Topic: I am MADE my own race... (Read 2531 times)

Tradanbattlan · « **on:** February 28, 2009, 11:53:08 pm »

But am having trouble figuring out where to start.
Any advice on what to add to said race to make it playable?
Any general needs?
Enlighten me.

EDIT: I HAVE read the Wiki and about the tokens, but got very confused.
Making a cat-human race would be pretty sweet, but dont know how to add the extra parts (Paws for feet, tail, ears).

Eatnobles4breakfast · « **Reply #1 on:** March 01, 2009, 02:07:33 am »

Well, a common tool of less developed modders (myself included) is to take an existing civ and modify minor details to turn it into the race you want...
Lots of the customization also comes into the names, creature files, and items they have. Once you have tweaked the template from, say the Elves in your case, go through the wiki and put in (or remove) any tags you deem appropriate.
Then you would make your own body entry for this race, changing names for feet and hands, and adding a tail and whatnot...

Pruvan · « **Reply #2 on:** March 01, 2009, 05:53:27 am »

This modding guide should get you started quite nicely. It covers a lot of things.

LegoLord · « **Reply #3 on:** March 01, 2009, 08:48:24 am »

There are [BODYGLOSS:(new body name)] tokens that simply change the name of a body part on a creature. Bodygloss tokens are added to the creature entry, not the body entry. Give me a second, and I'll find a better explanation.

Ah, here it is:

Spoiler: something long from awhile back (click to show/hide)

OK, say you want to make a Santa Clause creature; it would have the same body as a human, except that it might have this stuff, which you can just put in the body_default.txt. Body modding is fairly complex, so you should wait for that until you get the hang of creature, entity, item, and matgloss modding.

Code: [Select]

[BODY:COAT_RED]
[BP:RCOAT:big red coat][CONTYPE:UPPERBODY]

[BODY:HAT_JOLLY]
[BP:JHAT:jolly red hat][CONTYPE:HEAD]

[BODYGLOSS:BOOT:foot:boot]

[BODYGLOSS:MITTEN:hand:mitten]

Would replace the old creature entry body data as thus:

Code: [Select]

[BODY:HUMANOID:COAT_RED:HAT_JOLLY:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:HUMANOID_JOINTS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:5FINGERS:5TOES:MOUTH]
[BODYGLOSS:BOOT]
[BODYGLOSS:MITTEN]

The [BODYGLOSS] tokens making hands and feet show as mittens and boots, respectively.

The creature entry would be titled [CREATURE:SANTA_CLAUSE]. You can just copy humans and change the [CREATURE] tag. It is important that it is in all caps. In creature entries, only names (in this case [NAME:Santa Clause:there's only one Santa:clausish] being the name, plural form, and adjective form) and the [PREFSTRING:x] tags can be in lower case or have spaces. Change the entry in the [PREFSTING] tag to "jolly gut." This will make it so that you will occasionally see "Urist McChild likes there's only one Santa for their jolly gut.

You can change [FAT:3] to [FAT:7] which will make him give more fat when butchered and make him more resistant to cold. This can also be done by increasing the number on the [LAYERING:X] tag.

The [TILE:'U'] can be changed to [TILE:'S']. Changing [COLOR:3:0:0] to [COLOR:4:0:1] will make his tile bright red instead of cyan. Color combinations can be found on the wiki by searching "color." If you use a letter for a tile instead of a four digit tile code listed on the wiki, you need to put an apostrophe on either side. I made an "invisible" race once because I didn't know that, and it was hard to play with them.

Change [BENIGN] to [GOOD]; this will make it show up only in good areas. If you don't like Santa, you can make it [EVIL] instead, which functions similarly to [GOOD], only that it makes him show up in evil areas.

Since it isn't a creature that we are sure exists in the real world, remove the [MUNDANE] tag, unless of course you really believe in Santa. To make him only move around at night, change [DIURNAL] to [NOCTURNAL]. If you feel that the 60 to 120 years is too short or long a life for a Santa, change the numbers of the [MAXAGE:X:Y] to the range you want the game to use when randomly generating his lifespan. For example, to make it so that he lives between 1000 and 1500 years, enter [MAXAGE:1000:1500]. You can also do away with [MAXAGE] entirely to make him immortal.

If you don't want him picking up and using items and weapons, remove the [EQUIPS] tag.

Of course, for him to actually show up, you need to add a biome tag, such as [BIOME:GLACIER], or you can add [MEGABEAST] or [SEMIMEGABEAST], which will make it so that he will attack your fort and you will occasionly find quests to kill him in adventure mode.

For your creature entry, you should get something like this:

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[CREATURE:SANTA_CLAUSE]
	[NAME:Santa Clause:there's only one Santa:clausish]
	[TILE:'S'][COLOR:3:0:0]
	[GENPOWER:3]
	[INTELLIGENT]
	[CANOPENDOORS]
	[BENIGN]
	[PREFSTRING:jolly gut]
	[BODY:HUMANOID:COAT_RED:HAT_JOLLY:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:HUMANOID_JOINTS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:5FINGERS:5TOES:MOUTH]
	[BODYGLOSS:BOOT]
	[BODYGLOSS:MITTEN]
	[SIZE:7]
	[MAXAGE:1000:1500]
	[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:GRASP:punch:punches:1:2:BLUDGEON][ATTACKFLAG_WITH]
	[ATTACK:SECOND:BYTYPE:MOUTH:bite:bites:1:1:GORE][ATTACKFLAG_CANLATCH]
	[CHILD:12][BABY:1][MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE]
	[FAT:7]
	[EQUIPS]
	[NOCTURNAL]
	[BIOME:GLACIER]
	[SPEECH_MALE:human_male.txt]
	[STANDARD_FLESH]
	[HOMEOTHERM:10067]
	[LAYERING:70]
	[SWIMS_LEARNED][SWIM_SPEED:2500]
	[MUNDANE]

That's all folks! For now; you should have a basic understanding of creature modding at this point, but there is more advanced stuff that can be done. One of these more advanced things would be making a race of glacial elves that worship and are ruled by Santa, which would be done using the [POWER] tag for the creature and using appropriate spheres, spheres being related to names and religions (dwarves have [RELIGION_SPHERE:MOUNTAIN], which causes them to have mountain gods). The [RELIGION:ANY_APPROPRIATE_POWER] tag is what causes goblins to worship HFS.

Monkeyvich · « **Reply #4 on:** March 01, 2009, 02:17:50 pm »

Yes, the advice to (a) read the wiki and (b) start by modding an existing race -- that is excellent advice. It's how I got my new mod to a pretty much playable state in a matter of two or three days. Given, my mod is fairly minor and it took around a week of asking questions and reading the wiki to get up to speed.

Monkeyvich

Tradanbattlan · « **Reply #5 on:** March 01, 2009, 02:33:08 pm »

Ok, thanks guys.
One more question...
How do I make it so the race I am attempting to make will periodically seige my dwarves?
I dont like making a race and then having nothing else to do with it besides running around as an adventurer.

gumball135 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 01, 2009, 02:48:54 pm »

EditEditEdit: Ok, after looking around the wiki for a while, it turns out I was, in fact, right. But that'll only make them siege you if they're angry with you, so you might need to add in a few other tags.

EditEdit: Scratch that. I'm not sure if I'm wrong or right. Now, can a veteran modder please step in here and correct me...?

Edit: ~~Scratch that. I was wrong.~~

~~I'm no experienced modder, but I think it's [SIEGER]~~. If you don't want them to siege you when the very first Winter comes, put in [BABYSNATCHER].

Tradanbattlan · « **Reply #7 on:** March 01, 2009, 03:00:53 pm »

Quote from: gumball135 on March 01, 2009, 02:48:54 pm

I'm no experienced modder, but I think it's [SIEGER]. If you don't want them to siege you when the very first Winter comes, put in [BABYSNATCHER].

Ok, thanks.

i2amroy · « **Reply #8 on:** March 01, 2009, 03:27:11 pm »

[BABYSNATCHER] means that a race will steal babies and raise them.
[SIEGER] means that when a race attacks you, it will huddle in a group outside your fort before attacking.
[AMBUSHER] means that a race will send invisible groups that won't be seen until they attack or are discovered when it attacks.
The lack of all of these means that a race will send groups that just head straight to your fort and attack.

Just create a race and make sure that it has an [ACTIVE_SEASON:?] tag. If they are mad at you then they will attack you during that season. If you want a race that is always hostile, replace the [INTELLIGENT] tag with [CAN_LEARN][CAN_CIV]. To make it not appear immediately, add [PROGRESS_TRIGGER_POPULATION:1] this should make them appear once you gain a little more than 7 dwarves.

Tradanbattlan · « **Reply #9 on:** March 03, 2009, 09:40:56 pm »

Okaaaaaaay!
After ~~a couple of minutes~~ hours and hours of hard work, I finally made my first race:
Andarrean [/totally not creative]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And for that other stuff:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I will add the [BABYSNATCHER] and [SIEGER] tags later once I see that this new race is properly working.

If you have any advice before I fire up my new race, please tell me.

EDIT: Before you ask, yes, I DID just copy the Human race stuff and added in mine.

Tradanbattlan · « **Reply #10 on:** March 03, 2009, 11:09:20 pm »

NEVERMIND ABOUT THAT DOOR THING
I found that problem and promptly fixed it.
Now about base stats...

Vucar Fikodastesh · « **Reply #11 on:** March 03, 2009, 11:14:40 pm »

They need the [CANOPENDOORS] token.

It looks like you are also missing the ending bracket on [TILE:m.

Tradanbattlan · « **Reply #12 on:** March 03, 2009, 11:26:13 pm »

Quote from: Vucar Fikodastesh on March 03, 2009, 11:14:40 pm

They need the [CANOPENDOORS] token.

It looks like you are also missing the ending bracket on [TILE:m.

Yeah, and I snapped right to that.
Thanks for noticing, though.
After my race couldnt open doors, I kinda panicked.
But, I should be fine.

EDIT: Aaaaaand I spoke too sooooooon.
Now, my new race of Andarreans will not show up when I play adventurer. Oh, and I corrected the errors in the codes.
Perhaps some good modding soul can assist me.

EDITEDIT: And by not show up, I mean the square they are on is blank. Also, I can't talk to them.

EDIT^3 (I think...): BAH! How could I forget [INTELLIGENT]? But unfortunately, I still am unable to see them. Just a blank space.

Vucar Fikodastesh · « **Reply #13 on:** March 04, 2009, 12:05:38 am »

I think they need a [COLOR] token. Like [COLOR:3:0:0].

Tradanbattlan · « **Reply #14 on:** March 04, 2009, 12:08:55 am »

Quote from: Vucar Fikodastesh on March 04, 2009, 12:05:38 am

I think they need a [COLOR] token. Like [COLOR:3:0:0].

Where would I put this? In creature_standard or that entity file>

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