Duplicate info bug?

[Krerlias]

I just got on and tried making a new character and im getting the same issues as well

[Azhrei]

Originally Posted by Mathias

[...] we've been working to add some behind the scenes processing that decides whether each of those scripts actually needs to be run, or whether saved values from the last time the character was evaluated can be used instead, because none of the values that feed into that script were changed, so the result will not change.

Interesting. I would've guessed that some kind of dependency graph was part of the initial design, but it does occur to me now that the there's no explicit dependencies stated in the metadata for the scripts so such a graph couldn't be built until runtime (it's at runtime that the script engine will know which picks are being referenced so that it can build the graph).

But it won't be perfect, since the scripts can/do have conditional logic in them. Trying to evaluate both paths (both the true and false paths of an IF statement, for example) when the runtime engine only takes one path is likely to be pretty tough.

As Laucian says, "very interesting"...

[Rone]

Originally Posted by Krerlias

I just got on and tried making a new character and im getting the same issues as well

Ryan F offered a workaround on the first page of this thread.

He wrote "Hello everyone,

Thank you all very much for letting us know. We've gotten a number of reports of this and other similar behavior when a number of Activated Abilities are enables/disabled. Our dev team is working on a fix as we speak but for now I do have a workaround to prevent this from occurring and to clear the existing display errors.

Inside Hero Lab with any RPG System open use the Develop Menu Tab and select the option to "Disable Fast Evaluation for Game" and you'll see the duplicate suffix/notes/appendages removed and begin to display as intended. This fix should "stick" to the Application for all Portfolios after you've enabled it to resume more/less normal use of the Application for the time being.

As always, you guys are great, and if you find ever something is going awry then you can of course post about it here on the forums, but please also reach out to us at our support inbox <support@wolflair.com> so we can be sure to have the BUG internally tracked as well.

Thanks everyone, you all rock!"

[Rone]

And Sendric found this:

"I've also discovered that if you have Data File Debugging enabled, you can quick reload the data files (CTRL-R) to temporarily remove the duplications."

[Mathias]

There's a quicker way than reloading to reset the duplications to what they should be (until the next time you change something) - in the Develop menu, choose "Trigger Full Evaluation Immediately". That actually has the same effect as turning on "Disable Fast Evaluation", and then immediately turning it off again - it triggers a single recalculation of everything, but without fast evaluation.

[ShadowWalker]

Does 8.8d fix these bugs?

[Azhrei]

Originally Posted by Rone

Ryan F offered a workaround on the first page of this thread.

Not an option on the iPad, though. And when I'm playing in a game (like I am tonight), the iPad is all I bring with me to the table.