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Maxxeh

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Not surviving gen
« on: June 02, 2010, 08:45:52 am »

what reasons could there be for my modded creature to not survive gen? it lives a very long time, and is very hard to kill..

Maybe I Just don't know how to check the population correctly? I'm filtering its name in legends, and using the exported txt files, but neither show it's name at all! I thought my badass monster would have some historic figures!  :'(
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Knight Otu

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Re: Not surviving gen
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2010, 09:01:44 am »

Legends can only filter by name, not by creature type, so it's a tad hard to find non-megabeasts. Try filtering for " the ", with the spaces. Is it a non-civilized critter? Check in the exported file *_sites_and_pops.txt whether it shows up there. If it's a cave creature, it won't have much interaction with the surface population, so no historical figures.
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Re: Not surviving gen
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2010, 09:14:01 am »

oh i see.. so legends is pretty useless for that then!
I tried the *_sites_and_pops.txt file, but theres no sign of it there either! does that mean it doesn't exist or that is hadn't survived?

In the arena it works fine.
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Re: Not surviving gen
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2010, 09:20:35 am »

In that case, it probably hasn't been placed. Some possible causes...
Does the creature have a biome, the LARGE_ROAMING tag, and the LARGE_PREDATOR tag?
If the creature is in its own file, does that file have the correct header?

creature_blah <<the file name without txt

[OBJECT:CREATURE]

If it does, is the file named in the format creature_xxx.txt?
Does the error log say anything about the creature?

If none of that helps, or there is an error log, it would be best to post the raws.
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Re: Not surviving gen
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2010, 09:56:06 am »

ok, I had a few errors in the log that i've now cleaned up.. how do I set it to appear everywhere in the world, because I havn't set a biome..
also, it's just tagged on the end of standard creatures, so not in it's own file!

I was using tags such as nobleed, which doesn't seem to work in 2010.. I'm not sure these would have effected appearances though!
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Re: Not surviving gen
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2010, 11:18:25 am »

[BIOME:ANY_LAND]
should do the trick.
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Re: Not surviving gen
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2010, 05:48:34 am »

Works like a charm! I can't beleive I forgot a biome! being new, I just assumed no biome meant no PREFERRED biome! and would just wonder around everywhere!
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