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[kaypy]

I think Stonesense might have a problem with snatched children.

OK, here is what I can do: There are flags for "this tile is occupied" and "this tile is occupied by someone lying down" (I assume theres two because they have different effects on movement and pathfinding). Thus I can at least check there is actually someone there before drawing the creatures.

However, if there's someone else standing on the tile the ghost-child is in, they may still wind up being drawn. I could get more hacky about it, but we'd be getting to a point of diminishing returns, and there has to be some way of getting the information properly that we're missing...

[Jadael]

Is there a way to tell apart smooth and engraved stone in the XMLs yet? And what about stone and block constructed walls? Carved, stone and block fortifications?

[Impaler[WrG]]

I'd suspect their is a flag on the creature data that's recording if its captured or in some way invisible, Peterix has studied the create data extensively if anyone can solve it he can.

[CobaltKobold]

...you know, it could be coded to rely on allegiance information for that. Would be a bit clunky but possible. Or some isContainedIn pointer (dubious) that points to an item, or is null.

[smirk]

Yes, the problem is that we have no way to distinguish a non-present, kidnapped child from an actual present child. So its either draw extra children or none.

This same problem came up in Dwarf Therapist, where kidnapped children were still showing up in the interface. I do believe Chmod eventually found the flag that denotes kidnapped status, if ye want to send him a message.

[kaypy]

Is there a way to tell apart smooth and engraved stone in the XMLs yet? And what about stone and block constructed walls? Carved, stone and block fortifications?

You can distinguish between three states
natural rough
natural 'detailed' (smoothed or engraved- cant tell the difference)
constructed (can tell material, but not whether block or rough)

I think the block/rough division is based on object lookups, and the smooth/engraved is based on whatever data it uses to store the actual engraving. Both of these are in the too hard basket right now.

[Khalan]

Not sure if it's a known issue or not, but if I remove an area of stockpile, the corresponding stockpile display in Stonesense does not disappear (this is with an outdoor refuse pile).

[CobaltKobold]

well, 'piles and zones are the only "buildings" that can change size and shape arbitrarily while they exist, so...

[kaypy]

Not sure if it's a known issue or not, but if I remove an area of stockpile, the corresponding stockpile display in Stonesense does not disappear (this is with an outdoor refuse pile).

Hmm... must have lost my fix for that at some stage. Try this in the stockpile.xml:

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<building name="Stockpile" gameID="stockpile">
<if>
<BuildingOccupancy value="2" />
<sprite index = 322 />
</if>
<else>
<empty/>
</else>
</building>

Cant do the same for zones, unfortunately

[Khalan]

Works great, thanks for that.

Also changing the sprite index to 166 works nicely for me; this uses the full tile shadow to represent the stockpile which matches better to Mayday's graphics set.  Personal choice though.

Edit:  Actually, 365 works even better:

[Greiger]

Well I figure I'm not the only one with dragonmen as a fortress race so I might as well post this so others can use it if they are so inclined.  These all used 7c Nickel's humans as a base, the civilians being most obvious.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1st and 3rd rows are civilians, only distinguishable by shirt color. 2nd row is military,  20/21 Recruit and Wrestler 22/23 Swordsman 24/25 Spearman (With 2H Lance and full helm) 26/27 Badly drawn marksman with green dyed leather. 28/29 Fortress guard in blue dyed leather wielding a club. 30/31 Sheriff or CotG(which doesn't seem to work)  60/61 are catch all high nobles (baron, king, queen ect)  Oh and first one of a set is male, 2nd is female.  The child has no distinguishable gender.

[Deon]

Dragon lance draconians!

[Greiger]

More or less yea.  Though more just general D&D half-dragons then the draconians with all their unusual abilities (like turning to stone or exploding on death).

In middle school I came up with a whole detailed background culture and abilities for them and had them as a playable race in a AD&D campaign I put together.  Then I got older and discovered the internet and realized that everybody and their mother have a humanoid dragon variant of some kind put together.   The culture is why there is only sprites for sword spear x-bow and club users.

[The Doctor]

Do you have a thread for it? I wanna try it. >_>


I like the primitive races mods, because I have hard time with the intricacies of the Dwarfs! D: 

[Greiger]

No not really, I always figured there would be a lack of interest.  I suppose I could zip everything I have up and stick it on DFFD though.

Spoiler: Off topic mod discription (click to show/hide)

Mod has misc stuff from other videogames as well as my Dracon race.  Has Argonians from TES, Orcs and wyverns from D&D (not godlike orcs, just bigger goblins) and for creatures there are chocobo, behemoths,(Final Fantasy) grass assassins (Phantasy Star), Puni (Mana Khemia)  And Deep Crow that are currently untested from Penny Arcade.

Vanilla dragons are now red dragons and significantly larger, as well as heat immune and fliers, and there are also blue and gold dragons.  HFS clowns have [POWER] added as well as some megabeasts.

New metals (mithril, Ebony(from TES), starmetal, and alloys stariron and starsteel.)

Vanilla wings can no longer be used to wrestle. And some new 2 handed weapons were added.   In the raws there are entries for ironroot, ebonyroot and silverroot.  Those were experimental plants that I could never get to work right, they won't hurt anything, but they probably won't show up.

It's a mod of pretty much everything I felt like adding from stuff I liked.  And I don't have a graphics set for it.  I play in ASCII and never felt the need to make one.

There I uploaded it. http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1695 go nuts, the stonesense xml and png are included.  Readme has details that may be useful.