...actually, where would I hook a name-change function, if I wanted to change the name only after the character is completely put together and I can look at all the pieces like a normal character? That'd probably be an easier way for me to do it.
I'd love to give the Spoiled characters uppity names, lol.
I mean, where would I put the "actually, gimme a sec while I change your name before the player ever sees it" code redirect, when the slave is getting created in either (a) combat/exploration zone or (b) slaves at the auction zone. I'd just want to have a moment when the name is already set (so the code doesn't expect it to be messed with anymore) but before the player gets to interact with the name (so the player doesn't see one name and then a different one later).
With that sort of redirect, I should be able to put together a "let's look through your Traits to see what sort of nameset would suit you" function for e.g. names like Prince, Princess, Ryan, Adora for Spoiled characters, names like Gunther, Viktor, and Rodrigo for Tough characters, a pool for names that sound faster vs. ones that sound stronger, or more delicate, or prettier / more handsome.
Now that you've told me how to reference globals.names I should be able to use arrays for cute fairy names, Western/Country centaur/taurus names, ocean-themed Nereid/Scylla names, etc. But being able to change the names based on traits (especially for humans, who don't have a more interesting natural detail to work from) wouldn't really work from an array, unless I made a ton of arrays, and even so it'd wind up needing code to sort through which array to direct to (e.g. female_rich_beautiful_delicate).
The names are fully set after line 50 of ".../files/scripts/characters/constructor", so anything between there and the return will generally work, except for unique characters and mods like AricsExpansion, which set some traits afterwards.
Guilds slaves are added in the function at 339 of ".../files/scripts/outside.gd".
Is there a way to tell if the "mind break" (getting so stressed you dropped to 0 confidence etc.) happened on a given day? Like, even just "was it today" would help, but "was it within the last three days" would be better.
If not, is there some simple way to rig this? I'd like for the reaction to mind break to be incoherence for at least a couple of days. It seems weird they'd be able to talk normally.
Oooh, I hadn't even thought of it being an effect (like "Captured"). That would actually be pretty useful. Not sure I want to tackle it right now, though, if as you say it's a difficult thing. I've been messing with enough systems lately that I'm just waiting for the whole thing to come crashing down around my ears and force me to restart, heh.
The only thing that has been known to force people to restart is when people make their edits directly to the game files and then they use the mod system to change the active mods, which resets all changes to the game files and erases their edits. As long as you are making your changes to files in the Mods folder you should be able to make progress forward. If you do get stuck on errors, feel free to hop on the Strive Discord and we can fix them quickly.
It's not so much that the code would be unsalvageable, as that at some point my brain will revolt over the sheer enormity and complexity of it all, and scream at me until I push the old version to the side and start a newer, cleaner version, using more of what I've learned.
Cycles of iteration and all. It's been a fascinating journey so far.
Haven't yet tested this lastest round (still touching up major portions, and I have a Thing about not testing in small chucks due to sheer annoyance with load times), but I believe I've managed to let Omegas (Submissives) get pregnant, and possibly allowed Alphas (Dominants) to get turned into Submissives if they take it up the ass enough (heh). Plus I've recently managed, let's see...
Eventually I'll see if I can't manage litters for Beastkin (especially bunnies) and Omegas, but that seems like it might be a bit of an undertaking. I also want to get to the point where I can fork a bit of the sex scenes so as to make Alpha/Omega sex more interesting. With the new Omega fertility boost, I expect to be playing those scenes a lot, lol.
The Mods menu has a button to "Open Mod Folder", which will attempt to open the folder for you.
The location of the mod folder on your computer is dependent upon which OS you are using and tend to be hidden by the OS. As stated in the Help section of the Mods menu:
Replace USER_NAME with the value appropriate for your computer.Note, if you are using the itch.io launcher to run the game, then your mod folder will be inside the data folder for the launcher.
Windows: C:/Users/USER_NAME/AppData/Roaming/Strive/mods
MacOSX: Users/USER_NAME/Library/Application Support/Strive/mods
Linux: ~/.local/share/Strive/mods
Also, the folder ".../files/scripts/mods/" in the Strive program folder is strictly for the Constants mod that comes with the game.
This game should never show anything like "emptymod" nor "10001110". Are you playing Strive: Conquest?
In Strive for Power, the mod is always named by the folder containing the mod, so only a mod in a folder named "emptymod" could appear with that name. A new folder named "New folder" in the mod folder with only sub-folder named "scripts", will appear as a mod named "New folder" not "emptymod".
Browsing this sex code stuff is making my eyes cross. I would like to include a desire to get bred, and have it met if the character gets ejaculated into. I figured out the desire part, and how to add conditions (Submissive or Monogamous or Clingy, past a certain loyalty threshold, etc.), and how to make a category for breedable acts (one for MPreg, one for normal), so I can ask "was the last action a breedable action?" and probably also "was this character the receiving partner?"
But I can't see how to ask "did it involve ejaculation by the penetrator?"
So, I found this section, which appears to be where the Cleanliness of the house gets reduced: each slave reduces it by 1, except that shortstacks do 2/3, beastkin 4/3, and a few key races nearly twice the norm.
for person in globals.slaves:
if person.away.duration == 0:
if person.bodyshape == 'shortstack':
globals.state.condition = -0.65
elif person.race in ['Lamia','Arachna','Centaur', 'Harpy', 'Scylla']:
globals.state.condition = -1.8
elif person.race.find('Beastkin') >= 0:
globals.state.condition = -1.3
else:
globals.state.condition = -1.0
But then I took a closer look, and it appears that each line is setting the variable, not changing the variable. That is, the only loop that matters should be the final loop, in which the condition is set te a negative number related to that specific slave's race.
But since the mansion clearly appears to be getting dirty in a less consistent fashion, it appears that these lines do something I didn't expect. So I hunted around some more and found this:
func cond_set(value): condition += value*conditionmod if condition > 100: condition = 100 elif condition < 0: condition = 0
...which is defined as the way that this variable gets changed/set. So I take it that elsewhere in the code, "globals.state.condition = X" gets reinterpreted as "cond_set(X)"?
Related question: If I change these statements to -= X instead of = -X, how would that affect the code, if at all?
You found one of the messier parts of the game's code. Godot provides the option to set custom getter and setter functions for variables in a class. In this case, the class "progress" is found in ".../files/globals.gd".
var condition = 85 setget cond_set
This variable declaration establishes a custom setter function for "condition", so any attempt to assign a value to "condition" outside the setter function will call the setter function with the new value as the argument for the function. Simply changing "condition = -X" to "condition -= X" causes the resulting value of "condition" to be "condition*2-X".
In order to make the switch, you would need to remove the setter function and update every line in the game that assigns to "condition". Note that all changes to "condition" are multiplied by "conditionmod", which is 1.3, so you would need to include this multiplier in every line when updating them otherwise the value would be reduced.
Besides the Mansion's end-of-day stuff, how many sections would I need to modify to establish a new role, like Headgirl, for a Majordomo -- someone who keeps track of certain details and informs me of them (like to replace "You notice some of your food/gold is missing" as if the leader of an estate with multiple slaves would be the one personally inspecting the storehouses each day). I mean I might want to add some additional details later, but mostly I want to start with "Sir, your gold seems to be dwindling faster than the books would account for. I presume one of your slaves is sneaking into the treasury" or the like.
Character would be more effective in a Butler's Outfit, and less effective under some other conditions, and certain stats or traits would affect it too -- most obviously Wit.
If you are simply trying to add it as new behavior style to the Headgirl job, then you would simply need to add the role to the GUI, either through patching the Mansion.tscn or adding code to the "_ready" function of Mansion.gd to add the option to the OptionButton.
If you are trying to add it as a new job, then you need to add an entry to the jobdict in ".../files/scripts/jobs&specs.gd".
After either of those, you add your code to the end-of-day function.
Just two spots, huh? That's a relief (after the other things I've been fixing up have bled out all over the place).
And yeah, I want a new job that a different character can be -- a Majordomo, the top butler, the Edwin Jarvis who keeps everything running aside from the slaves themselves. A head girl is like the chief slave (focused on keeping the slaves in line), but a majordomo is like the chief butler (focused on the smooth running of the household, such that the master never has to bother himself with the little details and always finds his preferences accounted for and only has the actually important stuff brought before him while the rest gets handled secretly).
Long before I ran into this game, I ran into the concept of the Majordomo (in Marvel Comics), and the thought has stuck with me ever since. Sure would be nice to have someone whose sole job is to ensure that I don't have to clog my easily distracted ADHD brain with all the little details of life, just the ones that actually require my attention.
Trying to figure out the logic in NextDayEvents()
if player.preg.duration > variables.pregduration && player.preg.baby != null: childbirth(player) checkforevents = true return for i in globals.slaves: if i.preg.baby != null && (i.preg.duration > variables.pregduration || (i.race == 'Goblin' && i.preg.duration > variables.pregduration/2)): if i.race == 'Goblin': i.away.duration = 2 else: i.away.duration = 3 i.away.at = 'in labor' childbirth(i) checkforevents = true return
Given that these checks end in Return, does that mean that the game only allows one birth per day, and the player's birth takes precedence?
Also, does this mean that if a birth happens, no other events happen? Or what does checkforevents do? (I'm getting a little overwhelmed by all the code lately.)
Also, the next section that's not commented out says "#Old scheduled event system" -- is it still functional, or am I looking at code that never activates, or...?
"checkforevents" is a variable in the mansion that essentially indicates whether the mansion should attempt to check for and display a new event. In practice, this value is only true while an event is being displayed, but it will be blocked from checking for new events until the first frame where the current event is no longer visible on screen. Thus "func nextdayevents" will be repeatedly called until the end of the function is reached without triggering an event.
The player gives birth first, followed by slaves giving birth in the order that they appear in the mansion list, followed by scheduled events, followed by random events, and followed by main quest story scenes. This order of presenting events is always maintained, though not every type of event occurs in a single day.
A new system was being planned to handle events in a more centralized manner, but the person contributing that code abandoned it for whatever reason. So the new system was removed from operation and the game uses the old system for events.
Oh! I missed that there's more to that file.
(Notepad++ lets me see all the times a search term comes up, but Scrivener just shows me the first and apparently expects me to hunt for the rest. I've currently got the full code in Scrivener in sections so that I can easily hunt down which part to edit in NPP.)
Hmm... this might actually make part of what I'm doing easier. Or possibly screw it all up again, depending. Guess we'll see.