Custom Race Input/ Overwrite

[MonochromeMutt]

So one of my favourite aspects of the games is messing around with transformation items and imagining the different combinations of parts and what sort of a character that would make. Sometimes though I feel like the descriptor doesn't quite reflect the character well enough though. For example if I wanted to play as a slutty kobold, characters would likely refer to the character as being a gryvain, ruskvel, saurmorian, or some other such race (depending on the tf items used to achieve the look).

So I was thinking, "Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way to manually set Steele's race." I imagine it being similar to the gender or wing position toggle. IT could be activated either as an option in the character appearance tab, or activated through the console as a cheat. I think it'd give players that much more fine control in creating exactly the Steele they see themselves as.

 

[TheShepard256]

Maybe, but there are quite a few things that depend on specific values of the race() parser, including raceShort(), raceCute(), catDog(), and a not insignificant amount of dialogue variation; messing with race()'s output has significant potential to break all of them. There's no easy way around the dialogue variation, though I could see a solution to the first three being hacked in, where the first two also have to be specified and the third has a toggle for which variation it outputs. There might be other things I'm missing, though, so it could be even more complicated to implement.

 

[MonochromeMutt]

True. Without knowing the exact scope of the less seen systems it's hard to know how plausible my suggestion is. Odds are there would be more than a few places where whatever is input would stand out like a sore thumb, if not break certain scenes outright.