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MagmaDeath

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how do you play as a nonstanderd creature?
« on: March 24, 2009, 10:50:42 am »

what tag do you need to add
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Re: how do you play as a nonstanderd creature?
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2009, 12:33:53 pm »

I think this should go in the mods section of the forum.

However, to answer one of your questions...

For Fortress mode - [CIV_CONTROLLABLE]

For Adventurer mode - Sorry, don't know. I can't find it on the wiki, either. Scratch that. I actually think know it's [INDIV_CONTROLLABLE]

Hope that helps.
« Last Edit: March 24, 2009, 12:50:21 pm by gumball135 »
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Re: how do you play as a nonstanderd creature?
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2009, 01:01:14 pm »

Don't you need to create an entity for the creature? And add [ADVENTURE_TIER:x], if I recall.
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Re: how do you play as a nonstanderd creature?
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2009, 03:59:07 pm »

I don't think you need the [ADVENTURE_TIER:x] (read it in another thread), but yeah, you're right on the entity thing.

How did I forget something like that? ;D

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Re: how do you play as a nonstanderd creature?
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2009, 06:59:42 pm »

[INDIV_CONTROLLABLE], in the entity file, allows you to select that creature as "Play Now!" in adventure mode. It requires very few other tags, so all you really need to add to the entity_default.txt is

Code: [Select]
[ENTITY:BATMAN]
    [CREATURE:BATMAN]
    [INDIV_CONTROLLABLE]

Or whatever.



Adding [ADVENTURER_TIER:n] allows you to play that creature as a normal civilization creature, but I believe it requires a full set of entity tags to have a civilization in the first place. For wild animals and such, I'd suggest using [INDIV_CONTROLLABLE].

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Re: how do you play as a nonstanderd creature?
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2009, 12:42:01 pm »

You use adventure tier for full civs.  This allows you to pick "(RACE) from (NATION)"  INDIV_CONTROLLABLE gives you the "PLAY NOW!" option (the naked, no skills option).
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Re: how do you play as a nonstanderd creature?
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2009, 05:31:12 pm »

but if I wanted to play as, say, a walrus, then I would need to create an entity file for them, one that includes
    [INDIV_CONTROLLABLE]?
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Re: how do you play as a nonstanderd creature?
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2009, 06:45:59 pm »

Yep. Just take those three lines of code I posted, put them in the entity_default.txt file, and replace BATMAN with WALRUS.
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Re: how do you play as a nonstanderd creature?
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2009, 12:43:39 pm »

But then wouldn't you get a full civilization of walrii, or do you need [CAN_CIV] for that?
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Re: how do you play as a nonstanderd creature?
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2009, 11:23:06 pm »

But then wouldn't you get a full civilization of walrii, or do you need [CAN_CIV] for that?

No. Amongst other things, they have no initial spawn tags, so they will never even begin as a civ.

We really need a sticky for this topic, it gets asked with so much frequency.
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Re: how do you play as a nonstanderd creature?
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2009, 07:30:28 pm »

But then wouldn't you get a full civilization of walrii, or do you need [CAN_CIV] for that?

No. Amongst other things, they have no initial spawn tags, so they will never even begin as a civ.

We really need a sticky for this topic, it gets asked with so much frequency.
Ah, nice.  Thanks.
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Re: how do you play as a nonstanderd creature?
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2009, 06:21:09 pm »

So, I gathered that I need to:

Code: [Select]
[ENTITY:BATMAN]
    [CREATURE:BATMAN]
    [INDIV_CONTROLLABLE]
    [/quote][/li]


That wasn't much of a list.  Also, gen a world. Is that it?

Will this work?
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[ENTITY:LIZARDPEOPLE]
[CREATURE:LIZARDMAN]
[INDIV_CONTROLLABLE]
[ADVENTURE_TIER:4]
[ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_CHAINMAIL:COMMON]
[WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_AXE_BATTLE]
[ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_LEATHER:COMMON]
[HELM:ITEM_HELM_HELM:COMMON]
[GLOVES:ITEM_GLOVES_GAUNTLETS:COMMON]
[GLOVES:ITEM_GLOVES_GLOVES:COMMON]
[SHIELD:ITEM_SHIELD_SHIELD]
[PANTS:ITEM_PANTS_SKIRT_SHORT:UNCOMMON]
[PANTS:ITEM_PANTS_LOINCLOTH:RARE]

Also, why don't Lizardmen and Snakemen have [size:]s?
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