Exporting??

[Ashy]

Is it possible to export a character sheet to a word doc or an html file once it is created with FG?

[msd]

I obviously don't know the answer to this (not a developer), but I would assume that this is information all stored in XML and with some XSL styling, you could probably generate any HTML you wanted.

Whether that is a native function is a question for the developers.

Its kind of an interesting idea for export though...allow you to point to your own XSL or have a number of pre-created XSL templates that will allow you to generate various HTML representations of the data.

[Dupre]

That's right, the characters are stored in XML.

Here's a small snippet:


<node name="Dupre">
<stringvalue name="race" value="Half-elf" />
<intvalue name="strength" value="13" />
<intvalue name="dexterity" value="11" />
<intvalue name="wisdom" value="10" />


Edit: Oh and we don't support exporting characters to any other format, but since it is in XML, there are plenty of tools to view and modify the content.

[Ashy]

That's right, the characters are stored in XML.

Here's a small snippet:


<node name="Dupre">
<stringvalue name="race" value="Half-elf" />
<intvalue name="strength" value="13" />
<intvalue name="dexterity" value="11" />
<intvalue name="wisdom" value="10" />


Edit: Oh and we don't support exporting characters to any other format, but since it is in XML, there are plenty of tools to view and modify the content.

Gotcha - any plans to do this in the future???

[Dupre]

No plans at the moment, but since it is a fairly simple task to convert it to a nice HTML character sheet, I'm sure there will be a tool for it sooner or later.

[Ashy]

No plans at the moment, but since it is a fairly simple task to convert it to a nice HTML character sheet, I'm sure there will be a tool for it sooner or later.

Ok... :(

[WolfStar76]

For what it's worth, my play group and I are creating our characters with the E-tools software from codemonkeypublishing.com (https://www.codemonkeypublishing.com/) (in fact it was their user forums that directed me here).

The E-tools software is full-functional character generating software that does all the math, lists all the skills, and lets you export your character to HTML (via XML style sheets, so you can tweak/edit/change the layout as you like).

I don't think there's a demo version - but a mock-up of one of my groups characters can be found here (https://www.wackychaco.com/dnd/illidan.html).

We're just making them in the E-tools and then manually re-entering what we "need to know" into the FG software. :)

Next up - finding good mapping software that exports in JPG or GIF. ;)

[Alasomorph]

Try this for maps...

https://www.dundjinni.com

[Ashy]

For what it's worth, my play group and I are creating our characters with the E-tools software from codemonkeypublishing.com (https://www.codemonkeypublishing.com/) (in fact it was their user forums that directed me here).

The E-tools software is full-functional character generating software that does all the math, lists all the skills, and lets you export your character to HTML (via XML style sheets, so you can tweak/edit/change the layout as you like).

I don't think there's a demo version - but a mock-up of one of my groups characters can be found here (https://www.wackychaco.com/dnd/illidan.html).

We're just making them in the E-tools and then manually re-entering what we "need to know" into the FG software. :)

Next up - finding good mapping software that exports in JPG or GIF. ;)

Yea, but then I have to buy two tools, and I would rather just have one. :p

[Elric]

I'll be incorporating Character (and Monster) XML dumps from my AD&D C.A.P. System - but they'll be for 1st Edition.

[Callum]

No plans at the moment, but since it is a fairly simple task to convert it to a nice HTML character sheet, I'm sure there will be a tool for it sooner or later.
Has anyone done this yet? I'll start work on it myself if no-one has, but I can't believe that in all this time someone out there hasn't created an XML -> HTML character sheet conversion tool for FG...

[TarynWinterblade]

Has anyone done this yet? I'll start work on it myself if no-one has, but I can't believe that in all this time someone out there hasn't created an XML -> HTML character sheet conversion tool for FG...

I had one witten up in PHP at one point that read most of the fields for the ruleset and then displayed the character data using that information. I used it mostly for designing my ruleset because FG1 lacks the ability to reload the ruleset without reloading the game (I <3 the devs for putting that in FG2).

That said, though, I never bothered to add in the more advanced information (the windowopencontrols and the scrolling lists).

I'm not even sure I have a copy of the script anymore... >.<