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User Content File Repository

Did you move the file into the data/d20 folder while HeroLab is active? If you placed the file there before opening HeroLab, you should see all of the new content.

Pressing ctrl-r while in Hero Lab (not while in the editor window) will quick-reload the data files. Selecting "Switch Game System" in the file menu and selecting the game you're already on will also work.

You may also want to look on the configure hero form (the one you see when you start a new hero, or select it from the character menu), click the clipboard icon there, and make sure that any new content you've added didn't come with a required setting. If it did have a setting, select that.
 
That actually did it! Sweet thanks!

On a side note, i dont know if this is the right place to put it, but i am doing Book of Exalted Deeds right now, and am currently tackling Vow of Poverty, its going well, but im running into a weird error. When i try to do damage reduction and energy resistance, i use the scripts from the page such as:

~Add Energy Resistance 5
#applyresist[xDamRsAcid, 5]
#applyresist[xDamRsFire, 5]
#applyresist[xDamRsCold, 5]
#applyresist[xDamRsElec, 5]


~Add damage reduction of 5/Magic
#applydr[xDamRdMag, 5]

And both of these macros are returning "Non-Existant Pick" Were these macros not updated for a recent change? I cant seem to find the datastructure break down for DR and ER, can someone toss me a link?

Thanks again!
 
Actually, I figured it out. The problem was that the character didn't have any damage reduction and damage resistance, and HL doesn't create those fields for everyone, until something creates it. I just bootstrapped in its creation, set its values to 0, and bam, worked!

Yeah!
 
Which one worked?

You also need to bootstrap the damage resistance thing.

I suggest you go to the races tab in the editor, and press "New (Copy)", then open up a race that has some resistances. Aasimar for example. You'll see that the bootstraps button on the top right is highlighted because there are bootstraps. Click on that button, and you'll see where to add the xDamRsAcid thing, so that the macro has something to find.

For future reference, each game system has its own folder on this forum, which is the appropriate place to ask questions about how to create content for that game.
 
When you say "at least most", can you tell me which spells are missing from the spell compendium files? I wrote those files and if you've noticed something lacking please tell me so I can update.
 
Sorry to imply that i might have noticed anything is missing, that is definitely not the case. I have not gone through all the book to make sure that everything is there, so I didn't know if any were left out for whatever reason. It certainly had the ones I needed!

Thanks again for all your work, im sure it took a while!
 
rob said:
There might be a half-solution for this that is significantly better than no solution. We call it the "secondary updates" mechanism and it is intended for use by playtest groups using our products during game development. In the case of Hero Lab, it can just as easily be used for accessing the various user-created data files for d20.

For details on how it works, you'll need to refer to the Army Builder documentation, since it's not currently documented publicly for Hero Lab. To access it, install AB, then open the Authoring Kit documentation (it's all HTML files for AB). Go to the bottom of the main page and click on the "Design & Playtest Support" link. Read the sections on Playtest Distribution and Updates Configuration File.

If you set this up on the cheeseweasel site, then any interested user can add the URL you setup as their secondary updates URL. After that, everything is integrated into the HL updates logic and it's all being managed completely separate from anything we're involved with.

Let me know if you have any questions about this stuff. I'll be happy to answer them.
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I am trying to setup the above for my players that use HL and this Secondary URL feature seems just like the thing I need. I went over the documentation in AB and think I have it setup correctly, but I keep getting the following error from HL.
Unable to retrieve updates from secondary server. Please verify the URL is correct and try again.

Here is the URL I am trying to use:
http://www.shadowgameworld.net/pathfinder/herolab/updates.xml

Going directly to the URL via a web browser seems to show it working correctly as the XML file is displayed. So I have to assume I did something else wrong in the XML file setup.

Any help would be welcome.
 
Colen said:
The XML that you have looks correct, but it's being served as an HTML page with a "frame" directing the browser to the actual file, which lives here:

http://www.shadowsoftware.net/shadowgameworld/pathfinder/herolab/updates.xml

If you use that URL as the secondary updates URL, the updates are found as normal. :)
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Ahhh. Thanks that was the problem. It works perfectly now. This will make things so much easier for my players.

The more I find the more I like this tool.... :)
 
WeasellyChief and ShadowyChemosh: the data file for the Dwarves no longer appears on the Cheese Weasel site.

I found a backup of the .user file, but thought I should let the two of you know.
 
I dont seem to have that file anywhere. I must have missed it some place along the way.

If you have a copy, send it along and i'll post it up. Thanks.
 
RedBeardSean said:
WeasellyChief and ShadowyChemosh: the data file for the Dwarves no longer appears on the Cheese Weasel site.

I found a backup of the .user file, but thought I should let the two of you know.
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Assuming as I am included I think that means we are talking about the Dwarves Of Golarion .user file for PFRPG? If so I don't think that one ever got sent to chiefweasel's site as it confirms to the OGL and CUP standards of Paizo so I would have posted it to d20pfsrd instead. Mostly only .user files that don't confirm to OGL and CUP have I sent to chiefweasel's site.

So if it is the Dwarves Of Golarion or other Pathfinder Companion books you are looking for you can download them from d20pfsrd.
 
I must've misremembered where I'd downloaded it from. Sorry to cause any consternation.

We now return you to your regular programming...
 
Actually, I'll take any and all content created by users. It doesnt matter the file extension or the materials, so send everything you have along.
 
Hey chiefweasel, I like the new setup for your sites file repository, but I have a few nitpicks, which I'll point out below.

1 - It is spelled Exalted in Book of Exalted Deeds, not Exhaulted.

2 - For the Complete Warrior feats I should get partial credit, B0drin did start them, but I completed the rest and did a lot of programming for my part.

3 - Complete Scoundrel Skill tricks is listed twice, but the second listing for Mindcloud does not have a link. Also duplicated with no link is Mindcloud's Spell Compendium file. The same no link issue with your MIC Item powers, Halfling Outrider and Kensai files, my dragon magazine compendium feats & Beholder Mage PrC files.

4 - Most importantly for me, I'd like to request a "last updated" date listed. Even when I list a particular set as "Done" I may have to revisit them later. For example, I just started doing monster feats that depend on things like creature type, so I went through and changed all the races I have entered to have a Race.typXXX tag for pre-req purposes.

It would help me to know what version you had so I could send you more recent ones.
 
Lawful_g said:
4 - Most importantly for me, I'd like to request a "last updated" date listed. Even when I list a particular set as "Done" I may have to revisit them later. For example, I just started doing monster feats that depend on things like creature type, so I went through and changed all the races I have entered to have a Race.typXXX tag for pre-req purposes.

It would help me to know what version you had so I could send you more recent ones.
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I had an idea about that. I propose we create a simple thing in our files name it something like Name = "Version 1.0" UniqueID = "__(book abbreviation)" This would allow us to incorporate version numbers, update notes, release date, author, ect... in a place we could all reference. We could also also benefit from a standardized naming system for our files i.e. something like Spellbook_Compendium.user or SBC.User. What do you guys think?
 
Mindcloud said:
I had an idea about that. I propose we create a simple thing in our files name it something like Name = "Version 1.0" UniqueID = "__(book abbreviation)" This would allow us to incorporate version numbers, update notes, release date, author, ect... in a place we could all reference.
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I think you are talking just about your 3.5 stuff, but I like the idea of the Simple Version thing. Plus I could put in the change notes in their also. I am going to start doing that I think for my pathfinder files.

Thanks
 
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Here is an idea that sort of expands on Mindcloud's about versions. Though I think it will be more important for the Pathfinder editors than for 3.5. Pathfinder is still growing and changing so I and others have lots of fixes we have to keep putting into the books that are already done. This includes new errata and changes for Pathfinder Society games.

Things are going to get confusing so I plan to not only use the Simple thing version, but also plan to put a version number at the end of the Source Description. This way non-editors will easily and quickly know what version of the book they are currently using in HL and if they should/need to get a new version.

The description for a source can easily be edited using notepad directly in the XML files. So very easy to update.

If anyone has a better way of doing this I am all ears, but I think this will help the community to keep track of all the changes and updates for the Pathfinder data.
 
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