Import creatures from D&DI Adventure Tools
Submitted by frostymug on Sun, 2009-09-27 06:20
| Project: | Virtual Combat Cards |
| Version: | 1.8.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Nebulorum |
| Status: | active |
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Description
I have a request to have the creature cards information copied into vcc. I know something is supposedly in the works to have this information copied from the dnd compendium to vcc via a Firefox add-on and I am totally stoked for this feature but now that they have this new official application called Adventures Tools that stores all the creatures locally on your pc as well as lets you customize or completely create new creatures I believe utilizing this as well as the compendium would make for a powerful solution. I know that with this new tool you can copy the card info as rich text or as image so I believe with this new option it would be much easier to import the information as image but I don’t know anything about programming but I am very very hopeful that this application can be used in conjunction with vcc. Keep up the awesome work guys this application is near perfection.
#1
The best alternative is using the XML files. For official monster the plugin is the beast an safest option. This will be tackled after version 1.0.
#2
#3
Will read XML files to import data. Official monsters should be captured by the VCC Firefox Plug-in.
#5
I seem to be having an issue with the capturing from the compendium. I keep getting a error that Sending to http://127.0.0.1:1552/capture failed with error code: or I get Virtual Combat Cards replied: You sent something that VCC cannot capture.
I really enjoy this tool though, any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
#7
d&d 4e combat manager curently has this feature, it copies the rich text format then allows you to past that into the stat bock. all they do it organise the rich text so it fills in the proper stat blocks. think over all VCC should be able to do something similar. but then I am no programmer maybe the difrences betwean the 2 programs makes it harder for 1 then the other. This feature would be very very nice though cuz I love to make custome monsters and the DDI adventurer tools monster builder makes this a sinch. just need a easier way to transfer the info beside recreating a stat block and manualy putting the creature into the VCC 1 stat at a time
#8
I really thing rich text may be much harder, I requires handling a lot of cases. The Compendium Capture is already a pretty big piece of code. However I believe the XML files may be simpler to implement.
As I stated on another issue, my main concern is that with Character Builder's move to online, they may change the Adventure Tools. I would love some help on investigating the XML file and see if is possible to import data easily.
#9
it more then likaly will change the advent tool though I think like the char builder many of us will simply continue to use the current one as like the char builder they will probably have a inferior designe for the new monster builder.
#10
It's out, the new Monster Builder is very primitive. But that's not really the key issue... there is no way to get your data out. Maybe this is something we could ask Wizards to provide, but I think we are looked in the Silverlight container.
#11
It appears that the web Adventure Tools can now export *.monster files, which my very brief inspection suggest are just XML files. Is there any way to import those *.monster files into VCC?
#12
It may be a very good idea. I took a look at the files and they seem fairly simple, although a bit convoluted. This is a nice route to get data into VCC.
I did a quick scan on two files. All the data is there. The terms and concepts are actually interesting. I could even be a format to save data created in VCC, though this needs more consideration.
The way to get the file out is not very nice. But it's already a good starting point.
#13
Now that 1.7.0 is out, where do you think this is on the development pipeline? This is probably the feature I am most excited about - I tend to customize almost every monster I use a little bit, even if it's just the name and some of the power keywords, and the ability to export customs from the Monster Builder would be fantastic.