Utility - Character Importer
Updated on August 7, 2012.
Cody, our wonderful intern, has been busy cranking away on the import utility.
In addition to the items reported so far, he has added support for importing Pathfinder and 3.5E characters from Hero Lab into 3.5E campaigns, as well as PCGen output sheets whose output can be imported using the tool.
If you have Hero Lab, please let us know and give it a try.
The latest version of the character converter can be used from the FG Start Menu group. There will either be a dedicated link for the converter (newer installs) or you can find it in the Application Data Folder link under the Utilities subfolder (older installs).
Cheers,
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Reply to Leonal and Trenloe
Leonal
Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately this bug "Penalty to movement from armor is added to the misc and not armor box for movement speed" is a problem resulting from the limited information given by HeroLab output. We are working closely with HeroLab to expand the information given by custom output, but it won't be fixed any time soon.
As for this bug "Cannot import to campaign test PF. Error: Name cannot begin with the '>' character, hexadecimal value 0x3E. Line 504, position 8" I haven't encountered it, but I was able to artificially recreate by manipulating the db.xml file. For me to truly fix this bug it would be great if next time you encounter it you could post the db.xml, located in the FG2 Application Data folder under the campaigns directory, and error message.
Trenloe
Thanks for the feedback! I will look into both of these problems and see what I can come up with. I also wanted to let you know that PCGen support is currently in the works.