Ethnicity Guidelines
On this page, we will explain everything you need to know to edit ethnicities.
The ethnicity files are located in mod\Warcraft-Guardians-of-Azeroth-2\common\ethnicities and sorted in files by race.
When you open such a file in any text editor like Notepad++, the first lines you will see are scripted values. They always start with @.
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Usually, these values are color coordinates the races share across the files like the shades of the blue eye color.
There may be a few ethnicities in the file, but all ethnicities share the same template:
<Ethnicity_Name> = {
template = "ethnicity_template"
<Gene_Group> = {
<Gene Chance> = { name = <Gene_Name> range = { <Min Number (0-1)> <Max Number (0-1)>
}
<More Genes Here>
}
ethnicity_template is a basic template that looks like a human, but you can put any ethnicity you want. It's useful when you create a race variation of some original race.
If you wonder how to find out Gene_Group and Gene_Name, open mod\Warcraft-Guardians-of-Azeroth-2\common\ethnicities\00_ethnicities_templates.txt. That's the file of the basic human template we talked about. It has one nice feature, it has ALL genes listed. So it's possible to find out the real gene name. Usually, it has the same keywords the gene has in the Ruler Designer so it should be easy.