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Hi All, I thought this would be time to share some work I've been doing.
I have developed for myself a character creation program to keep track of my characters and other various assoicated things with pathfinder.
The program is designed to automate almost every option available for a character, so that having to update something based on other option is not required.
This is still a work in progress, and you can see my progress at:
http://laeltreventhius.blogspot.com/
Please feel free to provide feedback either here or the blog.
You might want to use something besides the silhouette of a Paizo character and other Paizo images in your program.
You might want to use something besides the silhouette of a Paizo character and other Paizo images in your program.
All the images are covered off using the comunity use and open gaming licence as per the Community Use Registry. So if they have an issue I'll remove it without hestiation :)
And no ceefood, no download available atm, I'm endevouring to have one by the end of the week though :) This is just to get peoples first impressions.
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Hi All, I thought this would be time to share some work I've been doing.
I have developed for myself a character creation program to keep track of my characters and other various assoicated things with pathfinder.
The program is designed to automate almost every option available for a character, so that having to update something based on other option is not required.
This is still a work in progress, and you can see my progress at:
http://laeltreventhius.blogspot.com/Please feel free to provide feedback either here or the blog.
It looks neat to me, I am going to add you to my Greader feed to keep up with your work. I hope you get a download set up soon.
You might want to use something besides the silhouette of a Paizo character and other Paizo images in your program.All the images are covered off using the comunity use and open gaming licence as per the Community Use Registry. So if they have an issue I'll remove it without hestiation :)
Wasn't sure if they were freely available in the download packs or not. Either way, you'll want to provide a clear link in your program (through a menu option) with the OGL and CUP declarations.
Is this platform specific? (Mac or PC or Linux)
PC sorry fray. I'm not a big mac believer. This is developed in visual foxpro so the issue of getting a downloadable version for you all is requiring the vfp runtimes to be installed.
Good point Lilith. I do have links on the splash screen and a option off the menu covering the ogl, but I guess I should have it somewhere a little clearer.
Any idea when you might have the program for download? :-D
Sorry guys, work has gotten in the road this week. I have fixed some bugs in the application though, so will endevour to get something this weekend or early next week.
bump?
Finally I have managed to created a Demo of the application for you all to view. The demo can be downloaded here. Please let me know of any installation issues with the program.
If an error occurs, a log will be created in the program directory. Can you please either send me the two errorlog.* files or a screen shot of the error that has occured so that I may correct.
Otherwise if you have any comments of suggestions feel free to let me know and I'll take them onboard. The application is still very much in progress.
Finally I have managed to created a Demo of the application for you all to view. The demo can be downloaded here. Please let me know of any installation issues with the program.
If an error occurs, a log will be created in the program directory. Can you please either send me the two errorlog.* files or a screen shot of the error that has occured so that I may correct.
Otherwise if you have any comments of suggestions feel free to let me know and I'll take them onboard. The application is still very much in progress.
Was playing around with it for a bit, and when I was manually entering attribute scores, a score of 10 gave me a -1 modifier.
Was playing around with it for a bit, and when I was manually entering attribute scores, a score of 10 gave me a -1 modifier.
Was wondering who downloaded it ;) Thanks for that, have checked and is doing it, will fix pronto.
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Have uploaded a new version of the instal shield already. If that doesn't work I'll link a copy straight to the exe.
VFP Rocks :)
I've been thinking about creating MySQL/PHP online versions of various GM tools, but nothing beats the VFP app design tools...
VFP Rocks :)
I've been thinking about creating MySQL/PHP online versions of various GM tools, but nothing beats the VFP app design tools...
I quite like it :)
Its using dbf's for all the tables atm, but I will eventually move over to a sql backend, but for now its working quite well.
Is there any way to export as a printable character sheet?
Is there any way to export as a printable character sheet?
ATM no. This however is the overall plan of the sheet as as much as I'm a developer and like online sheets, I still want to have a paper copy of them for game day :)
My scheduled plan was to work on weapons, then spells and then character sheet. This demo was basically to give you all a taste of what the application is capable of.
got the following error:
OLE error code 0x80040154: Class notregistered. OLE object is being ignored. Record number 24
That was on starting the program again.
got the following error:
OLE error code 0x80040154: Class notregistered. OLE object is being ignored. Record number 24
That was on starting the program again.
I got the same error, it will not load
I got the same error, it will not loadgot the following error:
OLE error code 0x80040154: Class notregistered. OLE object is being ignored. Record number 24
That was on starting the program again.
Is this will the second installation?
Have you unstalled it via add/remove programs and tried again?
I got the same error, it will not loadgot the following error:
OLE error code 0x80040154: Class notregistered. OLE object is being ignored. Record number 24
That was on starting the program again.
Is this will the second installation?
Have you unstalled it via add/remove programs and tried again?
It was the 2nd one you put up, on a different machine.
I, too, am having the same issue with the startup of the program. I've tried deinstalling and reinstalling the program, to no avail.
I t was the first install, have taken it off will redownload and try again later
For those having a similar issue goto:
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fix-for-richtx32-ocx-component-error-when -running-a-program/
This should work.
Keep up the good work. I'm a developer myself, so I can appreciate how much work goes into a project like this. Beware of feature-creep though; set yourself a final goal - reach it, then release it. Whatever comes after can always go into version 2! :)
Keep up the good work. I'm a developer myself, so I can appreciate how much work goes into a project like this. Beware of feature-creep though; set yourself a final goal - reach it, then release it. Whatever comes after can always go into version 2! :)
Thanks :) Yeah I can't beleive how much bigger it has gotten then when I first started on it. But its keeping my programming skills up seeing I'm more a DBA now at my workplace then programmer. One thing I do like about doing this is its basically gotten my knowledge of the rules in and out now :)
So does anyone had any other bugs they like to report, or any suggestions to anything?
Maybe something to keep track of point buy points and such?
I know you're still working on the weapons stuff (from a previous post), and again some print/export functionality...
Maybe something to keep track of point buy points and such?
Point buy? For attribues. Ahh yes, thats something I have on my Need to do list :)
Glad I could help!
Finally and update. I have finished the Melee weapons section and have created a new demo. See the full details on my blog.
Greetings!
I was playing around with your character creator and so far it looks and feels great. However, when creating a test Fighter I noticed that the AC for Touch Attacks was still taking into account my Fighters shield bonus. Additionally, the AC bonus for Shield, Heavy Wooden is +2, not +3. Your new additions for the Weapons Locker is great and I especially like how you separate the Weapons Locker into type tabs. Keep it up! Looking forward to future updates.
Nice pickups Chronocypher, fixed both of those issues and have uploaded a new demo.
Thanks, I found that grid style system wouldn't have worked for the way I was trying to automate thing. The thrown weapons will be quite similar to the melee section, however ranged weapons will have an ammunition section so probably means maybe only 2 to 3 weapons available in that section, which I can't see being required more in anyways.
Ok, seems my luck that this still will not work on my machine. I have uninstalled and redownloaded 5 times now, Chronocypher's fix wont install, so if I get time I'll try it on the wife's laptop
What OS are you running? The program seems to have an issue with Vista for some reason.
Windows 7 x64, which is vista based so that maybe the issue. I know it will not install the fix from above
I've done some research and now included the MS communications drivers which is what I beleive the OLE is that its trying to register. So can you please try that. And if possible, right click on the setup.click and "Run as Adminstrator"
cool, will redownload and give er another shot
Edit: Nope still not working
K, back in the land with internet, so just wondering how you went with the program all? Anything else to report?
I'm please to annouced I've finished the weapons section for Ranged and Thrown weapons.
I've release the notes on my Blog
And you can download the new demo from here.
I'm actually going to start work on creating the output character sheet as I've found my current one isn't coping with the small changes I keep needing from 3.5 to pathfinder.
I've finally gotten to a point where I want to output something from my character creation program, as much as I like having a program to enter thing in, I still want to end up with a paper copy. So been thinking that using an excel spreadsheet would be the easiest
way to go. That way I can manipulate certain items and not require any automation to update other things. It also allow the sheet to be saved and then have extra things added to it like notes. Otherwise I'm limited to just spitting out a paper report. In essence I don't really
want to create one from stratch.
So does anyone have a copy of a excel sheet (even if its from 3rd or 3.5) or know of a basic one, then I can use as a basis and then go from there? Anything you guys got will help I'm sure.
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you could look at the "erian_7's Excel-based Character Sheet" thread for one or look at Ogresheet for another not sure if they too complex for what you want though
Yeah I have thanks Ceefood. I actually have made a decesion to do one from stratch and be able to save as a pdf mainly to keep the application in a quality that I wanted. This means I may need to add more to the application in the long run, but I don't want to lower my standards now.
I should have also noted that the demo is now limited to 6 levels per character.
Hi All,
There is an update to the program now available here. Sorry no printable sheet yet, it was things on my need-to-list I wanted to finaliase before doing that. Please let me know if you disagree with my limited of 6 levels per character. I may be able to be talked into making that a bit higher ;)
I will be updating my blog later with screen shots and etc, but for now here is a quick log of what has changed.
Bugs Fixes:
- Exotic Weapons are now being handled correctly.
- Weapon Training from fighter not being applied to bonus and damage.
- Improved Critical and Fighter Weapon Mastery was only caclulated when a new weapon was selected, and not updated existing.
- Defence Combat Training feat now checked for CMD.
- Scores of the same "bonus type" where not being handled correctly.
- If selected exotic weapon proficiency feat and then a weapon focus feat, the prerequsite check didn't recognise the character being profiencient.
Changes:
- Weapons, armor and sheilds now have a "red-dot" button which opens a menu for clearing the slot. This will be expanded on later with more functionality.
- Spell Restiance now allows multiple sources to be entered, all with the bonus type of 'spell resistance' to only have the highest score allocated.
- DR, ER, Immunties & Vision all moved into a new section.
New Features:
- New Section Called Resistances used for DR, ER, Immunties & Vision.
- Allows for 4 choices to be eneted in each section.
- Items gained from internal sources are not allowed to be changed and changed as grey.
Because I have given serious thought about going comerical with this application, so even though still in an aplha mode, I don't want to cut myself short by having a full version of the application out there.
I've have updated the demo agian with some more bugs I found over the weekend. Surprised none has found any of them to be honest :)
For those experiencing issues with the install, I'm going to be sourcing a newer version of installshield as I beleive the version I'm using is causing the problems.
I have created the setup using a newer version of Installsheild. So for those expericnign problems with the installation, can you please try again and let me know the results.
Also I have renamed my blog, and the new address is here.
http://hyperlance.blogspot.com/
Is there any way to export as a printable character sheet?
You be pleased to know that I have starting working on a printable sheet :) I'm using the pathfinder char sheet as a basis, so some of the features will be lost in the sheet, but thats what the program is for, to give all the small details.