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Hi Team,
I've been making some significant efficiency gains by using a spreadsheet designed to parse information from source books into HL Scripting Language. This enables me to paste in a stat block of something and it returns the code required to make the 'thing' in Hero Labs. WARNING: This is not a nice tool, it is ugly, it has flaws, it is unsupported. But it does work... So for those of you who understand Hero Labs output and know your way around Excel you may be able to use this to benefit. REMINDER: This is unsupported! DOWNLOAD HERE REQUIREMENTS: Notepadd++ Hero Labs is open and running in "Develop > Enable Data File Debugging" mode. SUPPORTED SOURCE BOOKS: The (Not Really) Tome of Spells - It works but will not assign spells to classes. Book of Lost Spells 5e - This works quite well actually. Lots of naming convention conflicts and a few unique range options will throw errors. Does not include break lines for paragraphs unfortunately. INSTRUCTIONS:
If you don't understand the HL Scripting Language or Excel please don't try this. It's an ugly ass spreadsheet with very little structure and it is almost guaranteed to produce errors that require manual intervention. I have started working on making this work with Monsters with the hope that we will be able to quickly bulk up the Community Pack. I'm only sharing in the hope that someone will find the concept useful and use it to feed the Community Pack more content I found that it was relatively easy to set this up for a second source book once I had done the first. Perhaps someone else will do something similar. REMINDER: Did i mention this is unsupported Last edited by daplunk; February 23rd, 2016 at 04:20 AM. |
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Will you be supporting this tool?
Sorry, I just had too.... [dafrca runs away to try and avoid the head slap that is sure to come...] |
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/Tackle
and /slaaaaaaaap |
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Now supports Monster Manual... sort of.
DOWNLOAD Makes the monster and allocates the following:
Does not support special abilities. Does not do any of this reliably Have added separate tab for Special Abilities. Currently you need to then assign them to a monster manually. Still not handling attacks. Last edited by daplunk; February 26th, 2016 at 04:24 AM. |
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Now supporting 5th Edition Foes stat blocks.
DOWNLOAD HERE
More reliable than the MM, still won't create special abilities or setup attacks. Still dodgy... |
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