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[Meph]

I love how the units for marriage are called victim in the script. ^^ Maybe people can build a chapel and use a reaction to marry civ-members.

[chronomad]

New user here, bear with me

I've been trying to change the caste of an existing dwarf in masterwork using dfhack by changing its caste property like so:

unit.caste = 37

37 being an example. This is the casteid I found for a wrestler caste (querying other units with unit.caste as well). When I change it, I see the change reflected in the "thoughts" screen for the unit in the game. However, as soon as I unpause the game, I get an announcement "Dwarf_Name, Profession has transformed into a dwarf!" and if I check the thoughts screen, the caste is no longer there.

Any help appreciated, thank you

[Putnam]

You'll want to change unit.enemy.normal_caste; doing this will cause a transformation message, but the transformation is permanent and works perfectly.

[WillowLuman]

Does that work for race as well?

[Putnam]

Yeah.

[chronomad]

You'll want to change unit.enemy.normal_caste; doing this will cause a transformation message, but the transformation is permanent and works perfectly.

Works like a charm. Much appreciated. Odd how it works. If I wanted to find more info on unit properties where could I go? Thanks again

[Putnam]

https://github.com/peterix/df-structures/blob/master/df.units.xml

[ElenaRoan]

no response to my question? not even an "impossible"?

[Urist Da Vinci]

Some things I discovered when examining the combat calculations:
https://github.com/angavrilov/df-structures/blob/master/df.items.xml#L164

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"item::vtable","1","0x148","0x4","vmethod","getVolume","int32_t","" <- the total volume of the piece of armor is also used as the armor's thickness (weapon penetration distance)

"item::vtable","1","0x304","0x4","vmethod","getBaseWeight","int32_t","" <- actually appears to get the SIZE/10 of the item. This is used along with the stack size by getVolume to calculate volume. Density only comes into play in code outside of the vmethod.

"item::vtable","1","0x360","0x4","vmethod","vmethod216","",""  <- determines the volume of armor being struck (i.e. the volume under the contact area of the weapon)

"item::vtable","1","0x364","0x4","vmethod","vmethod217","",""  <- checks an armor item for STRUCTURAL_ELASTICITY_* related flexibility (i.e. mail, clothing)

"item::vtable","1","0x368","0x4","vmethod","vmethod218","",""  <- checks an armor item for STRUCTURAL_ELASTICITY_WOVEN_THREAD related capping of SHEAR values (i.e. clothing)

Also re-discovered (as was found in that bolt properties thread) how armor thickness scales with volume, but body part thickness scales with the cube root of volume. It looks unintended on Toady's part, since armor and clothing for giant creatures is absurdly thick and massive.

[Putnam]

Can Lua coroutines be used in user scripts (scripts directory, or game save init.lua)?

Everything called from the console actually already runs in a coroutine. Also:

https://github.com/peterix/dfhack/blob/master/library/lua/gui/script.lua

uh

error loading module 'gui.script' from file '..\hack\lua\gui\script.lua':
        ..\hack\lua\gui\script.lua:157: ')' expected (to close '(' at line 156) near '='

which is caused by this:

function showMaterialPrompt(title, prompt)
    require('gui.materials').MaterialDialog{
        frame_title = title,
        prompt = prompt,
        on_select = mkresume(true,
        on_cancel = mkresume(false),
        on_close = qresume(nil)
    }:show()

[Rumrusher]

Behold the fancy way for adventurers to move around on their mounts. the script comes with 7 controls and one that sets the mount for control.  You need the mount script to be able to use this properly, also to get off the mount you just need to travel.
_{warning if you mount say a ghost you will ride through solid rock and beware of magma also flyers are kinda crazy with pathing and will fly high and low also mount might run to fight wild animals or run from them.}
edit: or you could use this mount script.

[PeridexisErrant]

In light of dfterm3 looking pretty stable...  Is it possible to pass dfhack commands from a GUI popup in DF itself? 

There are search bars and so on which can take text, and I imagine it's possible to somehow pass this back to run as a command - displaying the some output as the console would be cool but plain input is enough to open up new horizons for dfterm.  As it stands, you can't (eg) enable workflow or use autodump without having set up keybindings for them beforehand; and while Falconne's keybinding list plugin is cool I don't binding everything possible is a good answer. 

Is this even possible?

[Putnam]

It's possible to run scripts, but I don't know about plugins.

[ag]

The problem with using df itself for input is that plugins expect that they are running on a different thread and using a completely separate input system, so some may do stuff like lock the game state mutex and wait for input. This is a big deadlock hazard.

[lethosor]

I'm assuming you were thinking of running commands through the web interface. This wouldn't necessarily require running them through the DF interface - a separate prompt could be set up fairly easily to run simple commands from the web interface, but I don't know if interactive I/O would be possible (basically, commands using the command line like "tiletypes" would be tricky).