4/4 - beta testing is over - thanks for your help, everyone!
3/29 - betas have been updated! This new beta makes the editor faster and more responsive when switching tabs. Please download the new beta from the link below and let me know if you have any problems.
Hi everyone,
A new beta of Hero Lab is available, and we'd like you to give it a try! This beta includes the following important changes:
- User-created data files will no longer report errors if they reference content from packages you don’t own! Previously, if a user data file referenced content from (for example) the Advanced Player’s Guide, but your Hero Lab license wasn’t authorized for the APG, it would fail to compile with some (unhelpful) errors. Starting this version, those errors are ignored, and Hero Lab simply warns you (via a validation error) if you try to use anything that references content from the package you don’t have. (You won’t be able to use the missing content, it’ll simply be ignored.)
- Certain items couldn’t be put in certain holders (for example, magical arrows could not be put into a Vanishing Sheath in Pathfinder); this has now been fixed.
- The same spell could often not be added for different classes, or within different spellbooks.
- Using “Test Now!” in the editor would sometimes ignore the values you set for fields, often if the field value set was “2” (for example, ability score bonuses in 5th Edition).
- A new “Extend Thing” tab is present in the editor, allowing you to add tags to things that are defined in other files (or in packages). This should make it easier to (for example) add new character classes to existing spells.
- Added a “Find Thing” button to the Hidden, Preclude, and Procedure tabs in the editor.
- Switching tabs and other operations in the editor are now significantly faster.
We're planning to do a general release of these features within the next 1-2 weeks, but the changes we had to make were big enough that it would be nice to get some additional eyes on them first. If you're interested in helping out, you can download the beta here:
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Please install either the Windows or Mac version, and if you're a Pathfinder user, install the updated Pathfinder data files, and let us know if you run into any problems - either crashes or simply things not working the way they used to.
We're particularly interested in your feedback if you use custom data files, either your own or the Pathfinder / 5th edition community packs.
Thanks for your help, everyone!