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Custom Sheets - Thanks Lone Wolf

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Dogson

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I just wanted to say thanks in a thread starting with a positive subject line.

Expanding user custom content by providing the community with access to create character sheets is a very positive and appreciated step. Too often the direction companies take today is to lock the user out. Its the ones who let the user in that see a dedicated community grow.

I appreciate the tutorial, it got me through the basics and with a little XSLT & HTML referencing for specific questions I'm on my way to creating what I need.
 
Oh oh I want to add that cool +1 thing that paizo forums uses. :)

Anyways yea I read THIS tutorial I found online at work yesterday as I am not a XSLT expert at all. I then went home last night and at 10:00pm I used the little tuturial provided by HL to get myself started on a custom sheet.

Took about 2 hrs of work but I have a custom sheet that has full Feat/Trait descriptions. Better weapon layout at the TOP of the sheet. Basically its really fun to make the changes and be able to control how the sheet looks. :)

And XML and XSLT is NOT a programming language. Granted it is very techy but at its core level its just a more advanced HTML or mark up that uses tags which is meant to be human readable.

If anyone has done the whole {code}{/code} stuff to display your eval scripts in forum posts than congratulations you have used a type of XML and already on your way of using XSLT. :) :p
 
Any chance you can Post what you have shadow? Be curious to see what people come up with. I haven't had time yet to start.
 
Exitilus said:
Any chance you can Post what you have shadow? Be curious to see what people come up with. I haven't had time yet to start.
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Sure when I get home tonight I will put up the original next to my changed sheet. It still needs allot of work as I was more messing around to see if "ideas" could work is all. Like full desc and stuff. So its more of a proof of concept then real pretty.

Felt I need to justify it is all. :)
 
I just wanted to add the +2 ~ especially since one of the changes implemented really made me smile. Namely that in the .user file in the editor the program tells you how many things you have in each category.

And thank you Shadow for being willing to share.
 
chava said:
I just wanted to add the +2 ~ especially since one of the changes implemented really made me smile. Namely that in the .user file in the editor the program tells you how many things you have in each category.

And thank you Shadow for being willing to share.
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Oh yea! That is very cool. Thank yall again!
 
Exitilus said:
Any chance you can Post what you have shadow? Be curious to see what people come up with. I haven't had time yet to start.
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So attached to this post is a zip file with a pair of .htm files. One shows a witch character using the HL default output (Dargo HL version.htm). The other shows the same character with my modified sheet (Dargo Custom Version.htm).

The zip file also contains a folder that you can use to get the same output by putting it in the following location: C:\ProgramData\Hero Lab\customoutput\pathfinder or to use as an example or starting point.

Again I want to stress that this is what I did in 2hrs of learning. It is NOT and I repeat NOT a sheet anyone is going to be happy with. It does show how to get Full Descriptions to show up for feats, traits, and abilities.

Again this is NOT a finished sheet and is 100% still a work in progress and I expect many others to be able to do way better. But I am enjoy learning and it has been fun. :)
 

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I've been playing around a little too. I found how to highlight/color your class skills. I'm currently trying to find if there is a way to display the modified CMB/CMD when you have a Improved/Greater trip type feat. I know it is possible because the built-in statblock File->Print Active Hero Statblock includes them.

I also haven't been able to find the special abilities name for custom magic weapons, +1 Spell Storing Longsword, but I am hunting them down.

I too am not focused on making it pretty but playing around with some ideas.
 
Thanks for posting your custom output, ShadowChemosh! FYI - you can create custom output import files from HLExport's file menu, which then get imported to the correct location automatically when the user double-clicks them.

We've just pushed a minor update that adds the missing "Armor Proficiency" etc feats and DTD, so that's now live. If there's anything you want that's missing from the custom output format, please post about it in this thread so that we can get it added.
 
Colen said:
Thanks for posting your custom output, ShadowChemosh! FYI - you can create custom output import files from HLExport's file menu, which then get imported to the correct location automatically when the user double-clicks them.
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Yep that looks to be a great new feature but after a 14 hour work day I got lazy. :)

Colen said:
We've just pushed a minor update that adds the missing "Armor Proficiency" etc feats and DTD, so that's now live. If there's anything you want that's missing from the custom output format, please post about it in this thread so that we can get it added.
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Sweet!
 
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