I've been wanting to learn HTML/CSS and Javascript/jQuery. So as a small project I made an ability score calculator and I'm ready to share it with the community.
It's at: http://jody-white.com/pathfinder-ability-score-calculator
I'm looking for feedback, any issues, etc.
And one thing. I found the image I used here: http://www.eudogames.com/pathfinder. It looks like someone took the image from the beginner's box and overlayed the Pathfinder logo with it. I'm not sure if that's alright or not but I did include the disclaimer from Paizo's community use.
Can anyone give solid feedback if that image is ok to use?
I don’t get it. The “remaining” doesn’t change, nor does Mod, Cost or Actual Mod. And what does “Actual points” mean, as that is the number that does change?
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DrDeth wrote: I don’t get it. The “remaining” doesn’t change, nor does Mod, Cost or Actual Mod. And what does “Actual points” mean, as that is the number that does change?
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What browser are you using? I've tested on Chrome, Safari, Firefox and IE 9 and the Remaining updates for me as I spend points.
Actual Points is what is calculated after the racial modifier is taken into account.
Works fine. Only criticism is that I would want the ability to put in a custom number of points. My home games frequently use either 16- or 18-point buy.
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Seems functional. I like the interface for this one better though.
Key things, in my opinion: - I can easily see the cost of increasing an ability score.
- Custom racial mods are allowed, letting me use non-core races.
- I can also use the custom racial mods to effectively deal with the attribute bonuses every 4 levels, if looking at a character at a higher level.
It works fine in IE 9. DrDeth, check your version and see if you have compatibility mode enabled.
I'd suggest adding level increases, gear, class features, etc that impact ability scores handling bonus types correctly for the long term.
The Fox wrote: Works fine. Only criticism is that I would want the ability to put in a custom number of points. My home games frequently use either 16- or 18-point buy. I've added that to my backlog! Thanks for the feedback. When I get that updated I'll post about it.
ZZTRaider wrote: Seems functional. I like the interface for this one better though.
Key things, in my opinion: - I can easily see the cost of increasing an ability score.
- Custom racial mods are allowed, letting me use non-core races.
- I can also use the custom racial mods to effectively deal with the attribute bonuses every 4 levels, if looking at a character at a higher level.
I'll add those items to my backlog and see what I can do. Thanks for the feedback!
While I already use HeroLab for this, I'd like to thank and praise you for your effort in creating and sharing this with us all.
This is the kind of attitude that makes any community stronger.
Buri wrote: I'd suggest adding level increases, gear, class features, etc that impact ability scores handling bonus types correctly for the long term. I've thought about that and I have it on my list for longterm goals for this. But initially I thought I'd just keep it to basic character creation.
But I do see this functionality coming later.
Thanks!
Lemmy wrote: While I already use HeroLab for this, I'd like to thank and praise you for your effort in creating and sharing this with us all.
This is the kind of attitude that makes any community stronger.
/tips my hat. :)
Thank you for the kind words. I really enjoyed putting this together and I hope some people other than me get some use out of it.
I'm still very much a beginner at this so it might take a little longer that I'd like to get some of these suggestions implemented.
Thanks again!
Thanks for sharing!
In Chrome & Firefox I get a very large, white, left margin. It would look a lot more polished without that.
Blueluck wrote: Thanks for sharing!
In Chrome & Firefox I get a very large, white, left margin. It would look a lot more polished without that.
I'll look into that. I don't see it on my computers though. I do know that it doesn't show correctly for mobile devices. On my iPad and iPhone it's right justified instead of centered. That is on my list to fix and that might fix what you're seeing.
The Fox wrote: Works fine. Only criticism is that I would want the ability to put in a custom number of points. My home games frequently use either 16- or 18-point buy. I've added an "Other" button that will let you specify the number of point buy.
I didn't put any error checking in it yet though so if you enter a letter it will show NaN. I can fix that soon though.
Right now it will pop up a prompt asking how many points, enter in a number, and that will show the correct remaining.
ZZTRaider wrote: Seems functional. I like the interface for this one better though.
Key things, in my opinion: - I can easily see the cost of increasing an ability score.
- Custom racial mods are allowed, letting me use non-core races.
- I can also use the custom racial mods to effectively deal with the attribute bonuses every 4 levels, if looking at a character at a higher level.
Implemented the custom race mods! There's no error checking yet so you can type in a letter or special character. I'll get some of that in later.
Also I originally didn't expect that (obviously) so I only calculate abilities up to 20. How far should I go up?
Huh, apparently I have two usernames here? I don't know how that happened.
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1.
In Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer (all current release versions) I see a wide left margin. Experimenting a bit, when I move the window from my smaller monitor to my widescreen monitor, I can get the tool to center.
Message me an email address if you want screen shots.
neat. simple. modifiable. I will be using this.
You might work on a way to save custom races, as 'other' is what I need..
Good work!
Blueluck wrote: I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1.
In Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer (all current release versions) I see a wide left margin. Experimenting a bit, when I move the window from my smaller monitor to my widescreen monitor, I can get the tool to center.
Message me an email address if you want screen shots.
I went to a smaller monitor and was able to reproduce this. I'm still looking at fixing it. I'm still learning css so it's taking me a little longer than I'd like to fix.
I'm also looking into putting this into a framework like Bootstrap which would fix this also. I'm not sure if I want to do that or just do the css myself. When I've evaluated my ability to put this into Bootstrap I'll know how I'm going to fix this.
Thanks for the offer of screenshots!
Bwang wrote: neat. simple. modifiable. I will be using this.
You might work on a way to save custom races, as 'other' is what I need..
Good work!
Thanks for the kind words!
What do you mean by find a way to save custom races? Do you mean choose other and type in which race you choose?
Blueluck wrote: I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1.
In Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer (all current release versions) I see a wide left margin. Experimenting a bit, when I move the window from my smaller monitor to my widescreen monitor, I can get the tool to center.
Message me an email address if you want screen shots.
Actually I think I've fixed this now. :)
If there wasn't a gigundus PF picture at the top I'd love to embed this on the Ability Scores page on d20pfsrd.com via iframe...
d20pfsrd.com wrote: If there wasn't a gigundus PF picture at the top I'd love to embed this on the Ability Scores page on d20pfsrd.com via iframe... I'm very interested in having this happen. I'm about to be in an hour and a half meeting and when I'm done I'll see about removing that picture.
If you like you can create a second version of the page without the image so if users access your page directly they can still see it, but its up to you how you want to handle it.
d20pfsrd.com wrote: If there wasn't a gigundus PF picture at the top I'd love to embed this on the Ability Scores page on d20pfsrd.com via iframe... I've updated the index file and removed the picture. If there's other stuff I can do to help it display on d20pfsrd let me know.
Thanks!
Perfect! I'll play around with it and see how it looks. I'll let you know when its added!
Ok, check it out: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/ability-scores
It might be better if it wasn't centered, and if the font size for the "Pathfinder RPG Ability Score Calculator" was taken down 1 or 2 sizes, but I'm fine with it as-is otherwise. If you make changes going forward to that page they should automatically show up there now.
d20pfsrd.com wrote: Ok, check it out: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/ability-scores
It might be better if it wasn't centered, and if the font size for the "Pathfinder RPG Ability Score Calculator" was taken down 1 or 2 sizes, but I'm fine with it as-is otherwise. If you make changes going forward to that page they should automatically show up there now.
I'll play around with the size of the h1.
The iFrame seems to be not as wide as the other content on the page. Is that normal? Or is that just my computer? Is it possible to make the iframe wider?
I've got it set to 100% width but the content doesn't recenter itself as it would in a normal window due to being within the iframe. If the content was left justified I think it would show up better.
d20pfsrd.com wrote: I've got it set to 100% width but the content doesn't recenter itself as it would in a normal window due to being within the iframe. If the content was left justified I think it would show up better. Hm. What I might do then is what you suggested earlier and create a second page for d20. I'll work on that and let you know when it's ready.
d20pfsrd.com wrote: Sounds good :D I've created: http://jody-white.com/ability-score-calculator/
It lacks the picture, the text in the entire app is smaller, since the header image isn't present I got rid of the disclaimer in the footer, and I left justified the entire app.
Could you see what it looks like in the iframe? And if you don't mind could you keep the "Click here" to open in a new window pointing to it's current location?
Let me know if this works!
Ok see how it looks for you now...
d20pfsrd.com wrote: Ok see how it looks for you now... I think that looks great!
Thank you so much for putting that on d20pfsrd. I'm really excited that it's on there.
And I'm extremely excited to add such a useful feature to the site. I suspect the many users of the site will also appreciate your efforts.
I've had to put the slidedown() back in for the time being. For some reason removing that functionality made the "Other" racial mod not update correctly.
That will be a fun bug to track down.
Bwang wrote: neat. simple. modifiable. I will be using this.
You might work on a way to save custom races, as 'other' is what I need..
Good work!
Or just put in "Other" as a race which would open up the racial trait column to put in custom modifiers.
I've tried to make a few updates but when I did it broke some stuff. Then I fixed that stuff which broke other stuff. (Of course, right, this is software)
I think I now have everything fixed but I do still have the slidedown affect. I was hoping to get rid of that but I'll need to make quite a few other changes. So I think that's going to be in for a bit.
I'm sorry if anyone tried to use this and it did not help or meet their expectations.
It looks great now! The problems with sizing and centering have been fixed.
Thanks again for sharing.
Blueluck wrote: It looks great now! The problems with sizing and centering have been fixed.
Thanks again for sharing.
You're quite welcome. I'm glad it looks better for you now.
I've made some small aesthetic updates to the calculator.
If you hover over the ability names you will now get a tooltip with an explanation of each.
Also as you hover over the row for the ability you get a light highlight so you can see the row better.
I also put in an error check so if you enter something other than a number for Other in the number of points you get an error message then after clicking OK you can try and enter a valid number.
(This has gone into affect at http://www.jody-white.com/pathfinder-ability-score-calculator.php I need to update the app on the d20 site.)
So it's been a year since this has been out. It's been getting a lot of hits and I'm happy to see so many people using it.
About a month ago I got a little curious on other stats around this and I added event tracking to the campaign type. Low/Standard/High/Epic/Other. I've put that together in a nice little line graph and made it available on my site.
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I find this kind of interesting and if anyone has any ideas what else I can track or what I can do with this data I'm open to hear them!
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