I'm not sure which direction to go. I'm working on a script which takes two traveler worlds and generates cargo and passengers between them. I want to end up...
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Bruce Kvam
brucekvam
Apr 22, 2013 4:36 am
I don't know how you have things set up, so it's difficult to make any concrete suggestions. I don't know whether each world has its own character sheet, or...
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Eric Jackson
theminiatureguy
Apr 22, 2013 6:57 am
Ok, That gives me a route to explore. Can a script open a print preview? Assuming that the actual print filter gets its data from the character sheet. From:...
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Bruce Kvam
brucekvam
Apr 22, 2013 4:10 pm
... Yes, the menucommand statement allows you to invoke print preview: menucommand FilePrintPreviewThroughTemplate : arsmagica5.prt;...
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theminiatureguy
Apr 22, 2013 5:28 pm
Hopefully my last question for this project... Can a script launch an external program through a command line? I want my Traveller world template to be able to...
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Eric Jackson
theminiatureguy
Apr 24, 2013 9:49 pm
I'm still working on my Traveller script and I've run into another problem. In my character sheet I have a variable "UWP" and I am having trouble accessing it...
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Bruce Kvam
brucekvam
Apr 25, 2013 12:42 am
Remember, you need to surround references to $@ variables with double quotes in scripts, because they're basically macro expansions and not direct variable...
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Michael Sprague
rabblewitz
Apr 27, 2013 7:55 pm
I've upgraded to the newest version of MetaCreator, and today I was messing the the Cthulhu template, and ran into some problems. Â First, it would not work...
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Bruce
gurpsgm
Apr 29, 2013 10:19 pm
Hi! I'm just joining here, because of my new download of the Metacreator software which I bought for its ability to use the 3.5 rules to create a character (or...
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Peggy Kvam
peggykvam
Apr 29, 2013 10:22 pm
The Open Gaming License does not allow us to support Forgotten Realms. I don't know what file you have, but it isn't our product. Peggy Kvam Alter Ego Software...
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Eric Jackson
theminiatureguy
Apr 30, 2013 1:50 am
The spells are in the file "spells.mds" in the 3.5 folder. I would recommend making a copy of the file and renaming it "Forgotten Realms.mds". The run...
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Bruce Kvam
brucekvam
Apr 30, 2013 3:22 pm
I'm not able to reproduce any of these problems. Do you have multiple installations of Metacreator? It sounds like you've saved the print template in one...
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theminiatureguy
May 2, 2013 9:48 pm
Ok, I'm working on macro definitions for my traveller template. Here is what I have: $$macro skill(name, stat, specialties) {{ $$macrodesc(Skill macro) ...
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Bruce Kvam
brucekvam
May 5, 2013 2:01 am
You could generate the number of entries with this trick: $$exp("strlen(replacestring(specialties, '/[^;]/',''))+1") but I'm not sure why you need to know the...
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Eric Jackson
theminiatureguy
May 5, 2013 7:54 pm
Strange, I must have had another error in my code. I was getting an error about incorrect number of elements in the list when I tried to load the data sheet...
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Jay
jayphailey
May 6, 2013 3:17 pm
Hey everyone, I am a ne user of the Metacreator software. The main reason I bought the thing was to recover some old Heromaker and hero creator files. But...
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Bruce Kvam
brucekvam
May 6, 2013 3:27 pm
I'm not sure what version of the Hero template you're using. Please send me that information, and attach a character that is having the problem to this email...
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Jay P. Hailey
jayphailey
May 6, 2013 3:39 pm
> Subject: Re: [cw] Howdy. technical questions ... Thank you! How do I find out what hero Template I am using?...
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theminiatureguy
May 6, 2013 11:18 pm
I'm working on a game session template for Traveller. Is it possible to change the label on a header based on the character selected? Can the game session...
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tooley1chris
May 7, 2013 12:14 am
Okay. Now that I'm very familiar with BRP, Im wondering if I need to make my own database for meta-BRP or has this already been done as well?...
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Bruce Kvam
brucekvam
May 7, 2013 3:30 pm
There's no mechanism to dynamically change headers. Since there may be characters of multiple types listed, you would probably have a mix of Edu and Inst based...
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theminiatureguy
May 8, 2013 11:17 pm
Arrrrgggg! Frustration sets in… I’m plugging away at my Traveller script. I came up with a possible solution for different things having different stats in...
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Bruce Kvam
brucekvam
May 10, 2013 1:24 am
Have you tried removing the "default: 7" from stat "Str" {} to see what happens?...
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theminiatureguy
May 10, 2013 8:59 pm
I don't have the original e-mail at work... I tried getting rid of the default in the attribute definition and then all the values changed to 0. It looks to me...
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Michael Sprague
rabblewitz
May 12, 2013 2:05 am
Bruce  Finally had a chance to get back to this.  ...  That was my first guess as well, but not the issue. At one point, I had both a Metecreator...
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Michael Sprague
rabblewitz
May 12, 2013 2:23 am
... Okay, so that was NOT the solution. That's a Metacreator wide setting. When I went to do a few Savage Worlds updates, nothing worked until I set the...
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Bruce Kvam
brucekvam
May 12, 2013 2:30 am
I don't think I really understand what the problem is. Are you saying that the values that display under the header in the game session window are all zero...
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Eric Jackson
theminiatureguy
May 12, 2013 6:39 am
The values that display under the header in the game session are working fine, they show the values as expected. It’s the stats in the action menu that are...
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Bruce Kvam
brucekvam
May 14, 2013 1:54 am
It looks like you installed Cthulhu in a non-standard way. You should install it \Program Files\Metacreator, in the same folder as everything else. All your...
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Bruce Kvam
brucekvam
May 14, 2013 1:56 am
Since the stats that vary are not combat stats, and therefore don’t change I’m thinking about adding them to some sort of note field. That sounds right. An...
