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SenorPiquante

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Historical Figures
« on: June 09, 2010, 10:28:21 pm »
Howdy folks! I was just wondering if there were a way to add historical figures to a world's Legends, to commemorate the last survivor of a goblin ambush (well, several simultaneous ambushes) in one of my forts. The goblin who finally ended up killing her got a mention, but she never did, and I want future dwarves to be able to make engravings of her noble efforts :P

I appreciate the help!

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Re: Historical Figures
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2010, 10:52:46 pm »
I believe you can add to the list of engraving designs, but it will take someone else showing up to say how.
I kind of want another pack that adds engraving possibilities like there was for 40d. Cacame engravings and Ironblood engravings for everybody!
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Re: Historical Figures
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2010, 01:57:30 am »
As SenorPiquante said, the only way to immortalize your legends is to add them to the engraving raws - in other words, descriptor_shape_standard.txt.
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Re: Historical Figures
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2010, 07:15:50 am »
Quote from: Lofn on June 10, 2010, 01:57:30 am
As SenorPiquante said, the only way to immortalize your legends is to add them to the engraving raws - in other words, descriptor_shape_standard.txt.

Hmm, okay, thanks. Would anyone happen to have a template handy for making it look like other engravings of historical events? I've got a very basic grasp of what to do from looking at the raws, but only just...

EDIT: Would this work? I copied the layout from the Cacame Awemedinade thread, and changed it up a bit based on this particular dwarf's circumstances. I put it in descriptor_shape_standard, in my save files as well as the main RAWs.
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