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[flabort]

i'm constructing a new creature, and i think i've come up with a wierd one. i want to know if it would work. this is just the [BODY], mind, so bear with me.

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[BODY:ECHOARM]
[BP:ARM:center arm][LIMB]
[BP:UPL:upper left body][CON:ARM][UPPERBODY][LEFT]
[BP:UPR:upper right body][CON:ARM][UPPERBODY][RIGHT]
[BP:LEG:leg][CONTYPE:UPPERBODY][LIMB]
[BP:FOOT:foot][CON:LEG][STANCE]
[BP:T1:big toe][CON:FOOT][DIGIT]
[BP:T2:toe][CON:FOOT][DIGIT][SMALL]
[BP:T3:toe][CON:FOOT][DIGIT][SMALL]
[BP:T4:toe][CON:FOOT][DIGIT][SMALL]
[BP:T5:pinkey toe][CON:FOOT][DIGIT][SMALL]
[BP:HEAD:head][CON:ARM][HEAD][GRASP]
[BP:MOUTH:mouth][CON:HEAD][MOUTH][SMALL][EMBEDDED]
[BP:F1:upper finger][CONTYPE:GRASP][DIGIT][SMALL]
[BP:FL:left finger][CONTYPE:GRASP][DIGIT][SMALL][LEFT]
[BP:FR:right finger][CONTYPE:GRASP][DIGIT][SMALL][RIGHT]
[BP:BRAIN:brain][CON:HEAD][THINKING][INTERNAL]
[BP:HEART:heart][CONTYPE:UPPERBODY][CIRCULATION][INTERNAL]
[BP:GUT:guts][CONTYPE:UPPERBODY][GUTS][INTERNAL]
[BP:COIL:coiled tentacle][CONTYPE:UPPERBODY][LIMB][GRASP][SMELL]
[BP:EYE:eye][CON:HEAD][SIGHT][EMBEDDED][SMALL]
[BP:LUNG:lung sac][CON:HEAD][BREATH][EMBEDDED][SMALL]
[BP:EAR:ear][CON:LUNG][HEAR][EMBEDDED][SMALL]

will it work?

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

More importantly, will it blend?
In my limited experience, I don't think there's anything wrong with it, but I don't have much experience with this.

[Boksi]

Uh, probably, but it's still extremely weird.

I approve of the weirdness.

[Kagus]

I believe the tag is [THOUGHT], not [THINKING].  I'm not sure if it's "breath" or "breathe" for air-related stuff though.

Other than that, the only problem I can foresee would be weirdness related to attaching small parts to small parts, but that's just because I've never done it and don't know what would happen.  Probably harmless.


The best way to find out is just to fire it up and see how it dies.

[Sean Mirrsen]

The foot-leg thing is probably not going to work right. You'll have two "legs" on each of the upper bodies, but only on leg will have a foot. I'm not sure though, I might be wrong, but if I remember my experiments correctly, then CON tags won't iterate through all instances of the name they are given.

[Jay]

I'm not sure (haven't tried anything odd like this) but I think you have to have a [LOWERBODY] even if it is the same body part as the [UPPERBODY]
And pinky doesn't usually have an E in it.
Yes, [THOUGHT] and [BREATHE] not [THINKING] and [BREATH]
The foot-leg thing will work as far as I know.

Experimentation is the only way.

[SHAD0Wdump]

I say mod it in as a adventurer and take it for a test drive.

Lulz are guaranteed.

[flabort]

er... sean (can i call you that?), what foor- leg thing do you mean? as far as i can tell, the shape is a long pole with a head resting on it, with fingers on the head, and an "external" lung resting ontop, and on each end of the pole is a lump, off of which comes a coiled tentacle with fingers, and one leg, each with a foot. here's a quick and dirty, probably very bad, picture done in 30 seconds.


er... no test yet.

[Hectonkhyres]

Looks like something straight out of Slaanesh's camp-o-orgiastic-fun.
...
On a related note, you have inspired me to try modding in a playable version of the tentacle demon. Make an entire underground civilization of perverse awesome. I may even have to make it so that all the engravings are of the triple-X nature.

[Sean Mirrsen]

The "leg" connects to CONTYPE:UPPERBODY. Since there are two UPPERBODY parts, you will get two legs - "leg, upper left body" and "leg, upper right body". If it's not your intended structure, add a "center upper body" and connect the leg to that with a CON tag.

[Jay]

The "leg" connects to CONTYPE:UPPERBODY. Since there are two UPPERBODY parts, you will get two legs - "leg, upper left body" and "leg, upper right body". If it's not your intended structure, add a "center upper body" and connect the leg to that with a CON tag.

I'm pretty sure that's what he intended.

[flabort]

if someone can make a better picture, please, go ahead.

[i2amroy]

It won't work as is. You need to rearrange the body parts. At this moment it will try to add stuff to things that don't exist. You generally want to put your body tags in this order:
1. Upper body
2. Lower body & Head
3. Limbs (upper than lower than hand/foot for each one)
4. Digits & other attaching parts (like necks and ears)

This way you will never end up with the game attempting to attach a body part to nothing and it screwing up.

Also, whatever you are planning on building you body around (in this case the center arm) should probably be your upperbody, it might work without doing this, but on the other hand, it might not. What this means in this case is to change your center arm to the upperbody and change the rest of your upperbody parts to lowerbody as you currently don't have any.

Finally, I am not sure on this, but lungs seem to sometimes have problems when they aren't placed directly into the upperbody.