Modding Discussion The "genders" entry

So, I noticed that in the species file for each race, there's a specific entry for genders, where male and female seem to be part of a list rather than just being a 1/2 decision. Does this mean that we can make aliens with 1 or 3 genders?

 

No, you can't. The game only supports the two.

 

Oh well, too bad I guess.

 

@Kawa might know somethings about this, I'm pretty sure I remember seeing 3 races in the felins .species file.

 

One, it's species not races.
Two, you're talking about gender why'd you even make that mistake?
Three, most importantly, I did in fact experiment a little bit with having felir, fela, and felhru but the game indeed only takes two genders. Not one, not three, nothing but two.

 

@Kawa I blame my ADD and dyslexia, and the fact I just reworked a lot of my modpack's species code.

 

Can we make species with one gender? Or rather limit the player options to create only male or female character of chosen race?

 

Just make one of the genders be exactly the same as the other. Same sprites, same icons, etc. There is no functional difference between male or female.

Edit: Sorry I misread your question and assume you meant relating to a custom race. That said, I don't believe you can force a specific gender option. Maybe you can edit the config to remove one of the buttons, but that wouldn't be race specific.

 

@lazarus78
I was actually interested in doing this for a custom race (make both genders basically the same) but the one issue I ran into was how to tell the game to use the male armor sprites for female-gendered characters instead of the female ones. Admittedly I looked a little and then put it on the backburner, so I could be missing something obvious, but you wouldn't by chance happen to know how to do this, would you?

 

Simple.

Code:

"maleFrames" : {
    "body" : "chestm.png",
    "backSleeve" : "bsleeve.png",
    "frontSleeve" : "fsleeve.png"
  },

  "femaleFrames" : {
    "body" : "chestf.png",
    "backSleeve" : "bsleeve.png",
    "frontSleeve" : "fsleeve.png"
  },

You can either leave out the "female" section, or just point the female section to the male sprites. Either works.

 

Thanks a mil!

 

Mostly, I'm confused by the fact that, despite the fact that there's not even the option to add an extra gender entry to species, in quests, vanilla species outlaws will occasionally be referred to not with he or she, but as they.

 

Because gender choice is purely aesthetic. It has no impact on the game, meaning there is no conditional dialogue that checks for your gender, so all dialogue has to be gender neutral.

 

I believe there is some LUA that checks gender. So you COULD have something like that. Just that the game doesn't seem to do so.