Phew, finally (Character Generator software)

[Eamon Voss]

http://home.hiwaay.net/~vampires/Doc1.doc

i havent been able to convert it to PDF, as my printer software doesnt work with win 2000, but here it is at a word file... anyone with working printer drivers and adobe acrobat (not reader) can convert it to pdf easily..

i didnt make any changes to the sheet, just put it in a portrait format

Don't take this the wrong way but...

I love you man!

Ha ha.  I am very much a system backend person, spinning databases (Oracle et all) and working in the innards of applications (Weblogic, Jboss, et all).  The frontend stuff is completely beyond me, and when forced to do it, I do it badly.  I tried to do this with the TROS sheet and failed.

I had thought of making a web application as a TROS character sheet generator, as I have done  for BESM and a few other games, but work is keeping me mucho busy these days.  Barely enough time to go to the gym and keep my belly at a reasonable size!

[prophet118]

well, it was fairly easy... unfortunately, i am not much use anymore... had to do a system reinstall, and forgot to have my wife bring home acrobat for me... not that it helps, all i could do then is export the pics... which was what i did for the TROS sheet... word to the wise... canon BJC 5100 doesnt like to work with windows 2000..... never mind that all it did before hand was print black pages....i need a new printer.....lol

[Michael Tree]

Great job!

I've noticed a couple of errors though.  First, for some reason none of the piecemeal plating is in the equipment lists, including gauntlets.

Also, the extra proficiency points granted by nationality, or at least for Gelure, aren't added during the proficiency buying page.

[Brian Leybourne]

Thanks for your post, Michael.

First, for some reason none of the piecemeal plating is in the equipment lists, including gauntlets.

Actually, if you check the equipment list in the book, you'll see that everything in there is in the program. Piecemeal plate isn't there because it's not in the lists in chapter 7 :-) You can, of course, add it into the software yourself very easily by clicking on the "add equipment" tab.

Also, the extra proficiency points granted by nationality, or at least for Gelure, aren't added during the proficiency buying page.

On the Create or on the New option?

The New option doesn't apply any creation standards, it lets you put whatever you want into there, so you would be right there. The Create option, however, does. And I happen to know thast all the proficiency adds are in there, including Gelure. If you take a non sorcerer, it'll only add the 1 extra wepaon proficiency, otherwise it'll add the three extra vagary points as well. If you look at the bottom right of the create/proficiency screen you'll see a little panel where it tells you what it's added.

If it isn't adding those points, then there's a very specific error somewhere because it works perfectly for me. Can you let me know what options you picked (priorities, specifically) so I can check?

Thanks,
Brian.

[Michael Tree]

[rosanna rosannadanna] nevermind... [/rosanna rosannadanna]

The character was a halfling. I forgot halflings don't get country bonuses.

[Tywin Lannister]

Thank you very much for the character generator software. It's excellent :)

[toli]

The char gen is great.  


However, I was surprised to see that you included a non-sentient species (Australians) in it.


I lived in Leigh, just north of Auckland for 4 years, so I can appreciate the good-natured anti-Aussi humor.

cheers.

[prophet118]

i wonder if it'd be possible to add some export features?.... not pdf or anything so fun, i was thinking HTML...

[Brian Leybourne]

I don't really know anything about programatically compiling HTML documents, so don't hold your breath. Maybe I'll have a play with it someday when I have some spare time though.

Brian.

[prophet118]

honestly id really want to go for PDF... but i figured html might be simplier... except of course the trouble with coding the html to match the sheet..lol......

right now, if i had my printer drivers working, and had acrobat reinstalled, i could just print to distiller and make a file that way, but as my printer divers dont seem to like win 2k, thats not an option for me anymore :(

[Brian Leybourne]

Well, I don't really know anything about creating PDF's on the fly either :-). But as I say, someday when I have time...

Brian.

[prophet118]

ok doke... i know PCgen handles both aspects, but its a java program, so who knows..

i do know that the PDf writing parts are just .JAR files