Modding Q&A thread

[TheGrifter]

Anyone know whether it’s possible to add in stats, bionics, or traits to professions? I know skills, items and addictions are possible…

I can make Elvis, and Tony Montana, and all the drug addled buffoons of the world, but I cannot make the Terminator as a profession without being able to add bionics or stats to profession

[Nandorianen]

Not directly, though it’d be fairly easy to add that option if it’s desireable. If it’s something that normally spawns in a stack, like ammunition, the recipe will make a stack that big.

It would be nice to be able to fine-tune this amount, yes. For example, I wanted to add several recipes for nails crafting from metal. To keep the weight of the raw materials, scrap metal should yield 12 nails, chunk of steel - 75, lump of steel - 1000. Instead, it’s 100 nails regardless.
Maybe also support for range of numbers for randomisation? Although it wouldn’t be any good without factoring in skills (to get higher chances for maximum output).
Thank you for the answer.

[KWilt]

[quote=“TheGrifter, post:11, topic:821”]Anyone know whether it’s possible to add in stats, bionics, or traits to professions? I know skills, items and addictions are possible…

I can make Elvis, and Tony Montana, and all the drug addled buffoons of the world, but I cannot make the Terminator as a profession without being able to add bionics or stats to profession[/quote]
To my knowledge, you can’t. Of course, I don’t know much about profession making past what you stated.

However, you could always just put the bionics in his inventory for the profession, then save-scum as you install them, right? I mean, it’s not perfect, but I believe that’d be possible.

[kevin.granade]

Quick answer, every time someone has added a feature to the profession code, they also added a profession that uses it, so currently, if none of the professions use it, it’s not possible.

[zetashift]

Is it possible to mod Cataclysm in a way so that it uses the font/graphics of Brogue? Is it a simple matter of replacing the font or is there more to it?

(Sorry if this is the wrong thread, please delete if so)

[kevin.granade]

I’m not sure what you’re asking, if brogue uses a font, it’s a somple matter of dropping it in the right directory and adjusting a config file (data/FONTDATA), but if it’s a tileset, no we don’t support that yet.

[stone94]

any chance someone could tell me where to modify the monster speeds and quantities, i personally prefer zombies a little slower and more numerous, not that they’re too hard i OHK them on my latest character, was using reflexive bow and metal arrows and OHK Brutes, but tried to melee for a bit and got killed switching to my bow xD.

[zetashift]

I’m not sure what you’re asking, if brogue uses a font, it’s a somple matter of dropping it in the right directory and adjusting a config file (data/FONTDATA), but if it’s a tileset, no we don’t support that yet.

I got it already yea. I was basically asking if you could use Brogue’s font & lightning('cause imo, it’s way prettier then most ASCII roguelikes).

[kevin.granade]

stone64: The monsters are defined in mtypedef.cpp, still need to push them out to JSON.

[stone94]

stone94: The monsters are defined in mtypedef.cpp, still need to push them out to JSON.

Thanks, once they’re JSON-ified survivors beware

[TheGrifter]

How hard would it be to push the functions in iuse.cpp into a JSON file?

[CIB]

I’ve already implemented iuse’s in lua. JSON is probably not going to happen, as it’s not a programming language.

[Zireael]

[quote=“xibalba”]So will all the tables of things - traits, mutations, items, enemies, terrain, bionics, artifacts - eventually have all their resources located in a single location (a bunch of folders full of json files apparently)? Because I really want to do something with artifact generation, traits available at creation, mutation tables, and bionics - but I don’t want to chase down all this data myself.

I mean some things are located in the source files for game mechanics, but I’m not interested in editing game mechanics, except maybe to see more options available to tweak them a bit at character creation and during the game. I don’t want to edit the game mechanics, I just want to balance the game according to what I think makes a good game.

Besides it’s easier to share a bunch of json files than it is to recompile it when I want to play someone else’s changes.[/quote]

Agreed.

[i2amroy]

So will all the tables of things - traits, mutations, items, enemies, terrain, bionics, artifacts - eventually have all their resources located in a single location (a bunch of folders full of json files apparently)? Because I really want to do something with artifact generation, traits available at creation, mutation tables, and bionics - but I don’t want to chase down all this data myself.

That’s the eventual plan, yes, though due to the way that some of it works it might be very difficult to convert some things out (such as bionic and mutation effects). Some of the sooner things that you might be able to expect are the enemies and terrain, both of which hopefully shouldn’t take too much work to convert over (though with terrain memory size might come into play to slow us down a little).

[TheGrifter]

Will addiction also be farmed out to lua or json files for easy editing? Slurm, now with new hyper addiction.

[kevin.granade]

Yea, it should be possible to export the addition types.

[kevin.granade]

grep pattern *.cpp *.h

[drake1storm]

You could also just use code blocks, open up the project, and hit ctrl+f to do a full project search.

[Spare]

I want to create new types of buildings. More specifically I want to make campsites spawn near cabins. These campsites would be small clusters of tents, perhaps some corpses and a bear. Which files deal with buildings?

[i2amroy]

Buildings are in building_generation.cpp, building_generation.h, mapgen.cpp, and overmap.cpp depending on what you are doing. Yes you will need to compile after changing them.