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Difference between revisions of "Talk:List of creatures by adult size"

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I think this table (and other creature tables) would benefit from using DFfunctions to get the data directly from the raws, because no will compare and contrast hundreds of entries to catch any small changes since the time this table was created. --[[User:Jan|Jan]] ([[User talk:Jan|talk]]) 00:35, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 
I think this table (and other creature tables) would benefit from using DFfunctions to get the data directly from the raws, because no will compare and contrast hundreds of entries to catch any small changes since the time this table was created. --[[User:Jan|Jan]] ([[User talk:Jan|talk]]) 00:35, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
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:DFRawFunctions mostly just supports looking up all raws for a single object, and doing that for every creature is impractical (it'd be over 1300 calls, and would probably take too long for the page to render at all). But it's probably possible to do this sort of thing with some extra work on the extension side, or maybe even in [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto Lua] now. &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 03:35, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

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Adolescent size?

There is no Adolescent size. Only Birth, Child, Adult. --Jan (talk) 00:32, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

DFfunctions

I think this table (and other creature tables) would benefit from using DFfunctions to get the data directly from the raws, because no will compare and contrast hundreds of entries to catch any small changes since the time this table was created. --Jan (talk) 00:35, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

DFRawFunctions mostly just supports looking up all raws for a single object, and doing that for every creature is impractical (it'd be over 1300 calls, and would probably take too long for the page to render at all). But it's probably possible to do this sort of thing with some extra work on the extension side, or maybe even in Lua now. —Lethosor (talk) 03:35, 5 January 2023 (UTC)