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theRH

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how do I ?
« on: June 29, 2009, 09:44:35 am »
make more creatures playable in adventure mode , if I wanted to be a dragon or a griffon or something of the sort . I imagine its in the raw ini file but I dont know what to change .

a bit of topic but in adventure if I want to look at somebody elses stats how do I do that ? like to see if the are very agile or have legendary strength . I know you press L to look at them but I cant find this information .

thanks in advance .
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Lordinquisitor

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Re: how do I ?
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2009, 09:53:50 am »
First, a link to an tutorial. It`s really easy and fun to learn. With a bit of experience you will be able to create new creatures in almost no time.

http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Modding_guide

If you want to play an dragon copy&paste the following into DwarfFortress/raw/objects/entity somewhere. Then Gen a new world.

Beware as i haven`t tested playing as an dragon yet*. I only played selfmade creatures till now. You should backup your dwarf fortress. ;)

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You won`t be able to breath fire, though. Only Npc may breath fire.
 
*I don`t know how the game handles Megabeast on Playable creatures for example. However, whatever the result it should be fun.
« Last Edit: June 29, 2009, 10:00:43 am by Lordinquisitor »
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Re: how do I ?
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2009, 12:21:46 pm »
thanks for the quick reply , so if I was to play as a dragon would they npc react to me as a dragon ? or goblin etc.
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Greiger

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Re: how do I ?
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2009, 01:43:33 pm »
You don't even need that much

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Is all you need.  Replace the creature tag with what you want. It would be best to have made at least one dwarven fortress first however, as dragons can't open doors, which means if there arent any fortresses around it traps you in some random town tavern. 

This method also prevents the creation of odd civilizations full of dragons.  All this does is say dragons can be used as a play now race.  No changes to worldgen.
« Last Edit: June 29, 2009, 01:45:11 pm by Greiger »
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Re: how do I ?
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2009, 07:46:55 am »
Huh? Thats cool. Tija one can always learn new things. :D
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Re: how do I ?
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2009, 07:44:42 am »
Quote from: Greiger on June 29, 2009, 01:43:33 pm
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Note That this does make them show up in certain amusing places. I think adding [EVIL] to the creature raw should fix that, but it has some possibly unwanted sideeffect, namely, it wont show up in any non-evil place.

Also, if you want to add more creatures, you only need to add [CREATURE:(somecreature)] after the first one.

Adding [ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_CHAINMAIL:COMMON] might also be amusing.
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