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You need to install and activate the 5E Community Pack. See daplunk's link above.
See THIS post in the thread. It will have you check that you really installed the community Pack. And make sure you have turned on the Sources which activate the addon.I dunno if I'm just doing things wrong, but for some reason, none of the backgrounds except Acolyte are selectable to me, even though all the rest of the SRD and Community Pack stuff comes up fine... it's like, for some reason, that single option is stuck in Demo Mode...
Actually your sort of assuming that everything is loaded and working fine. Honestly ChaosWolf1982 didn't post enough information to actually 100% know for sure what he/she has done. Based on 99% of the other times this issue has come up I think he forgot to go into Configure Your Hero and turn on the 5e community sources. Just because allot of brand new HL users are coming over to use 5e they are not aware of this step.If all the other community stuff works fine as he writes that does not seem to be the right solution...
I'm sure there are, but it's a lot of work. I would volunteer but I can't even figure out how to make one of the races myself so I'd probably be more of a hindrance than anything else.
That's where I run into issues. Everything else is easy, but figuring out how to implement specials requires scripting knowledge which... I just don't have the brain for and find very confusing.Probably the hardest bit about Races is the Racial Special Abilities.
That's what I do but I still find a lot of it confusing. It just took me an hour to figure out how to do something as basic as putting in the Long-Limbed feature for a bugbear. Now that I know how to put in a new racial feature so that it pops up on the list, it'll be quicker, but the fact that it took so long to figure out in the first place, is the stumbling block of learning an entirely new paradigm.Of course there are complex parts of the editor. But just opening the editor and looking at pre-existing things can teach you a hell of alot.
You greatly over-estimate my programming experience lol.
This is exactly the same it is for everyone that starts out in HL editing. NO ONE even those with a programming experience sit down and just does HL scripting.For regular Joe's, spending hours figuring these things out without the aid of a teacher, isn't exactly fun or rewarding, especially if you already have a full-time job.
Races are dead-set easy. For the sake of learning, install the file linked above.
From HL click Tools > Show Editor. Then File > Open Data File.
Open COM_5ePack_VGtM - Races.user
Click the Race tab then the Race tab and just have a look at the races listed. Have you copy of the book next to you and compare the two. You will notice very quickly how it works.
Probably the hardest bit about Races is the Racial Special Abilities. If you click that button you will see it links to other 'things'. You can see those other things by changing to the 'Racial Special' Tab.
Of course there are complex parts of the editor. But just opening the editor and looking at pre-existing things can teach you a hell of alot.
Even if you enter in the skeleton of something and don't put any Eval scripts in. That's still useful to the Community as we can just ask the more experienced users to finish it off and get the coding elements functional.