Set Min-Max by Race

[Kevlyn]

Yeah, I just figured that out myself. I was reading the comment and that light bulb went off over my head.

Don't I feel sheepish! And works like a charm.

[Kevlyn]

I've got all the races in and I've modified the point costs per attribute point and it works well except when changing the race. I can't seem to figure out what to trigger to make the creation points recalculate.

Any guidance here would be welcome, if I can work out where to stick the code, then I'll work out the code that I need.

[evildmguy]

More than likely, it's a timing issue. Those always got me!

When do you calculate the race item? When do you calculate the points per attribute?

I would start by checking those.

[Kevlyn]

Okay, I figured out what's going. The minimums are changing and the CPs are being calculated correctly, but when I change races it's not resetting to the minimum so nothing is being recalculated.

So, it's all good it just didn't look that way to me.

Thanks for the input, I learned a lot about timing as a result of this.

[Kevlyn]

I have a derived trait that really needs to be displayed as text. I went back through the Savage Worlds files and looked at how they did it for Attributes, but I'm really having a difficult time trying to sort out the text label.

[evildmguy]

Okay, I'm glad it is working for you.

Do you have code on the text you need help with?

[Kevlyn]

I don't because derived traits all use values, not text. I'm trying to figure out how to force a derived trait to use a text field instead of a value field when its displayed.

I've done the initial formula to set the derived trait. But the end result is a bonus die type to damage mod. The range of die types is -1d8 to +2d10+1d4.

I'm setting the trtBonus value to a number, then I'll use if statements to make the conversion to text. I just need to figure out how to output the text instead of the number.

[evildmguy]

I think Hero Lab will do that for you.

For example, I have:

<portal
      id="ranks"
      style="lblNormal">
      <label>
      <labeltext><![CDATA[
        @text = "[" & field[sklRollO].value & " / " & field[sklRollG].value & " / " & field[sklRollA].value & "]"
        ]]></labeltext>
        
        </label>
    </portal>

I'm just using the value field and it's being set as text.

Is that what you need to do?

[Kevlyn]

The output looks like:

Damage Modifier: 1

but I want to render it instead as:

Damage Modifier: -1D8

And I tried adding the <label></label> to the basics tab, under the baTrait portal and it did not like the label at all.

[evildmguy]

Can you post your code? I have some vague ideas but seeing the code would help.