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[darius]

Dear DF fans,

One day, while having nothing to do and theorising about endless hacking possibilities for DF  i made a lil program (also found creature vector, building vector, item vector locations, cursors coords location, windows coords location). Originally intended for storyteller mode, now is going to be a FUN thingy... Maybe sometime later it will evolve it something more interesting (like DF script) so here goes: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1434

Short:
Program for DF ver 40d14 currently makes FUN stuff happen around built statues(like burning rocks of death).
Cur Version has:
    * Statues: hurting creatures, igniting items ,resurrecting creatures , generating mist
    * Notes that do stuff(help inprogram)
    * BURN ALL ITEMS!!!(great lag)
    * NEW mode Scenario: Armok's call --unfinished.
    * Rename dwarfs (First name or Copy last name)
    * Nuke! http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-1694-nuketest

[Deon]

What, DWARVEN AUTOMATONS? Also, why did you pick "statues"? Is it possible to configure the type of creature the statues hurt? What kind of damage is it? What are the future plans?

I find this thing to be pretty amusing. The unique purpose of the application which makes no sense at the first glance but allows endless possibilities... T'is a true dwarven thing!

[Ironhand]

Now there's a non-aesthetic reason to line your entryway with statues...

[Footkerchief]

For anyone who, like me, came into this thread and got confused, the DFFD page has details:

Currently can:
    * Make statues hurt creatures around it.
    * Make statues ignite items around it.(ANY AND EVERY ITEM!)

Now I'm confused in a different way.

[darius]

Update update!

I picked statues because at first I wanted to make artifact statues to do sth. But later I found out that chance of making one is too low and it will take too long for dwarves to make one. Future plans: Make it configurable, but it will probably need a script language or sth similar.
As for update: added BURN EVERYTHING(just because you can). And resurrecting statue... Very funny to look at dwarves carrying the dead and then the dead walks away.

[peterix]

Dear DF fans,

One day, while having nothing to do and theorising about endless hacking possibilities for DF  i made a lil program (also found creature vector, building vector, item vector locations, cursors coords location, windows coords location). Originally intended for storyteller mode, now is going to be a FUN thingy... Maybe sometime later it will evolve it something more interesting (like DF script) so here goes: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1434

Can we cooperate on that? I have this dfhack thing going and would love to have all this stuff there and available as a library for everyone

[Deon]

Resurrecting statues?! Now it's cool. I wish you develop it further.

[darius]

I would love to cooperate. Just don't know how to do this better: edit Dfhack (its opensource afak?) or just dump research data to wiki?

Oh and if anyone has any ideas. Dump them here.

[peterix]

It's under zlib license, so yes. Very permissive open source, even allows compiling the library into other programs without much fuss (unlike GPL).
It's hosted on sourceforge. I'll gladly give you svn access and answer any questions about the code if you are interested. You mentioned scripting too, which is something I'd like to add to it eventually. Like adding LUA to it.

It uses cmake for building and wasn't tested with visual studio yet. Shouldn't be much of a problem to add _dllexport clauses to it tho.

[darius]

I will look into it. (first need to learn svn...). Dfhack compiled on codeblocks ok.(that is not using cmake)

As for the program: updated to have more FUN(tm). Notes programming!
Works like this: you add a note with 'N' type in one of the keywords(e.g. zombie) and range and volia: zombification area!

[Deon]

What was "e" in previous version?

[Porpoisepower]

It would be awesome if item quality affected the statues power. Planepacked would be sick.

[Draco18s]

It would be awesome if item quality affected the statues power. Planepacked would be sick.

artifact == artifact.  Planepacked would be no more "powerful" than any other artifact statue.

[Dae]

It would be awesome if item quality affected the statues power. Planepacked would be sick.

artifact == artifact.  Planepacked would be no more "powerful" than any other artifact statue.

Base it on its value then. I don't remember how many millions worth was Planepacked.

[Simmura McCrea]

3 and a bit million. Not much.