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Title: [Community Mod 50.05] Teh LOLmod 1.10
Post by: voliol on March 12, 2021, 11:49:48 am
Teh LOLmod

Download Latest Version (https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=16380)
Download 0.47.05 Version (https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=15470)
Old Thread. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=132175.0)
Old Thread #2. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=172147.0)

Welcome to Teh LOLmod! This is a community mod which means that anything added into it, as well as the people working on the mod itself is done by the community itself, and not a single person! The rules are simple, you want to add something or add something somebody else suggested? Just add it in and give it to me and I'll check it and give it the green! That's all! You guys choose what gets in, gets out and gets balanced.

So what do you do now? Well you just download the mod, make a fortress near a necro tower and hope you manage to survive. After you've had your fair share of !!FUN!! come back over here and give suggestions or add in your own things.




Spoiler: What is this mod? (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: What does this mod add? (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: But this ruins the immersivity! (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Who made this mod? (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: How do I learn more about this mod without playing it? (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: I still don't believe you. Give me an example? (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: I've heard enough. How do I install it!? (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Changelog (click to show/hide)

Now then, without further ado, may the !!FUN!! start!
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.8.68 - the Rule of voliol
Post by: Enemy post on March 12, 2021, 12:38:24 pm
Thanks for taking over, Voliol! I look forward to seeing what you make.
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9
Post by: voliol on March 20, 2021, 10:17:21 am
Teh LOLmod 1.9 is here, containing mostly refactoring but also some bug fixes, the most important/noticable ones surrounding cars and summons.

Here are the details for the refactoring, if anyone's interested:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9
Post by: voliol on March 27, 2021, 02:40:31 pm
My big goal for this mod (other than adding whatever stuff you guys come up with) is to have it graphics-ready some time after Premium releases. It's a big mod, so to do that multiple methods will probably be needed (scouring sprite databases for sprites usable as is, editing sprites, doing them from scratch), and it's best to start as soon as possible.

For the politicians, my envisioned method is doing heads to stick on human bodies, one for each politician:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
That way they can wear various equipment (headwear excluded) and have it show up, without any extra work.
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9
Post by: Enemy post on March 27, 2021, 06:55:37 pm
Who's the cross-faced one?
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9
Post by: voliol on March 28, 2021, 02:49:28 am
Meant to be Jill Stein, she just hasn’t been given a face yet. Under her are Gary Johnson (who I am not quite satisfied with) and John Kasich, based on this kind of face:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9
Post by: Enemy post on March 28, 2021, 10:39:36 am
Thanks for doing the graphics, by the way!
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9
Post by: voliol on May 03, 2021, 10:29:59 am
Here's some of the graphics done the past month:
(https://i.imgur.com/qHk7r2A.png)
A mockup based on one of the official screenshots. An Obama and a Trump are preparing an assault on a gloglogabgalab, and they've summoned Obama Prisms and Walls respectively to help them with the deed.
(https://i.imgur.com/rz3hpJs.png)
A family of Bushes: Sr., Jr. and Jeb, in order.
(https://i.imgur.com/qU1yseL.png)
And finally a nyan cat, a sanic and a blue-eyes white dragon, with a dwarf for size comparison. Arguably the blue-eyes is a bit too big, but that's what you get for ripping sprites.
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9
Post by: Enemy post on May 03, 2021, 12:30:19 pm
Quote from: voliol on May 03, 2021, 10:29:59 am
-snip-

Ok, now I'm sold on the graphical version.
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9
Post by: voliol on May 03, 2021, 05:00:11 pm
Quote from: Enemy post on May 03, 2021, 12:30:19 pm
Quote from: voliol on May 03, 2021, 10:29:59 am
-snip-

Ok, now I'm sold on the graphical version.

So am I. It’s an intoxinating feeling to implement graphics other than colored ASCII symbols, even if it’s just mockups by editing screenshots.

By the way, I was thinking of implementing the monkeys in barrels done by meph over at the official steam announcement thread, as those sprites are too good to never appear in anybody’s game.
Quote from: Meph on April 23, 2021, 01:09:32 pm
I'm truly sorry for the long wait, it's obviously the first thing I should have done.

(https://i.imgur.com/GX97PEc.png)
Gotta ask him first of course, but if given an ok I’d add them to the mod even before the Premium release, if only as anticipatory ASCII symbols. What do you think?
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9
Post by: Enemy post on May 03, 2021, 05:10:55 pm
Sounds like they’d be as fun as a barrel of monkeys.
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9
Post by: ArchimedesWojak on May 04, 2021, 07:05:24 am
What is this gem i have stumbled across
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9
Post by: voliol on May 05, 2021, 03:21:00 pm
Quote from: ArchimedesWojak on May 04, 2021, 07:05:24 am
What is this gem i have stumbled across

'Tis Teh LOLmod, where the veins of the internet are seeping into the DF raws. Or something. The top post really explains it best, in case you only saw the "screenshots".

I did get permission to use the monkey barrel sprites from Meph, but only on Steam/itch.io as they are technically owned by Kitfox. Considering I'm planning to borrow/modify other sprites from the official Steam graphics for this, that pretty much confirms that graphics for Teh LOLmod will only be coming to Steam/itch.io users. At least the ones I'm putting together now.
 
And then in the midst of trying to implement them I realized I had no idea which monkeys the other two represented. Oh well. A new minor version adding the chimpanzee barrels only will go up tomorrow, so now's the time to sneak something in if you feel like it.

edit: v1.9.1 is now up
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9.1
Post by: UselessMcMiner on May 20, 2021, 12:01:16 pm
i must ask for posterity

have anarcho primitivists been added already

im very bored, and was going to make a monke fort mod and this seems like a project that would contribute to
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9.1
Post by: UselessMcMiner on May 20, 2021, 12:53:20 pm
in the past hour i have decided to abandon that idea because its a shitty one
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9.1
Post by: voliol on May 20, 2021, 01:17:11 pm
We do have cave men, and hippies (also known as elves).

But feel free to contribute if you come up with any idea you don’t dislike. :)
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9.1
Post by: voliol on June 02, 2021, 12:22:19 pm
I made some more graphics this past month of may, perhaps best shown with a "screenshot".
(https://i.imgur.com/0PGJzls.png)
As some dwarves are standing 'round their wagon, a martian tripod is approaching. A slenderman, flying spaghetti monster*, two bad piggies, and some pepes (including a giant one) are also hanging around.

*though this is an inaccuracy, FSM is fictional even within teh LOLmod. You'll be able to make statues depicting it though.
While doing so I was reminded just how large this mod is. There's a lot to do, and the pace I'm doing this isn't very fast. Anyhow, this lead to the decision to put up the checklist of all-things-that-need-sprites on pastebin, instead of keeping it for myself. I'll still chug along with making/gathering sprites, but this will hopefully make it easier to participate. I'll update it whenever I make something, and if anyone wants to do a sprite (or has done it) just post it here in the thread and I'll check it off.
...This is a community mod, so maybe I should have done this from the get-go.

Here's the checklist. (https://pastebin.com/zKWaRjk5)

Spoiler: Various stuff from the last month, and before (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9.1
Post by: Enemy post on June 02, 2021, 09:48:37 pm
Really liking that art. I’ve already got a lot of drawing to do, but I should be done with making tiles for Primal soon, at least. Feel free to use the art from that for the lasersaurs.
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9.1
Post by: voliol on June 03, 2021, 09:56:49 am
Thanks! Maybe half of the sprites are ”borrowed” from various sources, perler patterns being surprisingly helpful, but still mostly games. The lasersaurs will look lovely!
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9.1
Post by: voliol on July 08, 2021, 10:41:28 am
Here's another update on the spritework. Thanks to Enemy Post there are now sprites for the lasersaurs lurking in the caverns.
(https://i.imgur.com/780y7Od.png)
Cower, or be turned into a sieve!

Spoiler: and more sprites (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/CC7WbG9.png)
I've got a question about the chads. They have three castes: Stacy (female), Chad (male), and "Chad Thundercock". Chad Thundercock is a huge megabeast, and by the raws a straight-up copy of a bronze colossus, turned into a caste. However, the way they are now they just have a layer of bronze outside normal organic tissues. Do you think I should change this, so they are 100% bronze? This also ties into the graphics, as I reckon a 100% bronze chad should probably look all bronze, but maybe less so if it's just a coating.

(https://i.imgur.com/d0PGPbH.png)
Also one regarding the drill and chainsaw. These were lifted from Terraria. I feel their handle designs may be a little non-dwarfy though, especially as all vanilla weapons/tools have wooden handles/shafts/hilts. What are your thoughts?
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9.1
Post by: Enemy post on July 08, 2021, 02:30:06 pm
Regarding the chads, I've got to admit, I usually don't like the unpredictable behavior caused by mixing creature types on the caste level, but that's just me.

I'd recommend leaving them with only bronze skin, since there's going to be a lot more of them in the world than real colossi. Also, whoever made them was probably making a pun on "bronzed skin."

As for the chainsaws, I don't think making them all metal is an issue. The LOLmod is about as far from vanilla as you can get, and even the vanilla weapons are all actually solid metal if you look closely. This is true even if it doesn't make sense, such as with whips.
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9.1
Post by: voliol on July 09, 2021, 05:03:54 pm
Good points. The chad will have bronze skin, and I'll stop worrying about the drills and chainsaws.
I agree putting too much into castes can get pretty messy, especially when the castes have different use cases/behaviors (being sapient/non-sapient/megabeast/night creature), but there's a lot of it and low priority for now. And the other chads turned out to be semimegas, so that specific mixing should not be too bad. Anyways, here's a mockup of a bronzed chad:
(https://i.imgur.com/qKyaTbU.png)

Also, a new version is up. Mostly bugfixes and but I also took the freedom to add AOC and Kamala Harris to the list of politicians.
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9.1
Post by: Talvieno on July 21, 2021, 11:07:17 pm
Slenderman? Chads? FSM and AOC? What even did this mod turn into?  :o This is fantastic   :D
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9.12
Post by: voliol on August 18, 2021, 01:36:46 pm
The last month has been a busier one for me, but I've made some new sprites.

Spoiler: misc. sprites (click to show/hide)

The gunfolk, who are just sentient guns (pistols, rifles, shotguns, SMGs or miniguns).
(https://i.imgur.com/GKYYUjf.png)
The different colors are just different casing colors, like dwarvesforumites have different skin color from one another. I don't plan to make clothing for them, but they should still have something to show their profession. Maybe little flags (and a crown for the "top gun")?
(https://i.imgur.com/IQ4iwy3.png)
Spoiler: an edited screenshot showing what it might look like if some gunfolk chose to live in your fort (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/1JpWRIS.png)
And finally, the lulz (on the left) and evulz (on the right). I noticed these were more or less exact copies of the vanilla gnome and dark gnome, so I gave them original designs. The lulz is based on the lulz smilie while the evulz is also based on the Joker, because when I picture-searched for "evulz" that's what I got we live in a society.
I also changed that in the raws, so there's now a TLM 1.9.12 if anyone cares to download it for this very minor aesthetic difference.
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9.12
Post by: Enemy post on August 18, 2021, 02:13:38 pm
I really like how the gunfolk turned out.
Title: Re: [Community Mod 47.05] Teh LOLmod 1.9.12
Post by: voliol on August 18, 2021, 04:02:57 pm
I’m glad you do :)

Ninjedit: they’re a really funny concept, the gunfolk. Big creds to the person who came up with them in the first place.
Title: Re: [Community Mod 50.05] Teh LOLmod 1.10
Post by: voliol on January 22, 2023, 01:39:28 pm
After perhaps too long time Teh LOLmod is back, now for DF v50 (here's the download (https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=16380))!
The new system for mods should help this one be used with any other mods, which is a big positive, but it also has a bit of jank preventing some old features from working. Forumite noble titles*, chips, and the old way burgers/sausages worked, to be more precise. Also, a number of the civs (thread necromancers (just the civ, the secret should still exist), trolls, gamers, and hellacopters) would give rejects on worldgen. No idea why, other than "FARMING CIVILIZATION PLACED WITHOUT CROPS" being the error message. On the plus side, the mod still has plenty of things to throw at you.

*Like the hammerer being called "banhammerer". Technically these could remain, but it'd break a lot of mod compatibility.

As for things that are strictly better now, we can do graphics (though not overwrite vanilla graphics iirc). I probably won't write the requisite graphics raws soon, but all the sprites procured and made are in the graphics folder of the download. So it can be done. And of course anyone (YOU!) may provide graphics, this is a community mod.
There's also a CREDITS.txt showing where everything came from. A fair amount of it is "borrowed" from other media properties, or internet sources. I think this should be fine since TLM is a fan project and not monetized in any way (and no one has a patreon for it either), and that neither the DFFD nor Steam Workshop should object. That said, a careless attitude has lead to a Dwarf Fortress fiasco in the past, so talking about it would be good.
The license for the rest of TLM (the raws) releases it into free use, as I understand it. I personally think something similar would be good, as a principle so the modding community at large is favored. But obviously that can't be done with the sprites we don't own.

If anyone wants to mirror it on Steam Workshop feel free. As the manager, I'll not do it before seeing what impact the forumites who joined with the Premium release have on the mod. And even then I'm unsure, since the mod is full of forum references and it helps having one place to discuss it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Title: Re: [Community Mod 50.05] Teh LOLmod 1.10
Post by: Enemy post on January 23, 2023, 12:48:11 pm
Hey, good to see this is back!