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[IT 000]

In my recent mod Corrosion (See sig for link), it changes dwarves into humans. However traders, and the beginning strike the earth message still refer to them as dwarves living in mountainhomes, any way I can change it?

[!!crundle!!]

Pretty sure it's hardcoded, sadly.

[3]

You need to decompile the stuff in data/announcement. This thread has more info on doing that.

[Andux]

Looks like the ones you want to change are in announcement\fortressintro and dipscript\text\dwarf_liaison1.

Code: (announcement\fortressintro) [Select]

fortressintro
[TITLE]A Dwarven Outpost[/TITLE]
[P]You have arrived.  After a journey from the Mountainhomes into the
forbidding wilderness beyond, your harsh trek has finally
ended.  Your party of seven is to make an
outpost for the glory of all of [VAR:NATIVENAME:GLOBAL:YOURCIV].
[P]There are almost no supplies left, but with stout labor
comes sustenance.  Whether by bolt, plow or hook, provide
for your dwarves.  You are expecting a supply caravan just before
winter entombs you, but it is Spring now.
Enough time to delve secure lodgings, ere the [VAR:NAME_PLURAL:GLOBAL:LOCAL_LARGE_PREDATOR] get hungry.
A new chapter of dwarven history begins here at this place, [VAR:NATIVENAME:GLOBAL:YOURFORT],
"[VAR:TRANSLATEDNAME:GLOBAL:YOURFORT]".  Strike the earth!

Code: (dipscript\text\dwarf_liaison1) [Select]

dwarf_liaison1
[C:VAR:MEETING:ACTOR]
[VAR:NATIVENAME:MEETING:ACTOR]:  I am your liaison from the Mountainhomes.  Let's discuss your situation.
I'll have to see about writing a tool to handle this stuff.

[Deon]

This would be awesome, the Wasteland mod would benefit greatly from such tool .

[Andux]

Voilà: Weird Text Format Tools, for all your announcement/dipscript/index-hacking needs.

[Halnoth]

Voilà: Weird Text Format Tools, for all your announcement/dipscript/index-hacking needs.

I couldn't get this to work for some reason. It would open and then close immediately.

[Andux]

I couldn't get this to work for some reason. It would open and then close immediately.

It's a command-line tool; you need to run it from the command prompt.

[Halnoth]

I couldn't get this to work for some reason. It would open and then close immediately.

It's a command-line tool; you need to run it from the command prompt.

Oh I didn't realize sorry then. I was trying to run it like a dfhacktool.

[Chromasphere]

Hmm, is there a variable that will read which race is being used at that moment and replace "dwarves" with it?  Much like the [VAR:NATIVENAME:GLOBAL:YOURCIV] except in the line "Whether by bolt, plow or hook, provide for your dwarves."  This is just so it isn't set to a specific race, but will change with whichever race you are embarking with at the time.

eg  Whether by bolt, plow or hook, provide for your [VAR:GLOBAL:YOURRACE???].  Same goes for "A new chapter....."

[Andux]

Hmm, is there a variable that will read which race is being used at that moment and replace "dwarves" with it?

Doesn't seem like it. Your best bet would be to use something like:

Code: [Select]

fortressintro
[TITLE]A New Outpost[/TITLE]
[P]You have arrived.  After a journey from the heart of [VAR:TRANSLATEDNAME:GLOBAL:YOURCIV]
into the forbidding wilderness beyond, your harsh trek has finally
ended.  Your party of seven is to make an
outpost for the glory of all of [VAR:NATIVENAME:GLOBAL:YOURCIV].
[P]There are almost no supplies left, but with stout labor
comes sustenance.  Whether by bolt, plow or hook, provide
for your people.  You are expecting a supply caravan later
in the year, but it is Spring now.
Enough time to make secure lodgings, ere the [VAR:NAME_PLURAL:GLOBAL:LOCAL_LARGE_PREDATOR] get hungry.
A new chapter of history begins here at this place, [VAR:NATIVENAME:GLOBAL:YOURFORT],
"[VAR:TRANSLATEDNAME:GLOBAL:YOURFORT]".  Strike the earth!

[Chromasphere]

Yah I made a variation of that.

That makes me think.  Is there a variable that can name the region you are embarking in?  So the line "...into the forbidding wilderness beyond..." could read "... into the forbidding wilderness of [VAR:TRANSLATEDNAME:GLOBAL:LOCAL_???]   name of the region, area of embark.

[Eldrick Tobin]

From the string dump on the magmawiki there are NOT that many variables that work at the Weird Text Format level.