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d20 Dataset Project....

Downloaded and I like the new organization of the books ShadowChemosh. How do I send updates when next I finish or update some file?
 
That is a very good question. Sort of brought that up a few times myself but never went anywhere.

My personal thought is that you(lawful_g) should control the CORE files. So that if someone wants to add something or fix something those should be sent to you. As you are constantly doing stuff to the data set I think it makes the most sense. I expect that to be very small compared to the number of changes you would make in a say a single month.

Then when you think you have done enough to warrant a new release you simply create an export file (this will be even easier in v3.7 HL). Send that off to Cheifweasel who can simply change the .xml file on his website to show v1.1 to everyone. Then last step would be nice to announce that on the d20 forums so everyone can be aware to download the latest stuff.

Maybe somewhere in their should be a QA step too.

Open for ideas to make this simple and easy. Some more high tech methods I listed in THIS post.
 
Alright. Sounds Good. I'll take responsibility for adding/changing anything others do, so feel free to send things my way people.
 
How to Create a .hl Export File....

How to create an .hl Export File

  • From the menu Tools->Launch HLExport...
  • Game folder by default should be pointed to C:\HeroLab\data\d20 if not locate your d20 folder by pressing the Browse button.
  • Click the blue Select Files button.
  • In the "Select Files to Export" window click the Select None blue button.
  • Now place a check mark next to each and every .user file you wish to include. Also include the Custom - Sources.1st file as that controls the new Parent sources. Press the blue OK button when done.
  • On the "Export File:" section click the blue Browse... button to pick a folder location and name your file. Should be something like Lawful_G_d20(v1.0).hl and DO NOT use spaces as it can cause problems when doing web stuff.
  • In the "Comments to Include in File:" section put in any notes about what this new version has or does.
  • Finally press the final blue button at the bottom marked Generate.
That is all their is too it for creating an export file. In the next release of HL we hopefully will have a button that will just select all the .user files for us making mistakes less likely.
 
I'm working on the Complete Psionics power list at the moment. I'll send the file along once I have something substantial.
 
What sort of information should we be testing in the new file? i got it loaded but am not sure what is old material and what is new.
 
chiefweasel said:
What sort of information should we be testing in the new file? i got it loaded but am not sure what is old material and what is new.
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Basically I am looking for the following:
1) Did it load ok?
2) Any missing or orphaned Thing error messages appeared when starting HL?
3) Try activating a single book and see if any errors appear.
4) Maybe check mark a single source(ie book) in example Compete Warrior. Can you then find feats, classes, and equipment from that book?

Basically stuff like that to see if what I did broke anything. As I didn't use the editor when adding these sources as it was WAY too many. So I used a combination of a RegExp tool and TextPad for the Things that the RegExp missed. I did unit test each thing, but was looking for others to double check is all.

That is about it really. Then we will need to see if the community finds anything then as the more eyes will catch more stuff after we release it. The idea is this becomes the Community CORE data set and so we need a good stable base to work from.

Then as we get more stuff from the community we can include their work also. Like the stuff Sendric is working on can be QA tested and then incorporated into the data set making sure it has no duplicate things and is correctly Source marked.

Why Lawful_g controls the CORE and should have final say I can act as the stage one QA tester to help out. Making sure anything new does not have duplicate Thing ids and is at least all Source marked to the right book.

Those are my thoughts anyways.....
 
For me, the file loaded fine, didnt see any errors come up. But i cant find any of the source materials, none are being listed for me. I see an option for User Content, but it is greyed out and i cant select it.

When i select Configure Hero after the inital set up, i get the same options.
 
Under 'User Content' you should see 3.0 D&D books, 3.5 D&D books, Dragonlance Setting Books, Forgotten Realms Setting Books, and then a list of books under each of those categories. Did you clean out your directory first?
 
chiefweasel check in the game folder HeroLab\data\d20 or what ever your test folder name was to make sure that it contains .user files after you imported the .hl.

When you did the import did you change the install folder to go to your TEST folder? Otherwise it went to the default d20 folder as that is what it is compiled against.

Check those out and let me know because if the .user files are not giving errors you should see the new books(ie Sources)...
 
Yes, i see the problem, it went to the default D20 folder instead of the D20_Test fold i set up. a bit tricky and easy to miss. The import was successful, but i gess it was for the default d20 folder as well, and i can see all the source books in the Hero Config panel.

I started to make a character and everything seems good, but i will need to do some more testing.

As for the process working it seems to work fine, there might be fixes required for the information in the system, but the process works. Thanks.
 
chiefweasel said:
Yes, i see the problem, it went to the default D20 folder instead of the D20_Test fold i set up. a bit tricky and easy to miss.
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Yea. I think what I will do is a create a simple PDF document that shows how to setup the Secondary Update URL and how to do the import. In that I can put a few screen shots with areas highlighted. We can attach pdf documents to posts so when we do the initial post about this to the community we can attach that document.

Its often way easier to follow a few pictures than reading a long post. Plus I can add a small section at the end that talks about how to have the import load to a different directory.

Speaking of this did your Googlefu ever find any video software to do this Cheifweasel? To be honest I have not had time to look, but this would also make for a quick easy video.

Has anyone every uploaded to YouTube before as was just thinking that could be a good place to put these things maybe.
 
I have version 1.0 of the Complete Psionics Powers list done. It includes all Psion/Wilder (Discipline) and Psychic Warrior powers. Lurk and mantle powers to be added later. Is there a proper way to deliver this? I can email it to someone or just attach here. How should we do this?
 
Go ahead and send the .user file to me at shadowchemosh(at)yahoo(dot)com.

I will do a quick QA on it and if all ok then I will send off to Lawful_G and can add it into the .hl file so we have that also for v1.0a release to the community.

Thanks.
 
I made a few adjustments to the Source stuff in the file, but otherwise great job. I created a new 1.0a data set and uploaded it to my server. So that is now available through the Secondary Update URL.

Cheifweasel is away this weekend. So going to try and finish that help document and then hopefully we can release this set to the community this week sometime. :)
 
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