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Made a few characters to use with fantasy grounds and went to save custom output only to see that only d20pro and xml is supported. Well I know the FG character converter has an option to convert xml but the xml file output from HL doesn't work.
Any way to convert HL made 4E characters to FG other than manual input? |
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Fihnakis,
How well do you know Java and/or XML? It possible to take the custom XML output from Hero Lab, and massage it so that it can be imported into Fantasy Grounds. I've done this for Castles & Crusades, and another user took my base code to do it for Savage Worlds. I'd be more than happy to share my sample code. BoomerET Castles & Crusades Ruleset for Hero Lab Hero Lab (5E D&D) -> Fantasy Grounds Character Converter |
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Java? I know it tastes good :-D All kidding aside I know next to nothing about either. With that said I know by looking inside the .xml output from Hero Lab I wouldn't be able to do anything with it as it has none of the relevant information about the character I created (I opened it when the FG converter was giving me an error about the .xml file). Here is all the output contains:
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That's just a tad useless.
I took a look at the d20 XML output, and that looks usable. BoomerET Castles & Crusades Ruleset for Hero Lab Hero Lab (5E D&D) -> Fantasy Grounds Character Converter |
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Tad useless Makes me really believe I just wasted $20
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Just the custom xml output is useless, all the same info is in the d20pro output, and it's XML so same animal.
Castles & Crusades Ruleset for Hero Lab Hero Lab (5E D&D) -> Fantasy Grounds Character Converter |
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FG has an import utility with a customized output sheet I believe. It's in their Laboratory forum.
http://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums...acter-Importer Paul "Yes that Paul" Grosse PCGen BoD - PR Silverback Forums: Nylanfs (or Nylan) Hero Lab Shadowrun 4E & 5e user Last edited by nylanfs; October 24th, 2014 at 05:08 AM. |
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The real problem is that FG2's 4e support needs the custom modules with the powers and whatnot and needs to link them into a character (or at least it did when I last used it)... I have no clue how you'd link in 4e powers from the data files (which can be custom from player to player) vs HL's data.
Working on Twilight 2000 4e HL System |
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