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Damn there is a lot of data.
Wrote the program so it will parse and build the tree based on all files hirarchaly based on tabs.
This seems to be harder then it sounds, purely out of the sheer size of data. We talk about 1.7 mb of text, that might not sound much to some people but we talk 1.7miljon letters. but thats still 283 333 six letter words. I started it about 5 minutes ago and I am still waiting for the first break down so I can see logical errors in the parsing and populating of the tree.

I will break this down in to the possibility to parse selected files instead. Since most people when working with creatures won't need language info.

Edit:

Ok. Slight bug with pop push. It will only step forward, not backward. So all body parts are under each other rather then on one row.

Edit2:
Ok slightly better, still got some blank spaces in the Tree.

So it looks like crap and it doesnt really do anything except ordering all the bodyparts and creatures in Alphabetical order i each list.

It's a start but this will require some design desitions etc to actually make it somewhat useful. But atleast the data is being parsed and populated into each correct list.

Yeah. And in theory since you have a list of all the body parts, it wouldn't be hard to parse all creatures and report any bodypart that doesn't match up.

Or even body parts that are not used.

I will probably use the theory from "Twisted Metal".

A mother and father robot produce a child. The Father provides the wire, and the mother Twist the wire in to the patern that they desire, the twist will determine the personality.

So the robots will work kinda like any ordinary civ.

The pure blood humans will take the role of a dwarf/goblin combo. They will live in caves/fortresses under ground, and will kidnap robots to use as work suppliment etc.

As for the idea of eating coal, I might use that, but I want them to feel steam punky so large gears and hydralics is the goal.

Yeah, it's the ungodly amount of time i want to avoid, plus the fact that i want to be able to do emergancy repairs of flooded areas etc.

Nothing saying that you couldn't do stuff trough dual core & shader at the same time.
But the speedboost gained by running that part trough the shader might be nothing in comparison. Then again, by forcing it pixelperfekt and just have pinkgoo (1bit alpha) some speed probably could be gained anyway...

But what do I know. I have no idea how stuff is being handled, well haven't looked into detail anyway even if I got GIT poked at the source.

There is allways some kind of magic to apply.

I will, find a area with a cavern/passage leading underground and build a mighty fortress in said tunnels. USING WOOD. Probably have a mine somewhere eventually. But it would be nice to adapt your fort to a fixed layout before starting to rework it.