Adding Creatures

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• $leveldesign$/Game_elem/Creature/fauna/bestiary/forest/chdfa1.creature
• $leveldesign$/Game_elem/Creature/fauna/Parent_creature_prototype/_dag.creature
• $leveldesign$/Game_elem/Creature/fauna/Ecosystem/forest/_dag_for.creature
• $leveldesign$/Game_elem/items/armor/creature_armor/medium_slashing_chest.item

Make a copy of each one in the respective folder and rename them to something new e.g. your desired creature name. In this tutorial ill create a "arma" creature so my renamed files are:

• arma.creature
• _arma.creature
• _arma_for.creature
• arma_chest.item

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Open the arma.creature file 

• replace

  Code Block
  language html/xml
  <PARENT Filename="_dag_for.creature"/>

  with

  Code Block
  <PARENT Filename="_arma_for.creature"/>

• change any stat value you want like "life"

Open the _arma_for.creature file 

• replace

  Code Block
  language html/xml
  <PARENT Filename="_dag.creature"/>

  with

   

  


  Code Block
  language html/xml
  <PARENT Filename="_arma.creature"/>

  


   

Open the _arma.creature file 

• replace in Basics struct

   

  


  Code Block
  language html/xml
  <ATOM Name="Race" Value="dag"/>

  


   

  with

   

  


  Code Block
  language html/xml
  <ATOM Name="Race" Value="arma"/>

  


   

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• replace the Skel, AnimSetBaseName and LodCharacterName atoms in the 3d data struct with the following

  Code Block
  language html/xml
  <ATOM Name="Skel" Value="TR_MO_Arma.skel"/> <ATOM Name="AnimSetBaseName" Value="arma"/> <ATOM Name="LodCharacterName" Value="TR_MO_arma_LOD"/>

Open arma_chest.item 

• replace 3d struct with the following

  Code Block
  language html/xml
  <STRUCT Name="3d"> <ATOM Name="shape" Value="TR_MO_Arma.shape"/> <ATOM Name="shape_female" Value="TR_MO_Arma.shape"/> </STRUCT>

So far so good, now lets recreate the .packed_sheets

• Build the sheets_id.bin with the make_sheet_id tool and copy it to the user dir in your game client dir
• Build the .packed_sheets with the sheets_packer and copy it to the same location
• Delete all .packed_sheets from the server/data_shard dir if existing
• Make sure the four files we created are existing in the correct dir in your leveldesign dir and that they contain the content i explained before
• Finally we need to add a name for our new arma
  • Edit creature_en.txt in your $server_dir$/data_shard/language folder
  • Edit creature_en.txt in your $client_dir$/user
  • Add this line at the bottom in both files (be carefull with the tabs)

_A07A5C396E75AF9C    arma    My Arma    a    the    Armas        the

h2. Edit Newbyland

Note: Make sure your data_leveldesign folder is correctly linked to l: or else the neccessary files wont be found

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