unit.id,k,v) end end end
Nothing printed at all, so that checks out.

I also checked if it saves with the world; it does not.

welp I just saved in the air with a giant wagon train, pulling off some neverending story nonsense.

[taleden]

Is there any way for dfhack to make a "meeting zone" active for only animals or only dwarves?

The tendency for animals to try to path to a meeting zone can be a huge pain, in part because (for example) dozens of turkey chicks will escape the coop and run to the dining room the moment a dwarf opens the door, and in part because of the bug that makes animals try to path through pet-forbidden doors all the time regardless, killing FPS. So it'd be nice to just make pastures also be meeting zones to help encourage the occupants to want to stay there, but without having all the dwarves also want to hang out with the animals.

[Fleeting Frames]

Don't know, but as a workaround, you can make your taverns zones be inactive/non-meeting zones immediatelly after designating the zone as tavern - dwarves will still use it as location even if the name is invisible when it isn't marked as meeting one, but animals will not path to it.

(You might need to add a way for dwarves to go there though if it turns out they won't (haven't done prolonged testing); station orders makes the location 'default idle area' even once it is turned off, and bedrooms, drink/food stockpiles or inactive barracks could maybe work as well.)