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ETools and Dark Sun

Post/Author/DateTime Post
#1
zombiegleemax
Aug 08, 2005 1:00:45 Has anyone made a Daek Sun data set for e tools?
#2
xlorepdarkhelm_dup
Aug 08, 2005 12:30:52 Nope. And honestly, I'd never want to. eTools more or less is unimpressive to me. I might make a PCGen dataset for Dark Sun eventually, however. I was waiting for PCGen to change their dataset file structure to an XML format, but I'm getting the impression that's not happening any time soon.
#3
huntercc
Aug 08, 2005 22:16:21 I'm partway thru creating one... I have all of the classes added and a few feats, plus I managed to convert the currency system (which is easy if you have MS Access)
#4
flip
Aug 10, 2005 8:20:58
Nope. And honestly, I'd never want to. eTools more or less is unimpressive to me. I might make a PCGen dataset for Dark Sun eventually, however. I was waiting for PCGen to change their dataset file structure to an XML format, but I'm getting the impression that's not happening any time soon.

I wanted to do the same thing, at one point, and was waiting for the same thing ...

I did some digging, about a month ago, and it seems like the XML conversion project was put on hold. ... A year or two ago, I looked into the codebase of PCGen, becase I was interested in possibly helping out ... it was a mess, to be honest. I would hope it's gotten better by now, but there were a bunch of things that clued me in to the fact that the original author really didn't know what he was doing .... refactoring to take XML input is probably hard at this point ....
#5
xlorepdarkhelm_dup
Aug 10, 2005 13:08:08
I wanted to do the same thing, at one point, and was waiting for the same thing ...

I did some digging, about a month ago, and it seems like the XML conversion project was put on hold. ... A year or two ago, I looked into the codebase of PCGen, becase I was interested in possibly helping out ... it was a mess, to be honest. I would hope it's gotten better by now, but there were a bunch of things that clued me in to the fact that the original author really didn't know what he was doing .... refactoring to take XML input is probably hard at this point ....

Yea, they postponed it -- because they had to push out the 3.5e rules, and that just mangled the files further, there never was much support to get the XML code completed, and it had become a total mess. At this point, I don't even know if they will ever move to XML format.

I guess that if I wasn't bogged down with a bunch of other projects currently, I could be persuaded to make a Dark Sun Character Generator. Maybe when I take my Java Programming class, and if there is a final project, I'll knock one out, but until then, my time is a limited commodity.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 zombiegleemax Aug 08, 2005 1:00:45	Has anyone made a Daek Sun data set for e tools?
#2 xlorepdarkhelm_dup Aug 08, 2005 12:30:52	Nope. And honestly, I'd never want to. eTools more or less is unimpressive to me. I might make a PCGen dataset for Dark Sun eventually, however. I was waiting for PCGen to change their dataset file structure to an XML format, but I'm getting the impression that's not happening any time soon.
#3 huntercc Aug 08, 2005 22:16:21	I'm partway thru creating one... I have all of the classes added and a few feats, plus I managed to convert the currency system (which is easy if you have MS Access)
#4 flip Aug 10, 2005 8:20:58	Nope. And honestly, I'd never want to. eTools more or less is unimpressive to me. I might make a PCGen dataset for Dark Sun eventually, however. I was waiting for PCGen to change their dataset file structure to an XML format, but I'm getting the impression that's not happening any time soon. I wanted to do the same thing, at one point, and was waiting for the same thing ... I did some digging, about a month ago, and it seems like the XML conversion project was put on hold. ... A year or two ago, I looked into the codebase of PCGen, becase I was interested in possibly helping out ... it was a mess, to be honest. I would hope it's gotten better by now, but there were a bunch of things that clued me in to the fact that the original author really didn't know what he was doing .... refactoring to take XML input is probably hard at this point ....
#5 xlorepdarkhelm_dup Aug 10, 2005 13:08:08	I wanted to do the same thing, at one point, and was waiting for the same thing ... I did some digging, about a month ago, and it seems like the XML conversion project was put on hold. ... A year or two ago, I looked into the codebase of PCGen, becase I was interested in possibly helping out ... it was a mess, to be honest. I would hope it's gotten better by now, but there were a bunch of things that clued me in to the fact that the original author really didn't know what he was doing .... refactoring to take XML input is probably hard at this point .... Yea, they postponed it -- because they had to push out the 3.5e rules, and that just mangled the files further, there never was much support to get the XML code completed, and it had become a total mess. At this point, I don't even know if they will ever move to XML format. I guess that if I wasn't bogged down with a bunch of other projects currently, I could be persuaded to make a Dark Sun Character Generator. Maybe when I take my Java Programming class, and if there is a final project, I'll knock one out, but until then, my time is a limited commodity.