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What would you like me to do after this next round of bugfixing on RandCreatures?

Extract even MORE data - I want to customize what I get.
- 50 (24.3%)
Megabeasts and semimegabeasts need more work.
- 15 (7.3%)
Why no vermin? I want to annoy the heck out of myself.
- 10 (4.9%)
Nothing swims underwater?! How could you? I want aquatic life.
- 60 (29.1%)
Let's have (rare) random creatures that breathe fire and/or poison you to death.
- 34 (16.5%)
Forget RandCreatures; work on LangCreate.
- 17 (8.3%)
Zombie's Toothbrush.
- 6 (2.9%)
Make birds more birdlike.
- 12 (5.8%)
I want something else, but I'll suggest it in-thread.
- 2 (1%)

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Author Topic: LangCreate (v34 and v40) and RandCreatures (v34, being rewritten)  (Read 80175 times)

Talvieno

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I'm currently working on updating RandCreatures for version 40.xx. After that, I'll get back on LangCreate. Before, I didn't really add much polish, as they were originally only intended for my own use. This time around it'll be primarily for you guys. I'm exporting everything I can to external, DF raws-based scripts, of which you can see an updated WIP example here (click for link).

LangCreate should still work for version 40.xx without problems, but with all the creature changes, I need to update RandCreatures before it'll work at all.


I'm posting a full update on the progress, as it's been about month since I started rewriting RandCreatures. All told, as of the 13th of September, it's very roughly a third of the way done. Here's a fancy development list:
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Here's the 34.xx post:
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I've written two programs.
LangCreate - Download Here
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The first generates a DF language in great detail, with prefixes and suffixes to words, imitating word roots (in other words, "xia-" might be added to the front of any word with the "domestic" symbol). It lets you put in word examples (minimum of 10 or so), and then takes those and creates a language from them. For example, putting "murasaki,saru,shokkiarai,zonbi,haburashi,kokonatsu,yoso,randamu,baka,kobito,yosai" would be enough to create a language with a Japanese theme. There are some major limitations, though.
1. My laptop died back in May, so I had to rebuild the language generator on a prehistoric computer in a prehistoric programming language/compiler. It may or may not work on linux and macs. I don't know. I'd rather use C++ or Java, but I can't get any IDEs to run on the computer I've been using.
2. You have to use standard English letters. No using this: å or anything remotely like it, or it'll spit out some really weird words. (Besides, DF doesn't even read those characters.)
(actually, that's all the limitations.)

RandCreatures - Download Here
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The second, and my favorite, randomly generates anywhere from 10 to 1000 absolutely random, fully-functional DF creatures. Each creature has unique descriptions, prefstrings, and names. It all makes sense, too. The more creatures you gen, the more likely the program will find some of them to be worthy of civ status, and it'll then actually custom-design a random civ for the creature, which will actually survive worldgen. You may even see winged, trunked, bipedal creatures building castles at some point, but I'd count on something a little more bizarre.
There are, of course, some minor limitations.
1. It's written in the same language as #1, and has the same issues.
2. There aren't any creatures that cause syndromes. Yeah, sorry. No uberpoisonous snakes. Yet.
3. If you add 1000 creatures and go into adventure mode, you'll likely see creatures EVERYWHERE. Dwarf Fortress doesn't scale down the amount of wildlife relative to the species count. Instead, it keeps adding. The more unique species you add, the more wildlife you see. Fixed. In a manner of speaking.
On the plus side, the game is still playable, no matter what it gens. You won't get one-shotted by anything. (unless you come across a semimegabeast or megabeast, in which case may Armok rest your soul.)
« Last Edit: September 19, 2014, 01:31:19 pm by Talvieno »
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Re: Creature, Civ, and Language Generator
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2012, 12:57:28 pm »

I would loooooooove to actually see these. :D :D :D

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Re: Creature, Civ, and Language Generator
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2012, 02:05:06 pm »

Sounds confusing. Is it possible to play this WITH Dwarves as the playable civ?

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Re: Creature, Civ, and Language Generator
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2012, 02:10:30 pm »

Sorry if I didn't make it clear enough. Dwarves are the only playable civ by default. It just adds extra civs alongside goblins, humans and elves. If it adds them at all. It mainly just adds creatures.
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Re: Creature, Civ, and Language Generator
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2012, 05:58:44 pm »

You could also, assuming you don't have any particular desire to keep creative control of the particular design in your own hands alone, upload pseudocode for the program (basically, a detailed design) to the DFFD and let anybody else who wants a crack at it implement it in a modern language/interface/whatever and/or add design to allow more control over program number two or to allow use of any special characters that DF can display in program number one (this would involve finding out what the character encoding is that DF uses, but I'm sure a lot of people, especially modders, already know).
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Re: Creature, Civ, and Language Generator
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2012, 08:00:41 am »

Yeah, I could do that. The code resembles a cross between C++, Java and Visual Basic, so anyone who knew one of those would probably be able to figure it out pretty easily. I'd have to comment it first, though.
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Re: Creature, Civ, and Language Generator
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2012, 08:57:56 pm »

Is there a link to the programs? I'd love to test them and use them and make fantastic adventures with them but I don't much know how to use DFFD.
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Re: Creature, Civ, and Language Generator
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2012, 09:17:20 pm »

Not to nit pick but shouldn't this be in the modding section?
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Re: Creature, Civ, and Language Generator
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2012, 09:21:10 pm »

@Tsuchigumo550 - I'll upload them tomorrow, if I can, and post the links.

@Arzzult - Girlinhat put hers in DF Dwarf Mode Discussion, and nobody complained (until quite a ways in). http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=80121.msg2093847#msg2093847 I figured it'd be fine. Plus, going by her previous experience, plopping it into DF Modding nets 0 views. (I found her thread after I made the second program. The first was for manamaids.)
    As an added bonus, both programs add far more to Dwarf Mode than they do Adventure.
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Re: Creature, Civ, and Language Generator
« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2012, 09:29:37 pm »

Fair enough, the modding thread does tend to get kinda swamped.
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Re: Creature, Civ, and Language Generator
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2012, 09:32:01 pm »

Ooh, that sounds nice. I like Adv-civ-mods, but a nice solid fort addition is never bad.

Yeah, this -technically- isn't modding. It's debateably more related to it but it's a utility, not a mod.
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Re: Creature, Civ, and Language Generator
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2012, 09:51:51 pm »

I thought about doing something like this in Python that would create a custom creature's RAWs in a seperate text file, to be copy-pasted by the user. However, I'm sure there are others in the forum that are infinitely more experienced with both programming and modding than I am (I'm essentially a beginner at both).
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Re: Creature, Civ, and Language Generator
« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2012, 12:45:46 am »

i'd really  like to see the programCAN I HAZ DOWNLOAD
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Re: Creature, Civ, and Language Generator
« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2012, 10:23:12 am »

As it seemed to garner a bit of interest, I uploaded them. First post has been updated with links.
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Re: Creature, Civ, and Language Generator (Now with links)
« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2012, 03:54:49 pm »

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