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Sounds I finished the first pass at adding in sound effects... here's how it works right now: You need to select a "Special Effect" for a power in HD The power must have a roll associated with it like a Blast or Entangle Sounds will play when you make your roll Each special effect in HD has a sound in the app... all 48 of them You can choose to not play any sounds in the newly redesigned settings screen of the app. Alternatively, you may also choose to just use the dice rolling sound regardless of the SFX assigned to the powers. All the sounds are here if you're curious. What I'm thinking for phase 2 of this feature is this: I'll add a screen to upload a sound (and delete one too) You will pick from a dropdown on this screen what SFX it should play on When loading a SFX the app will first check the list of user uploaded files and load anything it finds for the SFX All SFX sounds are loaded on demand (and then cached) to keep memory under control Failing to find any user defined mp3's for a given SFX will cause the app to use the default SFX sound Tablet Support While we're talking about features, I want to discuss what I mean by 'Tablet Support' as it is currently ahead in the poll. I will be using a technique to scale up the UI to a reasonable size based on the device screen size and resolution - that's it. I have no plans right now to make special screens based on the size of the device. Making screens based on device size adds a level of complexity to my development process that I just don't need right now, especially when weighed against the other feature requests I have in the pipeline. To reiterate, it will look better on bigger devices but there won't be a changes to the UI beyond the addition of scaling. Perhaps this will change someday but for now I want to add in this first step and move on to other features.

You are absolutely right that people are fussy. I have the hardcoded version complete from the coding perspective, I just have a few more sounds to pick out. I'll look into the ability to upload custom sounds and see how much work that will be.

This isn't the first time I've been asked for this actually. The issue from the app perspective is that it doesn't have any concept of multiple characters... the app only knows about the current character. Which means when you load in a new character it forgets about the last one entirely including anything in persistent storage. This may be a nice stepping stone to loading multiple characters or an excuse to just do that feature outright.

If you haven't done it yet there is an option in HD to not print Advantages/Limitations on MPs and lists items. It will still print on the root element, just not the children. Very helpful at times.

Here you go @Doc Democracy... took about 30 minutes to setup Need to pick out sounds for SFX now... that'll take longer than the coding lol.

That actually wouldn't be a huge deal to implement... it would mostly be a question of finding public domain sound effects and getting them to play on a roll... there should be a way to stop the app from playing them too. There would be one more permission required by the app too but that shouldn't be a big deal.

Now that the dust is settling on my last big feature I've been thinking about what to do next for the app. I don't really know which feature to work on next so I thought I would open up the choice here. Let me know what you think the next big feature should be.

I pushed the 1.3.6 patch early this morning after Apple found an issue in QA with the 1.3.5 patch. It's a relatively small patch but fixes some bugs which snuck in to the Settings screen and app boot. Patch notes: Added the ability to display notes to powers, skills, talents, etc Pressing on your strength die code from the characteristics tab will now bring you to the damage screen Fixed a couple of bugs with the settings page and clearing caches Changed the "Free Form" line item to "effect" on the statistics page The build should be live for Android devices and hopefully going live on iOS later today, QA pending

I just pushed the 1.3.5 build to the app stores. Note: Clear your caches (under settings) before you use the build Patch notes: Added in a new tool called the "Effect" roller which replaces the "Free Form" tool Effect results now show a message regarding the effect such as the number of segments a target is flashed for Pressing a phase bubble will highlight it in gold to indicate the phase has been spent Long pressing a phase bubble highlights it on red which indicates the phase has been aborted or lost due to stunning Added Dexterity and Speed to the phases section of the combat screen Added the defenses section to the combat screen which lists PD, ED, Power, and Mental defense Fixed an issue with tabs not immediately updating when toggling the "Show Secondary Characteristics?" button Fixed a bug with custom martial maneuvers which caused a crash Complications now display more useful information as a glance You will probably start seeing the build on your devices later tonight would be my guess.

I've been sequestered in my home because of a snowstorm for the past day and a bit... the good news is there's plenty of time to program . I've been squashing bugs and writing new features with the occasional break to shovel my driveway and watch The Witcher. There's a couple of new things to go through... The Effect Screen I have replaced the "Free Form" rolling tool with a new tool called the "Effect" roller. This screen still allows you to roll dice "free form" style but you may also now pick the effect you're rolling for. When you hit the "Roll" button you will be taken to the "Result" screen per usual but there will now be an informative message. For example; if you pick "Flash" as your effect type you will see the number of segments that target is flashed for when you press the "Roll" button. In addition to using this tool stand alone I added in intelligence to the rolls you make from the Hero Designer character viewer. When you roll for your "Flash" power effect it will automatically roll for you and tell you the segments your target is flashed for simply by pressing the die code on the power. Here it is: Complications I decided that the "Complications" tab on the Hero Designer character viewer needed a bit of love so it could fall in line with the ther tabs. The primary issue I had with this tab was that it didn't tell you useful information at a glance. It listed the type of Complication but no other useful information was present. I changed it so there's more useful information available at a glance now. Defenses I finally got around to adding in a defenses section to the "Combat" tab of the Hero Designer character tab. I won't bore you with the implementation details other than to say there's too many ways to get defenses in this game That's all for now... I may push a build out later today or tonight depending on how things go.

I worked a bit more on the combat screen today for Hero Designer characters... here's a screenshot (apologies for the quality) As you can see, the Dexterity and Speed of the loaded character are now displayed below the phase bubbles. The phase bubbles themselves are now interactable: Touching a bubble will highlight it in gold to indicate the phase has been spent Long touching the bubble will highlight it in red to indicate the phase has been lost due to aborting or being stunned

I just pushed the 1.3.4 build into production primarily to fix a file selection bug on iOS that was preventing users from picking a Hero Designer file. The combat screen is still a work in progress, let me know what you think of it so far. Path notes: Added in phases to the combat screen Added a section for combat values (OCV, DCV, etc) to the combat screen The health section of the combat screen now uses a calculator for its input Fixed a rare crash with custom martial maneuvers Fixed some display issues with martial maneuvers Fixed a loading bug when trying to load Hero Designer files (iOS only) The build should be hitting your devices later today.

It looks I fixed the iOS loading bug for Hero Designer characters. I'm still being bitten by a bug with my simulators so it's impossible for me to test right now... but I can now see the files and they are selectable. I just get an error when I try to actually open the files because of the bug with iCloud. I've got other changes in this build that I need to spend time testing but I may push a build as soon as tomorrow depending on how it goes tonight.

It reminds me of Pathfinder where you would threaten a critical and have to confirm it with a second roll. Sounds interesting, you'll have to let us know how it works out for you.

I personally think this sounds more like a standard Trigger advantage with the trigger being a critical hit.

Bah, there's a bug listed here that seems like it describes the same issue you reported... https://github.com/Elyx0/react-native-document-picker/issues/210 I'll try the workaround described in the ticket tonight and see if it lets iPad's load .hdc files.

Ok, I'll look into it. I'm having an issue accessing iCloud via the iOS simulators which is apparently a known issue. I just saw that a new version of XCode is available the other day so I'll get it installed and see if it fixes the issue. If I can access iCloud I can test the issue. It's probably just a weird iPad thing... iPhones and iPad's actually handle files slightly differently which used to mean separate code for each. I basically opened up the file picker so that it will load any file now but iPad's probably require some special flag or something 🤪🤯 You can see on line 32 of the code I'm explicitly saying allow any file type to be chosen - https://github.com/sentry0/hero-system-mobile/blob/master/src/lib/File.js. It's Probably just me not reading the docs closely enough... honestly though, iPad's are almost always the devices that give me grief 😣

I've been working on the "Combat" tab of the app today in my free time and wanted to give an update. Here's a screenshot of the tab: From the image a few things should be evident (other than the alignment issues I'm fighting 😞 I've added in a "Phases" section that simply displays the phases of the current character I think it would be kind of neat to do something here to show which phases the character has used A touch would highlight the phase in red to show that it's been used Long touching a phase could turn it Yellow or Orange to indicate the phase was aborted The "Combat Values" section is also new You can adjust up or down any CV you like Hitting the "Roll" button will bring you directly to the "Result" screen which will tell you what DCV you can hit I'm thinking of a couple of things here... I want to add a calculator to the "Health" section so that when you edit your health you can let the computer do the math for you I need to add in CSLs to the "Combat Values" section I think I would like to list not only PD/ED but also unusual defenses like Power Defense under the forthcoming "Defenses" section If anyone has any requests for this section or feedback on the ideas I'm batting around let me know!

Awesome, thanks for helping. Just make sure you get the 1.3.3 build on your device before you try to load custom powers and stuff. It will cause a crash in earlier releases. The app is at version 1.3.3 on the Play Store and Amazon Appstore right now. It's probably going live on iOS later today/tonight.

In what is becoming a theme for my mornings I have pushed another build to the app stores . The 1.3.3 build fixes some issues with loading multiple characters in succession and adds support for custom skills, talents, and perks. Patch notes: Fixed an issue with Cramming Added in support for custom skills, perks, and talents Fixed a number of issues relating to stale data when loading one or more characters into the app in succession Skill Levels now show more useful information at a glance More work to clean up how modifiers are calculating and displaying The new build should be hitting your devices today or tomorrow depending on how fast it progresses through the various app store QA processes.

I just pushed the 1.3.2 build into production which is mostly a build that addresses some corner cases. Patch notes: Fixed a bug with the lift calculation for intermediate strengths The "Skill Check" button can now be toggled off Modifiers now enforce minimum and maximum values Modifiers now correctly discount negative adders Skills that grant skill levels only now calculate and display properly The build will probably be available today or tomorrow depending on how fast the QA process progresses in the various app stores.

I am pushing out the 1.3.1 build today to address some issues with certain types of advantages not calculating properly. Patch notes: Fixed an issue with HKA not calculating damage from STR properly if it had advantages Fixed an issue with certain types of advantages not calculating their costs correctly Fixed an issue with the app splash screen not showing (iOS only) This should be available today or tomorrow depending on how fast the build passes through the various app stores QA process.

No rush, it'll be there forever now

I have just released the 1.3.0 build to the Android, iOS, and Amazon app stores so it should be hitting your devices soon. What's new? You can now import 6th edition characters directly from Hero Designer files Completely restyled the application Two bullet points don't do justice to the amount of effort involved so I'll expand on those points a bit. New Look & Feel I updated the app to have a more modern look and feel... it's now a dark themed app. Instead of trying to describe the app, here's a couple of screenshots of the new app. Note that the second and third images are from the Hero Designer character viewer and not the XML export character viewer. Loading Hero Designer Characters This feature was a major undertaking and took months of part time development to get working. Instead of using the XML export template to export your character from Hero Designer and then loading that file into the app you can now just load a Hero Designer character directly. This is currently only available for 6th edition characters, I'm still deciding if I'm going to support 5th edition characters. You can still load your 5th or 6th edition characters via the export template method. Reading in Hero Designer files means that I now have a much greater ability to get granular details out of the file. This new way of dealing with character data meant that I needed to build a new UI in order to show it and write code to process the data properly. Bug Hunt During the process of writing this update I managed to get some reported bugs fixed and even found some new ones while I was in there. I'm usually pretty optimistic in general but I'm 100% certain that bugs with the new character viewer that I haven't come across. Writing this basically doubled the amount of commits I made to the codebase... I pretty much touched every file and wrote a large amount of code in order to support reading Hero Designer files. Keep the bug reports coming via the usual methods: DM me via this site; Email me at phil.guinchard@gmail.com; Post in this thread. Use The Source Source code for the app is now open source under the Apache 2.0 license. You can find the project here - https://github.com/sentry0/hero-system-mobile... do with it what you will. Thank You I wanted to extend a special thank you to all the people who signed up for the beta and reported bugs. Your help was crucial in getting this out the door.

HSM is open source now - https://www.herogames.com/forums/topic/99286-hero-system-mobile-is-now-fully-open-source/