Diety text field. - Page 2

NullCascade · 03:21 PM

You can address the chosen deity field in d20 using the following:

Code:

hero.child[background].field[bDeity].text

Most of the other personal information is stored in that child. To view the information available through the background child, use "Develop > Floating Info Windows > Show Selection Fields" and select the "background" pick.

For finding the more obscure fields, a good place to start looking is with Grep (normal Windows users should check out the powerful BareGrep software). Scanning the *.dat files in %ProgramData%\Hero Lab\data\d20\source for "deity" revealed the following line from dossier_custom.dat:

Code:

        xml[node].attr["name"] = hero.child[background].field[bDeity].text

You can compare this value and add your scripted changes as desired:

Code:

var diety as string
deity = lowercase(hero.child[background].field[bDeity].text)
if ( deity = "cthulhu" ) then
  <...>
endif

Dark Lord Galen · November 13th, 2014, 09:47 PM

Thanks for the Rapid response to an old thread Nullcascade.. I'll take a look at your suggestion for a work around.....
Would be nice to see this actually become a "tab" of its own one day.. would make life easier. Even expanding it to the "other" tab would be helpful... it almost seems a waste of space since it is mostly carrying mounts and the occasional hireling....

Imagine if you will a tab or pull down that allows the player based on their deity to see the domains, spells, belief structure etc of their patron. OR even more.....
a link within Herolab that would take you from the journal tab to a players version of realmworks that would allow the players access to their notes, logs, contacts, etc AHHH but that is another thread.

I dreamed a dream.....

RavenX · November 14th, 2014, 02:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sendric

Yes, ideally it would be a selection box. I'm just not sure if that's something we can do as a user community or if the developers need to do that.

I thought you or someone that did these files had access to the source code for this?

Sendric · November 14th, 2014, 04:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RavenX

I thought you or someone that did these files had access to the source code for this?

I don't have access to the source code, no. Shadow does, and that's why we've been getting new releases. I imagine he has turning the deity field into some sort of dropdown menu we can add to on his to-do list.

ShadowChemosh · November 14th, 2014, 10:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sendric

I don't have access to the source code, no. Shadow does, and that's why we've been getting new releases. I imagine he has turning the deity field into some sort of dropdown menu we can add to on his to-do list.

Yep on the to-do list. Was surprised myself that d20 didn't have this already.

Dark Lord Galen · November 14th, 2014, 01:47 PM

Thanks Shadow & everyone for responding to resurrecting this thread.

Dark Lord Galen · January 13th, 2015, 10:33 AM

thread bump..... status?

ShadowChemosh · January 13th, 2015, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dark Lord Galen

thread bump..... status?

This is still on the to-do list and its creeping up to the top. I few "bugs" have been found that I want to get fixed and out soon so not the next release of d20. But "maybe" the one after that will see this....

Dark Lord Galen · January 14th, 2015, 08:16 AM

Ah, Thanks for the response Shadow,
Toby's thread here
http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=51882
reminded me of it.... so I throw him under the bus

Seriously, I can see where the two of these might inter-connect at some point? Meaning, that by selecting the diety (As suggested by this thread) it would populate available domain specific secondary spells (similar to what his thread is suggesting). Just a thought...

Keep up the good work!

Dark Lord Galen · March 29th, 2015, 01:32 PM

Thread Bump... 2 1/2 months
My intent is to separate the available spells based on domains overseen by those respective deities. Similar to what spell casters already have via schools. Without a means to "see" what deity is selected by the PC and the ability to define what spells are available to the PC their selection provides, it makes achieving this goal much harder.
My real hope was to one day have the capability for the PC to pay homage and receive blessings (ie Spells ) from multiple deities. They might pray to one for guidance and yet another for success in battle and still another for healing after the battle. But, I don't see HL managing that possibility as the incremental updates are slow to come since most focus is in PF.

Don't get me wrong Shadow (and others) your efforts are MUCH appreciated and I understand there is only so much you can do.

Dark Lord Galen Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Texas Posts: 707 November 14th, 2014, 01:47 PM	Thanks Shadow & everyone for responding to resurrecting this thread.
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