Zeus
June 17th, 2012, 18:34
Hey All,
Now that v2.9 has touched down, here's a new extension which enables a DM to convert PCs to NPCs and vice versa. Its not 100% perfect but as I have had limited time to test I am hoping the community can help out in identifying any issues. All fields are used in the conversion process including powers, items and weapons, however no fields are linked in this initial release (still working on whether this is possible).
Once converted, PC/NPCs can still be tweaked by the DM as required. For NPC->PC conversions this should mainly comprise equipment linking and weapon abilities setup. Either way, it should be much faster than manually converting PCs->NPCs and vice versa.
As always, make sure you back up your campaign (and your player characters!) before using this initial release.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7075/7387539638_80a40fcc78_t.jpg
4E Tree of Life - 17th June 2012 - v1.0
Updated desktop with new panel and windowclass; dragging and dropping either a PC (from Character Selection window) or an NPC (campaign/library referencelink) to the Tree of Life icon will result in a new NPC/PC being created in Character Selection or Campaign NPC windowlists (accordingly). Initial version converts majority of sheet fields, including equipment, weapons and powers however no objects are cross-linked or referenced.
The extension along with a readme.txt file (containing usage instructions) can be found on my site (see banner in sig for link).
Enjoy!
DrZ
Now that v2.9 has touched down, here's a new extension which enables a DM to convert PCs to NPCs and vice versa. Its not 100% perfect but as I have had limited time to test I am hoping the community can help out in identifying any issues. All fields are used in the conversion process including powers, items and weapons, however no fields are linked in this initial release (still working on whether this is possible).
Once converted, PC/NPCs can still be tweaked by the DM as required. For NPC->PC conversions this should mainly comprise equipment linking and weapon abilities setup. Either way, it should be much faster than manually converting PCs->NPCs and vice versa.
As always, make sure you back up your campaign (and your player characters!) before using this initial release.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7075/7387539638_80a40fcc78_t.jpg
4E Tree of Life - 17th June 2012 - v1.0
Updated desktop with new panel and windowclass; dragging and dropping either a PC (from Character Selection window) or an NPC (campaign/library referencelink) to the Tree of Life icon will result in a new NPC/PC being created in Character Selection or Campaign NPC windowlists (accordingly). Initial version converts majority of sheet fields, including equipment, weapons and powers however no objects are cross-linked or referenced.
The extension along with a readme.txt file (containing usage instructions) can be found on my site (see banner in sig for link).
Enjoy!
DrZ