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[Shonai_Dweller]

Heh, just checked to see what happened when I embarked with my non-graphical mod. Got the cute stand-in critter from Tarn's development screenshots in place of anyone without a sprite. I like that.

[kiiranaux]

-snip- the question was easily answered by the wiki

[MaxTheFox]

I will continue work on my personal mod when adventure mode is readded and I can properly playtest things with my new format.

[Shonai_Dweller]

I've managed to implement my world of wild dwarves, dark elves, minotaurs, hobbits and tribal animal people into 50.02. Not gonna ever worry about graphics, but it was nice to see my Wild Dwarves embark and be visibly different from regular dwarves thanks solely to their fashion sense (nothing added, just pointed them at the dwarf graphics).

I've been generating lots of worlds, and for some reason my minotaur civ, once rulers of the world (Urist likes minotaurs for their grand cities) are having a hard time in worldgen. Poor fellas spend more time building tombs than going out conquering.

Always fascinating to see how a behind the scenes balance tweak/bug fix can affect things. So, will be spending plenty of time tweaking my own numbers and generating worlds and hopefully interface issues and ascii options will all be done by the time I get to actually play anything.

[kiiranaux]

Nice readout, Shonai.

No such luck on my end. I just loaded in my conversion to vanilla after a couple dozen hours of updating the raws, and I can't make it through loading the mod's objects (in the load order after the vanilla objects). Which would normally be fine - bugs are opportunities - but I can't find anything resembling an errorlog. Not sure how to troubleshoot this without a readout on where the crash is sourced.

Anyone observe anything that might help?

Edit - this has something to do with duplicating vanilla files. Will continue to troubleshoot and post findings.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Does the errorlog say anything at all? Or does it just crash before ever making one?

[kiiranaux]

It was crashing before making one. I'm through it now, but all I can say is its a bit finicky when vanilla files are willing to be overwritten / not.

[brolol.404]

I was going to port over Human Fortress and Goblin Fortress, but it looks like All Races Playable already made it onto the workshop.

Instead I think I am going to turn those mods into something else.

The ones on the workshiop have pretty limited features. I would suggest still port over those two.

I ported over Human Fortress, but renamed it Age of Man as someone else has already uploaded a mod called Human Fortress. Age of Man has some changes on the steam version though, mainly that all other races have been removed from game.

[Splint]

I have come to the conclusion that I can't port my mods to the workshop. The amount of effort that'd go into porting SVE properly just isn't worth it.

[kiiranaux]

Splint - as one among many who's still using your content, you may find it easiest to get it working with DF classic (hopefully in the next couple weeks), and then slowly build up graphical support from there. That's basically my approach for now.

I empathize. I've spent upwards of 80 hours on highfantasy and havn't quite hit graphics yet. It's a yikes. But I'm looking forward to playing, even if it's by myself with 100s of invisible graphics and placeholders, for now.

[Splint]

Splint - as one among many who's still using your content, you may find it easiest to get it working with DF classic (hopefully in the next couple weeks), and then slowly build up graphical support from there. That's basically my approach for now.

I empathize. I've spent upwards of 80 hours on highfantasy and havn't quite hit graphics yet. It's a yikes. But I'm looking forward to playing, even if it's by myself with 100s of invisible graphics and placeholders, for now.

Oh I'll update it for the non-graphical version. However just the equipment by itself will demand multiple sheets for every main race, and accounting for all of SVE's added mats and vanilla's. To me it'd be a fool's errand to do by myself.

I'd already given up on adding even just tileset support due to a combination of having never understood how to  implement them when they were far simpler and the sheer volume of creatures and so on. I had hoped this release would have made the graphics easier to understand, but they really haven't and made them far more involved.

Petty as it is to say, it's just not worth it to me personally to provide graphical support. I can and intend to make the updates to SVE (most of what I need to edit concern's the vanilla file edits along with some very minor entity edits to remove architects) but graphics just aren't in the cards.

[Enemy post]

I've uploaded Primal to the Steam workshop!

[Shonai_Dweller]

"Chalmer was a troglodyte religion of the infinite land centered around the worship of Kashi, a human goddess of fate."

So, OK, Troglodytes are an actual civ (cave-dwelling baby snatchers) in my mod. But...here we have a human hamlet with only human historical figures (can't check the exact pops yet which is frustrating) which is part of a human civ.

And they've formed a new religion. For troglodytes.

All the historical figure members are human. That is interesting. Did this kind of thing happen in the previous version? I don't recall seeing anything similar. Other civs picking up their neighbours religions, sure, that happens all the time.

--edit
And their monasteries all have troglodyte names. Ha ha.

[SQman]

I've finally accepted my fate, and started working on sprites for dino-hybrids. Here's a preview:



Those are Dsungascorpius (Pulmonoscorpius + Dsungaripterus + Miragaia), and Alacranix (enhanced Pulmonoscorpius). I'm quite happy with how they turned out, especially the Alacranix.
As you can see, those are ust somewhat edited bark scorpions, but what is the Pulmonoscorpius, really? I'll be honest, the last time iI used GIMP was in middle school, and it took me some time to figure out how it works. How happy I was when I realized you can turn on grid.

[Eric Blank]

There's a grid feature built in? I've been doing it wrong this whole time