CreatureGen Extension Unexpacted

[dellanx]

I have been having problems for months loading NPCs with spells into the combat tracker. I recently added the CreatureGen (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?34199-CreatureGen-Extension-Import-Stat-blocks-on-the-fly-with-populated-spells) Extension and the associated spell library module. Now these NPCs load fine into the combat tracker in Pathfinder. I will try it again tonight, but I think that fixed the issue.

Thank you Ken L.!

[Ken L]

I've never really had issues with spells in the combat tracker, but if it helps it helps i suppose. It might be a symptom with your other NPCs, have you tried the bestiaries?

[dellanx]

It has been any NPC with spells.

[Trenloe]

I have been having problems for months loading NPCs with spells into the combat tracker.
Can you please expand on the problems you've been having?

[dellanx]

When I get home, I will test my theory by disabling the extension and will take some screen shots.

[dellanx]

I ran it without CreatureGen extension loaded and with. First thing I noticed is that things ran much better last night, not sure why that is. When I tried counting manually for a single loaded NPC Before and After for various NPCs today seemed alike, with a small advantage in loading by a second or so with the CreatureGen extension loaded. When I ran 2 NPCs with spells, I got 16 seconds without CreatureGen loaded; and 6-7 seconds for 2 to 3 NPCs loaded with CreatureGen loaded just by counting manually (1001, 1002, 1003, etc.)

So I decided to run 3 NPCs together, with a timer. The starting position between clicks was about the same.

3 NPCS 3 NPCS 3 NPCS
Try Before After After2
1 12.415 6.472 6.566
2 13.362 8.329 7.744
3 14.815 8.160 7.791
4 14.424 8.424 8.416
5 14.911 9.089 8.776

Average 13.985 8.095 7.859
Variance 1.148 0.947 0.710


Since I did not see a significant change in time for a single NPC the data is not included.

Before Qualitative:
18026

After Qualitative:
18027

Before Quantitative:
18028

After Quantitative:
18029
18030

I tried to have about same distance between clicks. Note: Last night things seemed to be allot faster.

[Ken L]

the only difference I can think of is that I don't automatically parse spell actions so it doesn't have that overhead. I didn't do this since the spell actions usually end up wrong anyhow.

[dellanx]

Yes I saw that casting, damage, effects and healing is not in there. It is not hard to add those.

[Trenloe]

There are quite a few speed improvements made in the upcoming FG v3.3. release. These were specifically done to speed up operations with NPCs with a lot of spells.

[dellanx]

There are quite a few speed improvements made in the upcoming FG v3.3. release. These were specifically done to speed up operations with NPCs with a lot of spells.

That will be wonderful!