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What I've been doing is just making a test DF install. Paste all my modded raws in then run arena mode. The errorlog.txt file should find your errors for youNope, no RAWs parsers as far as I know. Rare materials may be affected by the GOOD/EVIL locations of civs.
Use a coder's text editor like Notepad++/CrimsonEditor/EmeraldEditor to regex-find "[MATERIAL_VALUE:.*]
in your 200-materials file, if materials count doesn't match found mat_value count then some mat_value commands are missing.
Can use WinMerge or other code comparison tool to compare N weeks ago own modded raws to current modded raws.
Found the culprit by going through the material values, turns out in my tiredness I copied a solid colour to the MATERIAL_VALUE field instead of the value it should've been. Oops! Thanks a lot though!
That is unfortunate, I was hoping it would have changed I the new version. I don't suppose there's a way to reverse a permanent transformation?Hi all. I'm trying to make a creature that has multiple successive transformations that are triggered in combat. Any idea on how to do this? Are transformed creatures still not able to be transformed again or has that changes in the latest version?
You cannot transform an already transformed creature, but you can make a single syndrome that applies a new transformation after the old one ends. The timing will be unchangeable once it starts though.
While I'm at it, if you had an interaction with I_TARGET:A:whatever, what does the A do? I've seen B and C there as well and I can't find what they mean anywhereA, B, C etc. are identifiers used to label the targets for an interaction, and work the same way as they do in reaction raws. They can be anything you like in the interaction definition, but the can do interaction code must use whatever identifier is defined in the interaction definition. Lemme try and unpack the cat's head bump interaction as an example:
The following is the interaction definition for the cat's bump:QuoteFrom this, we can see that there is a target called A, a creature whose provided body part is going to be used in the interaction, and B, that must be a creature. The effect of the interaction (outlined in I_EFFECT) is to make the thing designated as A (so the creature A's given body part) make contact with target B (which is a creature).
[INTERACTION:BP_BUMP]
[I_SOURCE:CREATURE_ACTION]
[I_TARGET:A:CREATURE]
[IT_LOCATION:CONTEXT_BP]
[I_TARGET:B:CREATURE]
[IT_LOCATION:CONTEXT_CREATURE]
[IT_MANUAL_INPUT:creature]
[I_EFFECT:CONTACT]
[IE_TARGET:A]
[IE_TARGET:B]
[IE_IMMEDIATE]
Then within the cat's creature definition, it has its own can do interaction which governs how it selects the targets A and B to feed into that interaction:Quote[CAN_DO_INTERACTION:BP_BUMP]This section is where we define what body part is being used as the CONTEXT_BP in the interaction. Because the interaction itself only cares that it is a body part, we could use whatever body part we wanted in this CDI.
[CDI:ADV_NAME:Head bump]
[CDI:USAGE_HINT:GREETING]
[CDI:BP_REQUIRED:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD]
[CDI:VERB:head-bump:head-bumps:bump heads]
[CDI:CAN_BE_MUTUAL]
[CDI:TARGET:A:SELF_ONLY]
[CDI:TARGET:B:TOUCHABLE]
[CDI:TARGET_RANGE:B:1]
[CDI:MAX_TARGET_NUMBER:B:1]
[CDI:WAIT_PERIOD:20]
This section is where we define what creature is set to be A (and it must be a creature, because that's what the interaction has said that it is expecting for A). Because the CDI says that A is going to be set to SELF_ONLY, that means that the cat doing this interaction is going to be selecting itself to be A in this instance.
This outlines what creature the cat selects to be B. It says that there must only be 1 target for B, and that it must be touchable and within 1 range of the cat using this interaction. Because the interaction itself only cares that it's being given a creature for B, we could edit this CDI entry in a number of ways. We could remove the touchable requirement, change the range of how far away the creature can be, or make it so the cat can select any number of creatures to be the target B.
If we wanted to make the labels more descriptive, we could change the interaction definition so that A is instead called BUMPER, and B is called TARGET. Of course, after changing what the ids are called in the interaction, we'd also have to change the can do interaction to use BUMPER and TARGET instead of A and B.
I kinda went on a bit of a tangent there just to get to that simple explanation, I hope that was possible to follow
tl;dr - Stuff like A, B, C, etc. are just arbitrary labels that can be anything. Interaction definitions define what each of those targets should be (like a creature, location, etc.), and can do interaction definitions define what a creature chooses to be each of those targets.
