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[Rose]

Currently, graphics packs only allow setting sprites on a per-creature basis, such as [CREATURE_GRAPHICS:DWARF]

It would be better if they could be set on a caste-basis as well, such as [CREATURE_GRAPHICS:DWARF:MALE]

[Teirdalin]

I agree, that would be awesome.

[DragDen]

I too agree, this is probably my most desirable ability.

[MoonyTheHuman]

This would be awesome. lets hope the toad notices

[Shonai_Dweller]

You don't need to bump suggestions. Toady says he looks at (at least) the opening post of every one.

[Tristan Alkai]

As I understand things, it is possible to write the raws so that different castes are represented by different ASCII tiles, which would be a good start. 

Here it is: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Creature_token#C.  The known tokens include CREATURE_TILE and CASTE_TILE.  I suspect that editing the raws to make this happen goes beyond the usual scope of a graphics pack (I don't use them myself, so I don't know for sure), but this looks like the way to go. 

[NW_Kohaku]

As I understand things, it is possible to write the raws so that different castes are represented by different ASCII tiles, which would be a good start. 

Here it is: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Creature_token#C.  The known tokens include CREATURE_TILE and CASTE_TILE.  I suspect that editing the raws to make this happen goes beyond the usual scope of a graphics pack (I don't use them myself, so I don't know for sure), but this looks like the way to go.

When I made a caste-based mod for highly different creatures in the same "species" as the dwarves, that was what I used, but unfortunately, Toady never extended that capability to graphics.

Honestly, I think it's just an issue of Toady not thinking about it because he doesn't use/like graphics, even though it shouldn't be terribly difficult to do.