Sergei-san
April 2nd, 2014, 07:44
Hello!
Yesterday I purchased FG Ultimate and one month subscription to DDI.
I am having trouble with the parser programs, however.
I tried using the item parser from 4E forum. It managed to create me a text file with loads of entries (this was dungeon master entries, so it contained monsters, traps and such - I don't remember exact figure now, but it was in between 5000 and 10000). However, after a VERY long parsing process (the download took less than an hour, parsing almost half a day), I was greeted with index out of bounds error message from NET framework. Having no source code around, I just closed the window, frustrated.
I had a different experience with parsing player content (powers, class things, items and such). Fetching data from DDI (was something in between 15000 and 20000 entries) took relatively short time, but my problems began when it went to parsing mode. I noticed a huge amount of rows containing "Not Parsed" messages on parser log window. They seemed to be magic items with different level of items inside them. Since obviously something was wrong, I canceled the process after watching those Not Parsed entries running in the log window for a few hours.
Am I doing something wrong? Why I am getting these errors and why does the parsing process take ages? Download with, say, 10 browsers was quick.
I'd like to have at least the three core books (DMG, PH, MM) parsed so I could run a campaign for my players. However it would be nice to get all of the content DDI has to offer, because I paid for that and the forum topics indicated this could be done. Especially so for more monsters, to give more ideas to plan around.
I'm not a completitionist though, I would be more than happy with some libraries that produced correct results for the most of the DDI entries, I'm not fussed about missing some.
Could someone help me out with this, please? Alternatively, if someone has the modules correctly done, I'd love to have those. Obviously that would require me to be DDI subscriber, as well so that I would have a legal access to those entries as well. How would I go and prove that I am a subscriber?
Overall I am happy with my FG ultimate purchase, and it seemed my players liked it too, even though I had my doubts about them complaining about missing live games.
Thank you!
Yesterday I purchased FG Ultimate and one month subscription to DDI.
I am having trouble with the parser programs, however.
I tried using the item parser from 4E forum. It managed to create me a text file with loads of entries (this was dungeon master entries, so it contained monsters, traps and such - I don't remember exact figure now, but it was in between 5000 and 10000). However, after a VERY long parsing process (the download took less than an hour, parsing almost half a day), I was greeted with index out of bounds error message from NET framework. Having no source code around, I just closed the window, frustrated.
I had a different experience with parsing player content (powers, class things, items and such). Fetching data from DDI (was something in between 15000 and 20000 entries) took relatively short time, but my problems began when it went to parsing mode. I noticed a huge amount of rows containing "Not Parsed" messages on parser log window. They seemed to be magic items with different level of items inside them. Since obviously something was wrong, I canceled the process after watching those Not Parsed entries running in the log window for a few hours.
Am I doing something wrong? Why I am getting these errors and why does the parsing process take ages? Download with, say, 10 browsers was quick.
I'd like to have at least the three core books (DMG, PH, MM) parsed so I could run a campaign for my players. However it would be nice to get all of the content DDI has to offer, because I paid for that and the forum topics indicated this could be done. Especially so for more monsters, to give more ideas to plan around.
I'm not a completitionist though, I would be more than happy with some libraries that produced correct results for the most of the DDI entries, I'm not fussed about missing some.
Could someone help me out with this, please? Alternatively, if someone has the modules correctly done, I'd love to have those. Obviously that would require me to be DDI subscriber, as well so that I would have a legal access to those entries as well. How would I go and prove that I am a subscriber?
Overall I am happy with my FG ultimate purchase, and it seemed my players liked it too, even though I had my doubts about them complaining about missing live games.
Thank you!