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Is there someway I can combine this with Masterwork mod?

EDIT: Nevermind, I'm looking at the files myself and I think I can make it work.

EDIT: Never nevermind, I only succeeded in causing my game to crash. I'll just have to make my own nightcreatures mod for Masterwork.

Quote from: GhostRiiide on April 24, 2012, 01:49:41 pm

Quote from: SRD on April 24, 2012, 09:27:25 am

The races on Genesis ruin adventure mode imo, like everyone is your enemy and there's no way to tell who's who in the travel screen :/.

Really? What does Genesis do mostly? I read it uses the Wanderers mod for items, and then adds a lot of races?
Is it that much more fun with it, or is it just mainly unnecessary?

Most of it won't affect you in adventure mode since most of the larger mods are aimed more at fortress mode. Basically it adds in more races, weapons, armors, curses/interactions, and castes for some of the current creatures (like different types of dwarves).

Is Masterwork the same deal? Because I'm really interested in it. If you were into Adventure mode would Masterwork benefit you at all? Could I use the Wanderers mod with it?

The races on Genesis ruin adventure mode imo, like everyone is your enemy and there's no way to tell who's who in the travel screen :/.

Really? What does Genesis do mostly? I read it uses the Wanderers mod for items, and then adds a lot of races?
Is it that much more fun with it, or is it just mainly unnecessary?

Seems like a whole lot of work for something that you don't really need. Can you even imagine how much it would take to represent every creature, with all their slight differences?

That seems like it would be easier. Since you could just use similar images, and only have to worry about organizing them all.

amber eyes, blue eyes, black eyes, to just name a few things.

You can use place holders until you feel like animating all of those differences. Couldn't you? The goal is to get a lot of the unique attributes an image. Like fighting, Like being human race, Like wearing certain armor. It's a lot of work, but certain small details like skin color or hair color, these things can be worried about later. But I see what you are saying, if you had all these tiny details and wanted them to trigger an image changed it would be a lot of work redoing every single sprite with every small detail change.

But I'm still trying to learn about what Stonesense can do, it can do a lot. A lot more than I understand right now to be honest.

Had a dwarf go insane (melancholy) from a failed mood. Wiki says he'll try to commit suicide, I'd rather cage him up and put him someplace. Any way I can nab him and only him?

I've never caged anything before, so an explanation of both how to cage creatures and how to cage specific dwarves would be appreciated.

He can't snap out of it? What if you added statues to his room or assigned him a pet.

Make sure you grab their head with a hand or some other [GRASP] body part when you go to gouge them out though, or your only option will be to "pinch" their eye instead of gouging it.

If you grab a creature with your legs, is there a greater chance of maintaining a hold or will you end up adjusting all the same?

I was wondering if I could grab a large creature by throat with my legs and then stab them.

mainly shitloads of drawing.

also the combat happens pretty damn fast.

really, the best you'd be able to do is a 'there's fighting going on' animation

That's what I was thinking, I was going to have poses for certain events. And I was going to see if it was possible to have certain events overwrite others. Like wrestling would overwrite stabbing poses.

Perhaps I am misleading you when I say animation. I wouldn't create overly complex sprite animations, but simple poses. If I was going to animate all of this, I would hope my number is in the hundreds, not the thousands. My first plan was creating blank templates that outline the shapes for everything, so its easier to color and work with. Then I was going to simply fill in the blanks with any details I'd need based on certain information. So I could have limbless character images, choking pose, general wrestling pose, striking pose, things like that. The amount of work that comes in would be the need to animate every single type of clothing. BUT, I could always create a general animation sheet to be used as placeholders correct?

Is it possible, to have a combat pose set. And then every time combat ends, you reset to a default character image? Within your Stonesense program? And, are all your images for characters pre-rendered? Or does it generate the character image? When the program renders a frame with information it gets from Dwarf Fortress, it just uses whatever images are set for whatever parameters you tell it to use? Because I see when I stealth, my character image vanishes. So you could tell your program to actually use a stealth image too right? Also does Stonesense support animation? I see the grass sways back and forth. I was wandering if I decided to create some kind of walking would it be supported, or is that something you'd need to code in to make Stonesense support?

I'm just wondering about all of this, so if I wanted to show certain details on certain characters, I'd know just how many images to draw.

Personally I'm an eye gouger myself. Most things give in rather quickly to the pain of having lost an eye or two, and you only need to get lucky once to gouge out an eye, where to break a leg takes a couple of steps that all have to happen before it breaks.

The eyes huh? I tried biting those out on stuff like impala and cheetas.

I'll try it on the big stuff, I'm going to go rhino hunting.