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• how to add in a new race

CosmicGerbil How do you add in a new race to T3? When I try, all it does it show all the subraces. And I have been deleting the raw files.

This thread explains the problem in more detail http://forum.t-o-m-e.net/viewtopic.php?t=7319

OK, I have tried deleting all raw files and I have also looked at all other files I can find, but I just don't know what to do. I have added in a race, but my new race isn't even appearing on the start up screen Please can someone help.

Thanks from Cosmic Gerbil

NeilStevens: If I understand correctly what DG told me once, the subraces *are* what you want to add. Races are just groups of subraces, and subraces are what you actually choose (just like how classes are organized).

OK thanks I will try that out when I get home from college.

DarkGod: Actually the T-Engine3 birth process does not know what a race or class or subrace or whatever is. Check data/player/birth.lua, this is where the order and types is given.

It worked Here's what I did. In Gerband/data/player/races I put:

new_player_descriptor
{
        type = "race"
        define_as = "RACE_GERBIL"
        name = "Gerbil"
        desc = {
                "Gerbils are furry rodents that live in burrows in the deserts.",
        }
        descriptor_choices =
        {
                subrace =
                {
                        Agouti = "allow"
                        Albino = "allow"
                        __ALL__ = "never"
                }
        }
        stats = { [A_STR]=0, [A_INT]=1, [A_WIS]=0, [A_DEX]=0, [A_CON]=1, [A_CHR]=1, }
        life_rating = 10
        experience = 100
        age = { 20, 5 }
        weight =
        {
                female = { 150, 5 }
                male = { 155, 5 }
        }
        height =
        {
                female = { 82, 10 }
                male = { 90, 10 }
        }
        infravision = 0
        --flags = { ELF=1 }
}

And in subraces I put

new_player_descriptor
{
        type = "subrace"
        define_as = "SUBRACE_AGOUTI"
        name = "Agouti"
        desc = {
                "The natural wild gerbil.",
                "They are smart and tough.",
        }
}
new_player_descriptor
{
        type = "subrace"
        define_as = "SUBRACE_ALBINO"
        name = "Albino"
        desc = {
                "A white furred mutation of gerbil.",
                "Their eyes are less resistance to light.",
        }
}

And it worked Thanks for helping me out guys.

ShrikeDecil: Is this page redundant now? It's linked from the 'ToME 3.0 things to do' sheet, and there's a new entry 'HOWTOs' with a more detailed version of this. Yes? 'help... problem with deleted sub-race' is answered too? Should they be linked to from the HOWTO? Or dropped as 'answered'?

NeilStevens: Feel free to merge this example with another page if you think it's redundant. Just make sure to correct all incoming links, please.

ShrikeDeCil: Is there a shortcut of some sort to search for "Everything that links to here."? The 'LocalSiteMap' is a map of 'children' pages....

NeilStevens: Click the title of the page to do a search on that text.

CosmicGerbil The link for Gerband when it was spelled with a capital B didn't actually go to a page, sorry. It is just sometimes I spell Gerband with a capital B. I have changed it now