An implementation to do for Zos developers

[JohnnyKing94]

Why anyone in Zos Team created an api for the game which returns IDs for the races... we have GetUnitRace which returns the string of the race according to the loaded language (fr, eng, de) and this is terrible... but we have no GetUnitRaceID... the GetUnitRaceID would be awesome... please developers add this feature

Thx

[Ayantir]

Write it yourself ? shouldn't be hard

1 for Breton
2 for Orc
3 for Redguard
4 for Hight Elf (Altmer)
5 for Wood Elf (Bosmer)
6 for Khajiit
7 for Argonian
8 for Dark Elf (Dunmer)
9 for Nord
10 for Imperial

etc..

[JohnnyKing94]

Originally Posted by Ayantir Write it yourself ? shouldn't be hard 1 for Breton 2 for Orc 3 for Redguard 4 for Hight Elf (Altmer) 5 for Wood Elf (Bosmer) 6 for Khajiit 7 for Argonian 8 for Dark Elf (Dunmer) 9 for Nord 10 for Imperial etc..

It's not that simple, cause if i load a Frenh language, i will have
ID - French (Female | Male)
1 - Brétonne | Bréton
2 - Rougegarde | Rougegarde
3 - Orque | Orque
4 - Elfe Noire | Elfe Noir
5 - Nordique | Nordique
6 - Argonienne | Argonien
7 - Haute-Elfe | Haut-Elfe
8 - Elfe des bois | Elfe des bois
9 - Khajiit | Khajiit
10 - Impériale | Impérial

it's a mess and this is only french (there is also german), only if you load the english language u have no female and male cases, but if you use other languages and these people use your addon... it's a total mess.. it would be simplier to implement a local feature that could be done only by ZOS devs...

Since they did the similar thing with alliances and classes, why not here?

[Garkin]

Create a lookup table, something like this:
http://www.esoui.com/forums/showthre...0807#post10807

[JohnnyKing94]

Originally Posted by Garkin Create a lookup table, something like this: http://www.esoui.com/forums/showthre...0807#post10807

Yes I know, that would be my last chance... the meaning of opening this thread is to wait an aswer from someone in the ZOS dev team... i never lose hope

[Ayantir]

ZOS don't add functions except at API bump, so you'll need to do this or wait orsinium, and they'll MAYBE do it.

local raceTable = {
   ["Breton"] = 1,
   ["Bretone"] = 1, --de, male
   ["Bretonin"] = 1, --de, female
   ["Bréton"] = 1, --fr, male
   ["Brétonne"] = 1, --fr, female
   ["Orc"] = 2,
   ["Ork"] = 2, --de, male/female
   ["Orque"] = 2, --fr, male/female
   ["Redguard"] = 3,
   ["Rothwardone"] = 3, --de, male
   ["Rothwardonin"] = 3, --de, female
   ["Rougegarde"] = 3, --fr, male/female
   ["High Elf"] = 4,
   ["Hochelf"] = 4, --de, male
   ["Hochelfin"] = 4, --de, female
   ["Haut-Elfe"] = 4, --fr, male
   ["Haute-Elfe"] = 4, --fr, female
   ["Wood Elf"] = 5,
   ["Waldelf"] = 5, --de, male
   ["Waldelfin"] = 5, --de, female
   ["Elfe des bois"] = 5, --fr, male/female
   ["Khajiit"] = 6,
   ["Argonian"] = 7,
   ["Argonier"] = 7, --de, male
   ["Argonierin"] = 7, --de, female
   ["Argonien"] = 7, --fr, male
   ["Argonienne"] = 7, --fr, female
   ["Dark Elf"] = 8,
   ["Dunkelelf"] = 8, --de, male
   ["Dunkelelfin"] = 8, --de, female
   ["Elfe Noir"] = 8, --fr, male
   ["Elfe Noire"] = 8, --fr, female
   ["Nord"] = 9,
   ["Nordique"] = 9, --fr, male/female
   ["Imperial"] = 10,
   ["Kaiserlicher"] = 10, --de, male
   ["Kaiserliche"] = 10, --de, female
   ["Impérial"] = 10, --fr, male
   ["Impériale"] = 10, --fr, female
}
 
function GetUnitRaceId(unitTag)
    if unitTag then return raceTable[zo_strformat(SI_RACE_NAME, GetUnitName(unitTag))] end
    return nil
end

[JohnnyKing94]

Originally Posted by Ayantir ZOS don't add functions except at API bump, so you'll need to do this or wait orsinium, and they'll MAYBE do it. [...]

It's not an optimal solution, have you ever thought about unofficial languages like (spanish etc)... i can't do a table for everything... it's more easier as i wrote in the topic title that ZOS implement this in the API... since there is already an IDs (index) races list in the lang file... they need just to implement this in the APIs, nothing more... sometimes some devs visit this forum and i hope for that

Thank you

[ZOS_ChipHilseberg]

Adding GetUnitRaceId to the API won't be a problem for the next big update.

[JohnnyKing94]

Originally Posted by ZOS_ChipHilseberg Adding GetUnitRaceId to the API won't be a problem for the next big update.

So basically at the Update 8? or to the next "big" patch?

[QuadroTony]

Originally Posted by JohnnyKing94 So basically at the Update 8? or to the next "big" patch?

Orsinium, mate
Orsinium

between DLCs now will be only small updates with fixes

[JohnnyKing94]

Originally Posted by QuadroTony Orsinium, mate Orsinium between DLCs now will be only small updates with fixes

Ok thank you... i'll be waiting