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[mcbucko]

This has probably been asked before, but is it possible to set up in the raws that only a single individual of a creature spawns during worldgen?

[evictedSaint]

I think you can do that by setting the pop cap and site and civ cap to 1.

I'm not sure if it works 100%, and they will probably die out around year 2 or so.

[Ravendarksky]

OK for anyone else interested (and hopefully for people using the forum search functionality). if you want to read the gamelog.txt file / RAWS from a program and get the correct special character symbols then you need to use one of the following three text encodings:

IBM437 - Worst
ibm850 - Best
IBM00858 - OK

Ontop of this if you are reading the file in windows, due to some windows crap you will also need to substitute char 15 with char 164.
eg (C#)

Code: [Select]

text= text.Replace(Convert.ToChar(15), Convert.ToChar(164));
I've done EXTENSIVE research into this now and actually been through every single text encoding available as standard in windows. These are the only three which are suitable.

A quote from the almighties themselves:

Ah, gamelog.txt is a standard text file, but it has some higher order
characters in it (from the names that don't use the 26 letter
alphabet).  Those should map to IBM Codepage 437 characters (the
extended ascii the game uses, the same as the font file in the
data/art folder).

[Putnam]

Nice, very nice. Should help quite a lot.

[Meph]

That should definitely go on the wiki, because it will be lost in this thread in no time.

[CryptoCactus]

Quick question: I know that adding weapon NATURAL_SKILLs to entity'd races will generally result in an all-that-skill army (e.g. NATURAL_SKILL:BOW:5 resulting in nearly 100% archers during sieges etc.), but is changing SKILL_LEARN_RATEs safe? I'd like to make certain races more adept at using certain weapons, without necessarily making them ALL use that particular weapon type.

[Ravendarksky]

A longshot:

Does anyone know the easiest way to read text from a portion of the Dwarf Fortress GUI? Am I going to have to learn some memory hacking or is there an easier way? I just need one line....

[Putnam]

Which portion? DFHack has some viewscreen stuff that could fairly easily read off parts without issue, but I'm pretty sure it's dependent on which viewscreen.

[Ravendarksky]

Which portion? DFHack has some viewscreen stuff that could fairly easily read off parts without issue, but I'm pretty sure it's dependent on which viewscreen.

I'm trying to help Meph out with some overlay code but I need my program to execute some commands when the user is on the Start Playing > Dwarf Fortress > Embark screen. I don't know how to detect this...

Currently I'm working in c# and do not know if I can interface into DFHack from c# (this would be brilliant .. I see something about Remote access interface in the dfhack compile instructions but I'd be lying if I said that means anything to me. )

Currently I can't take anything directly from Dwarf fortress except the process information and window size/position/state/title, and even if this info was of use I'm not keen to use something which will tie my program to windows.

I know the ideal solution would be to learn c++ and write my program as an extension of DFHack, but I just don't know when/if I will have time for this. I've build the DFHack project and had a quick poke at it but I have found it very tough going after 7 years of .NET development.

[Putnam]

What are you trying to overlay?

[Ravendarksky]

Just going to present the user with a series of prompts for various inputs to do with embark parameters as well as executing some external ruby scripts that meph has written

[Putnam]

Shouldn't be too hard with Lua. You seem slightly standoffish about this though ._. if it helps, I learned Lua from... mostly just reading how the Lua API works and some googling of various Lua things.

[Ravendarksky]

Shouldn't be too hard with Lua. You seem slightly standoffish about this though ._. if it helps, I learned Lua from... mostly just reading how the Lua API works and some googling of various Lua things.

Sorry if I seem standoffish... I just get nervous when asking people for help with things like this! I don't want to seem like I'm not willing to put in any effort to figure this stuff out myself. Unfortunately I find it quite difficult to look at new things until I'm quite familiar with them

I'll look into the Lua stuff, thanks

[Gentlefish]

LUA's pretty darn intuitive  it was my first language, haha.

[Putnam]

It's Lua, not LUA It's Portuguese for moon.