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[Captain Mayday]

This is a Random Creature generator. Come on, let Girlinhat focus on getting the main bit done before adding extras.

[Captain Mayday]

Oh, I need to let you know, in case you're not already aware.
When defining a body, you need to have it generate in order of structure.
You cannot, therefore, add a mouth before a head, or a head before a body.

Edit: Girlinhat, a lot of the modders hang out in IRC. Feel free to ask any questions in there. Deon and myself can be found there, at various times of day.

[kurokikaze]

I've made Spore to DF creature convertor a while ago. Not sure if it will work now.

[Soapalope]

Know what I just reealised?

FB are a lot like Warhammer Chaos Spawn.

[Girlinhat]

Oh, I need to let you know, in case you're not already aware.
When defining a body, you need to have it generate in order of structure.
You cannot, therefore, add a mouth before a head, or a head before a body.

Edit: Girlinhat, a lot of the modders hang out in IRC. Feel free to ask any questions in there. Deon and myself can be found there, at various times of day.

Noted, but I don't so much need modding help as creative help.  I'm fairly able to mod in all I want, but I can't think of everything.  So, the namely dwarven masses are given a chance to voice the desire for something they cannot create themselves.  That's all you guys, btw.

[Captain Mayday]

Oh, I need to let you know, in case you're not already aware.
When defining a body, you need to have it generate in order of structure.
You cannot, therefore, add a mouth before a head, or a head before a body.

Edit: Girlinhat, a lot of the modders hang out in IRC. Feel free to ask any questions in there. Deon and myself can be found there, at various times of day.

Noted, but I don't so much need modding help as creative help.  I'm fairly able to mod in all I want, but I can't think of everything.  So, the namely dwarven masses are given a chance to voice the desire for something they cannot create themselves.  That's all you guys, btw.

I was mainly suggesting it because mod-creators are well-versed with the RAWs and tend to be quite creative with them.

[Captain Mayday]

As another suggestion for you, don't forget to have NATURAL_SKILL assignments.

[Girlinhat]

Already noted, although I didn't mention it.  Natural biting, wrestling, and dodge skill will be the most used.  Also attributes likes agility and toughness.

[Urist McGyver]

Can different part of one's body be of different materials? Like a humanoid copper creature with arms of FLAME_TEMPLATE and a sindrome-inducing web?

[Girlinhat]

Yes.

[Urist McGyver]

That would be cool. Of course, a flesh-headed creature with a steel torso would be too much Geth of the Vault from Magic, but a composite golem of Copper, Bismuth, Iron, Silver, etc would be awesome.

By the way is this an actual software(third party), or is it .txt files to mld DF?

[Askot Bokbondeler]

I've made Spore to DF creature convertor a while ago. Not sure if it will work now.

wha?! thats awesome, i need some more info on that

[krenshala]

For the different body forms, I can see a number of options.  You've probably already thought of them, but in case you missed some of these ...

walks on some limbs (human, ape, centaur, etc)
walks on all limbs (dog, horse, spider, crab, etc)
"walks" on no limbs (snail, snake, etc)

I would suggest including wings (if present) in that since things like pteranodon are thought to have "walked" on their wing wrists/knuckles, as well as their feet when on the ground (like if apes' upper arms were wings).

Once the above check is done it can determine how many limbs the beasty has, and which are for locomotion and which are for other (striking and grasping, flailing uselessly at anything that gets close enough, little nubs that can grasp but not strike, etc).

And I like the order in which you are determining the aspects of each beasty.  From the sounds of it you appear to be trying to go from general ("it lives in a <biom>") to moderate detail ("it has N legs, and is (peaceful|wary|agressive|terrifying)") to specifics ("it has (skin|scales|feathers|thick hide|etc) and (hands|paws|hooves|claws|tentacles) at the end of its (arms|legs|wings|body)").

[Girlinhat]

.txt files to mld - I have no idea.  It's a C++ program that creates a .txt file in raw format.  The program contains all the needed tokens and things, and compiles it into a raw.

Krenshala - Check the first page, there's a list of all the things planned.  I've forgotten to add some things that were mentioned in the thread, so some are lacking and I'm too lazy to look back for all I missed.  And the actual order is biome, body placement (snake, spider, humanoid, etc), behavior (aggressive, flighty, etc), specific limbs (a spider could be walking on 8 thin claws instead of spindly feet, and a humanoid could have hooves for feet), specific tissues based on biome, aggro, and body (spiders shouldn't have thick fur normally, aggressive shrubland creatures should have tusks, anything arctic should have thick blubber), and then flavor parts like frills, coloration, decorative tail like a monkey, and other non-functional or semi-functional parts.

[Jeoshua]

But furry spiders do exist! Look at the tarantula for example! Also, a giant arctic spider with modified bristles that hold in heat isn't that farfetched of an idea (if you can get over the giant spider bit)