Did I do this right? [SELECT_CASTE:ALL]
[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD:HAIR]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:BLACK:1]
[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:BODY:HAIR]
[COLOR_PATTERN:STRIPES_GREEN_BLACK]
[PATTERN:STRIPES]
[CP_COLOR:GREEN]
[CP_COLOR:BLACK]
Aside from what Untelligent said, you have to define the color pattern in a separate file, as you can see in the
sample raws.Anticipating the next dev phase, I'll try asking a few Qs about the upcoming combat arc:
How will the unit formations have tactical meaning, if creatures can move over top of each other and through each other's lines?
(It seems that the best formation would be stacking all soldiers into a single square so that every time a single foe moves into striking range, 50 dwarves simultaneously attack him!)
Is an archery rewrite soon to be in the offing? Will it follow physics to a greater degree than now?
(There is said to be a 20-square straight-line range limit on all missile weapons that includes, at the moment, not only the lateral distance from the target but also the Z level distance as well. That was a bit disappointing to learn. Greater Z level, if anything, ought to improve both the horizontal range and force of impact of the missile.)
The Combat Arc isn't upcoming per se. It's not one of the three areas that will receive attention after the release (sieges, adventurer skills, and top 10
ESV items), and it's not on
dev_next either.
The feature layers also weren't taking into account the local erosion elevation drops from rivers, so occasionally a stream bed would be floating in the sky above underground features and cave-ins would happen immediately, leaving little spikes of stream bed where the cavern's columns and walls had been.
Are you talking about brooks or streams here? Some people misname brooks as streams, so just wondering.
Anyways, I hope that isn't entirely fixed (except for the cave-in part) because having a stream or river or whatever drop many levels down into a cave would be cool.
I think you meant "rivers or brooks," but it likely applies to both in any case. It would be cool to have waterfalls into caves, but that's for later -- this was clearly a bug and not anything like a proper waterfall.
Is the cavern system going to take into account the type of rock it goes through? Like for example they would be bigger/more extensive in limestone and similar rock but be smaller in erosion resistant rocks like granite for example? It might be something to consider for the future though since I'm not really sure how you would handle it programming wise.
This seems to be a topic of interest for you:
Now that the rock types will have varying hardness (I think), will this have an affect on erosion? Like granite is very resistant to erosion.
Nothing for now. I know there are lots of karst fans out there, and it would be good to be a bit more realistic about it, but I haven't been able to get to anything like that. It'll also need to be balanced against the expansive-and-common fantasy cavern notion.
I wonder if we can create a will-o-the-wisp style creature which has a transparent skin, is made up of 95%+ gas bladder and the gas inside is luninous or burning or something.
You can create gas-bladder creatures, but the game has no notion yet of a material/tissue being luminous, transparent, opaque, shiny, matte, etc.
Cave crocs should be deadly of course, but killing 20 out of 40 beak dogs does not sound right somehow. Anything big enough for a goblin to ride on it should have a huge beak about twice the size of my hand. Even beaks on real-life raptors are extremely powerful, so imagine one about 5 times this size, on a creature the size of a St.Bernard or larger.
They were dogs, not beakdogs, otherwise he would have said war beakdogs.
Yes, and the dev log also made it clear that Toady considered it odd for a cave croc to take out that many dogs.
