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[Deon]

I was waiting for the caravan spell! Thanks . Which race does it pick? Or is it random?

[darius]

random non vermin (couldn't think of a better thing)
Now that I think maybe new spells.txt structure could help like R SPELL_10 MOOD(BERSERK). But that would be bit work (redoing stuff).

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

Darius, your talk of transforming migrants into megabeasts got me thinking, would it be possible to have a "Give life" rune? after encrusting a statue with it, the decorated item would be removed and replaced by say, a stone golem?

[NecroRebel]

So the polymorph line is truly random, so you could transform, say, a cat into a dragon if you got very (un)lucky?

For golems... I was thinking that this mod might be able to accomplish something like that in a thread a little while ago (called Golems, IIRC) by using the smelter to make a creature's corpse then using a revive-conversion statue to bring it to life under your control. Unfortunately, I was looking into it and apparently there's no known means of creating a creature's corpse in a smelter, so I stopped that line of research. Doing it directly with the utility instead of a workaround, though, wasn't something I looked at.



Also, I was going through the thread again because I had thought this was addressed, but didn't see it. Is it possible to bind one material to multiple spells? Like, could I make a material do all of conversion, regeneration, sanity, and unzombification, all with just that one material? Or is it limited to one spell, one material?

[Hinasas]

You need to be running version 40d16 in order for this to work.

thought i was running 40d16... but i'm using it now and everything works great. thanks!

[darius]

Darius, your talk of transforming migrants into megabeasts got me thinking, would it be possible to have a "Give life" rune? after encrusting a statue with it, the decorated item would be removed and replaced by say, a stone golem?

I was thinking about something like that. Though not sure how to add this. Adding new creature would  require a regen. An i'm thinking about pure creation rune (spawns creature from nothing, hardest thing) maybe adding self destruct spell this would be possible. 

So the polymorph line is truly random, so you could transform, say, a cat into a dragon if you got very (un)lucky?

If you're lucky (the cat is tamed so will will the dragon be.)

For golems... I was thinking that this mod might be able to accomplish something like that in a thread a little while ago (called Golems, IIRC) by using the smelter to make a creature's corpse then using a revive-conversion statue to bring it to life under your control. Unfortunately, I was looking into it and apparently there's no known means of creating a creature's corpse in a smelter, so I stopped that line of research. Doing it directly with the utility instead of a workaround, though, wasn't something I looked at.

I thought it was possible to create corpses in smelter... Well anyway it would not work that way. The reason is that there are soulless corpses. For example when travelling as  adventurer, all corpses you carry will become soulless, when reclaiming fort all the corpses that are lying around are soulless. And so on.

Also, I was going through the thread again because I had thought this was addressed, but didn't see it. Is it possible to bind one material to multiple spells? Like, could I make a material do all of conversion, regeneration, sanity, and unzombification, all with just that one material? Or is it limited to one spell, one material?

Unfortunately  its the other way around. One spell could be used on number of materials.

Edit: Ok have the function to create creatures. Now thinking how to add it like a spell.

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

Darius, your talk of transforming migrants into megabeasts got me thinking, would it be possible to have a "Give life" rune? after encrusting a statue with it, the decorated item would be removed and replaced by say, a stone golem?

I was thinking about something like that. Though not sure how to add this. Adding new creature would  require a regen. An i'm thinking about pure creation rune (spawns creature from nothing, hardest thing) maybe adding self destruct spell this would be possible. 

Isnt there a value change somewhere when a creature either moves into the field of play, or is simply born?
If either of those values could be found, it should be quite possible.. the only problem I foresee is how much of a pain it might be to check for those specified values.

[darius]

Well birth is kinda hard to locate. As far as I can see there is none CreateCreature(race,method,etc...) function. So my method is: CreateCreature() [a blank class create], SetRace(raceid) [ nicely sets race, adds limbs and stuff], SetSomeStuff() [not sure what it does...], SetCivStuff() [gives professions, stats according to civ] and manually add to creature vecs. And strange but it works (bronze collosus(Tame) running around destroying buildings ). Now what I need is a spell idea. SpawnCreature? (maybe non random somehow?) maybe spawn from bodyparts? or some other stuff?

Oh and i will upgrade resurrection so it would work on "soulless" bodies.

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

Nice work Darius, you continue to do what others claim impossible on a daily basis.

Summon Creature would be an appropriate name I suppose, but I cant say I know of an appropriate way for to make a cow from body parts..
Could just limit it to say, Dwarven Tinker Toys. Made of various metals and the size of a cat.



What sort of runes and applications will they work on as well? a bolt stack with them could be fun, but also VERY 'fun'.


If its possible, you could have "Likes fighting" "benign" and mabye even "intelligent" runes.

[darius]

Probably the spell will be Animate and will work on totems (as now they are very useless). Would be cool to add the totem back if creature dies. But prob not possible or very hard.

[Deon]

Would be cool to add the totem back if creature dies.

Itemcorpse? Or you mean a decorated totem?

[darius]

Well simply put: elf totem-> elf -> elf totem. Most probably itemcorpse is species specific, not creature spec. But even if that's the case usually you could make another totem from the skull (golems would be reaction specific though).

[darius]

Shameless self bump!

And update: added 3 runes
2 spells and 1 trigger
Trigger: OnGearsOn (gears sentry) triggers when gears are switched on
Spells: Unearth and Animate. Unearth resurrects creature (usually long dead) even without a corpse. Animate turns totem into a fully functional* creature.

*sentient named creatures don't have names if created this way.

[Jay]

Wow, really?
Thanks for updating it quite literally 2 minutes after I downloaded it :X

Good job, though.

[NecroRebel]

Huh, and this morning I was going through and designing a way to organize and make new metals for spells. Glad I hadn't finished yet and so can add the new ones without making a new world, too.

...Though I think I'm going to add several extra spellmetals and reactions so I have room to expand my mini-mod as you expand the utility. You're just doing too much cool stuff with this, and I keep wanting to either not use it at all or regen to use all of it.