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[Earwig]

I have this species in mind, based on a weird creature I made in Spore, that has four maws and two heads, with one eye on each head.

Some ref pics here:
http://i32.tinypic.com/358409g.jpg
http://i31.tinypic.com/2m48zh1.jpg
http://i29.tinypic.com/20zscqs.jpg
http://i27.tinypic.com/aw2whs.jpg

I'm definitely outside of my comfort zone here, though. I've just been kind of dabbling here and there, and shoving tags in when I find out about them. Basically what I'd like is to have a general raptor-ish chitinous body with skin/muscle/bone under the chitin (pretty sure I've figured that out fine). I want them to be a civilization that lives in Savage non-freezing regions, but I also was hoping I could get groups of them hunting raptor-style in savage jungles. I want them to be civilized but also tame-able as exotic pets and mounts. My major issue has been with the body tags. If I had a good reference point where I could just copy a raptor or something, I definitely would, but I can't seem to find anything like that.

Any insights on how to make a humanoid with two heads, two mouths on each head, one eye on each head, and a tail, would make me very happy. They have three fingers and five toes, all sharply clawed. They're ambush predators, carnivores, etc.

Additionally I was confused about teeth, I would like to find a setup that has a maw full of horrible needle teeth and apply that to all four mouths, but I've only been able to find the eyeteeth for lions etc.

I'm a total noob so I should probably start simpler, but I really do want to see these guys running around wreaking havoc. Thanks in advance for any tips!

[Kweri]

It looks like MOST of your body needs are taken care of by [BODY:HUMANOID_2HEAD] [BODY:TAIL] [BODY:3FINGERS] [BODY:5TOES] and [BODY:1EYE] in the default body files.

1EYE has [CONTYPE:HEAD], which means attach it to every part that is of the head type - so you'd get one eye per head in this case.

You're going to need to add some new body files - either append into the existing body_default.txt or make a new file. I'm going to assume you're making a new file here (I prefer this method; keeps my stuff separate from the default files so I can update/troubleshoot easier). Let's say you create body_earwig.txt for these new body parts. The first lines of your file would be:

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body_earwig

[OBJECT:BODY]Now, looking at your creature, we need to attach two mouths per head.

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[BODY:2MOUTHS]
[BP:MOUTH_U:upper mouth:STP][CONTYPE:HEAD][MOUTH][SMALL][EMBEDDED][APERTURE][CATEGORY:MOUTH]
[DEFAULT_RELSIZE:20]
[BP:MOUTH_L:lower mouth:STP][CONTYPE:HEAD][MOUTH][SMALL][EMBEDDED][APERTURE][CATEGORY:MOUTH]
[DEFAULT_RELSIZE:20]Because it has CONTYPE:HEAD, it attaches an upper mouth and a lower mouth to each head. You'll end up with body parts called upper mouth, right head and lower mouth, left head for example.

As for teeth - sounds like you'd have a bunch of teeth all the same size. That's what [BODY:GENERIC_TEETH] is (30 teeth in that one). You can't specify shape of bodyparts, only size. Now, the generic teeth are all relsize 1, so I'd probably increase that for your creature. Unfortunately GENERIC_TEETH have CONTYPE:HEAD. We'd want them attached per mouth, not head. New body part!

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[BODY:TEETH_PER_MOUTH]
[BP:TOOTH:tooth:teeth][CON_CAT:MOUTH][CATEGORY:TOOTH][NUMBER:30][SOCKET][SMALL]
[DEFAULT_RELSIZE:10]
Putting it all together - I'd suggest [BODY:HUMANOID_2HEAD:TAIL:2MOUTHS:TEETH_PER_MOUTH:1EYE:3FINGERS:5TOES:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:HUMANOID_JOINTS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:SKULL:RIBCAGE]. Bolded ones are ones you'd have modded in.

I don't have the FACIAL_FEATURES body tag in there. If you want them (cheeks/lips/eyelids) you'll need to make a new body part with some adjustments - for lips and cheeks, probably change [CONTYPE:HEAD] to [CON_CAT:MOUTH] and remove one of the eyelids since you only have one eye per head.

[Earwig]

Awesome, thank you very much for the help. Diving in from scratch is brain-imploding. Bug brain and all that.

Thanks again! I'll make sure to work on these horrible monsters some more.