create-race

Creating races

This section explain how you can create races. Creating races is necessary to set your units race if you don' want to use a default one. To create a race choose Menu -> File -> New -> Race or click the New race button on the toolbar (identified by a king, a bishop, a gladiator and a knight). An input dialog is shown. Type here the name of the race. You can use alphanumeric chars (A-Z, 0-9, a-z), spaces and underscores(_) only. The name should be unique. When you confirm your choice the program scans the library looking for other races with the same name. If no other races with that name are already stored in your library a panel like the following is opened in the window.

If another race has the selected name you will be asked to change it. If you choose not to change it when you save the new race the older one will be overwritten.

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The panel conatins one field for each race field. An overview and the official explanation of fields can be found on the Wesnoth Wiki. Here is reported a brief description of each field following the order used on the panel.

• Female name: User-visible name for the race of the female units;
Male name: User-visible name for the race of the male units;
• Plural name: user-visible name for this race people;
• Female names: Lists of female names for this race. They will be used on recruited female units. Type a name in the text field and then add it by clicking the '+' button. To remove some names select them (hold CTRL if is more than one) and then click the '-' button;
• Male names: Lists of male names for this race. They will be used on recruited male units. Type a name in the text field and then add it by clicking the '+' button. To remove some names select them (hold CTRL if is more than one) and then click the '-' button;
• Undead version: Sets the default undead variation for members of this race;
• Ignore global traits: If selected global traits are not applied;
• Number of traits: Is the number of non-repeating traits each unit of this race can be assigned, usuallly 2;
• Traits list: select which traits are tipical of this race. If you want to select more than one hold the CTRL button. Your defined trait are listed on the bottom of the list;
• Description: Description of this race, used in the race page of the in-game help;
• WML: The WML code associated to the race. The text-area is not editable but copiable.