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Originally posted by Idiom:
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'A' or 'the'?
If it's the latter I'd shake your hand, but I need it to keep playing DF.</STRONG>

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Currently "The", because the rest of the coders finished long ago, and it's down to me to polish up the last release and get it rolled out before I can focus on new projects.

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Originally posted by Lyrax:
<STRONG>I would definitely like to use this, as I intend to eventually add all my own races with unique languages.

Would it be possible to group sounds together by type, and have them editable by type OR by individual?  

EXAMPLE: b, p, k, and t all belong to the 'plosive' group.  One can set 'plosive' to A_NUMBER, which will set each letter also to A_NUMBER.  This does not prevent one to changing, say, the 'p' value to OTHER_NUMBER.

Did I make sense just now?</STRONG>

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I have something akin to that - the program asks whether you want to give weightings to specific letters, rather than groups.  But you could go through all the plosives and ramp up their chances to big.

I plan to add a "check the syllables" thing, too, so you can make sure everything's awesome before you generate a wordlist.

Am I of the right mind to think that having the program check the resultant list for duplications is a good idea (although a bitch, because of the size of the file)?
Also, I think something to check for valid pronounciation could be good to add.

-Angry Lawyer

Hi.  I'm Angry Lawyer.  Some of you might know me from that HL2 mod Zombie Master.

So, as part of my portfolio, I need to produce development tools.  What better game to develop tools for than Dwarf Fortress.  So then to find a niche.

Languages are a bastard to make for Dwarf Fortress, there's a whole lot of entries to type for.  So my plan was to produce a language generator that'll instantly fill out a language file based on some simple rules.

So, what I've currently programmed, in a horrible console app form:

- Program asks for a language name
- Program asks whether you want to give any letters increased or decreased chance of being picked.
- The program creates an arbitrary number of syllables, based on letter weighting.
- Program autodetects the language_words file thing
- Using these syllables, an entire language is written to a new file.

What doesn't yet happen:

- Manual tweaking of syllables
- Pretty interface
- Any error handling at all

Once I've got it to a more userfriendly state, does anyone want to use it?  And any suggestions of additional features?  Eventually, I plan to plug it into a random race generator, or something.

-Angry Lawyer

Easily fixed.

Open up graphics_example.txt and do a search for "royalguard".

All those royalguards need to be set to "DWARVES2" rather than "DWARVES" - the person who made that tileset mistyped when doing the royal guards, therefore picking from the wrong sheet.

-Angry Lawyer

Also, consider the flattening of the Dungeon Keeper franchise.  EA wanted DK3 to be an RTS in the vein of Starcraft, apparently, before canning it.

EA would likely want to recast DF as a Dungeon Keeper title to start off with, and then they'd want to maximise sales by stripping out content that pick-up-and-play gamers struggle with.

-Angry Lawyer

Well, one solution to the problem, albeit not the most realistic, is to make food for animals optional.  However, choosing not to feed the animals means they stop reproducing.

-Angry Lawyer

Playing Dwarf Fortress has made me really, really want to get a chunk of petrified wood.

-Angry Lawyer