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[umiman]

Guh... I'll work on them some other day...

[Jay]

It can't be used on items...
He likes suits of plate mail for their strength. <--Cannot happen yet.

[umiman]

Well... that's both good and bad news. By the way Jaybud, could you fix up your sig a bit so it doesn't stretch the page?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Maybe you could change the mod(s) to comply to the standards of my ModBase program? That way people can use your prefstring modification alongside creature-modifying mods.

[umiman]

I'll try, but it'll take awhile to learn your system.

[Sean Mirrsen]

There's no system. Other than writing up a description file, you do everything the same as you would for a normal mod. Strip every entry of everything not added by you (leaving only prefstrings, in this case) and stuff them entries into one file with a unique name that still conforms DF's standards. The program will take care of the rest.

[Jay]

Couple annotations here.
1) Prefstring mod WILL in fact mess with any pre-existing mods you might have due to being part of creature_standard.txt among all the other creature_xxx.txts.
..Not that there's anything you can do about it.
EDIT: Except for this Mod Base thing?  Not sure what that's about.  I'll have to go take a look, as it appears you already have.

2)Engravings mod affects:
a)Engravings (Obviously)
b)Thoughts (He likes the color turquoise, gold, dwarves for their beards, and females.)
c)Decorations on objects (On the item is an image of a Elven fool in elf leather.) Hah!
d)Civ/Group symbols (A Urist Uristurist rendition of a masterful image of rolling plains.)

Maybe you should just name it the Symbols mod?

[Fieari]

I converted the Engraving and Prefstring mods to ModBase format for you, here.  It IS compatible with the martial arts mod... in fact, should be compatible with any mod.

The format is really easy to use!  Hopefully all future releases will use it too.  Just check it out.  It doesn't include the threat mod because modbase can't do that yet.

[umiman]

jaybud4: Yeah, I noticed those. It's kinda cool actually, don't you think? Can't do anything about it though... I like your idea though. Symbols mod. Hmm...

Fieari: Yaay! Thanks for doing it for me . Laziness prevails once more!

Addendum: I'm hoping Toady lets us edit those adventurer mode speech bubbles. No offense, but I'm already bored of the "fearsome foe".

[Fieari]

No problem.  I wanted to use it with the martial arts mod, so I needed to get it working for me.  Figured I'd let everyone else benefit from my work too.  I'd bet the speech things will be modifiable... I mean, every other conversation is already, so why not this one?

If you want to add more stuff to the mod, take a look at the files I have.  You'll see how absurdly easy it is to work with.  So if you want to add more prefstrings or whatnot, you can keep it modbase compatible.

[umiman]

Updated so it works with latest version. Also added prefstrings for all plants. Sigh... now for the goblins...

[Sean Mirrsen]

The Modbase version is still perfectly compatible though.

[umiman]

No. It isn't. I just tried it. It's not running worldgen. I think it's accidentally missing or deleting something.

[Sean Mirrsen]

You did try the .90a release I updated for the new version, right?

Because I just tried it and it works.

[umiman]

Yup. And I got the files you linked to as well. Not working. Clean install. Tried it three times. No dice. I'm manually replacing all the prefstrings now.