Creator conversions

[starblaze]

I heard something about a way of converting Hero Creator files to Hero Designer files. Does anyone know how to do this?

[Simon]

Read the documentation. Page 8, to be specific.

[lemming]

And after you read the doc, I found an interesting behaviour if you happen to have notes in your character that includes this '<->', Hero Designer will barf on loading the character. Thinks it's XML.

Easy to fix though since the line number is pointed out and you just change the <> to '& lt;' & '& gt;' with a text editor. Note that I added spaces in there since the board is auto changing that to <> again.

[Earthson]

I've had some issues with importing some Creator characters but not with others. The way you displayed a dash is it with the carrots or without?

I opened one of the characters I was having a problem importing and found a couple of dashes in some descriptions (Man-guilded missles), nuked the dashes just to see what that Designer would do and now am getting a completely different error that does at least reference a code line.

[lemming]

Originally posted by Earthson
I've had some issues with importing some Creator characters but not with others. The way you displayed a dash is it with the carrots or without?

I opened one of the characters I was having a problem importing and found a couple of dashes in some descriptions (Man-guilded missles), nuked the dashes just to see what that Designer would do and now am getting a completely different error that does at least reference a code line.

I've always thought this '^' was a carrot. The problems are not the dashes, but the greater than & lesser than symbols. The XML is thinking it's starting a field.

[Earthson]

Duh, and to think I can help my fifth grader with his math :rolleyes: The next question I would have is whether or not Frontpage or another Web construction application can be used for editting buggy character sheets or is Word Pad the application of choice?

[Chaosliege]

Originally posted by Earthson
Duh, and to think I can help my fifth grader with his math :rolleyes: The next question I would have is whether or not Frontpage or another Web construction application can be used for editting buggy character sheets or is Word Pad the application of choice?

That depends on the bug. If you're talking about some of the text doesn't say whayt you want, then you could do it in Frontpage. If you're talking about template layout issues, I would go strait t the sourse with with word pad. Personally, I use word pad for all my editing. But I kinda like messing with the code.

[lemming]

Originally posted by Earthson
Duh, and to think I can help my fifth grader with his math :rolleyes: The next question I would have is whether or not Frontpage or another Web construction application can be used for editting buggy character sheets or is Word Pad the application of choice?

gvim is my editor of choice, but I would go with any sort of text editor before going with Front Page. I just don't trust it. (Based on too many times seeing broken web pages created with it maybe...)

[GradonSilverton]

Might I suggest laying it all out and getting Dreamweaver....

You get layout, code, and no funky inserted commands all at your fingertips.