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[madk]

Whups, there's my mistake. I should've been looking for [CREATURE:X] instead. Will fix.

[Shaostoul]

That'd be what I said... anywho, g'night... or morning... either way i need sleep.

[madk]

That was rather stupid of me. On top of that other issue, I forgot to reset the string I was using after reading each token.

So token #1 would be [URIST]. That's good. The program gives me URIST. Next token is [MCDORF]. The program gives me URISTMCDORF. ? Next token is [FUN]. Program gives me URISTMCDORFFUN. And by the end of it all I've got a string almost as long as the entire file itself. Not only does it work now, but it's a lot faster, too. Since it's not stupidly reading these gigantic strings where it can't even find anything anyway.



I had it set to read one file instead of the directory here, so that I didn't have to wait as long or shuffle through too much debug info. Bottom line is that the foundation is a little more complete now.


EDIT: Loaded in about 4 seconds. Now I'm making it sort them in the list alphabetically. (rather than in the order it found them when reading the files)

[madk]

The creatures are organized alphabetically now!

Now to add the box for editing their code manually and stuff.

[Dante]

Nice. I was doing something very like this in a tacky little java thing for 40d modding, but didn't have a very good interface in place, and it eventually turned out that just modding text files would be quicker :/

So my advice would have to be,
(a) make sure your most common tags are presented in the easiest place to get to;
(b) keep vermin and regular creatures conceptually separate, because there's a lot of tricky stuff there, even (especially?) in the new version;
(c) have some common sets for intelligent creatures, megabeasts, etc, that you can pull together all the relevant stuff for;
and most importantly,
(d) check out "c_variation_default" - the creature variations could tie in very nicely indeed here.

[madk]

And what exactly does c_variation_default do?

[Deon]

Some creatures like animalmen are not created from scratch, they rather take a creature (i.e. a cave fish) and apply a variation to it. You get the finished creature in the end.

Basically, it's a set of rules which tokens to add and which to remove. In case of animalmen it's similar for all types of animalmen (change body type to humanoid, remove PET token etc.).

[madk]

Agh, that's not going to make this any easier, is it.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

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